Mamdani could file charges against that audience member who threatened to shoot him. That was a terrorist threat. But good luck identifying a random person.
But good luck identifying a random person.
If only there was infrastructure for identifying and tracking potential terrorists and criminals.
Nah, let’s use it for identifying and tracking protesters or police officers’ crushes.
Even if they were able to identify, the GOP would just cover up and protect that audience member.
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Agreed! The point of that is so stupid.
Fun fact stupid used to be a scientific term used for people of lower intellect, as was the term idiot.
But people got upset and then they changed it to retarded.
But people got upset so they changed it to special needs.
But people got upset so they changed it… etc
Almost as if the words are bad because they are describing something bad?
No matter what you call it nobody wants to be that. Sorry pearl clutchers, it suck’s that people use it to be mean, but they always will!
I mean, yeah, the whole thing is really frunctious, isn’t it?
They want a war so trump can put in war time laws. while there are a few pretty smart people on that side behind the scenes pulling the strings, the general populace has no idea how stupid this will be. Military factions, small militias, food shortages, water…
Not to mention power and internet outages. We’ll pretty much revert to a developing nation of warring factions and no one will be safe.
Jamille Bouie recently posted a short about the Ted Cruz moment and the conspicuous silence of the liberal media.
In the meantime, internet chatter between MAGAs are blood libeling liberals and calling for the hunting and execution of liberals, where, in this case, liberals include anyone who is not MAGA.
Almost every day i get the feelling the the US is inching closer to a civil war.
The US is in a civil war that one side is sleepwalking through
And that side is the overwhelming majority doped up on screens and weed vapes, without any desire to touch grass.
true
Not true, they need a legitimate army and I doubt the dems would March. Plus that’s weird. Pretty sure Tim waltz contemplated using his guards but decided against it.
And yet everytime I mention using perfectly legal means of exterminating conservative cockroaches, my comments are deleted by conservative cockroach mods. The infestation is now inside the house.
We have gone down hill a long way in this country since McCain told that woman she was wrong at the campaign town hall.
Not enough people remember that. It’s when I knew we were fucked, and it’s what I point to for people who can’t understand we were like this before 2015.
As soon as the ruling family harden their power, the roundups will begin.
MAGA mourning a shitbag neo-Nazi. However, they ignore the fact he wanted the Epstein Files released in full.
Of course. They’re very good a selective outrage.
Republicans assume that people to the left of them are helpless, because we don’t attack them. Agency is not given to animals, because they can’t fight back. Thus, our lives have no meaning to Republicans.
If we don’t fight, the delusion of Republican supremacy will never break.
When your enemy is making a mistake don’t stop them. Let them find out
lefties are weak and won’t fight back
you may test that assumption at your convenience.
When someone tells you who they are. Listen.
And watch as some nod in approval, some shake their head disapproval and a worrying majority who look at you and say, ‘I don’t know’ as if they hadn’t heard anything
Any Democrat or leftist in a gun club could have told you this a decade ago. They literally want us dead. Never forget that they’re monsters, even the loved ones that raised you.
I disagree. they aren’t monsters, they’re human and that’s worse.
They are not mutually exclusive.
I try to not demonize my enemy so as to not underestimate them.
Or maybe we should change our understanding of monsters and demons to be less superstitious and more realistic. The only monsters in this world are human beings.
Definitely an interesting world for people to dip their toe into if they haven’t. If anything to foster a better understanding of their fellow citizens.
I go to the range every week now that I am retired. Last Thursday I stopped in a gun store in Marion, NC on the way home. I have sent in there a few times just to look. On the door as you go in is Calvin pissing on Polisi sticker on the door and Trump shirts hanging on display. I am looking at stuff and some old fat fuck is filling out forms. Anyway to make a long story short I asked about the 30 cal machine gun on display and related a story about how the mechanics mounted a huge ass 50 cal on their HUMVEE when I was in Iraq. The old fat fuck into into how Cubans are ingenious on fixing things and how we need to make them the 51st state. The shop owner agreed. I asked, “hey man are you willing to signup and help with that?” The fat fuck said. " yeah sure. " So I just laughed and walked out. I have numerous gun shop stories like that. Usually I will asked, " sounds like you might have served? What unit were you with?" The response is almost always, " I was not in the military." I like to call them chickhawks because they are more than willing to send someone else into the shit but not willing to go themselves.
and the democrats want “nazis” dead
I mean the dems don’t.
I do.
Only good nazi is a dead nazi
The Democrats? Surely this is sarcasm. Or bait. Far too many liberal Dems don’t want Nazis dead. They want to reach across the aisle and work hand in hand with them. Or at best want to get a slightly more palatable Nazi in power. Now leftists, that’s another conversation entirely.
They want Nazis out of power. Slight difference, likely feels like a death threat to them though.
Out of power and prosecuted for their crimes
Things done by Mamdani since he became mayor:
Fix broken infrastructure ✅
Improve the lives of his constituents ✅
Try to kill Nazis, real or imagined ❌
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Nobody wants you dead bruh. Contrary to popular belief we value life. ALSO Democrats are the ones who have taken lives…
Maybe value life as an asset to trade and exploit. You value the lives you can control, but not the ones you can’t.
However, If you want this to be true, then do better! Fight back on stupid policy positions on abortion, healthcare, guns and pedophiles.
Are you actually a republican/conservative on LEMMY of all places, for real, or trolling?
It must feel like walking into the wrong bar or something.
I am not gatekeeping, just curious how you stumbled here.
Wtf you talking about bro?
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Ummmm, nah man. That was a death attributable to a right winger. You wanna try again?
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Yup. From a conservative Republican Mormon family raised in the gun culture.
Welp… there it is.
