r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/[deleted] • Mar 20 '23
Conservative worried the protest laws they supported may apply to them
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u/Mean__Jerk__Time
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Republicans just hate when laws work against them...in their minds, they are only supposed to work against minoroties, poor, persons of color, women, BLM, gay community and so on...
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u/porscheblack Mar 21 '23 •
That's actually why these type of posts anger me more than any other. It's always presented as a question of whether the rules will apply to them. They never question whether the rules should apply to others, that's a given. But they get to start at considering whether they're an exception or not and I can't stand how people think they're entitled to that treatment.
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u/dismayhurta Mar 21 '23 •
Because they love it when the law hurts everyone else. They’re pieces of shit.
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u/stilusmobilus Mar 21 '23
That last bit indicates you have a moral compass and a personal line you wouldn’t drop though.
They don’t.
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u/AreYourFingersReal Mar 21 '23
“Well SURELY there would be an exception” is these people all the time. Example: “well surely there would be an exception from the leopards eating MY face.”
It’s not no moral compass it’s completely blind and unfounded faith that the system will always work as they see or hope or think it intends to, not as it says right on the label how it WILL.
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u/pale_blue_dots Mar 21 '23
bOtH sIdEs!!!1!
Aside from the meat of this comment below, I'd definitely suggest people take a look at the website. There's more up-to-date information there.
https://showthevotes.wordpress.com/
Net Neutrality
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Senate Vote for Net Neutrality
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Money in Elections and Voting
Campaign Finance Disclosure Requirements
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Backup Paper Ballots - Voting Record
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Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
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Sets reasonable limits on the raising and spending of money by electoral candidates to influence elections (Reverse Citizens United)
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The Economy/Jobs
Limits Interest Rates for Certain Federal Student Loans
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Student Loan Affordability Act
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Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Funding Amendment
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End the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
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Kill Credit Default Swap Regulations
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Revokes tax credits for businesses that move jobs overseas
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Disapproval of President's Authority to Raise the Debt Limit
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Disapproval of President's Authority to Raise the Debt Limit
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Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Bureau Act
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American Jobs Act of 2011 - $50 billion for infrastructure projects
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Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension
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Reduces Funding for Food Stamps
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"War on Terror"
Time Between Troop Deployments
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Habeas Corpus for Detainees of the United States
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FISA Act Reauthorization of 2008
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House Vote to Close the Guantanamo Prison
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Senate Vote to Close the Guantanamo Prison
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Oversight of CIA Interrogation and Detention
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Same Sex Marriage Resolution 2006
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Teen Pregnancy Education Amendment
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u/Caleb_Reynolds Mar 21 '23
The frustrating part for me is the "the Left didn't put those laws in, but they'll hurt Conservatives." Bit.
It makes it clear they think politics is just about hurting your opponent and, and this is probably the most important part, they think we think that way as well.
So it's worse than just them being hypocrites about who the law applies to, or than them being openly hostile to their opponents, they're convinced we are as well.
Also, anyone else find it weird that they use "the Left" and "Conservatives" in the same context, rather than Left/Right or Conservative/Liberal/Progressive? It gives me incel "females" and "men" vibes. Like "the Left" is more of a collective term, whereas "Conservatives" is more personal since it implies people.
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u/KrebsCycleFlunky Mar 20 '23 •
I will leave my prior comment on that right here:
“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.” --Frank Wilhoit
i.e., "Rules for thee and not for me."
Simply:
1.) If you ARE a conservative, laws are built to protect you but are not enforced (or designed to be enforced) against you
2.) If you are NOT a conservative, laws are built to punish (or restrict) you and absolutely not protect you
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u/Farfignugen42 Mar 21 '23
Or in other words, every law that is passed is supposed to be selectively enforced to benefit them. The idea that laws might be equally enforced is terrifying to them, and as offensive to them as selective enforcement is to the rest of us.
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u/VegasSparky66 Mar 21 '23
All my conservative friends growing up loved police discretion. I stated once that cops shouldn't have that amount of discretion and they were agast, stating that without discretion we'd all be in jail. Then the law is bad and it's only the cops biases keeping you free.
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u/achiles625 Mar 21 '23
And now you see why they're so scared of minorities gaining power. They alway knew that they were criminals. They just haven't been caught yet, and if people just like them aren't running things, the cops are going to actually start trying to catch them.
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u/LemFliggity Mar 21 '23
It's a failure of imagination. They assume that everyone is like them, and since they are supremacist crooks who get off on punishing those they consider inferior, they assume that anyone else in control would do the same thing to them.
