NYT opinion writer calls for lynching Pence
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@horace said in NYT opinion writer calls for lynching Pence:
@george-k said in NYT opinion writer calls for lynching Pence:
"Sorry for calling for POTUS to lynch Ex-VPOTUS. It was a joke, LOL"
It was a serious and credible threat to our democracy.
Exactly. You and I have been paying attention in class the last four years.
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I'm completely okay with throwing his ass in fucking jail.
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@jon-nyc said in NYT opinion writer calls for lynching Pence:
This is a shame. The only people who didn’t get the joke were being dishonest.
That's how it goes, nowadays. People don't like edgy, except when it's a big, flabby edge they're comfortable with.
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@doctor-phibes said in NYT opinion writer calls for lynching Pence:
@jon-nyc said in NYT opinion writer calls for lynching Pence:
This is a shame. The only people who didn’t get the joke were being dishonest.
That's how it goes, nowadays. People don't like edgy, except when it's a big, flabby edge they're comfortable with.
Edginess is a serious and credible threat to democracy. Even if it sometimes wears furry bull horns.
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It wasn’t per se.
This wasn’t “let’s kill Pence. Haha just kidding.”
The obvious joke was about how the more Trumpy right grew to dislike him since the election.
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@george-k said in NYT opinion writer calls for lynching Pence:
what, exactly was the joke about Pence?
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There was tons of openly expressed murderous hatred against Trump by the haters on the left, just that I personally saw, in person, not online. It's a thing. Of course it was a thing, they felt the weight of the culture behind them, and their little hatreds. Meanwhile, Trump was the one allegedly creating all the dangerous impressions. What with furry horned people taking selfies after entering the unguarded doors of the Capitol.
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@jon-nyc said in NYT opinion writer calls for lynching Pence:
It wasn’t per se.
This wasn’t “let’s kill Pence. Haha just kidding.”
The obvious joke was about how the more Trumpy right grew to dislike him since the election.
You yourself found huge rhetorical fuel behind the threat to democracy finally established after the election. Why not be charitable and think the "more Trumpy" right saw what you saw?
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Surely some did but that’s not the group referenced in the joke.
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It's an obscure joke, because Trump supporters who now hate Pence are an obscure tribe. I welcome you to find something written on the internet somewhere to establish a widespread idea along those lines.
Therefore I declare it not a funny joke, in that it has so little truth to it, and I am offended by its unfunniness.
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Interesting the president of the center has deleted the tweet announcing they had parted ways with the OP.