You are ruining his non-point! If it helps, remember, conservatives don’t know what the words they use mean, only how they make them feel. “Killed a Republican” = Leftist…it doesn’t matter that most recent political murders against conservatives were from other conservatives, they don’t do facts. The same with communist or socialism. They don’t actually know what those words mean, they just know “unga bunga feel-bad word make BIGLY MAD!” Once you learn that, it helps debate them more effectively.
Was killed by a MAGA for not being right wing enough.
For the record, I don’t think it was for not being right wing enough. I think it was for being the hateful person he was, combined with the shooter being indoctrinated into the violent right-wing mentality and then caring for someone who was a common Kirk target.
So that’s one, and a doubtful one at that. Got any others since you think it’s such a big problem?
I hope you recover from being used. It sucks, but there are plenty of people that left that sick mental state and didn’t have to sacrifice all their conservative values.
“No u…”
I love how committed you are to your current level of knowledge.
Republicans: Call for mass violence, murder, etc
Republican Voters: RABID CHEERS
Democrat: vaguely quote what a republican says
Republican voters: Mass outrage and calls for retribution against the liberal hate agenda
That’s because the media (even the “leftist” ones) are really working with trump.
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I’m going to say this simply, so that you can understand it:
You’re stupid
Conservatives have done 90% of the political violence in this country since it’s literal inception.
“People did riots for BLM once” - cities did not burn down. No one “lost everything” also several right-wing agitators where discovered instigating the start of violence.
That’s also not “political violence by democrats ” unless your definition of “Democrat” is “anyone who isn’t both white and racist”
Charlie Kirk was killed by a Republican. Both Trump shooters were republicans. Gretchen Whitmer. January 6th. The Michigan Millitia. Sandy Hook. Trayvon Martin. George Floyd. Oklahoma City. Both Kennedys. MLK Jr.
Nah kid. Even the DOJ points to the fact that most domestic terrorism in the US comes out of the right. Has been this way for decades. Hell, I recall the white supremacists in the 70’s and 80’s agitating for violence. Seen that shit since I was a kid younger than you.
Besides, if the right never lies about their percieved foes, the leftists are all limp-wristed, vegan, trans soy boys that aren’t “manly” enough to own a firearm let alone have the balls to point one at another person.
Common sense: 80% of domestic terrorism in America is conducted by right wing people for right wing reasons.
Republicans: 1 IN EVERY 5 TERRORISTS IS A DEMOCRAT!
“Democrats have cheered for Republicans facing consequences of their actions and going to jail, and thats, like, totally the same thing as Republicans fucking babies to death. BOTH SIDES THE SAME!”
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Why even bother trying to make a joke at this point?
Sadly, it never was a joke
One day Trump will be gone, but the millions of fascists he empowered will still be spreading their poison, committing acts of terrorism, and doing everything in their power to destroy secular democracy and equality wherever they can.
This is a cancer we will need to eliminate using only methods our current constitution doesn’t allow. America needs a world class denazification. These monsters need to feel existential dread for ever externalizing their fascism, as a matter of law. Peace, prosperity and a civil society simply cannot exist with these people in it and free.
we are watching thr pardox of in tolerance writ large, if you tolerate intolerance… you get the US.
And Germany. And many other countries. The right is winning everywhere. The reality is people are upset and they think rightwing politics will solve it cause it gives them someone to blame.
This is correct.
The fact of the matter is capitalism has failed as was inevitable. Its now been proven that capitalism, even with socialist elements mixed in, simply does not work. Some of the best countries in the world, such as Sweden, now experience the rise of the far right.
The only solution is to abandon capitalism entirely.
Sexism and racism are the actual problem, it’s the manufactured fear reaction to non-white, non-male ascendancy in politics now that people of color and women ARE becoming economically and politically successful. Most of the liberal democracies in the west were okay with immigration and equality UNTIL those who benefitted from reachng for it started to threaten the idea of the ruling white male paradigm.
Thing is the fear reaction always rises up, becomes malignant to the right and implodes it. Seen this one play out countless times in ways large and small for well over 5 decades.
I’ve been saying this for at least 2 years now, I’ve gotten banned and barred from many social gatherings because of it. It was still worth it. It’s clear what we must do.
That is going to have to be doubly true for all the collaborators in the Democratic party who got us here or the problem will never be truly solved
Are you a murderer?
If so, good news! Sort of.
I mean basically this, entirely unironically.
We couldn’t unracist the South.
So, we just have a happy little national divorce, and petition to join Canada, and then also the EU.
Or, form Super-Cascadia, New New England, and The Peoples Republic of Midwestistan.
Texas can annex Oklahoma, everything touching Utah becomes
Greater MormozoniaDeseret and the rest can be the Confederacy 2.0.(Sorry non included red mountain west / central states, you’re destined to be failed states due to climate change and depopulation, so you don’t get a name… ok, fine: Unorganized Territories)
Then the Chinese do a CIA and send tons of QBZ 192s and such to the 100% guaranteed resistance movements that’ll spring up in Jesusland, and maybe if we’re lucky, by 2150, we’ll have a saying that goes something like “America, once divided must unite; America, once united, must separate.”
We can unracist the south, we just have to stop being nice and tolerant. It requires hunting down hate groups, silencing hate speech and destroying cultural iconography that supports hate. Like making it a minor crime to fly a confederate flag or organize a hate group.
This is what the reconstruction was supposed to accomplish, but it failed.
The paradox of tolerance - you must not tolerate the intolerant to preserve tolerance.
If you’re gonna do all that, Blue North may as well just annex Alaska for the sake of contiguity.
Trade for Alberta?
Hey come on now, don’t give those weird Alberta separatists any more ideas! There are 100s of them and that is way too many!
I hear good things about Montana from some musicians I now up in Bozeman