• PDFuego@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Remember a few years back when we’d have a running gag of saying something violently over the top and adding “in Minecraft” to the end? Some dude on 4chan got arrested for doing that with death threats, and yet for years I’ve been hearing other people, guys with actual political power and platforms, muttering “politically” after way worse shit. It’s a good thing whenever anyone acts on anything it’s a false flag, it’d suck if they ever had to face any consequences.

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      Well yeah, when you have the power of the state on your side you can say or do whatever you want. If you’re a random citizen, get fucked pleb.

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    A random idiot posts random bullshit on social media – but we gotta take it seriously because they might end up being attorney fucking general. Welcome back to the Trump era.

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    You guys are fucked.

    Well, thanks to the influence of the US, we’re all fucked, so thanks.

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      7 days ago

      These are the people who cannot differentiate the thoughts in their head with the Will of God.

      But at the end of the day, they don’t worship God, they only worship themselves.

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      It goes the other way for them too. If they think it’s moral then it doesn’t matter what the law says, they believe they are justified in doing it.

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      Trump signs an executive order and the Supreme Court says it’s constitutional under the 87th amendment or whatever.

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      This is why the US has fairly loose gun laws. Historically governments in the US were quite tolerant of vigilante violence against opposition to laws and social norms, such as racism and misogyny. It allowed the government and police to technically keep their hands clean while letting others do the dirty work. On occassion they would arrest and charge a few of them, but by and large most of them went unpunished. With mass shooters they will of course never see the light of day again (if arrested) but in secret they will love their actions.

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        I mean they’ll still kill a mass shooter if he targets black people, but they’ll buy him dinner and be super apologetic about it.

        Then the President if he had any decency will… Take out his anger on a flag that represents Southern Culture and do nothing about gun violence.

        (Look I understand the Rebel Flag has baggage, but let’s not pretend cracking down on it after Dylann Roof it wasn’t a scapegoat)

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      These are the people who say “If you treat me with respect, I’ll treat you with respect.” when what they mean is “Kiss my ass and I might be slightly less shitty to you.”

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      It’s not enough to win. It’s not enough that they’ve terrorized everyone for nearly ten years (in their current iteration). Now we have to pay for not wanting to be terrorized.

      I am so sick of not being represented by my government in the slightest. Now the government actively wants me dead. Wild. Founding fathers had a revolution for less. Of course the UK didn’t have drones and nukes in the 1700s.

      Hell we should know how crazy these people are. They wanted to destroy the country when we suggested that maybe owning other people and subjecting them to brutal labor conditions was maybe slightly immoral? Just a tad? Like could you guys cut that shit out? And they’ve held that grudge for 140 years.

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    Trump just has to say, “…as an official act”, then he’s a-OK to go with whatever, however unconstitutional it may be.

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    I’m so glad all I ever did in politics is build some homeless shelters a few decades ago. Shouldn’t be enough to get me noticed.

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      Look at this communist over here. You wasted money that could’ve been siphoned to the billionaire caste. Straight to the gulag with you!

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      These people aren’t going to murder a fly.

      This guy is still concerned about legality, he’s never cut the head off a chicken or field dressed a deer. They’ve never taken life. They’re LARPing

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        No these people aren’t going to murder anyone… They’ll instruct the US Military to do that for them.

        Civil War 2 is coming.

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      If Biden had any sense he’d order Seal Team Six to “Have a chat” with the people in Mar-A-Lago and say "Supreme Court ruling says it’s an official act, so, eh… what can you do. Anyway for my next trick, I hearby officially order all

      But the “High Road” is not to abuse that court ruling…

      When the sane action is weaponize it against both The Supreme Court and Trump and then have it repealed.

      “When they go low, we go high.” is the most dangerous thing a President ever said, and it was Obama, not Trump.