Are Democrats more accepting of Political Violence?

Tuesday, May 05, 2026

Conservative broadcaster Ben Ferguson drew criticism from his fellow CNN panelists when he said April 27 that more conservatives will be killed "if the Democratic Party doesn't wake up and realize that words had meaning and they light the fuse." "Twenty-five percent of the Democratic Party believes that political violence is appropriate," Ferguson said.

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The Marquette poll found fully one-quarter of self-described "very liberal" respondents agreed that it is "justified for Americans today to resort to violence in order to achieve political goals." "Very conservative" respondents agreed at a lower rate, 10%.

Since 2021, Democrats have become more comfortable with political violence while Republicans have become less comfortable, according to Public Religion Research Institute polling.

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I'd beat the ---- out of you, you coward.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-05-05 03:11 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I figured this would be a pedoringer thread.

#2 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-05 03:29 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

It's always hilarious when the people who for decades commit by far the most Domestic Terrorism in this country, according to the FBI and DHS, Rwing white nationalists... try to blame the violence on Dems.

Funny and stupid.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-05 03:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

Who will fill this empty box next?

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-05-05 03:49 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Who will fill this empty box next?

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS

BOAZ V1 & V2

#5 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-05-05 04:44 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

BOAZ without white makeup:

#6 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-05-05 04:48 PM | Reply | Funny: 5

I think we need to build a small, 1 table ballroom for each and every MAGA wuss that worries about reaping the bitter harvest from the seeds their cult leader has sown.

And then go to the Dollar Tree and buy a bunch of flimsy, shiny ---- to decorate each one.

#7 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-05-05 05:06 PM | Reply

I'd beat the ---- out of you, you coward.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

Name the time and place, bitch.

#8 | Posted by boazreborn at 2026-05-05 06:53 PM | Reply | Funny: 3

And this is a foot thread. Stop spamming the thread. Stay on topic.

Rcade used to ban people for that.

#9 | Posted by boazreborn at 2026-05-05 06:57 PM | Reply

What's comrade Boazo's opinion of the violence of his peeps on January 6th

#10 | Posted by a_monson at 2026-05-05 06:58 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Hey idiot, look at the ------- headline. You get confused on who you're supposed to be?

#11 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-05-05 08:52 PM | Reply

Two Words.....

Timothy McVeigh.

Terry Nichols.

267 dead Children and Adults.

GTFOH with this Nonsense.

#12 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-05-05 09:58 PM | Reply

Looks like I ran off that fake-ass mother ------- ----- coward.

#13 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-05-05 10:02 PM | Reply

If you're a conservative male and-------- nightly to the idea that the application of violence is the only solution to a vast majority of society's ills then it's fairly easy for you to join the US military and fulfill your murderous fantasies.

So if you look at RamBOZO's question objectively and take the above fact into consideration, right wingers perpetrate the vast majority of violent acts of social and political violence.

A left-wing ideologue living in his mother's basement who has memorized Carlos the Jackal's biography could only dream of committing the level of violence as his counterparts on the other end of the political spectrum.

#14 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-05-06 10:16 AM | Reply

The Trump administration is using ICE to murder Americans on our own streets and is carrying out murders in international waters and expects the world to take the word of this lying White House that they are running drugs (as if that is justification for murder).

I'm not saying I support political violence. I'm just saying MAGATS look like the disingenuous --------- that they are when they fake surprise after people push back against murderous fascists.

#15 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-05-06 10:24 AM | Reply

I didn't read anywhere that democrats are committing more political violence.

This is about democrats accepting political violence. Approving it.

Not committing it.

Now that we've dispensed with the lack of reading comprehension issues.....let's move onto what was actually asserted.

Are democrats more accepting of political violence?

Here is my 2 cents.....I don't give a ---- what they accept. They aren't the ones committing it and it's nothing but an accusation anyway.

Everything else is crap

#16 | Posted by eberly at 2026-05-06 10:33 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 2

I didn't read anywhere that democrats are committing more political violence.

Depends upon who makes the graph as to where the cutoff is, and whats included.

For instance
Skin head in prison commits a crime - RightWing violence.
Go back to the 1970's and its 1000s of bombings by left wing activists.

