Wanting an end to lockdown I understand: that's maybe wrong-headed, but it's comprehensible. But why the massive fuck-off guns? That I will never understand, and never really want to. It's utterly pathological. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/lock-her-anti-whitmer-coronavirus-lockdown-protestors-swarm-michigan-capitol-n1184426 …
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Replying to @IBrasso
Militia 'git the gubmint outta our lives' types, at a guess.
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Replying to @Dr_Aust_PhD
Yeah: but what must it be like to think like that? I can't get a hold on it. (I can imagine what it must be like to think any number of false or idiotic things; but I've got no way into this. It's so far removed from anything I can grasp.)
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Yup. They are clearly conspiracy theorists on a grand scale, but also ties in to a persistent American mythology strand about themselves. "Rogue individualism" etc. People in US who I follow obvs know much more, e.g.
@kolyin &@gorskon. Britannica entry:https://www.britannica.com/event/militia-movement …2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
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Interestingly, that Britannica entry mentions Northern Michigan specifically, though referencing the 90s.
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Militias have been big in Michigan for a long time. I know. I grew up here and live here now.
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