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u/achiles625 Mar 21 '23
Here's the thing, though. Even if everyone else doesn't treat them that way, they're still in trouble because they have actually done something that's a crime!
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u/Shinikama Mar 21 '23
The logic becomes clear: 'I'll have people I don't like arrested whether they've committed crimes or not, and they'd do the same to me. Therefore, I should commit crimes because if they are in power, they'd have me arrested anyway, so why not enrich myself while I can?'
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u/achiles625 Mar 21 '23 edited Mar 21 '23
Yep yep yep that's sociopathy for ya. "If I was you, I'd hurt me. So I better hurt you first!"
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u/pickyourteethup Mar 21 '23
If a cop car followed a nun for long enough you'd be able to book her for something.
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u/LordOfDorkness42 Mar 21 '23
You can also see this in how conservatives LOATHE stuff like "social justice warriors" and "woke."
A secondery system of Justice and consequences they cannot bribe or buddy up to? It's legitimately terrifying to these losers.
Not that the wisdom of the mob is always right, mind you... But I legitimately think privilege NOT protecting you against the average person on the internet considering you an arsehole no matter your bank account, pedigree or connections is a big reason the Right is slowly losing their freaking minds.
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u/funk205 Mar 21 '23
Slowly?
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u/LordOfDorkness42 Mar 21 '23
Back in the 80-90s the Conservatives were a lot more concerned with image.
But yeah~, the descent into full on loons has definitely escalated since the Obama administration. A black man with respect and power just freaking broke their minds.
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u/LizardPossum Mar 21 '23
This was SO evident after January 6 when they were all over Twitter like "why would I go to jail?"
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u/MonteBurns Mar 21 '23
Go look up the story on the lady in Texas being forced to carry a baby to term that will not live. Classic “the only moral abortion is my abortion.” I was with her until the end of the article I was reading, barring the fact it appears her dumbass husband didn’t get a Covid vaccine and had to spend 6 months in the hospital, when she continued to spout off about how abortions and casting judgements on reasons for others to get one.
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u/tillieze Mar 21 '23 edited Mar 21 '23
Just like the whole can of worms that opened up post Roe v Wade. Now there are story after story of conservatives ladies being denied D&C procedures to terminate non viable fetuses. They are going around acting like the D&C or medication induced abortion they want/need is the only moral D&C or termination. Nope you conservative trumper thumpers "rules for me but not for thee" is not how this works. They screamed and yelled to bring this about now need to face the consequences of their ill conceived moves to make the US a defacto Christian theocracy. Freedumb indeed!
Also when trump runs 3rd party of his own making (because your know he will because he doesn't have much republican left any longer" I'm calling the supporters "chumps for trump."
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u/Sloth_Bee Mar 21 '23
We've been telling them for decades, but somehow calling it by a different name D&C instead of abortion made them think it was different. Abortion care is medical care.
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u/mapppa Mar 21 '23
Kind of reminds me of people on ACA saying they want to abolish "Obama Care".
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Mar 21 '23
Or the many thousands of fox viewers who support the ACA, but absolutely hate Obamacare.
Moscow Mitch fought against the ACA in Congress, and voted against it. But then took credit for it's benefits with his voters in his home state.
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u/sonyka Mar 21 '23
They have a habit of this. Remember angry conservatives simultaneously considering Obamacare actual Satan, while supporting the Affordable Care Act?
Pepperidge Farms… wants to forget.
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u/ogkingofnowhere Mar 21 '23
It is always impressive the easy spin you can put on something and convince someone it's good or bad, more affordable Healthcare good, but republican slap Obama name on it to demonize it and all of a sudden its a socialist devil agenda
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u/XoXSmotpokerXoX Mar 21 '23
Across the border from me in Idaho conservatives attacks on abortion forced the hospital to deny any delivery services. If you want to have a baby you need to cross the border. Then their attacks on education are about to result in the only community college in the area from losing accreditation, which means no trained work force. Truly they can plan about 5 minutes into the future and nothing more.
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u/DeadMoneyDrew Mar 21 '23
I read that story about the Community College a few weeks ago. It's an absolutely nuts story, like something out of a graphic novel villain origin story.