Its toss up, but overall the language of the lefts main characters is "violence", and thus its acceptance. Todays left even accepts/defends illegal immigrant violence against citizens with aplomb.

Also basic definitions would indicate this is true, "progressives" want change (how would that come about?), and "Conservatives" don't, why would they need violence to keep things the same?

#17 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-05-06 10:45 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

"Are democrats more accepting of political violence?"

Whether you commit it or support, elevate and worship those committing it, you accept it and approve of it, --------.

#18 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-05-06 10:49 AM | Reply

Here is my 2 cents.....I don't give a ---- what they accept. They aren't the ones committing it and it's nothing but an accusation anyway.

Its only a matter of time. The idea that its acceptable by a large percentage then eventually it becomes defendable and actionable, see the 1960's. Even for instance nonviolent campaigns that mobilize at least ~4% of a population have been successful in changing or overthrowing governments. Actual violence? much less.

If the latest attempts on Trump's life don't give you pause, nothing will.

#19 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-05-06 10:50 AM | Reply

Whether you commit it or support, elevate and worship those committing it, you accept it and approve of it,
#18 | POSTED BY NERFHERDER

This is the sort of response supposed intellectuals claim is "intellectual"

#20 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-05-06 10:52 AM | Reply

Conservatives want to change things back to the way they Used to be not keep things the same.

Example; The recent SCOTUS decision on voting rights and minority districts. They want to Remove existing protections claiming Racism is "Over".

Or the Recent Wetlands Decision that opens up Non Riverine Wetlands to Destruction. They stripped Existing protections to make Development easier.

This is not keeping things the same.

It's a Radical change in direction accomplished by Judicial Fiat.

The very thing Conservatives used to cry about as "So Unfair". Judicial Activism.

Hypocrisy comes easy to these -----.

#21 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-05-06 10:54 AM | Reply

- Its only a matter of time.

Yeah! Rwingers have created the vast majority of Domestic Terrorism for decades in this country according to the FBI and DHS, but you just wait! Dems will do the same. Some day. Maybe.

- the latest attempts on Trump's life

What a shame that rwingers are such terrible shots, eh? And this last incident has all along been said by Law Enforcement to have targeted Cabinet Members not Dirty John Trump.

But keep posting, 1Nut. You may eventually get at least one thing right... aw, who am I kidding?

#22 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-06 10:56 AM | Reply

"We see, therefore, that war is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other means."
-Clausewitz

Those who support or have supported America's endless series of foreign wars over the past 75+ years have, in effect, accepted the use of mass violence as a means to achieve political ends.

And by and large those supporters are from the right-side of the political spectrum.

#23 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-05-06 11:05 AM | Reply

-Whether you commit it or support, elevate and worship those committing it, you accept it and approve of it, --------.

why didn't you just save me the time of reading your nonsense and just call me a -------- and be done with it?

It's not like you have anything else to offer.

-If the latest attempts on Trump's life don't give you pause, nothing will.

not sure what my "pause" matters to anyone. There are so many unanswered questions regarding these attempts on his life that I don't know what to think.

I could join the club of those who need to believe it's all staged. No thanks.

I could join the club of those who see it as out of control political violence that supported and carried out by the Democratic Party. No thanks.

#24 | Posted by eberly at 2026-05-06 11:08 AM | Reply

"why didn't you just save me the time of reading"

If the world really did revolve around you like you think it does, I might have.

#25 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-05-06 11:12 AM | Reply

LOL

#26 | Posted by eberly at 2026-05-06 11:18 AM | Reply

Rcade used to ban people for that.

Posted by boazreborn

You've been banned. So, Why TF have you come back under a different though similar name?

#27 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-05-06 11:38 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

There's a few on here that would def like to hang out with this guy and have a beer...

www.nbcnews.com

#28 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-05-06 11:53 AM | Reply

Thread title: "Are Democrats more accepting of Political Violence?"

one of the first comments by a far left dem: "I'd beat the ---- out of you, you coward."

Pretty much sums it up.

#29 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2026-05-06 11:53 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

One Comment out of 30 sums it up?

