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[Athos_131]

McConnell and wife confronted by customers at restaurant

Good.

#Resist

[phtlc]

There are many politicians up here I'd like to see tossed out of office but I can't see myself going up to any of them and harassing them while they try to have dinner with their family.

[Katiebee]

Should I encounter Cruz, I expect him to listen to me. I am a constituent.

[Athos_131]

Liars and hypocrites get what they deserve. 

#Resist

[psiberzerker]

Should I encounter Cruz, I expect him to listen to me. I am a constituent.

 

[Athos_131]

Scott Walker narrowly loses Wisconsin governor's race – and he can't ask for a recount because of a law he put in place

Business Insider reports that the threshold is due to a law Walker signed after President Trump was elected. Mr. Trump won Wisconsin by 23,000 votes, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who received just 1 percent of the vote, demanded and received a recount, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. In response, the state legislature passed a measure mandating that in the future, candidates could only request a recount if they were losing by less than 1 percent.

#Resist

[IrishGirl]

Interesting how people are praising and encouraging confrontation and violence...while claiming that their side is nonviolent and the other side IS violent.

There is a disconnect between the two rhetorics here.  Either you are nonviolent or acting violently is good and to be praised.  Which is it?

Or is it only good when your side does it, but wrong when the other side does it?

[Katiebee]

Who is condoning those actions?

[IrishGirl]

Who is condoning those actions?

When you link the article and respond with "Good" it's not exactly condemning the actions is it?  Because the way it reads is that this type of confrontation is "Good."

Good being the opposite of Bad.

[IdleBoast]

Interesting how people are praising and encouraging confrontation and violence...

Confronting people you disagree with is a time-honoured part of the democratic process.

Nobody was violent, so we can disregard your objection.

I believe the favoured term on your side of the pond is "fake news".

[IrishGirl]

Interesting how people are praising and encouraging confrontation and violence...

Confronting people you disagree with is a time-honoured part of the democratic process.

Nobody was violent, so we can disregard your objection.

I believe the favoured term on your side of the pond is "fake news".

Actually, the favored term it appears is "it's OK to confront and hit people that have a different view."

Arguing against that seems to paint you as having a different view.

And this is apparently because you can either be totally with or totally against and there is no in between at the moment.

[psiberzerker]

Arguing against that seems to paint you as having a different view.

Imagine that.   

[IrishGirl]

Arguing against that seems to paint you as having a different view.

Imagine that.   

I know, shocking how arguing against confrontation and the use of violence from one side makes you a part of the side that is claimed to be using violence.

[IdleBoast]

... hit people ...

First you said "violence", but there was no violence.

Now you say "hit people", but nobody was hit.

How about you argue about something that actually happened?

[MissBarbara]

Interesting how people are praising and encouraging confrontation and violence...

Confronting people you disagree with is a time-honoured part of the democratic process.

Nobody was violent, so we can disregard your objection.

I believe the favoured term on your side of the pond is "fake news".

Though I often agree with both you and Athos, in this instance I completely disagree.

You're right, there was no violence whatsoever. More to the point, virtually everyone in the video objects to the protestor.

Still, loudly confronting confronting a politician angrily and vituperation when he's out for a quiet dinner with his wife is grossly inappropriate. It isn't fair to McConnell, his wife, or, perhaps most important, the other patrons of the restaurant. And, perhaps most important, it's aggressively ineffective, to the point of potentially garnering support for McConnell, rather than rallying condemnation against him.

I intensely dislike Mitch McConnell, and everything he represents. And political discourse, even intense, angry, and condemnatory political discourse, has its place. This was neither the time nor the place, and that angry guy is, frankly a moron.

[IdleBoast]

LOL, I come from a country where it's traditional to throw eggs or flour at politicians.

[IrishGirl]

You guys are right.  Confrontation is ALWAYS peaceful and never creates a situation that could be violent.

And I will raise that by saying that the Bike Lock Basher hit people in the head and sent them to the hospital in an obscure and little known greeting of peace.

Furthermore, the Sanders supporter beaten and hospitalized by people on his OWN SIDE for carrying an American Flag to a protest was done in love.

And innocent protesters politely assembled on Tucker Carlson's front porch to tell him that they know where he lives and  were willing to harm him was again, done with peace and love.

And the threats made against Children at the Halloween Parade in NYC to prevent a speaker of a different view from taken the stage were intended as a deceleration to hand out free puppies and NOT harm innocent people to stifle a view.

The disabled Veteran attacked in his wheel chair was actually trying to be hugged.

And furthermore, saying "Good" in response to said actions is not condoning it, because it was posted on opposite day.

Because, there was NO implication of violence from the left and there never was...because they simply want peace.

[IrishGirl]

LOL, I come from a country where it's traditional to throw eggs or flour at politicians.

You also come from a country that would put someone up on charges for hate speech because they posted the lyrics to a dearly departed's favorite song on a social media memorial page.

[IdleBoast]

LOL, I come from a country where it's traditional to throw eggs or flour at politicians.

You also come from a country that would put someone up on charges for hate speech because they posted the lyrics to a dearly departed's favorite song on a social media memorial page.

[IrishGirl]

LOL, I come from a country where it's traditional to throw eggs or flour at politicians.

You also come from a country that would put someone up on charges for hate speech because they posted the lyrics to a dearly departed's favorite song on a social media memorial page.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/british-woman-found-guilty-posting-racist-snap-dogg-lyrics-article-1.3948046

https://www.spiked-online.com/2018/04/23/now-its-a-crime-to-quote-rap-lyrics/