I have reported people advocating murder on this site several times. Everything from shooting to dragging with a chain, but there has been no mod action to remove any of it. I can only assume advocating murder is now acceptable. Please notify everyone of your rules change.
There's a difference between advocating and wishing besides there is no rule barring either. The rule specifically addresses direct threats against forum members and their families. You're not the first to have complained about this and you probably won't be the last. The one benefit (if you want to see it that way) is those who are "advocating" (as you claim) are simply showing all what kind of scum they really are.......
Let me make a wild guess it was in a race thread.
Most threads appear to be taking that route these days. It only shows that people on both sides have become more frustrated and angry with the opposing side but it's always the extremes that start calling or wishing for violence. The board (as are most political boards) mostly representative of the extreme factions so the views tend to be heavily skewed. However the current social changes/demands are particularly upsetting to many, many who are more moderately conservative, driving some further right and possibly setting the stage for more violence. I hope cooler heads prevail but I expect the harder the left pushes the more reactionary and intractable the right will become.
So you think it's the left's fault that the right has become so violent? That's interesting.
I don't think he's wrong about the dynamic itself; he sees it from the conservative point of view because he's a conservative. I know I've gotten into threads where the extreme right argued me farther to the left than I started out. Pushed me against the wall, so to speak, and I ended up thinking "how on earth did I get HERE?"
No, I'm seeing it from a scientific, apolitical point of view, it's a simple matter of human/social dynamics that have been proven over and over and over throughout human history. I'm not nearly as conservative as most on the left think I am. I'm also not nearly as liberal as most on the right think I am.
Hopefully to explain even more, it's is perfectly normal for some in any society to push for change just as it is perfectly normal for some to resist that change, it's human nature. All change meets at least some degree of resistance. This is not a commentary on right vs wrong simply a recognition of proven human/social dynamics.
At which point we refuse to accept it........and they say you will do as I say.........then both sides kill each other in something called War.......the ones with people left alive at the end......say see.......we were right......as no one is left to disagree.
Yup.......that is human nature.
All too often this ends up being the case but not in every case. As we have seen in this country more often than not the change does to some degree elicit violence but does not lead to war. So far the only wars in this country to come about due to radical change were the Revolutionary an Civil Wars if we confine our focus to only wars fought between "countrymen". I put countrymen in parenthesis because technically were fought against our fellow British subjects for independence.
Considering the number of times we have endured major social changes particularly within the last century it's pretty amazing we haven't had more internal wars.