Cool. Now we can forget the real world stats about Rwing Domestic Terrorism, eh?

#30 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-06 11:56 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"One Comment out of 30 sums it up?"

Don't push your luck-- for the average MAGAt usually ZERO comments out of 30 sum it up.

#31 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-05-06 11:58 AM | Reply

Corky, the problem with that is this.

Here is a made up example that is a rough analog.

If we look at the past 15 years and accept for arguments sake that the Rwing was the driver of accepting or enacting violence to reach political ends, but it's shifted to the left over the past 5...

I'm not going to care about the first 10. In the now, it's the left, and we need realize and address it. It wasn't right 10 years ago, and it's not right now. Whataboutism isn't going to improve the situation, and letting it continue will definitely get us to a worse place. If this has all been a back and forth wave, it feels as though that wave amplitude is increasing. At some point something will snap. For the good of all of us, ignoring it now because it's this teams turn to do it can't be acceptable.

#32 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2026-05-06 12:02 PM | Reply | Funny: 5

#17 | Posted by oneironaut

Why does this stupid pile of s*&^ even both posting this nonsense?

#33 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-06 12:06 PM | Reply

#32 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2026-05-06 12:02 PM | Reply | Flag:

You should ask Corky what Maxine Waters and Heels-up Harris were telling the BLM terrorists while they were burning down US cities..

#34 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-05-06 12:07 PM | Reply

but it's shifted to the left over the past 5...
#32 | POSTED BY KWRX25

I'd ask what you're actually talking about.

But you never provide examples for your assertions.

You just post bullshht and lies.

#35 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-06 12:08 PM | Reply

Maxine Waters and Heels-up Harris
#34 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTURDS

Black Women scare the shht out of you.

Women in general you're not too fond of.

But black women you've only seen on the TV and in the magazines.

You'd fall over and piss yourself if you ever saw one in real life.

#36 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-06 12:10 PM | Reply

If the latest attempts on Trump's life don't give you pause, nothing will.

#19 | Posted by oneironaut

The only thing that gives me pause is the fact that we have a government staging assassination attempts.

And misinfo spreading s*&^heaps like you trying to sell it.

#37 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-06 12:14 PM | Reply

Facts were posted on this thread already Clown, I shouldn't have to and won't summarize the entire thread on each post I make.

But... recent polls showing a marked difference in the percentage of people who are accepting of political violence, and I'll add a cnn link below this that basically speaks to Corky's point. Yes the right owned this perception in the past, but as of more recently the left has erased that margin, making them the driver of the violence as of late.

www.cnn.com

So let's see you call this -------- and lies. You know it's okay to support a "team" and still acknowledge if that team has a problem right? It doesn't have to be 100% blind allegiance.

#38 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2026-05-06 12:18 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

If the latest attempts on Trump's life don't give you pause, nothing will.
#19 | POSTED BY ONETRUMPER

You mean the one that's been completely debunked as absolute bullshht?

It makes sense you'd bring that up.

#39 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-06 12:19 PM | Reply

Here is a made up example that is a rough analog.

Rough? Can you describe something that's entirely incorrect and not comparable at all as "rough"?

'I know you asked for a BMW, but please consider this roughly the same Toyota Yaris as an option...'

#40 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-06 12:19 PM | Reply

while they were burning down US cities..

#34 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Wow. US cities were burned down and it wasn't even on the news!?!?! Inconceivable!

Idiot.

#41 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-06 12:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

-Wkwrx25P in Cincinnati

"As of early 2026, the primary domestic terrorism threat in the U.S. stems from lone offenders or small cells motivated by white supremacist, anti-government, or anti-authority ideologies.

While right-wing extremism has historically dominated, recent data indicates an increase in incidents from left-wing extremists."

Key Data Trends (2024-2026)

Primary Perpetrators: Racially- or ethnically-motivated violent extremists (specifically white supremacists) have been responsible for the most lethal attacks."

www.google.com

There has been some increase from the Left in response to Trump's Fascism, but you guys are still the Champs.

#42 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-06 12:22 PM | Reply

Facts were posted on this thread already Clown

No they weren't of you would have pointed them out.

recent polls showing ...
#38 | POSTED BY KWRX25

So you have zero examples of the left engaging in political violence.

