:kelly: sounds like an UNcivil war is brewing.
Also can’t believe the article fails to mention any of the economic reasons behind people’s anger.
For the kind of rightist making these threats, it's a combination of "the election was stolen" and "the lockdown is TYRANNY," so mostly ideology; they've been priming themselves since Obama for some kind of government crackdown where they get their guns taken away and locked in FEMA camps, after all
Of course economics factors into it, but how many threats were there in 2008-2009 during bailout time
the author said 5 different people are currently in jail for threatening to kill maxine waters. crazy.
It’s also a side effect of growing partisanship and declining civility.
Y'know, I think this might be the one case where this sentence is accurate in the whole universe of political reporting.
Smh, the electorate should merely choose to be less partisan and more civil
It went from 0 incidents of online bullying using red eye memes in 1890 to 2,000 in 2021
@69fart69 looks like you're getting your wish :sicko-blur:
Except it's the hogs again. :sadness:
Still holding out for some monster infighting though.
Unlimited lol @ Republicans getting killed by the very hogs they created.
And yeah, they're gonna slam anyone they can catch for this hard, I'm sure, regardless of how credible the threat is. Cops gonna cop. :shrug-outta-hecks:
Liberals: And this is why voting matters!
Also liberals: What? Learn how to use a gun? Guns are scary!
Jan 6th has just reinforced this fucking idiot thinking in liberal minds, because now that a cop killed a chud for storming a government building, they think they're on their side.
Yes. The media was very quiet about that aspect.
They had the predetermined narrative that cops are heros again so whatever happened last year with the George Floyd uprising can be laid to rest. Painting the cops as complicit in the Jan 6 riot would only underline that all cops are indeed bastards, and no matter how many cops we have, they will never keep us safe. So that detail was memory-holed.
God forbid you give Liberals the idea that cops are a threat to Liberal Democracy itself. They clearly don't give a fuck about ethnic minorities, people of color, lgbtqia+ people, etc, but if you threaten to take away the sole pretext that they're trying, they might actually start listening to abolitionists. And if that happened, the six corporations in a trenchcoat who run our media might be in trouble.
What other option do they have? They are hoping cops and the military will protect them because otherwise no one will. Their only option is expanding the police state to try and save themselves. Ironically expanding the number of cops just creates more right wing fascists. Lol
Their only option is expanding the police state to try and save themselves. Ironically expanding the number of cops just creates more right wing fascists.
Agreed, but also liberalism_creates_fascism.png
Also, all fascists are right wing, that's the point. Fascism exists because it defends capital against left wing movements.
I figured it wasn't intentional lol, but I wanted to say it anyways in case anyone reads this thread later. The material causes of fascism are a critical point to emphasize whenever possible.
Reactionaries who kill our enemies are good insofar as they kill our enemies, even if they are also shitheada. Hence critical support
Critical support to Mussolini for marching on Rome? You gotta be careful with this logic dude.
Lone wolf freaks killing congresspeople is not comparable to a literal army marching on a capital city. You know this.
I also would not critically support random blackshirts assassinating German politicians in the 20s.
You do not, in fact, have to hand it to 'em.
Anything that makes congresspeople afraid is good, even if the people making them afraid are bad and doing it for the wrong reasons. What is the downside? It's just right-wing infighting
The downside is that you're critically supporting fascists. I don't support some white ethnostate freak threatening to kill democrats, even critically.
All that does is terrorize the general population, and fascist terrorism is bad, actually.
So you think it’s good that a GOP rep who voted to impeach trump just retired because of constant death threats and now an even more right wing GOP chud will replace him?
That’s the practical effect of all these reactionary threats and violence: they get more power.
Uninronicaly it's really fucking scary because this shit is used as an excuse to pass draconian laws. The House just unanimously passed a "Havana Syndrome" bill. That's not an online joke anymore, it's part of the legal record.
The draconian laws are gonna get passed regardless. If they want to pass a law, they'll find an excuse. They don't need to wait for one to arrive
Bro this is the excuse. The scary part is that articles being written about it means it's coming soon.
