Not even close to credible. The idea that the left just had a couple of stray word slips from politicians is laughable. For the last ten years, their main political weapon has been branding anyone who disagrees with them as fascist, racist, Nazi, Hitler, KKK, misogynist. you name it. That hasn’t been a side show; it’s been the entire playbook. Entire movements, media ecosystems, and political campaigns have been built on smearing opponents with those labels. Pretending that’s just “a single remark” while ignoring the avalanche of slander is pure gaslighting.Res Ipsa wrote: ↑Thu Oct 02, 2025 5:13 amNext section:
This section stitches together some things that actually happen and tries to create a vast conspiracy that doesn’t exist. It begins with a massive example of projection. Donald Trump and JD Vance, as well as other leaders on the right, have engaged in a mass campaign of dehumanization against their chosen scapegoats (immigrants and transgender people) and anyone not on board with MAGA. They routinely describe any Democrat as Marxist or Communist. Likewise, they accuse them of trying to destroy America. This dehumanization has gone on for decades, beginning with Rush Limbaugh. While those on the right seize on a single remark made by a politician on the left (deplorable, clinging to God and guns), they ignore the torrent of violent and dehumanizing rhetoric issuing from the mouths of leaders on the right. It’s not some randos on the Internet that weaponize dehumanizing rhetoric — it’s political and opinion leaders. Their dehumanizing rhetoric gives their followers permission to treat their opponents as subhuman or not human.These campaigns often begin by isolating and dehumanizing specific targets to justify murder or other violent action against them. They do so through a variety of fora, including anonymous chat forums, in-person meetings, social media, and even educational institutions. These campaigns then escalate to organized doxing, where the private or identifying information of their targets (such as home addresses, phone numbers, or other personal information) is exposed to the public with the explicit intent of encouraging others to harass, intimidate, or violently assault them. As in the case of several ICE agents in Los Angeles being doxed, the goal of these campaigns can be to obstruct the operations of the Federal Government as well as aid and abet criminal activity the Federal Government is lawfully pursuing. These campaigns are coordinated and perpetrated by actors who have developed a comprehensive strategy to achieve specific policy goals through radicalization and violent intimidation.
As far as doxxing, it exploded during gamergate and is employed by the right as often as as on the left. The biggest, most organized doxxing campaign I’ve seen to date was revenge on people who used politically incorrect speech about Charlie Kirk, which cost hundreds of people their jobs. Doxxing, swatting, pizza ordering are all revenge tactics deployed by bad people of all ideologies. They aren’t confined to the left.
I’ve read about lots of incidents of doxxing. I’ve seen no evidence of a doxxing strategy other than punishing someone that someone’s mad at. If the administration wanted to seriously pursue doxxing and swatting as crimes, more power to it. But not under a policy that ignores the same conduct by the right.
Sure, dehumanization is bad. But let’s be real: when you spend a decade running a campaign of calling half the country Nazis, racists, or Hitler, don’t be shocked when people stop giving you the benefit of the doubt. That’s not victimhood. It’s a natural FAFO consequence. You convinced everyone that constant name-calling was just background noise, and now you want to act shocked that people tune it out or push back harder or post memes.
The response you’re defending omits reality entirely, and that makes it worthless. If you can’t acknowledge that the left has mainstreamed exactly the kind of mass dehumanization you claim only exists on the right, then you’re not offering analysis. You’re running cover.
