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      I hate maga & this take is insane. State violence even against fascists is just state violence, that would have just given more power to idiots claiming the government was compromised. It’s not like J6 actually prevented Biden from becoming president.

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        It was an INSURRECTION! They literally tried to overthrow the government and install a Dictator-For-Life. If they had succeeded, a lot of legislators would have been murdered, as well as the VP. Those people were no longer American citizens, they were TRAITORS, trying to overthrow the government. Death is exactly what they deserve, either in the commission of their treason, or after. None of them should have been pardoned, because they all should have been executed.

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          Actually, the fascist government blindly killing civilians, contrary to your belief, is not a good thing. You want it to be legal for the US government to open fire on crowds of civilians? There were journalists in that crowd, and I’m sure there were kids. Yeah that’s the insurrectionists fault but that doesn’t mean you can just open fire on them and their wives and kids, a crowd full of newscasters and fucking journalists wtf is wrong with you? That’s psychopathic bloodthirst.

          With this logic, you must support China’s actions in the Tiananmen Square protests? I’d be very happy if you read that story and told me your insights!!!

          Edit: oooo! What do you think of HAMAS? that’s a good one

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            Who said anything about firing on crowds of civilians? That would be an atrocity.

            These were seditious, treasonous Insurrectionists, attempting do LITERALLY DESTROY OUR DEMOCRACY! Defending against that sort of domestic terrorism is the very least that I expect the Capitol Police to do.

            The entire reason they felt comfortable actually assaulting the Capitol is because they were counting on COWARDLY people like you putting POLITENESS ahead of our Democracy. You would have let them destroy our democracy before fighting back, because it would be unseemly.

            Your cowardice, and the cowardice of the Democratic Party is why so many people still support MAGA - because they know if America is truly threatened, Democrats aren’t courageous enough to fight back, and they proved it over and over during the Biden administration. If Dems won’t protect the nation, they won’t protect their people.

            Smug, polite liberals like you are the reason MAGA is in control.

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              Your comment made it seem like they should have opened fire on everyone at J6 which is insane because you’re just cheering for the neoliberal state to kill civilians. They were civilians. If you said military members I would have said hell yeah, but you said J6ers. I should know better to engage with this kinda cringy fedposting, but just so u know it’s not real praxis.

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                Do you understand what an Insurrection is?

                The moment they decided to join an Insurrection, and overthrow their nation, they surrender their protection as citizens. At that point they are enemy combatants, attacking the seat of our government. They erected a gallows, and imtended to kill many elected politicians, including the VP. If you don’t defend the very seat of your Democracy, with all the major players present and under fire, when do you defend it?

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                  It’s very funny to me now that you called me a lib cuz this is very lib coded fedposting to me

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    It means the Government of Putin does not support law enforcement, but the only police officers that understand this are with the Capitol Police. This part of the GOP build up for the mid-terms and 2028. Hitler, Stalin and Mao did the same thing for their violent thugs, made them heroes.

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      Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in word. --Jean-Paul Sartre

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      Lincoln’s refusal to execute the principal Confederate traitors publicly and exile the rest was a mistake that has cost the world dearly.

      I say this as an admirer of Abraham Lincoln.

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      You need to take the whole course of antibiotics, otherwise you’ll just get sick again.

      After they won the civil they stopped taking the antibiotics.

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    J6ers got reparations before black people and Native Americans. What a time to be alive. So much winning everywhere!

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    laying the ground to show his supporters they can do it again in case their undermining of the next elections wont be enough

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    Well, they were stupid enough to actually fight for him. Imagine what those idiots would do now when Trump gets threatened by the harsh reality of the law?

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    He’s consolidating more power, gutting the people who aren’t the utmost loyal to him, and gathering more people he knows will commit violence on his behalf. The ballroom is turning out to be more of a doomsday bunker than just a ballroom. He’s getting cornered as dissent begins to grow from within and from the public as his approval rating continues to tank. They’re moving faster and faster on goals they intend to accomplish, and are now beginning to talk about Cuba the way they were beginning to talk about Venezuela before the capture of Maduro; this suggests another invasion is coming. There are warehouses getting bought intended for immigrants and probably “domestic terrorists” by the standards of NSPM-7, intended to occupy up to 100,000 people in each one. The Republican party has decided the future of the party is more vital than the future of this country, and they and Trump are willing to cheat in the upcoming elections to maintain power and control, while the opposition is currently failing to maintain the aggressive poise they need fight against this and counter gerrymander. Mass economic hardship projected because of the Strait of Hormuz, with the possibility of famine ranging throughout the entire globe, and is most definitely a matter of time before it hits home.

    People are sleepwalking into this and need to wake the fuck up; be ready and give it everything you got. Tell your friends and family. Your participation is fucking vital.

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          Other than that, protesting has done nothing for the last 30 years I’ve attended so many protests in my life and we are still in the same fucking situation

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            Protesting? I am talking mutual aide and survival programs that simultaneously agitated the status quo.

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              Show me where that has made a difference though? That’s my point we are pretty much powerless in today’s society to do much of anything that will cause change

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                Aside from winning the right to vote? We owe to the black panthers the free school breakfast program. But they too recognized how the system makes us powerless, which is why they sought a dual power structure

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                  What was that 50-60 plus years ago? Since then nothing has worked to make things better for the common person. If anything they are worse now. Since at least LBJ the conservatives have been trying to set up the system as it is today. They have been playing the long long long game and it’s worked. Americans today are far too dumb and lazy to ever go on a months long boycott of anything. Nobody wants to be inconvenience. I’m too old and tired to be fighting for our rights like I used to. Young people will have to do it, but they are not

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    Like I said in another thread, do the guards who protected our democratic institutions also get a payout or how does that work?