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[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 257 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Arrest and jail each one. Don't make death threats at people.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 101 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, the justice department has been really lax with this stuff. AFAIK that's not protected speech, and if you start jailing the first ones it'll stop. Stirring up hate towards someone to the point they get death threats has become a normalised part of the discourse on the right now.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Even a statement of "authorities are working on tracking these people down to charge them" would scare a lot of these people off.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago
  • they said they are coming to get us, Ilya
  • let's hope they do, Piotr... I'm so tired of this! What do we have today, by the way? Insults, death threats or stupid memes?
[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A.G. Garland is a conservative. Trusting a conservative to act in good faith as A.G. was a huge error in judgement by this administration. That error has come very close to costing us our democracy.

A conservative should absolutely never be granted any position of authority. A conservative does not have a moral compass and can only act to benefit themselves or their in-group.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Definitely agree. Democrats have been afflicted with centrist West Wing brain where they'll give the reigns of the justice department, FBI, CIA and military to Republicans because they hope that'll make Republicans respect them more or something? It's just a constant barrage of own goals. Even the guy that was supposed to investigate Trump was a Republican that had been a member of his golf course.

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[–] MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Law enforcement pretty much always sides with Trump supporters on this stuff so I wouldn't hold your breath. If this woman died, most cops would probably laugh.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

Law enforcement pretty much always sides with Trump supporters

There's over 450 January 6 idiots sitting in jail who used to believe that is true.

[–] PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 177 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Was it "the radical left" ?

What's that? No, it wasn't? Again? Huh

[–] cynthorpe@discuss.online 41 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Must have been “Blue MAGA”

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago
[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Blue maga was made up by maga as an attempt at a pejorative and to downplay their own insanity.

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[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sounds like terrorism. Maybe Muslim terrorists?

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

It's the transgender Muslim terrorists leftists.

[–] slickgoat@lemmy.world 100 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Totally non-weird response to a journalist asking questions.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Cultists radicalized into terrorists.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 90 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I woke up to a response from someone who asked me why I had to make "everything" about racism.

This is why.

[–] Davin@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Pointing out racism is not you making everything about racism, it's there being a lot of racist shit.

[–] notsure@fedia.io 59 points 2 years ago (1 children)

this is not meant ironically, i'm so tired, boss. this shit needs to stop. as human beings can we collectively hate something other than ourselves? like maybe we can start hating methane with the same furvor.../i wish it were snark

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 points 2 years ago

republicans sending death threats to a black woman for holding a racist to account? on brand.

[–] Maven@lemmy.zip 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Like... I hate to say this... But no shit... We all knew this was going to happen as soon as the interview was planned in the first place

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[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] bender223@lemmy.today 8 points 2 years ago

Hey fellas, is it weird to send death threats to a news station for not asking trump softball questions and kissing his butt? 🤔

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Next thing, you're gonna tell me that water is wet.

[–] cynthorpe@discuss.online 22 points 2 years ago (23 children)

Water isn’t wet. Wetness is a property that occurs when a liquid adheres to a solid surface due to cohesive and adhesive forces. Water molecules exhibit hydrogen bonding, creating a network, but they themselves aren’t ‘wet’ until they interact with another material.

[–] just_ducky_in_NH@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Interesting, but pedantic.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Counterpoint: water is wet because it is the wet.

A powerful example of such a scenario is this quote from the philosopher, Batman:
"I am vengeance! I am the night! I.am.BATMAN!"

What this proves is shut up, water is wet. 😡

[–] cynthorpe@discuss.online 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If there is water, and no one is around to be wet… is it still wet?

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Let's all just agree that water is moist. Oceans of moisture.

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[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My bear just shit a brick!

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

The pope is jealous

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

So you’re saying wet is water.

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

Imagine if Trump said that this is not acceptable... But guess who keeps his mouth shut instead.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 years ago

Lmao of course she did, what else can you expect talking to the dopey leader of a cult of FUCKING WEIRDOS.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

Those f'ing weirdos

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ever since the pan. Everything was already terrible, but then the hinges broke. The crazy really took over. And this is where we are. Fucking stochastic terrorism with heaps of actual terrorism. They just don't have any boundaries anymore. Or sense of decency. Or shame. Fuck the right.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There was a time when the conservatives would have just actually lynched her. That's what they refer to as "the good ol' days".

Yup. “Make America great again” is code for “I preferred it when we could lynch black people for literally anything.”

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[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Faermongering thugs. Can you imagine what they're doing to Vance's wife?

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They're in favor of a free press, except if that press isn't in support of their political agenda. Then all of a sudden that free press isn't supposed to be so free.

If the freedom you want has a required political position, it's not freedom that you want.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just like how they only use “free speech” to defend the indefensible things they say. Because they can’t actually justify the things they say, so they fall back to “well you technically can’t stop me from saying it.” The “free speech” defense is just about the lowest bar you could find, and if you’re using it you should seriously examine why you’re saying the things you are. Because if you’ve fallen into the “free speech” defense, it means you have no other defense.

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[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Yeah, emotional violent savages are gonna act that way. They are not intelligent enough to argue and are uncivilized animals. Screw maga, they are weird outcasts and, anger getting wrecked in the election, can go hide in their bunkers where polite society doesn't have to look at them anymore...

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 11 points 2 years ago

She embodies almost everything they hate, this was almost inevitable once she came to their attention.

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