Like I said. You post nothing but lie and bullshht.

You're a worthless poster.

You're a liar.

#43 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-06 12:22 PM | Reply

Yes the right owned this perception in the past, but as of more recently the left has erased that margin, making them the driver of the violence as of late.

No, dumba&&, they haven't. You are so desperate to try and push the narrative that left wing violence dominates, even making patently absurd leaps like the one above.

#44 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-06 12:23 PM | Reply

Pretty sure what idiots are complaining about is the fact that the left is protesting and push pushing back against ICE.

They're calling that "politically motivated violence".

Meanwhile, the right is blowing up Planned Parenthood, shooting up schools, threatening school teachers, murdering politicians, and acting like none of that matters.

#45 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-06 12:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

threatening school teachers

Oh please. Don't you remember how people like pedoringer responded to parents threatening teachers and school board members during COVID? They called efforts by federal law enforcement to cooperate with local law enforcement to investigate these occurrences as government overreach and "political targeting" of conservatives for simply expressing their 1A rights.

#46 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-06 12:30 PM | Reply

-I'm not going to care about the first 10. In the now, it's the left, and we need realize and address it.

Address it how?

The left wants 1 thing.....the death and/or removal from office of Trump.

Other than that, what would be given in exchange for less political violence?

#47 | Posted by eberly at 2026-05-06 12:34 PM | Reply

I definitely remember.

He commended efforts by idiotic parents to form a mob and attack the PTA meeting.

All because some high school boy kissed a high school girl in the girls bathroom.

He was demanding the boy get arrested and sent to prison for life.

#48 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-06 12:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The left wants 1 thing.....the death and/or removal from office of Trump.

Nope.

What the left really wants is to see Trump held accountable for all his fraud and crimes and locked away in prison for the rest of his life.

That would be the most satisfying consequence for the entire Trump family.

#49 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-06 12:36 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

what would be given in exchange for less political violence?
#47 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Step one is to identify what this so called "political violence" is.

I asked KWRX to provide an example. So he provided an opinion poll.

Maybe someone else with a better understanding of what they're talking about could provide actual examples.

Hell, I literally provided the only answer I can think of, protesting against ICE.

Anyone else?

#50 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-06 12:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Black Women scare the shht out of you.

Women in general you're not too fond of.

But black women you've only seen on the TV and in the magazines.

You'd fall over and piss yourself if you ever saw one in real life.

#36 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-06 12:10 PM | Reply | Flag:

First of all, Kammy ain't black.

Secondly, If I woke up and the first thing I was was Maxine's face, you damn right it would be scary.

I don't have any issues with black people, but I did take note when them two mentioned above started chimpin' out during the riots telling rioters they needed to do more.

#51 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-05-06 01:01 PM | Reply

-That would be the most satisfying consequence for the entire Trump family.

That would be icing on the cake. But the cake is resigning or dropping dead. We'll take it.

Since at least the OKC bombing, the right has held the title of the more politically violent.

But the accusation hasn't mattered much. The GOP still wins elections and controls government everywhere.

So....keep that in mind when being on the other side of the finger.....it doesn't matter much on election day.

#52 | Posted by eberly at 2026-05-06 01:01 PM | Reply

-I asked KWRX to provide an example. So he provided an opinion poll.

Opinion polls are used as evidence all the time here.

It's nothing to worry about.

#53 | Posted by eberly at 2026-05-06 01:02 PM | Reply

#32 Here's a made up example ...

A made up lie?

#54 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-05-06 01:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"But... recent polls showing a marked difference in the percentage of people who are accepting of political violence"

Hey KWRX25.

You are so dumb, you can't figure out that what ICE is doing, rounding up people and sending them to camos, is political violence.

ICE mass detention is Political violence.

All Republicans support it.

You don't care.

#55 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-06 01:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Meanwhile, the right is blowing up Planned Parenthood, shooting up schools, threatening school teachers, murdering politicians, and acting like none of that matters.
#45 | Posted by ClownShack

Republicans here including Eberly can't understand that Trump's War with Iran is Politically Motivated Violence.

