• RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world
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    He added, “We must stop clutching our principles and shouting “stop.” They own the legal system. That will achieve nothing. We need action. Disproportionate. Violent. Action."

    Dude.

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      Wait, WHO owns the legal system now? The side that controls the supreme Court? Hmm.

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      Do you think he knows that he’s the ‘they’ now?

      Maybe news just travels more slowly in MAGAland and his calls for violence against the political establishment will cease once he finds out that his team has the ball now…

      Inb4 “there were good people on both sides” and such…

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        “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

        Yes, this fuckwad knows damn well he’s the “they” now. He is reversing victim and offender deliberately to flaunt his power and mock us.

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        Yes I think he knows. It’s the logical fallacy of the ‘deep state’ thing. Even with Republicans in charge of every branch of government, there is still a mysterious ‘deep state’ to blame everything on.

        Also once again it falls into ‘every accusation is a confession.’ It de-legitimizes the argument when Democrats say the exact opposite thing (Republicans owning the legal system).

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        Do you think he knows that he’s the ‘they’ now?

        Absolutely not, they never do. Trad Catholics still think the US is persecuting them even though the majority of the supreme Court is Catholic. Trump still thinks of himself as an underdog despite having a death grip on the executive, Congress and the judicial branches. Paul Ryan’s favorite band was rage against the machine.

        All of these people are delusional.

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        Legitimate news doesn’t travel at all in MAGAland. The gatekeepers are Fox/OAN/Newsmax, and they don’t let wrongthink breach their airwaves.