• MyOpinion@lemmy.today
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    2 hours ago

    MAGAts are vile racist traitors that wish to kill anyone that disagrees with their toxic message of hate.

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    7 hours ago

    If the right targets the group from which the alleged shooter comes, it could be a good kind of war.

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    12 hours ago

    Civil war with shit conservatives and shittier conservatives, I guess?

  • shreyan@lemmy.cif.su
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    9 hours ago

    I would have no problem if this resulted in more deaths of establishment politicians.

    Our rulers have had this coming for decades.

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    18 hours ago

    I guarantee it’s the right wing morons that don’t realize it was a right wing moron who killed the right wing moron

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    12 hours ago

    I got to wonder about articles like this. The mainstream media thrives on manufacturing drama, so if they can find even a sniff of an increase in online messaging, they’re going to post stories like this. And the problem they face is that basically reality disagrees with their prediction.

    First, the violent right was already violent. So, what exactly are they telling us is going to happen? Are they going to say that people will shoot up schools or storm the capital or murder politicians? Those already happened. What exactly are they predicting? That’s going to be worse than what we already have? Of course they won’t tell us, because they’re trying to cell slop.

    A second, I don’t think violent gun nuts actually give a s*** about the dead guy. They might put his name on a poster and use it for a few memes or something, but they didn’t really care about him, because they basically lack empathy for other human beings in general. He can’t really be a martyr if no one gives a f*** that he’s dead.

    Of course, it’s also possible that they’re correct, that the militant right are just looking for an excuse to go kill more people, and this is the one they’re going to jump on. But then it wouldn’t really matter what happened, if it wasn’t this, it would have been something else. They want an excuse to go kill minorities, they’re going to find one.

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      6 hours ago

      I think their love for him was fake but I think they really did worship him in their own way because he got away with spewing hatred that they didn’t always have the guts to spew themselves. And he taught them some new advanced hatreds they hadn’t even thought of. All wrapped in that Prager U illusion of common sense and logic.

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    17 hours ago

    The conservative right starting a civil war because they couldn’t have everything … even though they already had everything.

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      19 hours ago

      Strangely enough, it’s looking like Kirk got shot for not being Nazi enough…

      That’s not stopping them from trying to use it to instigate a war though

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    17 hours ago

    I am curious what the logistics of a civil war would be, when the dividing issue is right wing vs left wing.

    Would it be state vs state? City vs city? Neighbour vs neighbour?

    I imagine a lot of people in red and blue cities would need to pack up and get the fuck out of Dodge if they are in a city that’s predominately the other side. Or even the state itself.

    Would cities mobilize their militarized police forces or would the police revolt in blue cities since they are mostly right wingers?

    It would probably be the federal government, probably the military, and probably the police forces, plus the wing citizens vs just the left wing citizens. I don’t see that ending well, since left wing citizens aren’t as likely to have guns either.

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      12 hours ago

      The short story is that if the military sticks together, then whatever they want is what reality is. It doesn’t really matter what the cops think at that point.