If they are all leftist issues then that sharp uptick happened before the uptick in the far right category. Seems at least mildly relevant.
I’m certainly not going to defend Trump here though. The most charitable possible interpretation of his actions is tacit acceptance of violence.
Tens of thousands? Christine Pelosi currently has 190,300 followers.
Apparently Rand Paul cares.
Why? Cuz I am still not seeing how her opinion is news. Any more than my neighbor’s. Or mine. Or yours.
We are still talking about Rand Paul getting tackled by his neighbor that Paul and everyone else agreed was not at all political, right? Just making sure i didn’t miss the actual political violence that might be relevant.
You are making my point. Most of the things on Twitter are not news, yet many people seem to use Twitter (or Facebook or reddit etc.) as a news source. People’s tweets about things that happen can become ‘news’ in their own right, but Twitter users are missing out on fact-based reporting of actual events if all they see is tweets.
I suppose it could be, but i can’t really recall any news of left wing political attacks, or it being described as a threat. I guess you could call some of the floyd protests as political violence, but thats all beyond the time line of the chart.
Trump brought political violence to America. Maybe it was going to happen anyway, and was just a matter of time. And maybe Trump is a symptom of that underlying resentment. But he along with his MAGA Republicans are not doing a damn thing about it. To them, it’s their political career.
Stand back, and stand by.
Sure. I’ve never disputed that.
Yeah, that was pretty despicable and I don’t remotely excuse that.
Sure, i understand your view on Trump.
I just feel we are far from being able to equate this to both sides. I think that was mostly rangers point though, not necessarily yours.
“Whether it’s liberals interrupting Brett Kavanaugh‘s meal with a chant, or conservatives interrupting Paul Pelosi‘s evening with a hammer blow to the head, both sides have a problem respecting the privacy of public figures.”
My bad. Didn’t know there was a difference between followers and following. I should have said “are following”.
You must have been following Christine Pelosi for quite a while. What prompted that, if I may?
I don’t even have a Twitter account. I just Googled “Christine Pelosi Twitter” when you asked how many followers she had and the first hit was her Twitter page (account? nest? Whatever it’s called)
So the news was not actually something you saw, it was something someone else saw about Christine writing a rip on someone else…pretty broad definition of news, imo. Oh, and using your metric, John Mayer has 1.9 million, so my estimation that they weren’t close was fairly accurate.
I really can’t put that in the both sides column, I’m afraid. I’d prefer to have more commonality for the sources. When my neighbor starts in on how we should deport all Jews to Israel…well, that’s just Paul being Paul. He doesn’t have any power to make that happen beyond his vote. Not on the same level as Jim Jordan by a good amount.
I have a Twitter account. I have 0 tweets, but i can check tweets and see responses.
It’s a shitty place, but i think it’s almost required to get a sense of what’s happening.
Correct. I also didn’t see George Floyd getting murdered or Osama bin Laden being captured, or Queen Elizabeth dying. I read about them after they happened.
I don’t follow Trump on Twitter, but I heard about covfefe.
That’s pretty normal with news items, is it not?
You don’t actually need an account to read Tweets though, so I don’t have one.
Uh, that was YOUR metric.
I wasn’t talking about that; I was talking about the assassination attempt.
It was a quote from a NYT parody account on Twitter. Like this: “Whether it’s Democrats condemning political violence, or Republicans celebrating it, both sides have a political violence problem.”