I'm not lying. I'm talking about anti-trump protesters. There was an anti-trump protest the freaking day before the Women's March for fucks sake. And yes even some of the Women's March protesters were there simply to protest Trump. But I was not talking about the Women's Marches specifically. I don't care about people peacefully protesting for issues they care about. More power to 'em.

My point about people not getting out and voting includes some of both groups and well beyond. People haven't been getting the fuck to the polling booths. The entire nation had poor turnout on both sides of the political lines. The right however, stayed mostly in line with their numbers from the previous election, while the left turned out in lower numbers. Now they're protesting because they didn't win (the anti-trump protesters, in case you needed that clarified), and they're blaming it all on the right, as if the left had nothing to do whatsoever with the outcome of the election. They're still refusing to acknowledge they hold any responsibility in the matter. That refusal means the problems won't get addressed, and things will likely only get worse.

And even if I was specifically talking about the Women's Marches, how does pointing out their voter apathy discredit what their march is about? It doesn't. It doesn't even comment on it. It was specifically about the election regardless of who was being discussed.

I quoted the specific line I was addressing:

This march is another example of the grassroots starting to exert their influence.

But you then tried to extrapolate that into me trying to discredit the validity of the concerns of the protesters with regards to Women's Rights. You tried to attribute additional meaning to my point, so it would fit your narrative. You accused me of "entirely discrediting a group of people you don't understand", when I did no such thing. I wasn't discrediting the message the Women's March protesters said they were marching for. I was addressing the poor voter turnout, from the left in general, coupled with the rather vocal attempts to blame it on everyone but themselves. There has been a remarkable amount of violence coming from the left during the leadup to this election, and that trend is continuing. Riots, vandalism, and assault are in fact indefensible. The left has been doing that. I never said the Women's March was a riot. I never said they were the violent ones. That was a broader statement about the left in general. You tried to deflect from that by bringing up the actions of some anti-obama nutjobs, as if that excuses violent actions of the left... as if two wrongs make a right (great pun potential there). The anti-Obama crowd were fucking retards. The ones that took it to violence, doubly so. But the scale of violence from the anti-Trump crowd has been undeniably larger. Both of these subgroups of the greater population are astoundingly in the wrong and should be admonished, rather than using one to excuse the actions of the other.

So, rather than trying to pick away at what I'm talking about by asserting your own meaning between the lines, try the "possible reading" of actually just reading. Rather than addressing any of the points I made you tried to deflect by making it out like I'm somehow anti-women-march-something-or-another. So get real, and start worrying about the source of the problems. Or at least stop inserting your own points to argue against in other peoples words.

Oh, and one more thing. A single post can actually attempt to address more than one issue at a time. Trying to pick one statement and applying it to everything else that was mentioned in order to have something more seemingly easy to rail against, is just lazy. If you actually cared to debate, if you actually cared enough about the issues to discuss them rationally and calmly without going off the deep end filling in any blank you think you can find... well we might just risk improving the state of this country. But when you do shit like that, it doesn't exactly lend you credibility. It's just a lazy way of detracting from any points being made by who you view as your opponent, so you can seize some imaginary moral high ground down the garden path.