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Moms For Liberty Is Tearing Itself Apart (www.wired.com)

submitted 8 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/politics@lemmy.world

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One of the Republican Party’s most successful grassroots organizations is being torn apart by scandal, including accusations of sexual assault.

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[-] runjun@lemmy.world 94 points 8 months ago

Not grassroots. Same way that the Tea Party wasn’t grassroots.

[-] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago

AstroTurf

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Exactly, even if there ever was a real grass roots aspect to it, which I doubt, it was quickly suborned.

[-] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Grassroots barely exists anymore. There’s no room for anything to grow organically any longer.

[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Is funny because planet dying!

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 60 points 8 months ago

that is exactly what i would expect from "the republicans most successful grassroots organization"

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 51 points 8 months ago

Good. Fucking die already.

[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 46 points 8 months ago

[-] cluelessafterall@lemmy.world 43 points 8 months ago

Moms for Liberty will go away, however some other AstroTurf group will find a way to fleece the flock with manufactured outrage.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago

Not to be cliché, but evil always turns on itself. It cannot create, only destroy.

[-] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 5 points 8 months ago

This is why I have a patch on my bag that reads "Evil is boring"

[-] Pratai@lemmy.ca 27 points 8 months ago

The absolute best outcome since their inception.

[-] the_q@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

Good.

[-] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

Unsurprising. The RepubliKarens can screech, and that's about it.

[-] spider@lemmy.nz 16 points 8 months ago

Moms For ~~Liberty~~ Threesomes

FTFY

[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 25 points 8 months ago

Don't go making it sounds like an organization I'd actually support.

[-] spider@lemmy.nz 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Don't go putting it in crazy! :-o

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

Since it turns out many of them are closet lesbians, maybe they're just fucking themselves over.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Idk that’s a bi story if I’ve ever seen one

[-] joker125@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] theodewere@kbin.social 10 points 8 months ago

it's no surprise when a bunch of hateful people end up being hateful all the time

[-] djsoren19@yiffit.net 8 points 8 months ago

oh no, the Nazis have descended upon each other! Who could have seen this coming? What a catastrophe!

I'm sure they'll splinter off into their own extremist tangents, but hopefully a few of them decide to shut the fuck up forever.

[-] FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 7 points 8 months ago

Well that's a disappointment. I wish more Nazi groups would take after their leader when it comes to self destruction.

[-] Thranduil@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I bet its Lisa thats tearing them apart

[-] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Good riddance

[-] CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

well, best speed and good luck, hope their self destruction is fast and brutal!

[-] negativenull@startrek.website 5 points 8 months ago

"grassroots"

[-] shadearg@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Liberty biberty.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

What good news

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world -5 points 8 months ago

Libertines

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