Threats against members of Congress are skyrocketing. It's changing the job
www.latimes.com
In a year that kicked off with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, threats against Congress members are soaring: 4,135 in just the first three months.

:kelly: sounds like an UNcivil war is brewing.

  • Haste_Hall [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Yeah critical support to [checks notes] mostly reactionaries???

    • CopsDyingIsGood [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Reactionaries who kill our enemies are good insofar as they kill our enemies, even if they are also shitheada. Hence critical support

      • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Critical support to Mussolini for marching on Rome? You gotta be careful with this logic dude.

        • CopsDyingIsGood [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Lone wolf freaks killing congresspeople is not comparable to a literal army marching on a capital city. You know this.

          • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            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.

            • CopsDyingIsGood [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              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

              • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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                3 years ago

                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.

                • CopsDyingIsGood [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  Right-wing infighting is self-evidently good for the left. Fascists murdering other fascists is a good thing, there's no reason not to support it.

                  The general population isnt gonna be targeted by the same people targeting congresspeople. I'd argue the perpetrators of those two types of crimes do not overlap. If they do start to overlap, that's when the support ends, obviously

                  • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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                    3 years ago

                    Right-wing infighting is self-evidently good for the left.

                    This does not translate to "critical support to fascists killing liberal politicians" what are you on.

                    The general population isnt gonna be targeted by the same people targeting congresspeople. I’d argue the perpetrators of those two types of crimes do not overlap. If they do start to overlap, that’s when the support ends, obviously

                    The intent is obviously to spread fear to "democrats", do you thin hogs can tell the difference. "My critical support will continue until I realize the incredibly obvious consequences of fascist violence."

                • CopsDyingIsGood [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  The draconian security practices are gonna happen regardless. They'll always find an excuse for doing whatever they want to do. If it's not right wing infighting, it'll be Muslim terrorists or the Chinese or some other bullshit. The right-wing infighting does not cause the draconian security practices

              • BruceWillis [none/use name]
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                3 years ago

                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.

                • CopsDyingIsGood [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  It's unambiguously good that bad people are afraid for their lives, yes. The practical effect of literally everything in American society is more power accruing to reactionaries, it's a reactionary society to the core

                  • BruceWillis [none/use name]
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                    3 years ago

                    Is this accelerationism?

                    I want people’s lives to be as good as possible so i think it’s good to have the least reactionary people in office so things can be marginally better since there’s no revolution in the horizon right now.