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  • I am looking forward to the copycats who will surely start popping up!

    I'm also more broadly in favor of arming ourselves at town halls and counter protests.

    These people need to feel fear. So do their enablers

    I saw a disturbing video yesterday, of a woman getting beaten up and dragged out of an Idaho town hall meeting for voicing opposition to the leadership. The people "arresting" her refused to say who they were and reporters said that the local Republicans wouldn't identify the organization. I keep asking myself whether I'd have the guts to intervene in such a situation. I'm not a large person, nor have I ever considered myself violent or looking for fights... But I feel what I can only call "bloodlust" for these thugs and these politicians. I have since fantasized about what I would do to these fascistic security people with their fucking zip ties.

  • I think it's of utmost importance to co-opt guns and 2A enthusiasm. We don't say "You can keep your guns", we say "You can use your guns! Shoot that way!"

    We also need to co-opt anti-liberal rhetoric. It's important to maintain shared contempt toward common enemies: Basically, men in suits

    "Oh, you don't like unions? Neither does your boss."

    "Middle managers are human shields to protect your CEO from looking you in the eye."

    Moreover, co-opt family values rhetoric: "Defend your family from parasitic health insurers."

    "Defend your family from wage theft."

    "Defend your family from your landlord."

    "Protect your children from health insurance."

    "Protect your children from predatory bank loans."

    "Protect your children from your boss."

    "Protect your children from for-profit education"

    We also have to co-opt their hatred of racist accusations

    "You're not racist! Your CEO is."

  • I mean, they threw it out and nominated whoever they wanted. There WAS a primary-- Harris wasn't in it. RFK was making Super Bowl ads for it

    With all the anger over the Gaza situation, they waited until the last possible moment and foisted her on us so that there'd be no time force debate