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Republican HQ in Orange County firebombed (charlotteobserver.com)

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[–]CorrectTheWreckordAmerica 5 points 16 hours ago

"deplorable fascist, xenophobic, sexist, ect"

And they fucking deserve to be fire bombed.

What was it the Nazis used to described the Jews, gypsies, and handicap? How did they convince the everyday people that what they were doing was ok? Undesirables?

Just because you throw all these labels at Trump and the people who support him, doesn't make them true. It's dehumanizing. So when Hillary Clinton puts these labels on Trump supporters, people lose empathy for them. They're not slashing the tires of someone who works 9-5, and has to drive their kids to school in the morning, and then sit in rush hour traffic. They're slashing the tires of a racist, xenophobic, sexist, bigot, deplorable.

The MSM, which is basically the propaganda branch of the Hillary campaign, perpetuates bullshit story after bullshit story about these "racist" Trump supporters to the point where those with a liberal bias believe that everyone who supports Trump must be a racist Nazi. Even in this thread there's people comparing Trump supporters to brown shirts.

Hillary, her campaign, her super PACs, and the MSM may not have directly called for violence, but they sure as shit dehumanized the people who support Trump so much that no one on the left has any sympathy for them.

They're deplorables.

[–]PandaLover42America 2 points 16 hours ago

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And they fucking deserve to be fire bombed.

Yea, that's what I said. /s

No, me throwing labels at Trump doesn't make it true, you're right. Trump's own actions make him a fascist when he whips up his fanatics into a frenzy against the media and threatens journalists, when he threatens to imprison his political opponent and anyone who may have helped her, when he screams ultra-nationalistic and anti-"others" rhetoric, and checks off everything on a fascism list.

You're the only one dehumanizing them. Fascists are still humans. Being fascist doesn't mean you deserve violence, which may explain why Hillary has never called for violence, unlike Trump. And when Hillary, who's never called for violence, should be held responsible for this firebombing (despite having no suspects yet), Trump, who has called for violence and continuously verbally assaults minorities, gets a total pass on those white nationalists that were arrested earlier for conspiring to blow up an apartment complex full of Somalians, right? Is he going to get a pass for the voter intimidation that's going to happen on Election Day? Is he going to get a pass when his supporters call Hillary the devil and possibly even riot the day after?

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The MSM, which is basically the propaganda branch of the Hillary campaign, perpetuates bullshit story after bullshit story

How ironic. I heard Trump say basically the same thing a couple days ago, and now you're spewing the same bullshit story about "the MSM" being Hillary's propaganda. Yea, we should all get our news only from infowars, breitbart, the god emperor's Twitter, and other bs sites like the Moonie Times and gatewaypundit, right?