Post #3827082

2026-07-08 00:58 UTC

They were the functional equivalent of Jan6 rioters. Sure, not all of them killed a cop. But they were at minimum actively involved in the destruction of property during a riot that escalated to violence. I’ve already agreed the elevation to terrorist charges were bad. But let’s not pretend this was the gestapo pulling people from their beds for wrongthink. Trump surrendered power after his first term. The pendulum was swinging away from authoritarianism. Everything was on the path to “just working out.” Then the Dems screwed the pooch by putting forward crap candidates and it began swinging back. The answer to this isn’t continuing to put forward awful candidates. And I have trouble coming up with one worse than a serial rapist with a Nazi tattoo.

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@RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zip 2026-07-08 01:12

What do you mean we’re not at the point of gestapo pulling people from their beds? What the hell is ICE doing? You act as though this is still a legitimate government with legitimate laws. It is not. The US government is no longer legitimate; we are in a high functioning failed state. The legality of the rioters is irrelevant, they are a part of our tribe and our tribe is targeted by a rival tribe. We cannot act like there is such a thing as the rule of law, we will bury ourselves in our sanctimoniousness. The goal at this point is embrace, extend, extinguish. EDIT: Also, to be clear, when you say things were going back to normal you’re referring to the US just being a regular imperialist hell hole? “Holding steady” in that context is equally unacceptable.

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