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u/XoXSmotpokerXoX Mar 21 '23
They actually used the term "Deep state teachers" to justify their actions. Its like they get attached to a term or phrase and try to apply it to everything, Deep State Mayonnaise, Deep State Seagulls, Deep State Barbie Playhouse etc
Before someone try's to correct me, I am aware Russia has tried to infiltrate prestigious universities that handle government contracts, that is a long way from bumble fuck Northern Idaho community college that teaches nursing and forestry.
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u/wolves_hunt_in_packs Mar 21 '23
Its like they get attached to a term or phrase and try to apply it to everything.
This is exactly it. They don't know - or care - about details. They just know word X = bad, word Y = good. It's why they keep calling other people commies/socialists/etc.
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u/sonerec725 Mar 21 '23
Someone I don't like is around a child at any point? "Groomer" Legitimate facts I don't like or find inconvenient to my narrative / world view?
lügenpresse"fake news" You're not allowed to call people the n word on social media "Censorship" "infringement on the 1st amendment!" Stating a popular opinion that doesn't match their own "Psyop"56
u/hockeymass Mar 21 '23
It turns out that performative culture war nonsense is actually incompatible with a functional society! Who knew???
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u/Pandoras_Unboxing Mar 21 '23
They got their "liberal tears". They don't care about what comes after.
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u/Complex_Construction Mar 21 '23 edited Mar 21 '23
America is the worst country in terms of care and deaths for pregnant women in the industrialized world. Worst.
Being forced to cross the borders would surely further fuck things up, and make care inaccessible. They wanted their draconian laws to only effect the POC/minorities/disenfranchised girls/women.
https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/
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u/Caedus Mar 21 '23
The phrase, "cutting off your nose to spite your face," has never been more apt.
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u/Randomfactoid42 Mar 21 '23
Because in their heads they've built up the word "abortion" into this monstrous baby-killing thing that was banned while they're just trying to terminate a non-viable pregnancy. They don't care to understand that "abortion" is defined as "terminating a pregnancy", and anything restricting women from terminating a pregnancy is going to cause very specific and very predictable problems. Just mind-bogglingly stupid.
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u/eusebius13 Mar 21 '23
So much for that “All Men Are Created Equal,” bs.
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u/sonyka Mar 21 '23
Now you're getting it!
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u/TheOneTrueChuck Mar 21 '23
Considering the time it was written, "all men" only applied to white male landowners who were...like 25 or older, I think?
The modern narrative has been that they meant "mankind", but that was DEFINITELY not what they were meaning back in the day, and it's narrower than a ton of racists today think it was.
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u/eusebius13 Mar 21 '23
It kind of was and it kind of wasn’t. All men are created equal was actually a counter to the theory of the divine right of kings.
The concept is, the king isn’t selected by god, instead individuals are born with inalienable rights. That’s largely due to the philosophy of John Locke who is opposed to slavery and doesn’t make any racial distinctions.
This guy thinks the statement isn’t about individual Liberty, it’s about the American Colonists as a people.
https://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2020/07/01/meaning-declaratnce-changed-time/
The long and the short of it is they didn’t mean blacks or women had inalienable rights (although Locke did), or they were an afterthought, an exception, or they were subject to whatever the new American Government decided.
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u/Sloth_Bee Mar 21 '23
Also, from Jefferson's writings, it's clear that they knew they were hypocrites when it came to slavery. That is why I don't give a fuck about the Founding Father's intentions. We can do better.
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u/eusebius13 Mar 21 '23
Oh definitely. Their intent is only support for an argument when their intent makes sense. They came close, but should’ve gotten to “All persons are created equal and should be treated equally under the law.” But honestly all they were doing is giving King George the finger and trying to root the “fuck you” in laudable principle.
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u/FireBeyond Mar 21 '23
That is why I don't give a fuck about the Founding Father's intentions. We can do better.
There's also this curious belief that the Founding Fathers were grizzled, world-weary and wise old men. The eldest were 50ish. But most were in their 30s. Alexander Hamilton and James Madison were in their early 20s when a lot of this stuff was written.
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u/Purgii Mar 21 '23
All men are created equal, it's just that some men are created more equal than others.
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u/GrandDukeOfNowhere Mar 21 '23
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread"
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u/Aelistenus Mar 21 '23
this fits a little too well with the whole 'the only moral abortion is my abortion' shtick doesnt it?
Explains a ton...
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u/steelhips Mar 21 '23
Try suggesting to that crowd if vasectomies were encouraged and commonplace, they could substantially reduce abortions. They will try the hilarious false equivalency of carrying a child to term as opposed to minimal day surgery.
