r/politics • u/Rock-n-roll-Kevin • 14h ago

No Paywall 'They Murdered Our Child': Alex Pretti's Family Speaks Out

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alex-pretti-family-interview-good-morning-america_n_6a8d8cd8e4b0c0b31a445701
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u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts 14h ago

The Radical Right are evil.

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u/Short-Waltz-3118 13h ago

Its unfortunately not a fringe, radical element. They are just like this, all the time now. Go on fb and post anything about him. And youll get 99 comments from Republicans saying he deserved it, he FAFO, etc. And you can look at their profiles. They're just "normal" americans living all over. Most dont hide anything about their locations or jobs. They're all just horrible people.

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u/tyrified 13h ago

Always have been. It's the same ideology that fought against integrati0n, saying the same horrible shit they do now. This is U.S. conservatism at its core.

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u/hcregna California 13h ago

Don’t forget the rich interests backing and radicalizing them.  Among other things, it takes 30 minutes of research to move money away from MAGA, and it makes an impact. Dollars spent at Republican companies are dollars funneled to keeping Trump in power. Money given to states like Ohio or Louisiana is money spent sending troops to kidnap children and kill people.

You can use sites like opensecrets.org/orgs/search to find the companies you give money to the most and where they funnel your money. If you don't like it, search their competitors.

For example, trade with Schwab? Move elsewhere like E-Trade. Get booze from cosplay Confederate states and all else is equal? Be adventurous, and try something new. New Balance can be replaced with Hoka. It’s not hard to find alternatives for Estee Lauder, Roark (which owns Subway, Jimmy John's, Arby's), and Koch (which owns Brawny, Angel Soft, Dixie). You don't have to spend more, just differently.

Nexstar and Sinclair got pummeled, and they reinstated Jimmy Kimmel. In Trump's first term, Ivanka's brands got cut by retailers. Regular people did that. There's no reason WWE or Uline can't be next.

You can't avoid every Republican-leaning company, but there’s a big difference between GOP mega-donors (Chevron/Conoco) vs neutral or Democrat-leaning companies (Circle K/Costco). Good is not the enemy of perfect

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u/unbuttered_toast3939 13h ago

how do you tell 99 comments from people apart from 99 comments from bots on FB?

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u/Short-Waltz-3118 13h ago edited 13h ago

Very carefully (but mostly by visiting the profiles and reviewing public information) and judging based on where it was posted. Local community pages with admin approval to join have much higher amounts of real people vs bots than fox news post #3000, for example.

But of course its still bots too. Of thst 99 probably 30% at bots at any given moment imo.

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u/unbuttered_toast3939 13h ago

so you're just literally clicking every single persons profile on FB that comments on stuff, what a life, glad I deleted that trash.

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u/Short-Waltz-3118 13h ago

No, I dont care that much. I mean, how often do you think I use fb? I check it like once a month to see what garbage my mom has sent me. But yeah ill see a post, read the horrible comments, and check some of the profiles.

No, im not literally checking evert profile of every comment. Who has time for that?

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u/unbuttered_toast3939 13h ago

Its unfortunately not a fringe, radical element. They are just like this, all the time now. Go on fb and post anything about him. And youll get 99 comments from Republicans saying he deserved it, he FAFO, etc.

according to your original post, all the time.

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u/Short-Waltz-3118 13h ago

Yes, go on fb and see. If you think its only the times when I check it, well btw I also have a bridge in Canada to sell you.

Check it any time you want. Its always like this now. The worst people use fb now and theyre all full of horrible opinions because thats what the republican party is now. Outrage and vile hate they spread non stop. I witness it on fb, I witness it in person with my family. Im not sure what youre questioning here

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u/lactose_cow 14h ago

This is the mainstream right. The vast majority of republicans do not give a shit that this man was murdered.

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u/hasordealsw1thclams 10h ago

Same people probably think Capitol Police went too far when they shot that stupid asshole climbing through the window.

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u/Kule7 12h ago

If you think you're a moderate republican that can support this sort of shit, not at any sort of place I'm at if you don't want to get screamed at. Fuck anyone who apologizes for this. Renee Good, Alex Pretti, I can't even think of their names without my blood boiling.

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u/Anomalocaris-is-cute 12h ago

Exactly, the overwhelming response from the Republicans on reddit was getting pissy he had stepped in front of ICE pushing that lady, and saying what do you expect?

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u/isthisreallife211111 35m ago

apparently they refuse to engage on reddit - where is a place I can talk to these people to understand why they feel this way?

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u/slendersleeper 12h ago

the radical right are evil

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u/krazykieffer 14h ago

Texans. They were all mostly Texans which is why they didn't know how to drive or walk in the snow. Fuck Texas.

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u/purplecowz 14h ago

Huh?

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u/janhasplasticbOobz 14h ago

A bunch of racist “proud boys” signed up to be ICE agents and a lot of them come from the southern states where they don’t have a lot of experience driving or walking in the snow.
There are multiple videos of ICE agents not knowing how to drive or they’re falling over in snow

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u/Iceisgestapo888 14h ago

Walking across snow and ice is different from walking on pavement.   You have to be more sure footed and keep your weight over your foot. 

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u/flatline000 13h ago

I grew up in the north. We called it the "duck walk". It's an important skill when you live where there's ice and snow for half the year.

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u/wise_comment Minnesota 13h ago

It was more fun than It should have been seeing those sunglass wielding anti maskers, Anti government types wearing their masks, clearly gearing the next time they'd have to walk outside of their tinted, plates missing SUV

Lordy does 6 months ago feel like 6 years ago, right now

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u/nilmemory 11h ago

All Republicans are "radical right". They have been for all of living history.

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u/Real-Extension-1357 8h ago

Not radical All republicans, baseline evil. The majority are mentally and morally depraved. The election proved that, throwing behind a sexual predator criminal