• barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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      I don’t understand how these MAGA Morons can’t figure out that these laws they want are two-edged swords. If they can use it against normal people, then normal people can use it against them, too.

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        That’s because you still think the system will act fairly, it won’t. If you hit someone the administration likes, you’re in trouble, if you someone they don’t like, you’re a hero. There’s never been any intentions of fairness from the republicans, rules for thee not for me.

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          This is the number one flaw with the “rule of law” and State authority structure. The enforcement of the law always comes down to how the ruling body of authority, the State and its representatives, interpret the laws. It is why they are intentionally written to be vague, to allow a court wiggle room in how to apply the letter of a law to a unique situation, and many in fact contradict each other if argued a certain way.

          If the system becomes corrupted, which it often is due to how top-down power attracts people who seek control over others, those vagaries can be used as weapons against those who oppose their power and to systematically exploit marginalized people.

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          That works great as long as Right-wingers stay in power. They have this overwhelming arrogance that tells them they will NEVER leave office, but then they always manage to be so terrible at governing that they eventually get kicked out. Then all those oppressive laws can be used against them, if Dems could muster up any sense of courage.

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            Right, when the Democrats are in power they’re afraid of Republicans, when the Republicans are in power they’re afraid of nothing

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        Maga has gotten the green light that rules don’t apply to them especially after j6 pardons. If someone runs over a maga idiot you can guarantee courts will throw the book at the driver. Rules for the and not for me.

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        Issue is, they don’t want equal laws for all. They want a hierarchical system, where people upper the ladder have more rights and more protections, because “it worked well for the kings”. If they want to conform to this rule of reactionary movements, they will likely make it so, that they’ll specify “illegal protests” somewhere…

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        He said if they need to flee for their safety which maga snowflakes see a black person and will assume they’re being attacked and need to flee for safety.

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    And people wonder why South Park stopped making episodes. The world of South Park is normal compared to this.

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      imagine hitting someone in the car, then the police arrive but dismiss you when they find out the person you hit is a Protestant

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    “Have Right to Hit [liberal, democratic, equality-seeking, anti-fascist] Protesters With Cars [but not pro-fascist, talibangelical, NAZI demonstrators]”

    The subtext is important.

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    idiocracy is here. told ya’ll it’ll come. i am so looking forward for a wrestler to be president after kaiser trump. it will be magical.

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        Democracy is clearly a bullshit. I only support individualism (anarchism). I want 8 billions of individual countries/governments as long as people can peacefully coexist. People don’t start wars, governments do.

        I don’t want to see some majority electing a person or a group of people who will decide for the rest of people how to live.

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          People like you give actual anarchists a bad name. Anarchy is more than simple minded individualism.

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            Hey don’t tell me what the anarchy is. It is primarily about non aggression and where you don’t have anyone to obey to.

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              Go read a fucking book and learn before your spout bullshit. Your simplistic take on a complex political ideology is exactly why no one takes legitimate anarchists seriously.

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                Oh well, please explain where I was wrong. I’ve read tons of it and it is not that complex. Maybe people will start taking it more seriously after that.

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      While on the democratic side when we have a democratic president, those said would say “WE HATED RIOTS BUT LOVE J6” and “WE HATE ICE BUT LOVE THE CDC”

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    and the protesters repeatedly yelled, “WE AREN’T GOING TO HURT YOU! WE’RE JUST SMASHING UP YOUR CAR!!”

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    In a stand your ground state?

    Haha, ok. Good luck, Attorney General James Uthmeier.

    If an armed protestor shoots a driver who is driving at them with intent to cause bodily harm, they… Both have the right to possibly kill one another?

    Driver has the green light. Gunman has the green light.

    Cool, cool. Makes sense.

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      Skin color, last name and political affiliation will determine who’s the victim and who’s the assailant

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      That sounds like maximum USA . Two people not caring about the other, only thinking about themselves, and neither willing to just back off

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        There is nothing the far-right would love more than to bring the Fallujah strategy to Tampa Bay. You are absolutely off your rocker if you think the modern American political leadership is not chomping at the bit to drop a MOAB on the Woke Mob.

        The first armed protest on a freeway will be smeared across the pavement, while FOX News anchors cheer and drink champagne in between cuts to Donald Trump on the deck of an aircraft carrier under a big banner that says “Mission Accomplished”.

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      Well ya see, the driver is based and the shooter is woke so the shooter is wrong and gets the chair if the car doesn’t kill them first

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    “And so if you drive off and you hit one of these people, that’s their fault for impinging on you.”

    He continued, “You get 20 points for adult males, 30 points for adult females, and 50 points for children. Points can be redeemed for ‘DesantisBucks’ once you reach 500 points or more.”

    EDIT: a word

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      We also have a policy that if you’re driving on one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle, and threatens you, you have a right to flee for your safety. And so if you drive off and you hit one of these people, that’s their fault for impinging on you.

      it’s a completely pointless law. You were already allowed to defend yourself if attacked by a mob (but not if you drive into the mob and then they start attacking you)
      so yeah, if you go to a planned parenthood protest, and they all surround your car, threatening you and attacking your car, you can drive away.