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[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 147 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Funny how they're calling for riots instead of going to the streets and rioting.
I wonder if they remember what happened to them the last time they tried that shit 🤔.

[–] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 117 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pepperidge farm remembers. The crowd that was all about “back(ing) the blue” managed to kill a police officer and four of themselves.

[–] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Then Fox News refused to air spots the dc police wanted to put up. Fun fact

[–] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I didn’t know about that, but I’m unsurprised the fox “news” propaganda machine goes brrrrr.

[–] No_Change_Just_Money@feddit.de 57 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Give them a break

Are you really expecting all the people posting this stuff to pay for the flight from Russia?

[–] Granite@kbin.social 13 points 5 months ago

And the rubes who believe them here, do you expect them to exert 30 feet without their phones telling them what to do?

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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 123 points 5 months ago (7 children)

These morons want a king. Can't even reflect for 5 seconds and think the guilty verdict is because he committed a crime.

[–] Endorkend@kbin.social 45 points 5 months ago (6 children)
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[–] edwardbear@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They are absolutely delusional. I went to the cesspool that is /r/conservative, hoping, PRAYING for people to respond like normal human beings on reading news like that.

Nope.

None of this.

Complete delusion, with select quotes:

“He still has my vote”

“Liars! Liars on the witness stand. This poor man does not deserve this”

Americans are a different breed altogether.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 83 points 5 months ago (10 children)

I looked at /r/conservative last night and it was not good for my mental health. Thousands of commenters all agree it was a sham trial that he will win on appeal and that this will only earn him votes.

The last two things, they may be right about and that's terrifying.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 82 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They don't even realize that that's not how appeals work. It's not just "the appellate court says acquittal," there needs to A) have been a failure in the legal process which B) would have been impactful on the jury's verdict during the first trial for an appeal to be successful. Appellate courts only address the legal process. An appellate court would only get into addressing the facts of the case if there was an absolutely glaring smoking gun to point to some evidence or testimony having been false.

You know, like Allen Weisselberg does when he testifies.

Even if an appellate court was to side with Trump's appeal, that just means it goes back to the lower court to be tried again, unless the DA goes "yeah, forget it."

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 45 points 5 months ago

This right here. I am not a legal expert, but I do know that this is how it typically works. The point I want to make, though, is that the prosecution likely knew trump would want to appeal, thus tried to make their legal process as air tight and by the book as possible

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago

My favorite is the ones crying about how America has fallen into nazism because... Trump got convicted of a crime with overwhelming evidence of it.

And its especially funny considering how down with nazism they have been until its conversationally convenient to suddenly cry about the evil nazi persecution.

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

At least he can only appeal all the at to the State Supreme Court so the fedsoc six can't fuck with it.

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[–] rab@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 months ago (18 children)

Those are mostly bots or paid Russian actors

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[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

They move the goalpost at every turn.

I remember when they said he'd win big in 2020. I remember when they said he wouldn't be indicted. Next it's some other silly line in the sand. They're not exactly great prognosticators.

They call it a sham but I ask, where is the proof? There is, of course, zero.

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[–] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 81 points 5 months ago

So terrorists.

[–] VeryImportantUser@lemmy.world 75 points 5 months ago (16 children)

At what point do we consider Trump voters as terrorists? Waiting until they actually kill people or destroy everything doesn't sound like a good idea.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Voters? Never.

Supporters who organize to commit acts of terror like shutting down local libraries via threats of violence? Now. We should be doing that now.

I didn't fight shit heads in Iraq just to have more shit heads do it here.

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[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Didn't they march inside some important government building and try to overthrow an election at some point?

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[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I guarantee the crime rate of maga is greater than the undocumented immigrant population. We already know undocumented immigrants commit less crime than native-born Americans as a whole.

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[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 69 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. - Francis M. Wilhoit

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[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 68 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Great, let the rioters expose themselves, then lock them up.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

You don't expect the cops to lock themselves up,do you?

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 64 points 5 months ago (4 children)

, and then nothing happened because they're all a bunch of piss babies.

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[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 46 points 5 months ago (2 children)

...thus showing that the "Law and Order" party was never about law, they just want a particular kind of order- that is, a hierarchy wherein people below them on the status-ladder know not to try to hold them accountable to anything, including the law or even plain decency.

To them, the law is the cudgel to keep the poors and plebes in their place- low in the order- never to be applied to them.

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[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 40 points 5 months ago (3 children)

They want their perceived enemies to make the first move. They might be calling for violence, but many of them are cowards and also love to play victim and win the sympathy Olympics.

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[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I hope they do it, and get arrested and convicted so they can't vote.

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[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Can I show up to their riots carrying a George Floyd sign and just feign ignorance about what's being protested? Over/under on getting shot? (I'm white so factor that into the odds.)

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

40/60, but you better be so white that even Casper the friendly ghost calls you a cracker, and you have sworn eternal ~~entity~~ enmity towards the sun

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[–] bignate31@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Favourite part of the whole article:

A spokesperson for Truth Social said, “It’s hard to believe that Reuters, once a respected news service, has fallen so low as to publish such a manipulative, false, defamatory and transparently stupid article as this one purely out of political spite.”

"You never saw what you thought you saw. And even if you did, it was entirely justified and your interpretation was extreme."

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[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 31 points 5 months ago

Fuck around & find out, chuds.

[–] Spitzspot@lemmings.world 30 points 5 months ago

Caught them right in the feelings. Toddler tantrums will be dealt with as such.

[–] ulkesh@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The usual response from the whiny degenerates.

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[–] MxM111@kbin.social 23 points 5 months ago

I kind of understand them, because if you listen Fox News, you will learn about Soviet style prosecution, about how judge manipulated court. “Expert” after “expert” say that it is political hunting, etc. It is easy to manipulate those with single source of news and views.

[–] kaupas24@kbin.social 20 points 5 months ago

@kingshrubb every time an article like that drops, it amazes me how divided the US is. I just can't wrap my head around how so many people would die for a fascist politician like that.

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Liberals are going to have to get used to the idea of owning guns. I know plenty do, but still this can get ugly. Or they will just get arrested or shot in the face like that one chick.

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Umm, I hate this comment because it’s basically assuming there will be some kind of armed conflict between normal people. I don’t think it’s necessarily going to happen, and we shouldn’t stoke the flames for it. What’s better than saying inane comments like “get a gun” is to reduce voter apathy and hopelessness, educate people on their voting choices, and get them registered to vote.

Social media has a tendency to heighten emotions, and there are many, many state actors who abuse that fact. I squarely lay any blame for Rittenhouse, Charlottesville car ramming victim, and Jan 6th on social media spread disinformation and incitement. Don’t believe everything you read about “supporters of [insert ideological enemy]”.

That said, access to guns is a right for Americans and there’s nothing wrong with knowing self defense. But know that proper gun training and discipline is not scaling with gun ownership. So people are basically creating unsafe environments and situations for their families and others. Don’t do this, don’t be stupid. If you get a gun for any reason (sports or defense), learn safety!

Overall, it’s important to get more progressives in congress and other places of power and authority. Not advocate for armed conflict

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[–] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Please do it, you stupid fucks. I want to watch as you and your gravy seals get annihilated. Get humbled. Fucking do it.

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[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Police vs brownshirts, whoever loses, we win.

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[–] tsonfeir@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

Let them riot. We need crimes to put them in jail.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the party of law and order.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 months ago

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