Giving a whole new meaning to “battleground state”

    • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      8 days ago

      yea some nutjobs will do some shit probably, but it will be pretty isolated. Most Americans still arent at the “im ready to die” point. Even the ones who talk a big game.

        • SerLava [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          7 days ago

          And a lot of the Jan 6 chuds really, really thought they’d get away with it. They had two very strongly held beliefs:

          • If we’re holding Thin Blue Line flags and screaming the word constitution, the state wouldn’t touch us!
          • If we really, truly believe, in our heart of hearts, that we’re covered by a legal exception to do crimes, the state can’t touch us!

          The test for many legal exceptions is whether a “reasonable person” would believe such-and-such. But conservatives really think that if they strongly profess a belief, that’s just as good. It’s why they started calling all their opponents pedophiles. The actual concept doesn’t even cross their mind, to them it’s just a word that means “can be murdered”