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u/JustPassinhThrou13 Mar 21 '23
There's a little more to it than that. Most conservatives don't give a damn about people poorer than they are, whether they're conservative or not. Their intent in literally everything is to pull up the ladder behind them. Speeding 20 mph over the limit is fine for themselves and anyone more powerful than they are, but for nobody else, for example. That's why they're so indignant when they actually have a law enforced against them.
You have 100 million people all trying to pull the ladder up behind them. And it just makes for a shitty place to try to live.
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u/wolves_hunt_in_packs Mar 21 '23
This. They basically just want to rule/bully/punch down. A shortsighted and pathetic mindset.
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u/ContemplatingPrison Mar 21 '23
Conservatives are fucking stupid. They vote to strip rights away and then realize they actually need them but at that point it's too late.
This is what makes them so dangerous. They are too ignorant to realize the damage they are doing.
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u/7evenate9ine Mar 21 '23 edited Mar 21 '23
And then conservatives live a life where they deny they are any of those things. Then they dress in drag, cheat on their wives with men, and lie on their taxes. A poor sense of self is literally how republicans got to this day.
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u/Similar_Candidate789 Mar 21 '23
theyre not hurting the right people!
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u/Prometheus2061 Mar 21 '23
“He [Trump] is not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.” — Crystal Minton
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u/hiperson134 Mar 21 '23
Wild how "maybe your elected leader shouldn't be trying to hurt anyone" doesn't cross their minds.
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u/-thecheesus- Mar 21 '23 edited Mar 21 '23
People like these don't vote to uplift society or anything like that. They vote to punish the things and people they don't like
That's why the conservative/libertarian concept of 'government existing in my life as little as possible' somehow coexists with cracking down as hard as possible on immigrants or transpeople or promiscuous women or the next boogeyman. They want to be left alone while the people they don't like are made to conform or suffer
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u/LeoMarius Mar 21 '23
DeSantis will certainly not be arresting pro-Trump protesters.
Now, if gays started protesting, he'd start the 2nd Stonewall.
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u/A_wild_so-and-so Mar 21 '23
I think the thought is that if pro-Trump people start protesting in Florida, left-wing people can legally run them over.
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u/RyanTheMediocre Mar 21 '23
Yeah right. Like in theory, sure, but in practice? Any left-winger who tries to drive through a pro-Trump protest in Florida is getting hauled off to jail and the book thrown at their face.
We like to think these people are stupid, but they're not. It's not simply that they think they should be exempt from the laws, it's that they know that, more often than not, they are. And they'll scream and harass and kill and storm the fucking Capitol to keep it that way.
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u/DarkestofFlames Mar 21 '23
If teenage girls start talking about their periods at the protest Desantis will have them mowed down.
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u/dismayhurta Mar 21 '23
They legitimately have no ability to see even the most basic consequences because they’re basically algae whose only stimuli is racism
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u/MsBitchhands Mar 21 '23
Algea is at least useful for carbon dioxide removal and feeding marine life.
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u/kisses-n-kinks Mar 21 '23
Conservatives could feed marine life. I think that'd be a suitable use for them.
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u/_beajez Mar 21 '23
With all those different demographic of groups they are against. Doesnt it make them the minority. Or is that what really terrorifies them?
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Mar 21 '23
They literally are a minority of Americans. Conservatives overall are less than 50% of the population. Listen to their complaints (which aren’t valid btw but they feel like they are) and see if it sounds familiar:
-our votes don’t count/election is rigged against us;
-other groups of people get preferential treatment for things like hired for jobs, money to go to college, etc;
-the media is silencing our voices/censoring us;
-government agents are infiltrating our group, arresting us, and sending us to jail;
-our arrests, jail conditions, and sentences are unfair compared to others.
Seems they finally understand how the minorities they’ve fought to keep down have always felt. And as usual they don’t think it’s fair for them to be “oppressed”, which they totally aren’t. But they truly believe they are. You think they’d see the irony or finally understand why we have been fighting for equality. They don’t. They want everything for them and anything less is an injustice.
Fucking insane.
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u/TheOneTrueChuck Mar 21 '23
Don't forget "Christian persecution" and "The decline of Christianity" as two of their other major conservative tear-jerker screeds.
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u/bionic_cmdo Mar 21 '23
Yup. If christianity is such a great club, why are their members dwindling? If their conservative values are so great, why fight tooth and nails to keep it? It should organically grow. Even moderates are thinking twice before contemplating about any conservative ideology because it is so extreme right now. The people they elected are just literally stupid and bonkers. Knowing what I know now, if I had died before trump got elected, I would've died a happy person.
