If you think armed right-wing terrorists won't shut down polling places in November based on conspiracy theories amplified by the president ... you need to work on your tragic imagination.
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Lots of people asking, "why not call police or National Guard?" The answer is that the US has made it legal for white men to do this (you think black men could get away with this?) and US law enforcement is seeded w/ people more sympathetic to the terrorists than the state.
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The US legal/political/social system, going back to its founding, is built around accommodating the demands & resentments of white men. There is a long, long history of this shit. Did you miss when armed white terrorists occupied a gov't building & were later freed w/out charges?
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Adding: since the 1960s at least, the 2nd Amendment discourse on the right has had nothing to do with the Constitution, nothing to do with standing militias, and everything to do with allowing white people to arm themselves against the rising demographic hordes of Others.
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One thing I meant to add to this thread: here's an account of how a small Republican minority in Oregon is thwarting the majority's will in the legislature with the help of armed right-wing thugs.https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/2/29/21157246/oregon-republicans-walk-out-climate-change-cap-trade-democracy …
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I’d love to see the New York Times headline if this happened in another country
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Next time arrest them and throw the book at these terrorists.
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Agree, but they have to make this illegal first!
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