• IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Everything I’ve seen from these traitor trash asshats suggests they’re bullies and cowards so I’m not sure I buy your lone wolf theory. They’re far more comfortable in a group where the opponent is outnumbered, that’s when they really show their colors.

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      6 months ago

      There have been plenty of lone-wolf attacks over the past few years. They just typically don’t get as much attention because the damage they cause is typically minimal. The attack on Paul Pelosi is probably the most high-profile example. And we’ve seen plenty of lone-wolf attacks from people for other causes (abortion, most commonly). There’s no reason to believe that the MAGA movement is immune from people considering similar attacks.

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        6 months ago

        I guess we’ll see. The examples you point to don’t seem numerous enough to potentially affect turnout though. Like I said, they’re cowards so they don’t attack large groups such as people waiting to vote.

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          6 months ago

          I guess we’ll see. The examples you point to don’t seem numerous enough to potentially affect turnout though. Like I said, they’re cowards so they don’t attack large groups such as people waiting to vote.

          On average, the US has I think 1.5 mass shootings per day. Schools, places of worship, supermarkets, parades, and even a children’s hospital got threatened. Especially at what will be a political flashpoint in this country, there’s no reason to believe that polling places would magically be immune. If anything, the chances of a polling place getting attacked is significantly higher than normal.

          And those large groups of people waiting to vote…you know what they don’t have? Guns. A large group of unarmed people all gathered in one place to vote makes for a perfect target for someone with a poiltical chip on their shoulder, especially if they’re looking for targets that are unable to fight back. A gang-style drive-by could easily take out a dozen or so people, and even a “non-lethal” drive-by (my example above; a couple of smoke bombs and sound effects) would be enough to at the very least disrupt the election and at worst cause injury or death in the hysteria and confusion.

          And it doesn’t have to be more than one or two. The margin in most swing states hovered around 10,000 votes per state. Drop a smoke bomb or two in the middle of a couple of minority districts and that alone could be enough to swing an election while the polling place is shut down for hours and people throughout the area who would have otherwise voted decide to stay home out of fear.

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            6 months ago

            If anything, the chances of a polling place getting attacked is significantly higher than normal.

            I’m not really interested in arguing about hypotheticals, suffice to say that direct assaults on voters during an Election Day is far from common and I hope it says that way.