That idea has never occurred to them.

#56 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-06 01:22 PM | Reply

Two examples, the reactions to the killing of Charlie Kirk, and the CEO of United Health.

Not the actions, the celebrations.

#57 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2026-05-06 01:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trump's War with Iran is Politically Motivated Violence.

Fact.

#58 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-06 01:50 PM | Reply

the reactions to the killing of Charlie Kirk,

Agreed, Erika Kirk doing backflips during Magapalooza was a bit overboard.

#59 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-06 01:54 PM | Reply

CEO of United Health

Free Luigi!

#60 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-06 01:55 PM | Reply

No one celebrated the death of Charlie Kirk more than Trump and Netanyahu.

#61 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-06 02:01 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

What the left really wants is to see Trump held accountable for all his fraud and crimes and locked away in prison for the rest of his life.
That would be the most satisfying consequence for the entire Trump family.

#49 | Posted by ClownShack

Bingo. The right just can't stop with the accusations as admissions, even projecting their own violent tendencies onto "the left."

Meanwhile, the right is, as usual, obtuse to the notion that their standing in the way of Trump receiving his right consequences for his life of crime and unethical behavior reflects poorly on them and is a significant contributor to the feelings of revulsion and disgust many of us feel towards them.

#62 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-06 02:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"I love that ---- CEOs are ---- afraid right now. You should be! By and large, you're all a bunch of selfish, greedy, ---- pieces of s---, and a lot of you are mass murderers. You just don't pull the trigger. That's why it looks clean"

- Bill Burr

#63 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-06 02:18 PM | Reply

Two examples, the reactions to the killing of Charlie Kirk, and the CEO of United Health.
Not the actions, the celebrations.

#57 | Posted by kwrx25

Both of which came from a minority of those deemed "left."

Funny, though, that in order to see what you want to see you're switching from actual violence to perceptions of "celebrations."

I guess you will take that Toyota Yaris as a "rough" BMW...

#64 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-06 02:22 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 2

The thread is directly related to polls of both parties being asked if they approve of violence for political means. The percentages for both parties was not the majority, for either side. The lefts numbers were larger though, and had increased.

That is the topic, I know sticking to a topic is rare here, but that's what I was doing.

#65 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2026-05-06 03:25 PM | Reply

"The thread is directly related to polls of both parties being asked if they approve of violence for political means."

Are you capable of entertaining the concept of fighting fire with fire, that the numbers on the left are a reflection of and a reaction to all the political violence Republicans have unleashed in Trump's second term?

Maybe discuss the topic a little bit. Is that in your wheelhouse?

Two examples, the reactions to the killing of Charlie Kirk, and the CEO of United Health.
Not the actions, the celebrations.
#57 | Posted by kwrx25

You seem to want to judge the reactions, without ever mentioning the actors being reacted to.
Without contextualizing the reactions in the milieu of the life's work of a CEO who let people die for profit. A hate preacher who said gun murders are a fair price to pay for living in America.

Charlie Kirk preached political violence.
Being happy he's dead isn't preaching political violence.
It's being happy a preacher of political violence is dead.
That's pretty much the opposite of endorsing political violence.

I'm not aware of anyone on the Left who said Charlie Kirk needs to be murdered. It was Nick Fuentes who said that. And that's what Trump says about his political opponents too. Charlie Kirk was a a political opponent of Trump on both the Epstein Files and the Gaza Ethnic Cleansing.
What we on the left said, and still say, is that by Charlie Kirk's beliefs, Charlie Kirk believes Charlie Kirk's murder was justified.
If you can't understand that, you're unfathomably stupid and I'll just stop wasting my time on you. Deal?

#66 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-06 03:38 PM | Reply

" The lefts numbers were larger though, and had increased."

You were asked about the incidents.

If you want to complain about changing the subject, start with your mirror.

Meanwhile, do you have links to increased leftist violence?

#67 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-05-06 03:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"The thread is directly related to polls of both parties being asked if they approve of violence for political means"

So why do you think right-wingers are so tolerant of all the political violence Rpubilcans are doing right now, even as they say to the pollsters they don't approve of political violence.

Are they lying?
Do they not understand it's political violence when their side does it?

