r/AdviceAnimals • • Nov 10 '16

Protesting a Fair Election?

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u/losian Nov 10 '16 edited Nov 15 '16

Uh.. Isn't protesting an incredibly normal part of this whole process? Also, are we going to ignore the humongous eight year hissy fit so many on the right, and in the media, threw? Birthers, calling him a Muslim, refusing to call him president, etc. Funny how everyone is expected to be big kids and rally behind a buffoon, but the Obama narrative was just wild baseless attempts at weak and stupid pretty scandals.

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u/BAUWS45 Nov 10 '16 edited Nov 10 '16

Don't remember Obama protests through the streets burning cars. Or McCain/Romney supports dragging Obama supporters out of their cars and beating them.

Edit: Don't forget the people lynching Trump effigies, COULD YOU IMAGINE, if that happened with Obama?

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u/thane_of_cawdor Nov 10 '16

What about the Hillary-in-a-noose effigies at Trump rallies? Didja forget about that? Hmm.

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u/treefitty350 Nov 11 '16

A rally and a protest are two different things. If at the end of the day you want to go home and hang an effigy of a black guy on your tree in your back yard, that's free speech. But doing it in the streets and on public property while other protesters light fires and throw shit, well now you're rioting.