• Freshparsnip@lemm.ee
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    The biggest national security threats are Trump, the Heritage Foundation, MAGA, and Musk

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      Not only to the nation, The entire world, Humanity, literally anything that is alive.

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        Hey don’t trow indigenous groups, animals, fungi and plants it to this.

        The problem seems to be specifically people that live with computers.

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    The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

    • Catch-22, Joseph Heller
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    ELI5, If Republicans in general don’t want federal control, they want de-regulation, then why they are supporting federal control of California?

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      They want to use the government to attack their enemies.

      Like a switch, as soon as a Democrat is in office they will all be lying about wanting “small government.”

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      They are only against federal control when it’s them who are being controlled. They are fine with it happening to other people. It’s how they can claim to be pro freedom out of one side of their mouth and anti-freedom with the other. Laws for thee, none for me.

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        This is extremely important to understand. As fun as it is, we really need to move away from the gotchas. The right wing are not consistent because they do not have an ideology. They are simply reactionary.

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    The Confederacy was in a state of rebellion too. He’s equated standing up to ICE, which is seemingly similar to when the Bostonians stood up to and were massacred by the British, with the Confederate’s bombing of Ft. Sumter.

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    So the trump administration is fully admitting that the insurrection attempting to block the certification of the Presidential election 2021 on Jan 6 was open rebellion?

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      Holly shit. I hadn’t seen that last image you posted before. I didn’t realize the Jan 6 insurrectionist brought flexcuffs. That is quite disturbing. Who the fuck were they planing to kidnap or take hostage with those flexcuffs?

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      I know this is sarcasm but, sadly, they don’t. I have talked to a few of them. Some either say it is patriot8c and others said it didn’t happen.

      You can’t win

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        others said it didn’t happen.

        Who is it they acknowledge trump pardoned when he got into office? If it didn’t happen, then there as no one to pardon. Yet trump came out and gleefully pardoned the lot of them. If it was “antifa” that did it, why did trump pardon antifa?

        Keep in mind I’m not questioning you on this but them, and I know the mind of a MAGAt is finely tuned to support cognitive dissonance.

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      They admit no such thing.

      “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” - Frank Wilhoit (not the political scientist who passed away in 2010, a younger one who is alive still).