• prole@sh.itjust.works
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      Yeah, and I guess the trans people that end up dead in the balance will just be considered sacrifical lambs then?

      It’s ok though, we’ll make sure to use the correct pronouns at their wakes.

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    @kingshrubb every time an article like that drops, it amazes me how divided the US is. I just can’t wrap my head around how so many people would die for a fascist politician like that.

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    Favourite part of the whole article:

    A spokesperson for Truth Social said, “It’s hard to believe that Reuters, once a respected news service, has fallen so low as to publish such a manipulative, false, defamatory and transparently stupid article as this one purely out of political spite.”

    “You never saw what you thought you saw. And even if you did, it was entirely justified and your interpretation was extreme.”

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    The best outcome now is for the fuckers to mobilize and start killing ppl. Perform some actual Geneva convention war crimes and just really go to town. Proper attack.

    Because right now is a very small but vocal group. And im sure Don Snorleone would marvel and rave about a new group of people marching forcefully in his name. Right up until they starts to execute democrats and people disappearing with them on a whim.

    Then you could respond in force, killing sand jailing them and no one would disagree. It would be a wake-up call. It could purge parts of the GOP.

    Now you have secession talks within the party that will just be whispers until this thing grows out of control. Then you get “Ciwil war” or god damn praise be “Handmaidens tale”…

    Rise up and get fucked!

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      “The best thing” and “start killing ppl” should not be in one sentence. Those ppl will have families. I get the idea but no.

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          Fuck right off

          The point here is that you need his base to start acting crazy.

          Because they fucking are.

          A second more horrible jan 6 would destroy that faction.

          Left like it is now it can grow, but if it could boil over now it has a good chance to fizzle out.

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      Critical mass for violent escalation is really low.

      Best thing would for these people would be for them to get bored of always being angry and move on to something else. Fizzle out, so to speak.

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    “Butty Biden bombed Balestine by bis bown Bands, bo bi bo bot bare bif Bump becomes Bresident” - the fake leftist troll choir

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    Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. - Francis M. Wilhoit

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    …thus showing that the “Law and Order” party was never about law, they just want a particular kind of order- that is, a hierarchy wherein people below them on the status-ladder know not to try to hold them accountable to anything, including the law or even plain decency.

    To them, the law is the cudgel to keep the poors and plebes in their place- low in the order- never to be applied to them.

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      That’s Republicanism and that left the US Republican Party years ago.

      Now it’s all about Conservatism through any means. And it’s not even pure Conservatism: it’s heavily tainted with Tribalism.

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    For 99.9999 percent of them that will mean waiting on someone to do something while their sheep like nature keeps them from risking themselves.

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    They want their perceived enemies to make the first move. They might be calling for violence, but many of them are cowards and also love to play victim and win the sympathy Olympics.

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      No, they know that Trump supporters are the types of people to actually listen to and heed these calls.

      This is stochastic terrorism straight up… Or is just flat out terrorism, they’re not really hiding it. This is the spokesperson of a “social media platform” (lol I know I know) saying this, not just some random casual Fox News watching R voter.

      And he knows exactly who he’s talking to. It’s a clear attempt to mobilize.

      Goddamn people must really be this stupid. I guess we just need to experience this pain first hand like Germany before we fully grasp what we are allowing to take hold of our government.

      But even looking at them these days, it seems like 80-100 years is all it takes for everyone to start forgetting…

      Edit: Came back after some thinking and realizing that the communications director for Truth Social probably literally is just some random Fox News watching R. Just not casual I guess.