• derf82@lemmy.world
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    “If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism, they will abandon democracy.” - David Frum

    We are here, folks. They are planning civil war if they don’t win an election already rigged in their favor.

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        They seem to think they’re the only ones with guns or are the only ones who know how to use them.

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          Also they seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of how wars are fought and won. It almost never comes down to bullets. It comes down to communication, supply lines, tactics, and information. 1000 bullets aren’t worth jack if you don’t know where their artilary is being launched from.

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        Watching “Shiny Happy People” gave me an idea how frighteningly organized conservatives are. Not Trump and his lackeys, but the larger christian right.

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          Yeah, I feel like they are better prepared than we give them credit for. The true powers are happy to let the Ya’llqaida run their mouths and wander around in Walmart camo looking ridiculous, because it makes the rest of us discredit them. But the real threat is very strong, very powerful, and very hidden. I was raised conservative Christian. I was raised under a lot of the same beliefs as the fucking cult in Shiny Happy People. I went to camp at one of the universities that they are apparently organizing conservative youth to go into politics with the purpose of taking over. I didn’t know about any of it, I’d never heard the name of that cult before or that any of it was happening, that’s how well it is hidden. I think that they are so good at sliding under the surface that you can be so close to it and never know it’s there meanwhile they are paying off people and getting policies made and controlling the world however they see fit. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

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      It’s always these old fucking pricks whose hands would be shaking because they’re fucking ancient. He’s fucking nearly 70. He really thinks he has the reaction times as a 70 year old to deal with a guerilla warfare situation? Or is he just hoping everyone else is gonna do the fighting for him?

      Jesus Christ I’m in my 40’s and I feel like a fucking shaky, woozy mess who could easily be taken down by someone half my age. It’s stupid as living fuck.

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    Cool I’m looking forward to seeing more magtards getting 20+ years. I bet letting bullets fly will really get ya some quality time. Maybe it’ll finally get some poor people caught with a bag of weed out of prison and get the real criminals locked up. Drain those maga swamps!

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    Get armed if you aren’t already. You know they’ll come after the “libs” in their community.

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    Given that their best shot at something like that was while Trump was still in office and had the full force of the Federal govt & the Military backing him up, I’d like to see them try. If they can’t manage a coup when they had a wannabe dictator running the show, they sure as shit couldn’t pull it off now.

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      It’s a bit of a shell of what it once was, and I think Doctorow doesn’t post there anymore. Don’t know about anyone else from the original team. Sort of ad infested now. (Or at least that’s what my adblockers tell me, and I see a lot of blank space.)