• Xerxos@lemmy.ml
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    Yes, but it’s their team of tyrannical pedo dictatorship. They have been prepping for a uprising against the other side.

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      Yep. And all they had to do to placate and pacify most Americans was to tell them that they were going to do the exact opposite of what they were actually busy planning.

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        Yea, they dont realize that they will be the very first ones taken out. Likely imprisoned for the very orders that they followed.

        This new US regime will attack its own military and try and keep the military leadership confused and/or clueless … exactly like Russia does.

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          In my anecdotal experience, the more Trumpy conservative somebody is, the more they are already miserable and complaining about everything all the time. If things get objectively worse for them then they might not act any differently day-to-day. The only question is how far things have to go before they will blame the correct people, if that is even possible for many.

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            Eh. The biggest trump fans I know are well paid blue collar workers who definitely have something to lose if shit gets worse for them. They’re just legitimately stupid people who refuse to see any evidence that Trump isn’t their Messiah.

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    “Fighting government tyranny” has always meant “exacting revenge for electing a black president” and historically “exacting revenge for having to treat black people as equals in polite company.”

    You’d be hard pressed to find the kind of modern rhetoric around guns you see today before the Civil Rights Act. The NRA endorsed the National Firearms Act of 1934.

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      You’d be hard pressed to find the kind of modern rhetoric around guns you see today before the Civil Rights Act.

      Idk about that. I remember a zealous enthusiasm for guns and “freedom” in the South circa 1860.

      All those southerners willing to slaughter their neighbors during the Bleeding Kansas incident weren’t using billy clubs

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        It’s always been about keeping guns out of the hands of the undesirables. That’s the only consistent logic we see over the years.

        American conservatives endorse stricter gun control every time there are concerns about minorities and/or the left arming themselves.

        Meanwhile, they want no regulations to inconvenience the mythical good guy with a gun. As long as that “good guy” is a conservative white Christian.

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          How many mass shootings has that guy stopped?

          I remember reading about one guy armed during a shooting who didn’t take out his gun because he feared the cops would mistake him for the shooter

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    It turns out the very people who claim to be afraid of a fascist government are the ones responsible for that very same fascist government. The people who try to act the toughest have the weakest of minds.

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    Yuuuup. Libertarians have openly called for fascism for years and have NOT received enough s*** for it.

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      used to be a Ron Paul supporter. some of his ideas were genuinely forward thinking. overall though, he was just a pawn to bring libertarians to the conservative table.

      I burned his book because I didn’t want anyone else to get their hands on it and think he was anything but a charlatan.