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[–] 277 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That ICE agent looks a lot like a protestor.

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  • [–] 171 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    In a stand your ground state?

    Haha, ok. Good luck, Attorney General James Uthmeier.

    If an armed protestor shoots a driver who is driving at them with intent to cause bodily harm, they... Both have the right to possibly kill one another?

    Driver has the green light. Gunman has the green light.

    Cool, cool. Makes sense.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The first armed protest on a freeway will clarify everything.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    There is nothing the far-right would love more than to bring the Fallujah strategy to Tampa Bay. You are absolutely off your rocker if you think the modern American political leadership is not chomping at the bit to drop a MOAB on the Woke Mob.

    The first armed protest on a freeway will be smeared across the pavement, while FOX News anchors cheer and drink champagne in between cuts to Donald Trump on the deck of an aircraft carrier under a big banner that says "Mission Accomplished".

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    That sounds like maximum USA . Two people not caring about the other, only thinking about themselves, and neither willing to just back off

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    [–] 120 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

    "And so if you drive off and you hit one of these people, that's their fault for impinging on you."

    He continued, “You get 20 points for adult males, 30 points for adult females, and 50 points for children. Points can be redeemed for ‘DesantisBucks’ once you reach 500 points or more.”

    EDIT: a word

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Cool, so all we need now is a list of Proud Boy demonstrations in FL.

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    [–] 61 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    So we have the right to hit you with our car Ron?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Floridians have a right to hit protesters with their car if they need to "flee for your safety."

    are you fleeing for your safety surrounded by ron de santises?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think Ron DeSantis getting hit by a car would be for everyone's safety.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Awesome, so if you see those maga people at crosswalks or outside of planned parenthood, go ahead and run them down

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I don't understand how these MAGA Morons can't figure out that these laws they want are two-edged swords. If they can use it against normal people, then normal people can use it against them, too.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That's because you still think the system will act fairly, it won't. If you hit someone the administration likes, you're in trouble, if you someone they don't like, you're a hero. There's never been any intentions of fairness from the republicans, rules for thee not for me.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That works great as long as Right-wingers stay in power. They have this overwhelming arrogance that tells them they will NEVER leave office, but then they always manage to be so terrible at governing that they eventually get kicked out. Then all those oppressive laws can be used against them, if Dems could muster up any sense of courage.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    This is the number one flaw with the "rule of law" and State authority structure. The enforcement of the law always comes down to how the ruling body of authority, the State and its representatives, interpret the laws. It is why they are intentionally written to be vague, to allow a court wiggle room in how to apply the letter of a law to a unique situation, and many in fact contradict each other if argued a certain way.

    If the system becomes corrupted, which it often is due to how top-down power attracts people who seek control over others, those vagaries can be used as weapons against those who oppose their power and to systematically exploit marginalized people.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Issue is, they don't want equal laws for all. They want a hierarchical system, where people upper the ladder have more rights and more protections, because "it worked well for the kings". If they want to conform to this rule of reactionary movements, they will likely make it so, that they'll specify "illegal protests" somewhere...

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    In that case, I guess it's ok to splatter the folks protesting in front of planned parenthood?

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    Fact check: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said drivers in his state are allowed to hit protesters if they feel as though their life is being threatened. So technically true. But still not great

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Which means the same as their ridiculous stand your ground law: right wing traitor lunatics will get away with actual crimes, and normal decent folks will get busted.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Which begs the question I've been asking for some time now: If someone tries to run someone over, and they respond by (non-fatally) shooting the driver, who gets arrested? (Assume both are white republicans).

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Using the “Kyle Rittenhouse” excuse!

    “I was so fearful, that I drove from my house in IL to another state with a rifle and shot people because, “I feared for my life! Not like it was murder or anything!”

    So now all MAGOTS are free range, hit em if you see them and feel threatened!! So in FL you can run someone over via the governor! So fucking dumb! I can’t even try to understand what is truly going on in America because no one can other than all the oligarchs and billionaires running the country/world!!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Which is the case pretty much anywhere, you have the right to escape.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I've seen videos of random people just surrounded after a football match or some other shit and they start just fuvking with the car and jump on the bonnet and try to open doors. I would 100% just floor it and good luck guys. But i don't think that's what he means.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    This is just one more reason why there needs to be an organization participating in protest spaces specifically to provide armed security, same as Black Panthers provided security for civil rights protests.

