Alt-right conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec vowed to finish what rioters began on Jan. 6 by working to "overthrow" democracy "completely."
  • gloss@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 months ago

    I guess it’s something that these traitors are finally admitting that Jan 6. was a coup attempt. Not antifa, not a false flag by the FBI, not a little happy tour or whatever little ruse they come up with to deflect or justify it. At what point does this become treason? Do his followers have to try to take over an army base or something?

    • pingveno@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      At what point does this become treason? Do his followers have to try to take over an army base or something?

      No level of action is beyond the far right’s ability to concoct a flimsy excuse that only makes sense to them.

  • Wermhatswormhat@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Holy shit. It does not get anymore brazen than this. He flat out called for the end of democracy. This is facsim plain and simple. This mimicks Hitler’s rise to power almost perfectly. Hell, even Texas is ready to roundup as many immigrants as possible and ship them out to god knows where. It’s sickening that this is what republicans and calling for when Trump wins the primary inevitably. Wake the fuck up people, this is happening.

    • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      It’s been happening since the 1930s. It’s far too normalized to get the response it should.

  • Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 months ago

    God their fucking insufferable.

    The national discourse from one of the two political parties is the exact same as an edge lord 14 year old.

    Say sonething inflammatory that literally everybody realizes you’re doing the “just kidding … unless” bit and then act like you trolled people when everybody correctly points out what you’re doing.

    They don’t even have the conviction of their beliefs to honestly state their beliefs they have to use the same strategy as a 5th grader saying they’re going to pull the fire alarm.

  • pingveno@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    9 months ago

    “Welcome to the end of democracy!” Posobiec declared. “We’re here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6th, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here,” he said, holding his fist in the air. “That’s right, because all glory is not to government, all glory to God.”

    When Democrats raise red flags about Republicans trying to end democracy, maybe listen, because Republicans aren’t hiding it anymore.

    • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Look, idk about you, but first, this is a whataboutism…

      2nd, if it weren’t for the dem party’s complacency, they should’ve put an end to Trump’s rep. election campaign return, via arrests., since Trump prbly committed a couple of crimes at least to get delayed to hell…

      These things are just basic LIBERAL common sense for the Democratic Party, yet they decided to neglect it.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      I’m glad you’re saying this and that OP posted it, I didn’t have the heart to. It’s so depressing that half our government (not half the people) are trying to make america authoritarian.

    • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Um, that isn’t hyperbole or an exaggerated quote. Fucker actually said that during opening day of CPAC.

      Steve Bannon, former White House adviser, is heard in the background exclaiming, “All right! Amen!”

      The fact that every legitimate Republican didn’t denounce them during the rest of CPAC means they are condoning this belief if not outright endorsing it publicly.

      At this point anyone not doing everything they can to prevent Trump or other Republicans from gaining executive power is helping them and a traitor. We’ve long known this is what Republicans want. This is just the all-too-obvious cherry on top.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      9 months ago

      A vote for Hindenburg is a vote for Hitler. I don’t give a shit what the Dems have to say so long as the only offer they have to stop this is “vote blue forever”. Promising that they won’t personally end democracy while doing nothing to stop those who will isn’t defending democracy, it’s using liberal democracy’s inevitable death to boost their career via a hostage situation. Wake me up when they promise to put Jack in jail or better yet Hell.

      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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        9 months ago

        In any nation with first past the post elections, like the United States, Leftists have exactly one rational voting strategy:

        Step 1. Identify the two front-runner parties, and determine which of the two is further left relative to the other.

        Step 2. Vote for that party in every single election (don’t forget midterms and local elections). Encourage everyone you know to do the same.

        Step 3. Once the (relative) left party has an overwhelming majority (over 2/3) and the relative right party becomes vanishingly irrelevant (under 1/3), then split the (relative) left party into its own relative left and right.

        Step 4. Repeat steps 1-3 with these new front-runner parties.

        Step 5. Iterate step 4 until your relative left party passes election reform such that elections are no longer susceptible to Duverger’s Law.

        Certainly try to push for reform within the relative left party between elections and during primaries, but at the ballot box the above is the only rational strategy. Voting third party, or refusing to vote the lesser evil, is not a rational strategy.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    That fellow needs to appreciate that when the entirety of the criminal justice system fails to stop them, the rest of us are a Go.

    Actually, Merrick could do with some appreciation of that as well.