• FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    7 months ago

    misinformation-for-pay that may have led to the January 6th Capitol Riot

    It was a temper tantrum

    It was a bunch of white people who were mad their guy didn't win

    There was no secret conspiracy, there was no plan to undermine the USA

    Just a bunch of jet ski dealers and hvac guys who refused to play by the rules they demand for everyone else

    Also, I refuse to call it Jan 6, like it's something along the lines of 9/11

    Hell, I might even stop calling it 9/11

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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      7 months ago

      It was also a temper tantrum that was talked about beforehand enough online that we all knew here they were going to go there throw a fit. Yet somehow no one else knew?

      The libs want to call it a coup, but they didn't do anything to head it off, when people going there to have their tantrum talked about it online. Then the capitol police let them in and got medals for it later. Libs response to even this one isolated thing is so scatteredshot i can't even make sense of it.

      "It was a coup, but yeah we'll do nothing and let Trump run again in 4 years - we're not AuThOrItArIaNs!" Libs are something else. They can't even stay consistent with their own lore lol

      • VILenin [he/him]M
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        7 months ago

        It’s part of the latest trend to go “x thing is y by a technical definition even though everyone knows it isn’t, but I’m going to call it y anyway because it makes it sound more dramatic than it actually is”

        For example, “punching fascists is literally domestic terrorism, arrest this domestic terrorist!” as if it were equivalent to blowing up a building. This is how liberals operate.

        • taiphlosion@lemmygrad.ml
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          7 months ago

          Problem is the laws can and most likely will be written in order to control any sort of resistance, they're already hitting people's wallets for "supporting terrorism" and they're the ones defining what it is

      • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        Then they praised the same cops that let them in as well as the military that didn’t show up to protect them from the supposed coup

      • PKMKII [none/use name]
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        7 months ago

        Yeah a lot of leftist groups put out heads up not to show up in DC that day because they smelled a trap

        • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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          7 months ago

          Yup, i remember reading about how something was going to gappen on here. Yet the US security apparatus was unaware? Complete bullshit

    • AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml
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      7 months ago

      Hell, I might even stop calling it 9/11

      Might as well, since both of these events pale in comparison to what's been done to Chile and Allende personally.

      • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.ml
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        7 months ago

        Nice, 2nding the motion to rename the january 6th shenanigans to this. Democrats act like it was an organized Coup, and it was just a bunch of whiny boomers throwing a tantrum.

    • maccruiskeen [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      have you considered that calling it jan 6 will help cheapen 9/11 and inversely create the potential for increasingly unserious future events to be categorized as national tragedies?

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    Doing an epic walk and talk while smearing shit on the walls

    Doing an epic verbal takedown of the hypocrisy of being labeled "less than lethal" as a man fatally tases himself in the balls

    Somber horn music and a snare drum roll while a cop gets klobbered in the dome with an American flag

    Montage of chuds doxxing themselves on national TV while doing interviews. "I'm John Slabbaport from Shremstown Pennsylvania." "I'm Flank Didger from Tungsten Ohio." "I'm Molissa Rugger from Plemspray Arizona."

    • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      fast articulate walk-and-talk between a jet ski dealership owner and a real estate agent on their way to capture nancy pelosi's appointment book or whatever

    • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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      7 months ago

      I heard he didn't even include the pig in the Chicago Seven movie he made, so it'll probably just be about FBI guys and congresscritters investigating it or something, while striding importantly around the capital of course, and with many impassioned speeches about rights and democracy and shit.

  • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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    7 months ago

    If this doesn't include via-getty giving an impassioned speech right before stealing the podium and running off as the score changes to Yakety Sax, it's screenwriting malpractice.

    • VILenin [he/him]M
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      7 months ago

      Walk-and-talk but Via Getty is carrying the podium in front of him as he gives his speech, being careful to stay within the purple boundary lines.

  • pastalicious [he/him, undecided]
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    7 months ago

    If there’s money to be made on misinformation it’s only rational to pursue it. Liberalism cannot square that circle.

    • Guamer [she/her]
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      7 months ago

      Bigger question: Who will play passion and meemaw

      I say Brad Pitt and Meryl Streep

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    That cop liberals wanted to make Time's person of the year is probably going to be the main character. There's also going to be some Republican politician who's going to give a speech about how we're better than this and need to overcome our differences, because a nation divided blah blah blah, then everyone stands in stunned silence and claps afterwards.

    Misinformation for pay = It was Russia! angery

  • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    When is Sorkin gonna fuck off forever? Just the fucking worst, smarmiest writing (and writer) i've ever encountered.

    • FungiDebord [none/use name]
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      7 months ago

      A million fake write in ballots isn't cool, you know what's cool? A billion fake write in ballots.

  • GrumpigPoopBalls [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    Soon to be followed by a Broadway adaptation with Lin-Manuel Miranda starring as the spirit of democracy

  • Guamer [she/her]
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    7 months ago

    Please god, do this

    The Chapo episode will be great

    • Rx_Hawk [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      I could do a pretty convincing angry American

    • wwiehtnioj [none/use name]
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      7 months ago

      wasn't via getty a failed actor? casting has the potential to do something very funny

  • niph [she/her]
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    7 months ago

    I just threw up in my mouth a little

  • VHS [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    Aaron Sorkin tried to investigate January 6th himself: "I Looked For Evidence"