Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@zerowinger66  
All that being said, i still feel like behavioral misconduct and insulting should be considered offenses by the standards of the constitution.  
I want people to be humble – instead of saying “the alt-right is potentially dangerous”, people should say “i think the alt-right is potentially dangerous”, for example. I feel like it is rhethoric that’s causing all the political strife we are seeing currently, and that we should take neutral measures, or at least suggested measures, to solve it.

@zerowinger66  
I am aware of that. How the principle of allowing others to speak their views was codified in the First Amendment is an ambiguous legal codification. If the Founding Fathers had understood their Enlightenment ideas in the Bill of Rights will be lost overtime, then their statements of the First Amendment and other amendments would not be what they are.
 
It does not seem to me people editing the amendments to adjust them to their actual meanings is going to happen anytime soon.

@Commune  
There is zero evidence that the Boston Rally would have ended up like the Unite the Right rally had counter-protesters not arrived.
 
And ironically, Kyle Chapman became “based stickman” directly in response to the year-long incidents of Trump rallygoers being attacked in the streets and right-leaning guests being deplatformed at public events by left-wing mobs. In treating the Boston Rally as something that needed to be shut down, they only serve to prove him right and justify his own indecent behavior in Berkeley in the minds of both himself and anyone who might listen to him. And that solves nothing for no one.

@BadgingBadger  
It would be better if people tried to police themselves before they tried to police others, at least in terms of public speaking.

@Commune  
Considering how many people Robespierre summarily butchered in the name of the Revolution before getting it himself (I mean, the era of his rule is even called the Terror, FFS), this might not be the greatest of references.
 
Especially so as it was the reaction to the abuses of power committed by Robespierre’s Commitee of Public Safety that caused the Directory to be put in place in its stead, said Directory being a moderate liberal bourgeois government, thus burying the idea of a popular Revolution once and for all.

@zerowinger66  
Because left wing people never been attacked for being anti-Trump  
Never ever  
And the guy is Latino as well  
Not so good for their “unity” rhetoric
 
And the crowd supported the violence

@Commune  
The video shows several people being escorted out by police/security, and the man thrown to the ground may have been part of the group. It could be that the campaign considered them hecklers and wanted them removed, which is why security was called in - and why the rally goers were cheering. The video indicates that the thrown down man was picked up the police/security themselves and removed.
 
But yes, it was inappropriate and unjustified for the man in the red shirt to try to take part in removing him, and he should have been disciplined and removed by the officers as well. Political vigilante justice is not justified.

It took Donald Trump 7 months but he did it. He wasted all of the Secret Service funds so now they are out of money. How long until he puts an entire nation into bankruptcy?

@zerowinger66  
I agree, but i think the problem here is pushing the idea of free speech into the minds of such people. We have to consider the conditions, instead of being absolute on the issue. I’m afraid it’s best we slowly convince them; a process.

@igotnopicks  
how the fuck did he do that!?

@angrybrony  
He has like 42 people under protection and only 18 are family.

@angrybrony  
His constant vacations did not help.

Also Trump has multiple residences.

@Background Pony #ABE7  
@igotnopicks  
@Background Pony #ABE7  
Yep Congress should pass a bill forcing trump to sell off all but one of his properties and only use Camp David for his vacations,

@igotnopicks  
W-what??? No, that’s impossible! It hasn’t even been a year yet!

@zerowinger66  
Not to mention the mob of counter-protestors screaming “SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!” when rally goers are escorted away, and just acting belligerent at anyone they pass screaming ‘nazi’ at them.

@Cyborg_pony  

 
What’s wrong with that?
 
Sounds like they are exercising their free speech.
 
It sounds like you are saying that they shouldn’t be allowed to speak.
 
Is that what you are saying?
 
[ps: yes, I drew the short stick this morning]

@Ciaran  
It was unnecessary. It was a means to intimidate.

@Cyborg_pony  
The bar you use to measure the left and the right is very skewed.
 
@Cyborg_pony  

@Ciaran  
Right-wingers love free speech when it’s on their side no matter how weaponized, but whenever it’s used by the left, it’s “unnecessary intimidation”.

@MethidMan  
It’s not like he said they needed to be arrested.
 
Just hurts their image and credibility.

I really have to share this political cartoon I just found!
 

 
I mean this is what the Republicans efforts felt like even before Trump where they kept trying to repeal and replace over and over again under Obama. During Obama’s term it was just kinda annoying, but it was almost sad to see their attempts at repeal and replace under Trump, heck I think a few Republicans are even still trying to repeal Obamacare!

@neutralgrey  
I really don’t like political cartoons
 
Can they even come up with any clever metaphors nowadays ?
 

@Commune  
Nah not really