    People won't be so willing to drive into a crowd of protesters if the bloc has an armed perimeter.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Problem is they will disappear, jail, or kill any genuine organizers and infiltrate / sabotage any organization that actually gets to a place of effectively mobilizing a strategy like this.

    Don’t get me wrong, I think something like this would help level the playing field and benefit the protesters tremendously but the FBI and DOJ won’t let it happen. Look at the people that tried organizing the Ferguson protests after the death of Eric garner, Freddy grey, Tamir rice, back in 2012-2015 they’re all dead or in jail.

    People need to protect and organize themselves. Thats what the black panthers did and that’s precisely why they were so effective. They built up from their preexisting communities.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Problem is they will disappear, jail, or kill any genuine organizers

    Problem is they are already doing this regardless of if your an organizer or not. If the regime decides you're a target, then you're fucked. So might as well start organizing to defend against those who actively wish to do you and yours harm.

    and infiltrate / sabotage any organization that actually gets to a place of effectively mobilizing a strategy like this

    This is why organizations need to practice good OpSec in order to prevent infiltration.

    People need to protect and organize themselves. Thats what the black panthers did and that’s precisely why they were so effective. They built up from their preexisting communities.

    Yea, and part of what the Black Panthers did in their organizing was to provide armed security for protests, among a plethora of other mutual aid programs.

    Those problems have existed for every single revolutionary effort to exist across history. That didn't stop them and it shouldn't stop us either.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    The Xitter post cheering the speech caught my attention, so I clicked through to the X user, "iAnonPatriot" and just have to say, wow.

    It starts off with his bio image being literal hands goatse'ing through the virtual Matrix grid, and it only gets worse from that level of basic. Just a red-pill Nazi fever dream in feed form. 610K followers.

    Videos of protestors getting abused are his favorite, apparently. One top one is police firing gas into apparently peaceful protestors. The protestor kicks it back, walks back and is just standing there doing nothing threatening, and then apparently gets shot with a rubber(?) bullet and lies motionless for a moment before someone picks him up and he walks off. The caption this guy gave is "HOLY SH*T Perfect shot.. 🤣🤣🤣". Anti-LGBTQ posts feature as well. General concentrated bile into a convenient feed.

    So I guess this "influencer" is what Gen Z is getting fed by algorithms and told is normal day-in and day-out?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Words always evolve, but it's kind of a shame that "patriot" got turned into "I completely lack empathy and am a psychopathic piece of shit bootlicker."

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Germany was full of patriotic nationalists a century ago.

    The issue is what (concept of a) nation they are patriotic towards.

    For example, these Schweinehunde are cheering for an 1800s version of the US, where coloured people were property and annexing their neighbours was why they claimed to love the military.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    A state governor just authorized vehicle ramming attacks against probably his own citizens. Disgusting and disgraceful.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    He didn't "authorize" anything. That's not how laws or public policies are created. He's just bloviating like all MAGA Nazis. If it actually happened, the person would be prosecuted based on the law, and their defense of "The governor said it was okay!" would not be accepted by the judge.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This belongs in something like c/evilpeople more than nottheonion

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Eh I’d be fine with a crosspost

    It’s beyond satire that any politician thinks this is OK to say in any fucking context and little Rhonda should be in jail for it, prosecuted as an accomplice when someone actually goes out and does it

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Free speech is where people legally violently kill or injure you for speaking

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Sponsored by Rockstar Games

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Weird. The more I look at DeSantis the more he looks like a protestor. Just me?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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    Realistically it's a "Stand Your Ground" situation for the protestor if they are threatened with deadly force from a car attack, so the protestors can legally shoot drivers who are attempting to run them over. So if Rhonda wants to escalate that's what they are asking for, GTA street wars basically.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Bear this in mind next time something like a unite the right or Jan 6 happens.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What if we hit him with a car?

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That means I have the right to put 9 rounds into the drivers seat before that happens.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    And people wonder why South Park stopped making episodes. The world of South Park is normal compared to this.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Hmm, I guess if some magat protesters are around they would be fair game to get run over as well.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Same with right to hit Nazis and police with cars.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    At this point Republicans are just being idiots. They say whatever 1940s idiot shit pops into their head.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    cuz pedestrian in FL means homeless or drug addicts, so they are ok to run over

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  • “Have Right to Hit [liberal, democratic, equality-seeking, anti-fascist] Protesters With Cars [but not pro-fascist, talibangelical, NAZI demonstrators]”

    The subtext is important.

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