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[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 57 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Seems like a really bad idea to give swaths of people a common enemy and then taking away the thing that prevents them from feeling like they have nothing left to lose.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Secretary Brain Worms has probably not thought that far ahead.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] brachypelmasmithi@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

he probably doesn't have anything to think with at this point

[–] araneae@beehaw.org 10 points 5 days ago

Whatever gets them a State of Emergency the fastest.

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He's hoping we take out his enemies and not his buddies.

[–] pohart@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

Honestly IMO the big threat to them comes from the right. They've spent a generation cultivating violence and gun culture in their own followers.

I think it's an accident, but not a surprise, that the recent Trump assaignation attempts were all right wing. The left has no monopoly on ADHD and depression diagnoses. And they teach their folks conspiracy thinking.