[tnone]

But one unhinged guy in a car is suddenly representative of the right wing? I say this being on the left.

I'm utterly appalled at what goes on in social media. People who a few years ago were quiet exemplars of sanity are now calling for violence, witch hunts and pretending like the US is one step away from civil war.

It's media that's doing this. A protest by one's own side is powerful, solemn and the height of democracy. If it's the other side, it's intimidating, primal and a rapid descent into tyranny. One rotten egg on your own side is just an unfortunate lunatic, on the other it's emblematic of the radicalization hidden just beneath the surface. The informational content has made way for a completely emotional, tribal way of looking at the world. It's just convenient narratives, with no one particularly interested in figuring out whether something is actually big, or just puffed up into the next big news cycle. News coverage now creates importance, instead of the other way around. The people who keep this going are the ones who benefit from eternal conflict, and it's not you and I.

This time the antifa found casus belli in the death of a compatriot. Just the same, the right could've gotten unlucky (or lucky) and had one of their own die to a u-lock to the head at Berkeley. Fill in your own examples, if you can still remember them a few weeks later.

Violence begets violence, especially if you broadcast it non stop for rageclicks and social validation points. It's not journalism anymore, it's just juvenile activism and pandering.

[billions]

We need to get over social news drama like teens learned to hide their provocative pics from Facebook.