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[–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In an interview with Newsmax, Jackson baselessly said that transgender women “have an underlying level of aggressiveness” and suggested they be forcibly committed to mental institutions.

“We have to treat these people,” he said. “We have to get them off the streets, and we have to get them off the internet, and we can’t let them communicate with each other. I’m all about free speech, but this is a virus, this is a cancer that’s spreading across this country.”

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Laura Loomer:

    “It’s time to designate the transgender movement as a terrorist movement,” she wrote in a social media post. “Trans people are a threat to society. We can’t allow them to continue killing people. They need to be socially ostracized and the president should make medical transitioning ILLEGAL in our country.”

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    [–] 83 points 1 year ago

    the creator of the flag the president said he’d consider banning recently left the US due to fears of persecution under the Trump administration.

    just normal news stuff

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    During an exchange in the Oval Office, Real America’s Voice correspondent Brian Glenn showed Trump a photo of a trans flag currently on display in Washington, DC, and claimed that “a lot of people are very threatened” by it.

    Dear motherfucker, what are you going to do about those of us who feel threatened by the American Flag?

    Reading this article, I have never in my nearly fifty years of life witnessed anything like this. Jackson is calling to detain all transgender people. Loomer is calling to designate transgender people terrorists.

    These people - I'll say all conservatives - are so pathetic and dysfunctional that they're unable to observe reality and deal with it in a responsible manner. Instead, they choose to turn something difficult or uncomfortable into an enemy or a cancer and deal with things as an immature child would - just stomp on it.

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

    Trans people went from weak men who'd cry in a gunfight, so they can't serve in the military, to the most dangerous mastermind tacticians in the the country. Congratulations on the promotion I guess.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago
    1. Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak." On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism

    "Ur-Fascism" or "Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt" (in Italian: Il fascismo eterno, or Ur-Fascismo) is an essay authored by the Italian philosopher, novelist, and semiotician Umberto Eco. First published in 1995, this influential essay provides an analysis of fascism, a definition of fascism, and discusses the fundamental characteristics and traits of fascism.

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

    Just a reminder that the trans woman didn't kill anyone. It was the guy raised with the idea that guns are a useful solution to problems.

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

    Guns are the only solution to fascism.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There have been a handful of instances in human history where fascism was beaten peacefully (I thought the same as you until someone provided me examples).

    But, it's probably fair to say those were outliers.

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    It was good enough for my grandpa (WWII) and it’s good enough for me.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    "Pride flags classified as a terrorist symbol" is not something I had on my bingo card, but in hindsight it probably should have been.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I briefly considered it, along with calls for mass institutionalization, but thought I was being pointlessly doomer since it's obviously blatantly unconstitutional, anti-freedom, and too wrong even for MAGA to support.

    we're... 9 months in? fuck I'm boned.

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

    The don't thread on me crowd threading on everybody

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Time to co-opt the American flag, Come and take it or Don’t tread on me and watch them try to ban those…

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

    The ones tying transgender to violence probably tried to pick up a transgender once upon a time and got slapped when they tried to SA.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    It’s more that incidences of gun violence and mass shootings are so astoundingly common in the USA that at this point you can find representations of anything in the data, because there’s like 6,000 points of it in the last decade.

    Are there trans mass shooters? Yes, definitely. Are there violent people who endorse democrats or are “leftist”, whatever that means when mass media says it? Yes. But does that change the fact that something like 80+% of domestic bombings and mass shootings done since like 1998 have been committed by right wing nutjobs and religious extremists (and that’s not just code for Islamic extremism, it also includes the many bombings of abortion clinics, the bombing of the Olympics, and the assassinations of abortion providers done by Christian fundamentalists that gets swept under the rug bc we only care about religious extremism when brown people do it).

    But now you’re starting to talk about math and people hate that shit. And even when they don’t the right will handwave away or memory hole tons of stuff. The guy that assassinated the democratic senators doesn’t count, the great replacement shooters don’t count, etc. go on kiwi farms or /pol/ and you’ll literally see people say that there’s only been left wing violence in the us since 2006 or 2008, which is just patently absurd.

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  • I'd like to think that even THIS supreme court would rule against any such ban on constitutional grounds, but I am very old.

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

    I need to get my flag pole situated on my car so I can hang a 3x5 flag off the back.

    I ain't going quietly into that good night goddamnit

    EDIT: I'm planning to hang a pride flag for those curious. Maybe a "FDT" flag if I'm feeling really spicy.

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  • Im not always a fan of their reporting but, this is a headline the mainstream press should plagiarize.

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

    So glad that Gaza is under worse assault, as is Ukraine, on top of the American home ground being assaulted and raped at every turn. Minorities have been the target for so long, while the feral pigs have ranted and raved about it for so long, this was bound to happen.

    Non-voters, this is on your heads too.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Another day another treason

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