Donald Trump Suggests ‘Second Amendment People’ Could Act Against Hillary Clinton (Published 2016)
www.nytimes.com
Mr. Trump, in emphasizing gun issues and the Supreme Court during a speech, issued what some saw as a threat to Mrs. Clinton.

Old, but seems relevant

    • capital@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      It’s only free speech when we speak. When someone says something I don’t like, that’s not free speech.

      It’s only ok to incite violence when we do it.

      This hypocrisy isn’t a good look. Lemmy loves to point at Trump’s hypocrisy (see OP) but are blind to their own. It makes your position appear weaker because you don’t actually stand for anything (e.g. free speech as it exists in the US).

      I’ve said it before but many here are more like conservatives than they realize. They also don’t really stand for anything. For example, they pretend to love small government and then bend right over with pre-lubed assholes when DeSantis legislates lab meat out of existence in their state instead of letting tHe FRee MArKeT decide.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        It’s only ok to incite violence when we do it.

        Wasn’t the guy who shot Trump a registered Republican?

        Is it possible that he was incited to violence by… other Republicans?

        • beebarfbadger@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          “By the way, and if she gets to pick --if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know. But I’ll tell you what, that will be a horrible day, if – if – Hillary gets to put her judges in.”

          -Donald Trump, Wilmington, N.C., Aug. 9, 2016

          Since then we know Trump’s suggested method of dealing with legally unchangeable judge positioning.

        • capital@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          Yep. And confirmed conservative, if recent headlines are to be trusted.

          We pretending like every thread on Lemmy wasn’t filled with “wish he had better aim” sentiment?

    • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      2 months ago

      If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

      […]

      [A]s long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force

      Karl Popper, 1945, The Open Society and Its Enemies

    • ThePerfectLink@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      I hate pacifists, man. They always try to publicly shame you by making it seem like violence is never justified… stupid deontological thinking