this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2024
244 points (99.2% liked)

politics

18870 readers
3822 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
  2. Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  3. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
  4. No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive.
  5. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  6. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

Register To Vote

Citizenship Resource Center

Congressional Awards Program

Federal Government Agencies

Library of Congress Legislative Resources

The White House

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

News

World News

Business News

Political Discussion

Ask Politics

Military News

Global Politics

Moderate Politics

Progressive Politics

UK Politics

Canadian Politics

Australian Politics

New Zealand Politics

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

A bomb threat in Springfield, Ohio, came after Trump repeated baseless rumor about immigrants ‘eating pets’

Joe Biden on Friday said the hostile attacks on Haitian immigrants in the US “[have] to stop” after Donald Trump repeated a false and derogatory claim about a Haitian community in Ohio.

“It is simply wrong that the proud Haitian community is under attack right now in this country,” Biden said. “There’s no place in America. This has to stop – what he’s doing. It has to stop,” the US president said at a White House event marking Black excellence.

The mayor of Springfield, Ohio, earlier on Friday said that the bomb threat made on Thursday that forced the evacuation of the city hall, two schools and other buildings was explicitly anti-immigrant and hostile to the city’s Haitian community, following Donald Trump’s stoking of a rightwing conspiracy theory that some residents’ pets are being eaten.

Rob Rue, the mayor, accused national Republicans who are amplifying wild rumors from a far-right provocateur that Haitian immigrants in Springfield are hunting and eating other people’s pets of “hurting our city”.

top 14 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can we convince them that billionaires are eating pets

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Elon is an immigrant. I bet he likes cat liver on his crackers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

"TrUmP dIDNT say To HUrT ImGrNts!"

They'll say while raiding the capitol frothing horse dewormer from their mouths...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Well Jeez if only there was some way we, as a nation, could all decide on someone whose job it is to stop these things, or at least oversee the people who stop these things and make sure they're doing their fucking job.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I actually think this is a dry run for Trump to see if he can "innocently" incite violence. If things don't go his way in November, the call will be much more direct.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

If Trump loses in November then he'll be in jail by the end of the month. That's why his sentencing was delayed; so that Merchan won't have to worry about the political consequences of jailing a Presidential candidate.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

I think you're giving Trump too much credit. This comment sums it up succinctly, but I sincerely believe Trump is not capable of thinking about the future. He only brought up the cats and dogs because he thought it was his best anti-immigrant fear-mongering line available at the time.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Just brain-storming here, and what if we took away publicity from those that stoke violence? What if we passed laws against encouraging others to murder, to terrorize, commit violence? Would that be helpful?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What if we treated them like the terrorists they are?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Lock em up.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

It will not, because those laws already largely exist. It has been quite well established I'm the US that inciting violence is not considered protected speech. The laws just don't apply the same to wealthy people like Trump as they do to anyone else.