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[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If only there was a term they could use referencing the use and threat of violence in order to achieve political gains. It feels like that's a word that should exist already, and that Republicans should all be considered the domestic version of whatever kind of person would do that.

[–] Huckledebuck 101 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago

If someone tells you who they are, believe them.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For anyone wondering, Snopes says it was real in 2022. Perhaps a "joke", but not a wise one.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's just the Trump excuse. Everything atrocious that is said that gets pushback is a joke.

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

"He tells it like it is!"

"Come on, he's obviously just joking!"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Pretty much. He "tells it like it is" when they agree with him and it's a joke when they don't. Reality is fungible for them.

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

I know the term you are looking for, but probably the shooters are white Christian nationalists.

Which means they are definitely not political terrorists who are terrorizing .

But I could be wrong and these are terrorists. Who knows? Perhaps one is mixed race or stepped into a mosque within the last 20 years. Let’s keep an open mind

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

I know the term you are looking for, but probably the shooters are white Christian nationalists.

Which means they are definitely not political terrorists who are terrorizing .

wtf? Why christians wouldn't be considered terrorists?

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

I reckon it's supposed to be sarcasm, that since they are white Christians they can't be terrorists, unless they are "mixed" race or have been in a Mosque

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've re-read the last paragraph. I'm quite slow, it's 100% sarcasm.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It got me the first time too. That's how you know it's great sarcasm!