• gloss@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 years ago

    I guess it’s something that these traitors are finally admitting that Jan 6. was a coup attempt. Not antifa, not a false flag by the FBI, not a little happy tour or whatever little ruse they come up with to deflect or justify it. At what point does this become treason? Do his followers have to try to take over an army base or something?

  • pingveno@lemmy.mlOP
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    2 years ago

    “Welcome to the end of democracy!” Posobiec declared. “We’re here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6th, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here,” he said, holding his fist in the air. “That’s right, because all glory is not to government, all glory to God.”

    When Democrats raise red flags about Republicans trying to end democracy, maybe listen, because Republicans aren’t hiding it anymore.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      A vote for Hindenburg is a vote for Hitler. I don’t give a shit what the Dems have to say so long as the only offer they have to stop this is “vote blue forever”. Promising that they won’t personally end democracy while doing nothing to stop those who will isn’t defending democracy, it’s using liberal democracy’s inevitable death to boost their career via a hostage situation. Wake me up when they promise to put Jack in jail or better yet Hell.

      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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        2 years ago

        In any nation with first past the post elections, like the United States, Leftists have exactly one rational voting strategy:

        Step 1. Identify the two front-runner parties, and determine which of the two is further left relative to the other.

        Step 2. Vote for that party in every single election (don’t forget midterms and local elections). Encourage everyone you know to do the same.

        Step 3. Once the (relative) left party has an overwhelming majority (over 2/3) and the relative right party becomes vanishingly irrelevant (under 1/3), then split the (relative) left party into its own relative left and right.

        Step 4. Repeat steps 1-3 with these new front-runner parties.

        Step 5. Iterate step 4 until your relative left party passes election reform such that elections are no longer susceptible to Duverger’s Law.

        Certainly try to push for reform within the relative left party between elections and during primaries, but at the ballot box the above is the only rational strategy. Voting third party, or refusing to vote the lesser evil, is not a rational strategy.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    That fellow needs to appreciate that when the entirety of the criminal justice system fails to stop them, the rest of us are a Go.

    Actually, Merrick could do with some appreciation of that as well.