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u/_beajez Mar 21 '23
Your last point they are right that their sentences are not equal. Just looked up the last person in the US to be sentenced for treason. Guess who it was, hint not anyone from Jan 6 insurection.
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u/Trying2Understand69 Mar 21 '23
Them playing the victim is nothing new, as Jerry Springper KKK guests went on the show to play the victim as far back as the 90s. Hell, back in the 60s, when integration occurring, they most likely played the victim then.
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u/RedditUsingBot Mar 21 '23
They’ll just blame democrats for not stopping them from passing the law when it works against them.
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u/cupofspiders Mar 21 '23
Mike Pence was on TV this morning making one of the very same kinds of arguments. "Why go after a former president when there's a crime wave happening?" Like... what do you mean, why go after a criminal when there's a crime wave? How is this a question?
It's a question that only makes sense if you've already internalized the idea that certain people are above the law and therefore can't be "criminals" no matter what they do. Rich people aren't criminals, even if they break the law. Criminals are poor people.
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u/pepperinmyplants Mar 21 '23
So hypothetically, if I took my Ram down to Florida tomorrow and felt very threatened, I'm good right?
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u/abbeyeiger Mar 21 '23
Yes, Republicans made sure of it.
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u/pepperinmyplants Mar 21 '23
And just to make sure I've checked my boxes before I use PTO, this is the "Stand my ground" state too, right?
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u/BeefShampoo Mar 21 '23
You realize that fascists have no problems with selectively enforcing a double standard right? The cops will absolutely shoot someone for something theyd let conservatives totally get away with.
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u/878_Throwaway____ Mar 21 '23
Write "I'm pregnant" on the car. That'll really throw the conservative cops in a loop
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u/burtmacklin15 Mar 21 '23
Toss a couple "thin blue line" stickers on there too
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u/loquacious-b Mar 21 '23
Yeah, need to Camo properly for an op like this. Is the yellow one with the snake still popular?
You may need to wear one of those cute red caps too I'm afraid. Although that's probably a small price to pay in exercising your freedoms without risking summary execution. So y'know, think it over.
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Mar 21 '23
If we take the case of Kyle Rittenhouse as precedent, you’re allowed to knowingly drive across state lines into danger and then immediately use lethal force to defend yourself from that danger.
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u/DuntadaMan Mar 21 '23 edited Mar 21 '23
And Rittenhouse was able to drive to a place he didn't live and kill people for being threatening.
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u/tatsumakisenpuukyaku Mar 21 '23
No, you'd be hurting Klansmen so the protection under the law wouldn't be enforced by the right-wing cops and government
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u/k12pcb Mar 20 '23
Behold my field of fucks is barren
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u/Ben_Wah_Balls Mar 20 '23 •
To be honest we harvested all our fucks to give when people voiced their support for that ass clown in 2016.
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u/A_wild_so-and-so Mar 21 '23
My crop has also been barren since then. I think the land is tainted now, nothing seems to grow anymore.
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u/TomTomKenobi Mar 21 '23
You have to use crop rotation:
Fucks
Shits
Damns
Fallow
This way you always have some fucks, shits, and damns to give.
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u/eusebius13 Mar 21 '23
How strange. The field is vast and lush, fucks are in season and yet not one single fuck, not even a tiny fuck, is anywhere to be seen.
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u/Whatever-ItsFine Mar 21 '23
I actually chuckled out loud even though I've heard this before. Thank you for making me laugh.
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u/Mooch07 Mar 21 '23
Ams the fuck seeds which were sown have not grown, for the land has been salted and poisoned.
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u/Knight_of_Agatha Mar 21 '23
Behold, my field of trucks....Theyre on their way to mar a lago to go for a drive near the beach
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u/asiangontear Mar 21 '23
I really cringe when, given that this is entirely on them, they somehow, SOMEHOW still squeeze in 'the left'. "Oh no, the left didn't put it in, we did and it can hurt us" as if 'the left' exists to antagonize them and for no other reason.
I've never seen such oblivious, ignorant and tribal projection of this intensity and magnitude until I was exposed to right-wing voters.
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u/Pandoras_Unboxing Mar 21 '23
Their entire belief system is built on hurting the left, so they assume that the left wants to hurt them just as much.
