Police in Tempe, Arizona have arrested a man they believe is responsible for a spate of shootings at a Democratic field office in the pivotal battleground state. The alleged shooter's cache of weapons and ammunition suggests he may have been planning a politically motivated mass shooting.Phoenix-bas...

Giving a whole new meaning to "battleground state"

  • SerLava [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    And a lot of the Jan 6 chuds really, really thought they'd get away with it. They had two very strongly held beliefs:

    • If we're holding Thin Blue Line flags and screaming the word constitution, the state wouldn't touch us!
    • If we really, truly believe, in our heart of hearts, that we're covered by a legal exception to do crimes, the state can't touch us!

    The test for many legal exceptions is whether a "reasonable person" would believe such-and-such. But conservatives really think that if they strongly profess a belief, that's just as good. It's why they started calling all their opponents pedophiles. The actual concept doesn't even cross their mind, to them it's just a word that means "can be murdered"