Most people disagree with conservative politics, and that goes doubly so for the fediverse. The voting system is more or less a agree/disagree system. And you are posting this to bolster Trump's image.
Couple those together and it's pretty straightforward why this got downvoted.
And does “purge” mean violence to you?
In this context yes.
Yes, you are auth-left.
No I'm not.
I am a liberal, but that’s all I am going to say about myself.
No, you're just a troll on a 1 day old account.
Did you just link to a comment I didn’t make?
Lemmy has shitty links, and yours got buried by downvotes. Read the third one down:
The delusions of auth-left never ceases to amaze me.
I'm not auth left. But thanks for the insult, it's nicer to know that I'm dealing with a literal child.
What are you even talking about?
Are you going to address what I said?
Mate, here’s a great example of you intentionally pissing everyone off.
... by simply existing evidently.
But you’re still managed to piss everyone off, while maintaining a thin facade of civility.
If bringing up straight facts is enough to piss people off, then you guys are the problem, not me or the facts.
you aren’t here to discuss or anything
Then why the fuck would I be putting in the tiniest bit of effort? Trolls don't put effort in.
The whole "what could have stopped X" question is a loaded one. But regardless, the answer is gun control, and U.S. law should learn from modern German law:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/germany-gun-control-laws-a4366996.html
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/london-evening-standard/
It's crazy how even this right wing sources seems to understand that gun control is necessary and a requirement for low gun death rates, given that they admit right at the begging of the article that they have amongst the lowest death rates out there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
Total:
Germany: 1.04/capita
United States: 12.21/capita
Homicide only:
Germany: 0.06/capita
United States: 4.46/capita
If more guns & lax gun laws made us safe, we would should expect to see the opposite. Yet we don't, because anybody with half a brain understands that a tool whose purpose is to kill as easily as possible will make killing easier when it is around untrained people/people with insufficient reason to own it/people who store them poorly.
That's a 75x smaller gun homicide rate. We aren't going to get that small of a rate without gun control.
Inb4 somebody calls me a troll despite putting effort into this: fuck off
You cannot attack an ideology without attacking the people who make up that ideology. They cannot be cleanly distinguished from each other.
Quit your bullshit. Dunking on shitty beliefs does not equate to killing or hurting people like you were suggesting.
This means attacking the people.
Good job moving the goal posts. First it was purging. Now it's being made out to be social pariahs. Pick one, and quit equating scorn with violence.
You are mocking a call to violence in which there is none. They're saying conservatism (the belief, the ideology) needs to die.
Conservatives should be openly mocked and ridiculed for their cruelty and violence. They should be laughed out of office.
I'm am not /u/HandBreadedTools. Go ask them.
Right, it’s easy to just make up your mind about something (with no evidence)
"I don't trust X" != "I've made up my mind"
Pick one. You can't have your cake and eat it too. You guys remove posts that contain facts the moment they don't have confirm the conclusions you already hold.