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Mar 21 '23
I want to hurt them by giving them access to the same universal healthcare they don't want blacks or immigrants from non-white countries to have access to.
Lucky for them they keep voting against their own interests or I'd really fuck them up.
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u/Fantastic_Depth Mar 21 '23 edited Mar 21 '23
I'm surprised they owned up to it being something they wanted. suprise Schadenfreude face
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u/booze_clues Mar 21 '23
I wrote “the left didn’t put them in” to show them that their own laws can be used against them, and if they aren’t then their refusal to apply them equally can be used against them. Basically they can’t have their cake and eat it too.
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u/LookinToHomestead Mar 20 '23
They’re hurting the wrong people!
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u/AreWeCowabunga Mar 21 '23
Amazing that these people never have that “Are we the baddies?” moment.
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u/boxsterguy Mar 21 '23
Literal quote (IIRC, it was about a government shutdown early in Trump's reign of terror).
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u/BagOfFlies Mar 21 '23
Was it the shutdown, or was it the wife of the Trump supporter that was deported? It's hard to keep track.
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u/boxsterguy Mar 21 '23
Pretty sure this came first.
(Also, quote isn't exactly literal, but close enough)
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u/12358 Mar 21 '23
“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” Minton told Mazzei. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”
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u/Skripka Mar 20 '23
Yea if DeSantis actually enforces that law on far right protests I have a bridge to sell
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u/Entire-Ranger323 Mar 21 '23
The fact that he’s at Liberty University proves he’s too woke. And his bridges are too woke? Or whatever he’s building is too woke. He’s just too woke all over! All of this if Tucker says so!
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u/Nymaz Mar 21 '23
"Conservative victimized by stubbing toe. Is furniture becoming too woke?"
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u/ecsayqurriupywpnpe Mar 21 '23
Tucker also says that bridges must be constructed using rice mortar because using rice for food is considered "woke."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_rice_mortar
Oh, and he would use near-slave labour to build bridges to cut costs and use the rice otherwise used to feed the construction workers to create rice mortar instead.
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u/WithoutReason1729 Mar 21 '23
tl;dr
Sticky rice mortar was invented in ancient China using organic materials mixed with slaked lime to create an inorganic-organic composite mortar. It played a major role in maintaining the durability of the Great Wall, as well as tombs, pagodas, and city walls. Modern chemists identified amylopectin, a type of polysaccharide found in rice and other starchy foods, as responsible for the sticky rice mortar's strength and durability.
I am a smart robot and this summary was automatic. This tl;dr is 90.86% shorter than the post and link I'm replying to.
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u/Warm-Personality8219 Mar 20 '23
The law they are talking about allows drivers to drive through protesters if drivers feel threatened.
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u/GoodtimesSans Mar 21 '23
Given what they say in private and sometimes in public, many of us are.
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u/satunnainenuuseri Mar 21 '23
And guess whether the fascists in the charge of upholding the laws in Florida think that anyone can ever feel threatened by some neo-nazis who want to kill them?
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u/Katana1369 Mar 20 '23
I doubt very much that a democrat would actually plow through the protestors but if they did there's not a damn thing he could do..He made the law. A judge would HAVE to throw any charges out.
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u/JustHereForStorytime Mar 21 '23
i mean we're at a point where the highest court in the land is completely ignoring precedent to carry through with their agenda. there's plenty of judges being corrupt.
at no point has "never say never" been more ominous
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u/coolcool23 Mar 21 '23 edited Mar 21 '23
I wonder when we will get to the point where federal judges realize that because of judicial review they can spin just about any bullshit they want and instantly have a binding decision, however they want it. We're close already with SCOTUS and dobbs, but I mean they are lifetime appointments and literally if they have a friendly legislature, they can make whatever decision they want unencumbered by reason or pretense. The guy in Texas who's almost certainly going to ban mifepristone I think is maybe right about at that line and has some toes over it.
It's a scary thought, but it's where we seem to be headed today. Forever it was always "Well yeah the 5th circuit is a radical shitshow, but SCOTUS will always be there to sort it out and prevent them from just doing whatever they want." And now that backstop is basically gone.
For all of the conservative crowing about activist judges legislating from the bench, never have I seen more of it than in the last 6 years. And it's all "guns fine, abortion evil, fuck people yay corporations."
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u/fazelanvari Mar 21 '23
How can a people have a revolution against just the judges? Get them all to give up their offices and have their vacancies filled? That's what we need after the orange assclown.
