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[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

they also called the jan 6th people "antifa".

The funniest possible outcome is if Biden pardoned the dude.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm calling "no balls" on Biden pardoning this guy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 38 minutes ago* (last edited 34 minutes ago)

idk, I'm hoping Dark Brandon makes one final appearance. It should be obvious this guy need mental help, not prison. And that assassination attempts are the logical result of proclaiming you want to be a dictator.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Person: Votes for Trump. Republicans: A Democrat!

Anyways even though Hannity is LYING about Assassination attempts can DEMOCRATS please tone down Their Rhetoric?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Imo, saying you want to be "dictator day 1" this is the obvious outcome. This is 100% Trump's own statements that caused this.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 17 hours ago

These fucks are bitching about this while their candidates openly encourage domestic terrorism against Haitians.

Fuck 'em.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

They have to shelter their base from the truth. ☺️

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Not a democrat, not really a republican either. Mostly just crazy.

  • Supports Trump 2016
  • Supports anyone but Trump 2020 - Briefly likes Bernie but then mainly has a parasocial relationship with Tulsi Gabbard (offers to write speeches, sends speeches to their email). Eventually gets on board with Biden Harris.
  • Somehow likes Kim Jong Un, has another parasocial relationship inviting to Hawaii and asking to be an ambassador.
  • Latches onto George Floyd protests supporting police reform.
  • Latches onto Hong Kong supporting independence. Again reaching out to be a kind of diplomat in a parasocial relationship with Carrie Lam and including his phone number and email. He does that a lot.
  • Latches onto supporting Ukraine. Has a parasocial relationship with Zelenskyy. Goes there and volunteers to help recruit eventually but people thought he was nuts over there. Kept offering to provide thousands of Afghan soldiers?
  • Asks Elon Musk about selling him a rocket to attack Putin...
  • Latches onto Taiwan supporting independence. Again offering thousands of Afghan soldiers.
  • Writes a book telling Iran they should assassinate Trump.
  • Believes China has a pneumonia bioweapon it's using to silence democracy
  • This election his dream ticket was Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley (and yet Ramaswamy is not pro Ukraine while Haley is so I'm not sure why he'd want Haley as the VP)

https://i.imgur.com/MU5PECk.png - here's a png of some of the tweets he made

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Like, isn't he alive? Can't someone ask him what his motives were?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Can't someone ask him what his motives were?

You assume the FBI, secret service, and every other 3 letter agency who can get access to his cell aren't doing exactly that?

Given his biography, I would expect a string of conspiracy laden answers and generally incoherent explanations, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

But isn't that the most honest answer. Some form of mania. The GOP want us to live in a world where only democrats can ignite extremist violent outbursts. All while courting extremists. If the democrats rhetoric makes people violent then surely the GOPs rhetoric will do the same?

I dunno. I'm trying to apply logic to an illogical argument. So much of the time we should just shut these people off and work are hardest to deplatform them rather then just fact checking. It's a type of pollution, which is fine in small doses, but it's destroying the public square. That and all the shameless advertisments.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Do we even know he wanted to hurt Trump in the first place? He made no attempt at attacking him, he was just hiding with a weapon. Which might have been in order to protect Trump from assassins as far as we know. Did anyone ask?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Seems like we all went to our default internet sleuthing because the gunman is always dead. Maybe, like, someone could check in on him. I'm pretty sure it's legal and such. Might need like permission but the dude still has rights until his trails complete.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When you train your base to be militant whenever they don't get their way, you can be assured that you will always be on the chopping block. Look up the French revolution. Or even the fascist uprisings in Germany and Italy. I fighting will happen because you created an environment in which decent is punishable with death.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

"descent"; being decent is luckily not punishable with death 😂

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

Does Lemmy have a Confidently Wrong community yet?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

Thanks, that was baffling

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

I mean, casual observation seems to show that to about 1/2 the electorate, being descent is, or at the very least should be punishable by death.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Don't be like Hannity. If you find yourself lying to support your view, change your view.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But then how will I support my view that I'm the world's greatest lover?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Sorry, we all have to make sacrifices.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would maybe have believe "in Japan" squid Man, don't be greedy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That settles it. There's only one way to prove this: take off your pants and bend over.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do I look like several salary men on a train with a funnel to you?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

Don't be like Hannity should be part of our education.

Sean Hannity is one of the worst propagandists out there and absolute going for the award for scum of the earth 2024. I fucking hate that guy with every fiber of my being.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That too, but more importantly, he wasn't a registered Democrat. Which is what makes you a Democrat.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (6 children)

That's really a terrible way to make that assessment. I'm registered as a Republican in my state so I can vote in their primary, but that doesn't reflect who I actually support.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How do you think the parties count their numbers?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (5 children)

That's moderately useful for statistics purposes, but that's all. It does not mean every individual person who registers as Republican believes in Republican values and votes for Republicans. Nor is it a complete list, plenty of states don't require registration for primaries so there are lots of people who don't bother declaring either way.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I just saw someone on Gab insist that Thomas Crooks was a registered Democrat...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

damn gab still exists??

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looks like that that dumbass Hannity forgot his tie and acted like an idiot again.

What an idiotic dumbass!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

The undecided voters this year have really been deciding with a vengeance

This latest guy having a ton of Ukraine posts is probably also part of them being like "he's a democrat"- there's even a picture of him with blue hair

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