This is not a boat accident! It was Trumpism.

[kpete]

“This was not a random act,” said William Scott, San Francisco’s chief of police. “This was intentional.”

Let’s stop dismissing attacks like these and threats against public servants as products of garden-variety mental illness. This was not a boat accident, propeller, coral reef, or Jack the Ripper.

It was Trumpism.

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https://digbysblog.net/2022/10/29/this-is-not-a-boat-accident/

[FBaggins]

1. Amber Heard hater is RW?

Uh oh.

[PatSeg]

3. That was an odd one

to include in the list. I don't associate it with right-wingers.

[vlyons]

4. Maybe she wasn't RW enough for him

She didn't whack an old man in the head with a hammer, or shoot up a shopping center.

[PatSeg]

6. That could be it

[robbob]

5. Yeah, and that whole nautical theme (boat accident,

propeller, coral reef) had me scratching my head. Reference, anyone?

[Wounded Bear]

7. Perhaps in reference to this...

[PatSeg]

8. I don't have a clue

I'm still trying to figure that out.

[Xavier Breath]

11. He's quoting Richard Dreyfus from Jaws.

The medical examiner claims the first shark victim was a boating accident, which Dreyfus' character quickly deduced was not the case.

Edit: which I now see is in post #2.

[robbob]

15. Ah!

Thanks.

[PatSeg]

22. Thank you

[delisen]

10. I associate it with directing hate upon persons and groups nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. A sign of misogyny

People who expressed hatred of Amber Heard in the case brought against her by Johnny Depp often seemed to just hate women (it would be possible to side with Depp, given the evidence presented, without being misogynistic, but the reality was that many online made it a case of hating the woman, and not weighing things up rationally).

[LakeArenal]

14. I would think they hate Depp. Such a hipster and all.

They just hate. They probably hate Depp too

[PatSeg]

23. I would think so as well,

but I guess as you say, "they just hate". It is what they do

[Grokenstein]

43. In a battle between a man and a woman

they will always support the penis.

[PatSeg]

44. Yes, that is the simplest and most

obvious explanation.

[John1956PA]

17. +1

[Iggo]

36. This.

[Tanuki]

18. It's widespread among incels and other misogynists

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/amber-heard-johnny-depp-memes-reddit-tiktok-b2082450.html%3famp


"Memes and videos mocking Amber Heard expose the “deep hatred” and distrust of women as well as revealing the prevalence of misogyny, experts have warned.

Campaigners from leading UK charities and experts told The Independent viral online responses to the lawsuit between Johnny Depp and Ms Heard shed light on how many people assume women who report domestic abuse and sexual violence are lying.
...


Dr Proudman added: “It is never acceptable to laugh and mock a complainant of sexual violence. Let’s not forget that Amber Heard was found by a High Court Judge in the UK to be a victim of domestic abuse at the hands of Depp.
...

The memes serve to undermine her, and in doing so, they send out a strong message to survivors that if you speak out, you could be laughed at, and ridiculed, this might discourage women from seeking support from friends or family and they might be reluctant to report abuse to the police.”

Dr Proudman argued the memes mocking Heard “are driven by misogyny” and “a deep hatred towards women” as she argued people are conditioned and “socialised to hate women”....(more)

[Iggo]

37. Yep, yep.

[NullTuples]

41. She predicted and was inundated with character attacks by anti-feminists almost immediately,

even before the trial got underway.

[stopdiggin]

9. agree. that was maybe a 'whoopsie'

the argument is much better when sticking to holocaust and climate change denial.

(now if you're talking Pelosi hater ... then maybe you have something.)
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[RestoreAmerica2020]

20. Who the hell is Amber Heard? Note: Sorry on edit searched she's J..Depp's ex.

Last edited Sat Oct 29, 2022, 12:14 PM - Edit history (1)

..wow this guy was all over the board batshit maga.

[Baltimike]

32. I think it's an attempt to saddle us with her...same with Meghan Markle nt

[Iggo]

35. There's a heavy toxic male anti-woman presence to the online Amber Heard hatred.

Last edited Sat Oct 29, 2022, 06:04 PM - Edit history (1)

A kind of “Yeah! We finally won one!” vibe.

Incels abound.

[Ilsa]

2. Here ya' go: (sound on)

[brooklynite]

12. Who is "dismissing attacks like this"?

[lonely bird]

16. My guess is...

That the RW won’t acknowledge the impact of Trump having anything to do with the attacker’s motivation. Yes, some have condemned the attack such as Yertle the Tertle but comments regarding motivation will be absent. Or they will pull out the “mental illness” card.