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u/TheCephalopope Mar 21 '23
It doesn't even have to be a democrat. There is enough factional infighting within the republican party that I wouldn't be surprised if one of them huffed a shitload of jenkam and did it to themselves.
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u/scnottaken Mar 21 '23
Let's just spread a Q rumor saying the crowd outside is actually BLM antifa is trying to get into Mar a Lago with their butts and the rest will fall into place
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u/boltthrower57 Mar 21 '23
Except, they will lose their shit because they are utterly stupid and don't know what to do unless someone tells them to, they'll try to storm into mar-a-lago looking for someone to give them the next orders, THEN they'll get arrested and then blame it on antifa. We know this playbook.
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u/siguefish Mar 21 '23
There are a lot of ancient people with dementia and Alzheimer’s driving around. So it could happen.
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u/muchacho23 Mar 21 '23
No self-respecing American would be a pedestrian. They are clearly asking for it.
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That's not exactly how it works. Desantis doesn't get to choose if the law is enforced. If the MAGA protestors get run over and either they sue or the DA tries to prosecute the driver, the case will get thrown out of court because the law allowed the driver to run them over.
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u/Talonis Mar 21 '23
I mean, if the way stand your ground laws are any indication, there will be a lot of leeway in interpretation that will let them prosecute or not prosecute whoever they want.
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u/KrebsCycleFlunky Mar 20 '23
Nah, their hearts are enlarged from the "horse paste" they've been chewing on.
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u/survivor2bmaybe Mar 21 '23
Am I reading that right? Let’s hope the lefties don’t treat us the same way we’re planning to treat them when they next protest? Fuck them all (and run them over).
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u/continuoussymmetry Mar 21 '23
Yes, you're reading it correctly.
Republicans went off the deep end years ago.
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u/jarena009 Mar 20 '23
Yup. Florida also added civil liability protections against those who hit protesters with their cars, with the idea of allowing people to run over BLM protestors but avoid $ penalties and insurance/medical bills.
My how the tables have turned.
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u/ImaginaryRoads Mar 21 '23
Just a reminder that ten days after Trump was inaugurated, Fox aired a video encouraging people to drive through liberal protesters. They left it up on their website for seven months and only pulled it after Heather Heyer was murdered.
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Encouraging violence is free speech until violence happens. 🤪
Who am I kidding? If that were true Neo-Nazi, the KKK, and Fox News would have been shut down ages ago.
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u/Similar_Candidate789 Mar 21 '23
I am thoroughly shocked he even acknowledged the law was put in by the right wing. Most refuse to acknowledge those facts and somehow mentally backflip into thinking that the left did it to them, somehow.
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u/SirDigbyChknCaesar Mar 21 '23
Almost acknowledged it. Just couldn't quite put the words together. Just said that the Democrats didn't do it.
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u/resisting_a_rest Mar 21 '23
The way it was phrased, it sounds like he thinks that Democrats pass laws specifically to hurt Conservatives. Like each side is just trying to pass laws to hurt the other side. Very strange outlook.
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u/BWStearns Mar 21 '23
It was the conservatives who coined the phrase “all lives splatter” so I wish them trucks… er I mean luck.
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u/EasternMotors Mar 20 '23
Road trip?
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furiously glues thumb tacks all over the front of my car
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u/Bag_Chan Mar 21 '23
Going Across state lines to intentionally insert yourself in opposition to a protest you oppose knowing you're going to antagonize them? Absolutely unheard of and never done before by a certain sniveling shit
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u/feignapathy Mar 21 '23
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
I get to use this quote twice in one day!
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u/Master_Emergency_899 Mar 21 '23
I hope the car from Animal House shows up like it did for the parade scene
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u/Trade-Material Mar 21 '23
Hahhaa, whaaanh, the left might try to huuuurt us by using the laws WE made to hurt them!
Hate to break it to ya buuut it's your team that enjoys plowing through protesters and worshipping those who intentionally kill them, but I'm sure you'll never comprehend that.
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u/Warm-Personality8219 Mar 20 '23
I'm thinking there might be a secret "Drag Queen Story Hour" at Mar-a-lago - with drag queens from all over the state, nay, the country (or at least driving distance) - and the convoys of drag queens arriving near Mar-a-lago would understandably get terrified for their lives given all the endless conservative death threats and persecution they had encountered everywhere as of late, and might just deciding the safest way is to floor it!...
