politics

So let me get this right: we can't criticize any position that our side takes because that automatically brands us as posers, right

Nope, that's a ridiculous strawman. You're allowed to take any position you want. Just as I'm allowed to have my suspicions when you take positions that make no sense outside of credulity caused by far right gaslighting.

Who else plays this game? Do you see how close to the MAGA crowd we've circled back to? They do the exact same game to anyone that disagrees with their narrative (See RINO).

More horseshoe theory bullshit. Even if you WERE right about me (you're not), equating anything I've said with the utterly insane drivel of a literal fascist movement is the kind of thing disingenuous "moderates" and cosplaying Republicans do.

YOU said the video was doctored or taken out of context. But then you never backed that up.

I backed it up by providing the context that the video omits: that he traveled heavily armed across state lines to a peaceful protest in order to shoot protesters, deliberately provoked protesters until some of them tried to stop him and then murdered those protesters.

Those are actual facts that the biased judge ordered stricken from the record because they made it clear that it was all premeditated rather than spur of the moment self defense.

There is no evidence this case was rigged

Yeah there is, see above.

YOU said the integrity of the judicial system can't be trusted

Yeah, I tend not to trust a system where a biased judge who has no business presiding over a case can just arbitrarily throw out crucial evidence because it doesn't match his predetermined conclusion and nobody can do anything about it.

I'm kooky like that.

It's this odd knee-jerk reaction I see here on Lemmy anyone that disagrees with established narratives is automatically branded:

• Outsider / other
• Facts become irrelevant

This you?

I MUST brand you as something. I can't engage with someone unless I put a label on them

I didn't accuse you of bad faith

Not explicitly, no, but your opening comment accused EVERYONE not convinced about his innocence of bad faith, so excuse me if I don't celebrate your magnificently magnanimous restraint 🙄

I brought the facts of the matter

Nope. You brought your conclusion based on omitting key evidence.

described how similar your rhetoric is to the way elements of the far right manifest themselves

Which, again, is horseshoe theory bullshit. Especially when it's not even CLOSE to true like in this case.

As a leftie

Give it a rest, Dean. Nobody's buying it.

all I want to do is combat misinformation

Spreading it is an awfully peculiar way of going about that task..

But just that was enough to get me all the downvotes and labels needed to put me in a box so we don't have to hear about it.

Nah, you got that for lying and trying to distort reality in order to defend a murderer and then doubling down when corrected.