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Synagogue Shooting in Pittsburgh
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Trump has unified the nation in ways previous leaders could only dream!
Both sides of Congress opposed Nixon after Watergate. Probably the best example.
Broken_Erika
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Thank Obama!
adcarrymaokai
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Not really, but he is surely giving enough spunk to his supporters, who imagine George Soros as some communist warlock (also, note the noose next to Obama).
Berzerker
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doh... I got wooshed
So you agree Ryika was wrong in mocking the right for politicizing it.
Traitorfish
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Simply for politicising it, sure. For the cynical and tone-deaf way in which the right has tried to politicise it? Eh.
Because we let women vote?
Seriously, it's hard to pin unpreparedness for the Borg on Obama.
You mean, it was even more cynical and tone deaf than blaming other Jews for the attack for having supported the embassy move to Jerusalem? Or, more commonly, for having supported Trump at all?
I'd really like to see some examples of the right politicizing it. Seem to have missed out on those completely.
Traitorfish
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Those would be pretty dumb takes, but I don't see them in either link.
This could be the alt-right deliberately ramping up the hate just in time for the mid-terms. Or it could be a few whackjobs who would have done it yesterday. Unfortunately we'll have to see how the violence escalates to be sure.
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You can't. From where you stand there is no "right." What I call "the right" is for you just the "nearer on the left." That's what happens to extremists.
It might not seem like it to you, but this is a shout-out to the 2nd Amendment crowd.
Here he's lying about his response to the event in order to not change his political tone.
Probably shouldn't even bother. There are so many examples of the right politicising tragedies like this that in order to deny it you need to be either; so far right that you think Mussolini was a commie, or; such a partisan hack/ideologue you can't admit your side has ever done wrong. Maybe both. Unless Mouthwash lives under a rock in Rupert Murdoch's garden, he can't possibly have failed to notice this.
The first link shows it clearly. Apparently nothing short of shoving it right in your face will do:
Here is an Atlantic staff writer calling for the 'shunning' of pro-Trump Jews: "Any strategy for enhancing the security of American Jewry should involve shunning Trump’s Jewish enablers. Their money should be refused, their presence in synagogues not welcome. They have placed their community in danger."
There are also countless pieces about how the shootings were Trump's fault:
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/uni...mp-arrives-pittsburgh-wake-synagogue-massacre
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...2607289efee_story.html?utm_term=.11c5c04132fc
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.pr...ttsburgh-but-he-prepped-the-shooter-1.6595902
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-poli.../bend-the-arc-pittsburgh-jewish-leaders-trump
Not only doesn't it seem like it, it isn't. It's very clearly a suggestion to have Israeli-style armed guards at Jewish synagogues and schools, which is already being done in Europe.
If the best you can do is pointing out that a notoriously unfiltered politician talked about his response to the attack in order to change the political tone (which is *not* using the attack itself to make political points), then I'm just going to assume the right is basically innocent here and that making these accusations has simply become reflexive for the left.
(Have to admit it is clever to politicize a tragedy by smearing the other side for politicizing it.)
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