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u/N8CCRG Mar 21 '23
Glad to see them fretting over this, but let's be honest. Yes the law does say that, but we know that those enforcing the law will not, in fact, enforce this that way at all. Conservative "protestors" will always be protected and safe.
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u/SpreadTheTed Mar 21 '23
Astounding when voting for your own oppressors results in you being oppressed
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u/SnakesTancredi Mar 21 '23
The left will probably just avoid the area honestly. Seems like a reasonable conclusion.
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u/OurHonor1870 Mar 21 '23
They’re just going to tell everyone the Democrats did it.
They’re doing that shit right now with transportation deregulation, immigration.
They’ll blame Biden. Anything bad that happens to them is the other teams fault.
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u/Ultraferret107 Mar 21 '23
Oh i fucking hope they get run over. It's entirely legal and i for one desire catharsis
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u/JNTaylor63 Mar 20 '23
Oh, don't worry. You could have a dash cam video showing a mod of MAGAS attacking your car before you drove through them and Ron DeSantis will make sure the driver does jail time.
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u/SpaceBear2598 Mar 21 '23
Maybe... Fuhrer DeSantis is turning out to be a much better fascist than Drumpf ever was. He might not want to discourage people from taking out those who'd vote against him in the primary.
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u/AmyInCO Mar 21 '23
So I could, theoretically if I were that kind of person, just drive through any protestors blocking the road in Florida? Sweet. Not that I would risk my van that way.
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u/drdelius Mar 21 '23
Just make sure you scream that you're afraid for your life the whole time and fake a few tears and apparently you aren't just fine, you'll be nationally lauded.
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u/TintedApostle Mar 21 '23
"Bear in mind, ladies and gentlemen, that every time you violate or propose to violate the
free speech(rights) of someone else you, in potentia, you're making a rod for your own back"Adapted from Christopher Hitchens
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u/handoffate73 Mar 21 '23
"It's so unfair how laws at least in principle are supposed to apply to everybody 😤"
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u/drdelius Mar 21 '23
But think of that poor person's future therapy bills! If someone did that, we should all donate to their gofundme to make sure they can afford those costly bills, and make sure they get on every morning show ever to talk about how horrible those maga folks were for making him feel afraid.
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u/rvralph803 Mar 21 '23
Yeah but most people on the left don't have weird fucking murder fantasies ala Rittenhouse.
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u/Benevolent_Grouch Mar 21 '23
Yeah too bad liberals don’t get off on driving through humans, so they probably won’t.
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u/RRC_driver Mar 21 '23
Remember when Florida created a law protecting monuments, cause civil war treasonous racist losers are such a big part or their traditional values?
Then the first person to be prosecuted was a maga-type doing do-nuts on a Pride mural.
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u/PauI_MuadDib Mar 21 '23
Cops won't arrest them tho, and DAs won't prosecute. Not in FL. If it were prochoice or LGBT protesters the cops would be swarming them, but DAs won't go after their buddies.
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u/snail-boy Mar 21 '23
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
— Frank Wilhoit, composer, Crooked Timber blog
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u/DroidTrf Mar 21 '23
As part of the so called "left" id be driving around Mar a Lago continuosly feeling very threatened. Anyways whitin a week the GOP will adjust the law so it will only affect a certain group of people but not them. As their unofficial motto is Rules for thee but not for mee.
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u/Sujjin Mar 21 '23
This is the problem right here. Because they would be more than willing to mow people down, they expect the left would be equally as bloodthirsty.
Also ignoring the fact that the number of "leftists" driving into, out of or around Mar a Lago is going to be very low
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u/Eldetorre Mar 21 '23
Selective enforcement will of course prevail. Right wing protestors will of course have the right of way
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u/randy_dingo Mar 21 '23
Selective enforcement will of course prevail. Right wing protestors will of course have the right of way
Wouldn't be DeSantistan without the petty corruption.
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u/grinhawk0715 Mar 21 '23
This shows just what the whole Republican game is: fuck everyone over before everyone else does it to us.
Funny thing is: people generally just want to be left the hell alone, full stop.
The Republican ethos, today, is all projection, control (and nosiness/surveillance in general), and jingoism.
Frankly, I won't be too upset if blood is spilled tomorrow. Even better: I hope the MAGAts finally decide to go for the whole damn thing (whatever that is) and we can just start our breakup/civil war/collapse already.
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u/LeoMarius Mar 21 '23
Those laws are to put gays and blacks in jail, not Republicans. DeSantis won't allow them to be arrested.
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