You're a right winger. What's your answer? Why are you so tolerant of all this violence, why do you not see the kiliings of Goode and especially Pretti as creeping fascism? Or maybe it's because you do approve of political violence. You do approve of what the UnitedHealth CEO does to maximize profits, right?

#68 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-06 03:43 PM | Reply

Meanwhile, do you have links to increased leftist violence?
#67 | Posted by Danforth

Best he can do is leftists reacting to right-wingers getting murdered.
It should go without saying: None of the murders were done by leftists.

There's certainly been a few instances of what's portrayed as "leftist" violence targeting ICE and DHS. An easily understandable reaction to the state-sponsored right-wing violence that's defined Trump's domestic legacy.

The violence will be more bipartisan when the energy and food shortages really kick in.

#69 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-06 03:52 PM | Reply

"Twenty-five percent of the Democratic Party believes that political violence is appropriate,"

This is why I either laugh at or dismiss polls such as this. There is way more to the story.

But for most folks, if it tells you what you want to hear, then go with it. If it's absolutely something you're aghast at...then pretend you didn't see it and/or obfuscate.

I think it might be correct....but it's the accusation that matters to the sychophants....not the accuracy.

-Both of which came from a minority of those deemed "left."

that's all you need in order to have fun with this. A vocal minority speaks for the majority. I've seen that asserted here many many times.

#70 | Posted by eberly at 2026-05-06 04:18 PM | Reply

The lefts numbers were larger though, and had increased.
That is the topic, I know sticking to a topic is rare here, but that's what I was doing.

#65 | Posted by kwrx25

Except the data is a bit all over and doesn't really add up to me.

79 to 91% are against political violence. Automatically, we're talking about small minorities.

One poll drives the appearance of the left being more open to violence (Marquette) while the other two are within margins.

The real money graph is one you're apparently ignoring, the one where we see 27-35% of Repubs supported violence from March '21 through Sep '24. Now I'm sure it's pure coincidence that this was during Biden's term and the numbers only dropped to be comparable to the left's numbers once Trump won the election...right?

Even by your own thoughts your narrative is incorrect.

#71 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-06 04:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

I figured this would be a pedoringer thread.
#2 | POSTED BY JPW

Are you assuming they're different people?

BullBringer admitted his account was a shared account.

I wouldn't be surprised to find out it is much the same with the "Boazreborn" account.

You know how I know it's not the real Boaz? He only posted threads from DailyMail.uk.

#72 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-06 04:30 PM | Reply

that's all you need in order to have fun with this. A vocal minority speaks for the majority. I've seen that asserted here many many times.
#70 | Posted by eberly

They don't speak for the majority; they just give the opposition something to glom on to to broadbrush the other side with.

Which is why actual actions matter when it comes to this conversation. Certainly far more so than polls.

#73 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-06 04:32 PM | Reply

79 to 91% are against political violence.
#71 | Posted by jpw

No they aren't.
Not really.
Ask those same people if they supported World War Two or the American Revolution.
Ask them if they Support The Troops and Thank Them For Their Service.
Ask them if the military is an institution of political violence
Ask them if the police is an institution of political violence.

#74 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-06 04:39 PM | Reply

"Twenty-five percent of the Democratic Party believes that political violence is appropriate"

Look, Ma!
It's the poll numbers Emperor Hirohito used to decide we wouldn't fight back after he bombed Pearl Harbor!

#75 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-06 04:43 PM | Reply

Rwingers are Shocked!

Shocked! I tells ya, that some on the Left are for fighting back against Herr Drumpf's Corrupt Fascist Takeover of America!

Why would ANYONE oppose Hair Fuehrer?

Hopefully the Dope in Chief gets the same treatment his hero Oban got in Hungary last month in the coming BLUE WAVE.

#76 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-06 04:55 PM | Reply

when violence is promoted repeatedly daily from the news to democrat politicians

to blue haired UGLY WHITE GUILT BROADS....idiot children who seem to always have a ring

through their nose AND VIRTUALLY ALWAYS screaming with charles Manson eyes..

calling half the country.......well YOU PEOPLE HERE know what they're called because

YOU'RE GUILTY TOO !!.

