Replying here since your other comment is flagged (IMO only because of the profanity, so if you want more people to see your comments maybe learn how to form an argument without it):
> It's not my job to educate you.
This is a common tactic of both the left and the right when they are faced with evidence that goes contrary to a (typically pretty tenuous) claim they're making. "Well I've given you a single source that exactly fits my worldview so now if you disagree you're simply uneducated, not disagreeing on the merits. It's impossible that the source I gave is absolute garbage."
It is your job to educate people when you're making a claim that goes against common sense. As far as I am aware there was absolutely no "crackdown" on Trump supporters in any organized fashion ever between his first election and when I woke up this morning. You're free to think otherwise, you might even be right, but if you want people to agree with you you better be prepared to convince them. And I could be wrong but I don't think calling them "fucking retards" is going to do it.
A bunch of claims made there with no evidence supplied to support any of them, and especially nothing linking domestic terrorism with run of the mill Trump supporters, although it's quite telling that one would make that conceptual leap, ostensibly to fuel some sense of personal grievance?
Based on first hand experience on the fringes of white supremacist organizations over the decades I'm totally unsurprised to hear law enforcement would have a hard time finding them in bulk as the percentage of people in the US who willingly harbor these kinds of views is a rounding error compared to the larger populace. It's actually pretty shocking how much trouble such a small group of people can cause on the rare occasion that they either muster the courage of their convictions and act on their beliefs or are goaded into action by law enforcement plants. In any case, trivializing these groups, either by dismissing their numbers or by trying to reframe them as mere "political opposition" is deeply stupid. These people are profoundly dangerous.
What your job is depends on your goals I suppose. If your goal is to convince or persuade then yes, your job absolutely is to educate me as I'm at least willing to meet your claims with enough curiosity to examine the material you present to support them.
What's really wild here is I honestly have no idea what you're angry about, and I am deeply curious as to the cause.
You'll have to do better than linking the Western Journal on Hacker News. It's a rebrand of "Western Journalism", which has been repeatedly highlighted as a source of fake news, misinformation, and right-wing conspiracy theories.
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