It feels important to name them considering the President is very specifically /not/ naming them in his insults. Also, it's just weird that the only woman journo who does get named is, of all people, Megyn Kelly...

yes! the battle music certainly raises the stakes

The President's son then speaks on Fox! Power! Legitimacy! Why pretend like the right and left are on an equal playing field here?

And again, "[a]lready, both the far right and the far left are fuelling the flames." Fox News hosts "guest after guest blaming the left", and MSNBC (apparently the bastion of the far left?) hosts "at least one commentator."

Why are these presented like the same thing? In proportion and misinfo?

In the endless bothsiderisms of political violence, you're sanitising the fact that perpetrators of this violence are mostly ideologically aligned with one of these sides

The article digs in even further in it's summary of Jan 6. The "hard right" and "hard left" (lol) of the States disagree as to Trump's role of inciting violence in the capital, but then the rioters are discussed like some third party, as if they are not made up of that same "hard right."

It's on the reader to decide whether "both" sides are culpable in fomenting violence, as if one set of remarks isn't /literally/ demonstrating that. It would be good if the ABC was a little clearer on that.

...significant difference in the tone and delivery of the illustrative quotes. Two college girls quipping to camera versus two intense threats of violence ("...for the liberals, it's war motherf*ckers") are presented with no further analysis.

Trump analysis aside - which in is broadly fine - I find the "dangerous threats and ghoulish celebrations" subheading disingenous and misleading. The reactions to Kirk's death are not split down the binary of promised retribution versus celebratory, but there is also a...

theconversation.com/the-liberals...

why the bending over backwards to sift through the detritus in search of "goodwill", but pro-Palestinian marches are anti-semetic unless proven otherwise?

Thank you for parsing this. It remains frustrating that people are still so enamoured with the idea of a one and done injectable prevention dose, rather than the more realistic behavioural and social changes needed to eradicate a disease.

when the ALP inevitably fold I have been wondering about ways to hold them to account. No revisionist history at the next by-election

"Tasmanian devil of romantic catastrophes" fkn lol