--this is not a both sides issue....that's what dumb phk crooks like pansy arse tampon

Tim say to keep the truth from coming out.

the bullets fly from the left.....except if a punk tries to come through my locked

door...then they'll fly straight and true ending with an empty magazine.

#77 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-05-06 06:55 PM | Reply

who bombed tesla after the owner was called a nazi ?

who has had attempts at his life three time after years of being called hitler etc.

I could go on and on but since "you people" are prime examples, there's no need.

------IF and WHEN the violence comes from the right.....you'll know it....trust me.

#78 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-05-06 06:58 PM | Reply

PERFECT EXAMPLE......Leftist judge apologized THREE TIMES...to the turd who tried to kill Trump
at the WH dinner for his being in jail .

the guy who set the fire in California....that's the one that the mayor and newsome
chose to allow instead of proper maintenance of a reservoir...was enamored
with the coward who shot the United health care ceo in the back...

none of those are maga....those are leftist fanatics....killers / murderers and

reasons why other leftist kill....those people are you.

#79 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-05-06 07:40 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"Leftist judge apologized THREE TIMES."

That never happened.

You're welcome, failed high school "band" teacher.

#80 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-05-06 07:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Great discussion, KWRX25.

#81 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-06 08:36 PM | Reply

Shocked! I tells ya, that some on the Left are for fighting back against Herr Drumpf's Corrupt Fascist Takeover of America!

Is that why assaults against U.S. Jews are at a 46-year high? Because of Trump?

"Leftist judge apologized THREE TIMES."
That never happened.

He did say "I'm sorry", then said "Whatever you've been through, I apologize for the prior week", the concern was that he was being treated like grand ma from Jan6th.

#82 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-05-06 08:59 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

No they aren't.
#74 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

Thats just because you aren't.

#83 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-05-06 09:00 PM | Reply

Is that why assaults against U.S. Jews are at a 46-year high? Because of Trump?

You gotta give Netanyahu some credit.

#84 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-06 09:03 PM | Reply

-They don't speak for the majority; they just give the opposition something to glom on to to broadbrush the other side with.

Exactly. But there is still the fun of accusing everyone on the other side of being a racist, a nazi, or a pedophile or in this case....a jubilant celebrant and supporter of political violence.

It's only the 7,000th time I've seen it done here over the past 20 years.

#85 | Posted by eberly at 2026-05-06 09:04 PM | Reply

the turd who tried to kill Trump

Good reminder for you all to get colonoscopies and cancer screenings regularly.

#86 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-06 09:05 PM | Reply

"other side"

both sides, then?

Got it.

#87 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-06 09:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

No one wants Trump dead more than Melania.

#88 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-06 09:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Real political violence, circa 2026 ...

#89 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-05-06 09:27 PM | Reply

"Twenty-five percent of the Democratic Party believes that political violence is appropriate," Ferguson said."

I wonder what effect recent Republican political violence contributed to the percentage.

#90 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-05-06 09:29 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Is that why assaults against U.S. Jews are at a 46-year high? Because of Trump?"

I blame those individuals who insist upon conflating all Jews with the ethnofascist Zionist psychopaths in Israel currently perpetrating genocide.

#91 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-05-06 10:16 PM | Reply

#91 "I blame those individuals who insist upon conflating all Jews with the ethnofascist Zionist psychopaths in Israel currently perpetrating genocide."

Yep.

Exactly like blaming those individuals who insist upon conflating all Americans with the ethnofascist MAGA psychopaths in Washington DC currently letting Bibi continue his perpetrating genocide in Gaza.

#92 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-05-06 10:27 PM | Reply

The difference being that the vast majority of those most vocal in conflating all Jews with ethnofascist Zionism (and vice-versa) are those who actually support ethnofascist Zionism.

How antisemitic of them.

#93 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-05-06 10:42 PM | Reply

"Twenty-five percent of the Democratic Party believes that political violence is appropriate"

The vast majority of Americans who support bombing brown people overseas in order to achieve political aims never actually had a bomb dropped within the vicinity of their own homes.

Funny how that works!

#94 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-05-06 10:45 PM | Reply