Can you think of anything that happened in the past month or so, perhaps involving US politics, that might have a tendency to radicalize people?

First shots in defense of the working class have been fired in the class war and most of us are surprised it took this long.

As someone who’s father was killed by health insurance companies, the assassination of the UHC CEO brings out some really passionate bloodthirsty emotions in me. And I’m just one person….

The assassin is my hero. Too bad if it hurts your sensibilities. Fuck him, fuck his family, no sympathy. I hope there are many copycats, there are many deserving targets.

Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent revolution inevitable. They have it coming.

Yeah it's awesome, need more of it

Is Lemmy getting more bootlicker lately?

Slaves cheering when a slave owner dies seems pretty normal, no?

Hopefully!

what is the opposite of "radical", in your opinion, and was lemmy like that before "lately"?

god willing

The recent killing of the UHC CEO seems to have pushed all the right buttons in activating people's bloodlust and mob mentality. But I actually looked at some of the threads on reddit after being a bit taken aback by the reaction on Lemmy, and redditors were being just as violent. So I don't think it's Lemmy getting more radical, it's just the flavor of the week right now to celebrate violence, as long as it's against the bad guys.

I say it's getting less radical when 20 years ago a country got invaded, a million killed, based on nothing but lies and no one bat an eye on any forum.

I think it's America that's getting more violent. You see the same thing on other platforms.

There is definitely a trend towards calling for death and violence against billionaires and other powerful figures that I've observed over a while.

Yes and no.

There are more calls for violence, yes.

But a lot of people on Lemmy have a lot of catching up to do in understanding the world, nuances and getting rid of outdated and harmful thinking stagnated by clinging onto certain ideologies and belief systems.

That would be way more 'radical' than just violence alone.