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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Seems like a really bad idea to give swaths of people a common enemy and then taking away the thing that prevents them from feeling like they have nothing left to lose.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He's hoping we take out his enemies and not his buddies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Honestly IMO the big threat to them comes from the right. They've spent a generation cultivating violence and gun culture in their own followers.

I think it's an accident, but not a surprise, that the recent Trump assaignation attempts were all right wing. The left has no monopoly on ADHD and depression diagnoses. And they teach their folks conspiracy thinking.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Whatever gets them a State of Emergency the fastest.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Secretary Brain Worms has probably not thought that far ahead.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

he probably doesn't have anything to think with at this point