[JHB]

24. Republicans

[muriel_volestrangler]

30. Full sentence: "dismiss ... as products of garden-variety mental illness"

It's quite likely that Trumpists will try that. In another DU thread, there's already hand-wringing that the mention of Jimmy Dore in the attacker's online entertainment enjoyment will enable Trumpists to claim he was "far left", not far right.

Yes, mental health has already come up:

Ron DePape, who said David DePape is his brother’s stepson from a previous marriage, said he woke up to the news and has been “sick over it.”

“We don’t have any contact with him and just feeling sad and sorry for the Pelosi family,” Ron DePape said. “It’s just a sad event. It has to be mental health issues that he’s been carrying around, I would think.” Ron DePape, who lives in Powell River, British Columbia, said David DePape lived in Powell River for a short time before leaving “at an early age” to follow a girlfriend who lived in the U.S.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Paul-Pelosi-violently-assaulted-in-San-17541007.php

Having mental health issues may make someone more vulnerable to the Qanon and antisemitic crap stuff he professed, and to acting violently on it, but the driving force of the Trump bigotry and encouragement of violence must be centered.

[SunSeeker]

42. Fox News'Jesse Watters, for one.

“People are being hit with hammers every day."  https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jesse-watters-fox-news-paul-pelosi_n_635d3df0e4b07c6cedc36c7a

[AllaN01Bear]

19. never heard of amber heard before i read this post . hem.

[BootinUp]

21. The squalous involved is usually found in the Mar a Lardo region.

Its a quite large squalous.

[yobrault1]

25. Yup, not a defect for the GQP

a feature.

[BootinUp]

26. Amber heard what? nt

[Gore1FL]

33. I suspect the list is inclusive of everything he complained about on social media. nt

[Hortensis]

27. Actually, Kpete, my observation has been that most on political forums

leap to assume that normal people are acting out political malice, a view that facilitates calling to "lock them up!"

And that it's the possibility of mental illness that's blown off before it even needs to be dismissed. Presumably to avoidraising the unpalatable possibility that responsible mental care and protection in prison might be more appropriate than the satisfying imagining of vengeance wreaked by just throwing them in with mobs of sociopaths in general population.

Not that I don't have my own fantasies of hard life in prison for THOSE WHO SYSTEMATICALLY WEAPONIZED THIS WEAK-MINDED CREEP AND TURNED HIM ON SOCIETY.

Never to forget in our anger that we and the tRumpists are all targeted for defeat by the same power blocs.

We're all The People whose power must be destroyed.

[BootinUp]

29. The strategy of one of the two major US political parties

is to make government not function well. Exceptions for the connected of course.

[Hortensis]

34. Yes -- during the transition to making it function very well for a

RW authoritarian ruling class.

There have been blatant indications since the 1980s that RW powers realize they must eliminate democracy to eliminate our power to stop, and eventually destroy them. Fascistic and totalitarian types want to eliminate all the liberal norms our culture's based on, including our grossly inflated expectations of individual rights and freedoms, very unsuited to the needs of authoritarian states.

Discontented people will let go easily, even insist on having taken away, what they're too thoughtless to value or imagine being without. Until it's too late. So first sow the discontent, feelings of victimhood, grievance, helplessness, fear -- and new awareness that everything's wrong and nothing worth saving.

Fortunately for humanity, only some soak that loser crap up.

[oldsoftie]

28. Don't know why "Amber Heard hater" is in there. She was SAVAGED by so many.

And most of them were WOMEN. If anyone paid attention to that shitshow women were after her from day ONE. Nothing to do with politics everything to do with "Depps a STAR!!!!"

[catbyte]

31. I can't stand Amber Heard either, lol. She's a bad actress and an even worse liar.

After watching almost every day of the Depp/Heard trial, I'm convinced that Depp was the victim in that awful, toxic relationship.

[Erik the UNred]

38. Anti-government

Unless it's his kkkind of government, natch.

[The Jungle 1]

39. I like telling repukes...

Yo listen I do not support treason.
They know what you are saying.

[ffr]

40. According to MSNBC, David DePape, Nancy Pelosi's would-be assassin, is a believer in Transhumanism

The Steve Bannon promoted demonetization of one billion who were vaccinated from Covid-19. Paul Pelosi, in their eyes, is just another "lab rat" "cyborg" they are at war with.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217299320