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Mary Morrissey apologizes after being filmed dumping liquid into backpack of Democratic legislator Jim Carroll

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[–] secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (25 children)

this epitomizes all Republicans

they are just a panoply of mean, nasty people who are either religiously deluded into ignorance or avariciously salivating over class oppression or some combination thereof

gaslighting a colleague is no different than what all republicans do to transgenders every single day. i hope they all live long enough for tribunals to round these republicans up and try them for their crimes against transgenders after the constitution is changed to allow ex post facto laws for the limited purpose of fucking these assholes over for all the shit they are doing now to the trans community. the same hate they have towards transgenders we should all have towards these shitheads and ultimately, we the people write the laws and have a living constitution and should fuck these people over as hard as possible in the most lawful way possible about 20 years from now when the religious senior citizens who protect them with their religious delusions die off.

the only beneficent quality of republicans is supporting the NRA, which really should be a non-partisan issue since citizens need to be armed in case of tyranny

in the french revolution, moronic greedy oppressors were efficiently removed from power after the lower classes were pushed more and more into misery. luckily, unlike in france back then, we can vote greedy vile idiots out of office

unfortunately, we're going to have to wait for the deluded religious morons to naturally reduce in numbers by dying off to get rid of these fucks, since older people are more religious and easily deceived into voting for terrible politicians

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

With all you're saying, you also say the NRA is good because of the same reasons Republicans state?

Mental gymnastics for sure

[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

On the one hand, if the people are armed, the government should theoretically fear the people and want to keep them happy.

But even with millions of armed citizens, nobody is even close to putting up a fight against the US. And they know that. And they keep shitting on you because they know you ain't doing shit about it.

And then you look at the countries that are more democratically reflective of the will of the people... and they have strong gun regulations. It's almost like maybe governments that at least work even a little don't need the fear of popular revolution to keep them in check.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Do you really think that the US army is even remotely impressed by the armed citizens? If need be, they stop on top of them and it's done.

To add to that, all those armed citizens that will protect us from tyranny are supporting the tyrant, it's facepalm worthy, really

[–] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, the reason for owning guns isn't to protect against the government's tyranny, it's to help half the country's military fight the other half of the country's military in some (hopefully still theoretical) civil war.

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