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AOC was at a rally where someone else said to bring out the guillotines therefore AOC is a terrorist for her “abominable speech?”

Which party actually brought out a guillotine?

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If bringing out a guillotine and other “kill them” devices is terrorism then January 6th was a huge terrorist attack

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You don’t understand.

“He who saves his country breaks no laws” ~trump

He who decides who is saving the country decides who breaks the laws.

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If ONLY Jasmine Crockett and AOC had BROKEN Windows in the Capitol, Smeared their Poop on the Walls, and brought WEAPONS with them, Republicans would be FINE with them!

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Set up a gallows, invade the capitol building, and scream “hang Mike Pence” and you deserve a pardon.

But AOC deserves to be charged with terrorism because some rando mentioned guillotines?

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The hypocrisy is the point. It’s signals to his ilk that they can break the rules while the rest have to follow them…

it’s the bully who draws the Line in the Sand and says you can’t step over it and then takes a step forward and draws another line it says the same thing and then just keeps doing it until they’re up in your face yelling about how abusive YOU are, meanwhile you’re surrounded by a gaggle of idiots who are all nodding their head in agreement because all they understand is that someone angry is correct because they just want to share in the moment of being angry

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Isn’t this some real nazi fascist like tactics? Are they just testing the waters?

If they could actually get the few progressives we have in prison on BS charges, I think they would. And their supporters would cheer.

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They are real nazi

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Isn’t this some real nazi fascist like tactics? Are they just testing the waters?

No, this is exactly what they’re trying to do. So far it’s worked with media outlets, law firms, and colleges. They keep their own ranks in line via either threats of a primary challenge backed by Musk, or outright death threats from Trump’s followers. They are experimenting with disappearing people to foreign countries, and Trump has already openly threatened to ship US protesters there.

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I mean, really all they need to do is arrest her on some bullshit charge, drag her into a black van and put her on a plane to El Salvador. Who’s going to know about it, or do anything about it? It’d be a chilling message to all their enemies.

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They’d be bragging about it on the news in order to promote the chilling effect. The question at that point would be if it caused an armed reaction. They want to start a civil war because they think they will win.

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If they pulled something like this, do you think people would finally get into action?

It really feels like they’re testing the waters before going full-on Nazi and dragging their political opponents off the street.

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The way things are going I expect the first attack along these lines on an opposition politician within a month.

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Or a family member. Remember the hammer attack on Pelosi’s husband.

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Mark my words, AOC will end up in jail, dead, or disappeared.

The GOP is going full fascist. They can’t have this strong POC woman causing a ruckus.

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We hope it doesn’t happen and that we can get change through her. If not, we keep the guillotines sharp.

The revolution will be bloodless, if they allow it, right?

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Keep them sharp? No one is building them. They don’t exist. People aren’t doing shit.

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Are you aware of what everyone is doing in their garages or planning in their minds? Not everyone talks openly about very dire measures that they feel may be necessary in the future. A big part of the pepper community is to not tell people about your stash. I imagine that line of thinking extends to this as it’s basically the same mindset

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And searching for tumbrils on AWS returns no results.

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A guillotine takes only a few hours to build. And that’s doing alone!

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We hope it doesn’t happen

Hope is not a plan.

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This shit is so cringe. This isn’t a fucking video game, this is real life. Grow the fuck up.

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That last part is literally repeating what they said, and by they, i mean MAGA leadership, not just some rando on the internet.

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I am playing no games, dickless

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