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    7 hours ago

    Oh man, y’all might wanna delete any Fediverse apps from your phones and use browser only. Especially if you’re a US-American… gonna be awkward when the pigs look though your phone and see all this.

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        Being smart and not saying [Redacted] on the open internet is not the same as bootlicking.

        For example, now that I’m not longer inside PRC and not a citizen of PRC anymore, I can safely say that “If given the chance, I will grab a gun and shoot Xi Jinping in the face”, can’t say that about a leader when I still live in under their jurisdiction ahem you know who I’m talking about.

        Also, you can use Tor + clear session every time afte you’re done. Having OPSEC is not bending over. Wearing a mask to conceal your identity is not bending over. Not having the app in plain sight is not bending over.

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      Now, yes. Then, no. I don’t think anyone could have unified the MAGA right enough to win the election without Trump. If Trump hadn’t ran, I could have seen a conservative winning a normal election. Not a last minute Trump replacement though

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        They would’ve put desantis on there. Far more competent IMO, could be potentially more dangerous.

        Dems lost 2024 because people blamed them for inflation and they had terrible PR, and they fucking ran a status-quo candidate, almost any republican would’ve won.

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          Nah. It would have sparked an uptick in calls for one, but fundamentally we’re dealing with fascists that don’t actually believe in anything. Trump only exists as a reaffirmation of a dumbass’s nihilism: He’s the ultimate bait for anyone to actually care what happens in this country, at the behest of pure idiots to have the ability to call anyone who cares dumb. Sure, you have your capitalists, your true believer white christian nationalists, and your warmongers, but without the dumbasses it all falls apart.

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          “Sparked”

          Have you not been paying attention? We’ve been in that civil war for at least a decade, you just haven’t been paying attention because there’s nothing organized or official. But the right has been at war for years.

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      16 hours ago

      If you’ve been paying attention to what’s happened since, it’s hard to believe it could be worse.

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      One trump is gone it’s all over. They have a very tenuous grasp on a cult. It’s not going well for them. Everytime someone tried to coop it, it totally fails and when Trump tries to change the narrative, it fails. It’s been falling apart a lot longer than it’s worked. Once he’s in the ground, it’s over.

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      I seriously don’t think so at all. His geriatric ass is the driving force behind the brain dead elderly voters. They think he’s sexy you see. His rambling baby speak speaks to them. Without him I doubt they’d show up at all. Not that there’s gonna be a next election in the U.S but still. The fascist republican party has this pretty much locked down at this point. Mussolini would’ve been proud.

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      I was in the grocery store tonight, and I live in Canada, and some woman was on her phone on speaker next to me, and the woman on the other end was raving about “how they say they’re antifascist but they’re not”. I had not heard the news but was wondering what she was on about, and I guess it’s already antifa’s fault. Imagine that.

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      Not clear. First they grabbed the wrong guy and let him go. Then the pigs said they had someone in custody. Then they said they released them, but it wasn’t clear if they meant the first or second person.

      I’m betting they know nothing because the state setup an online tipline and is begging for info.

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        So the first guy they suspected was George Hodgson Zinn who apparently said something like ‘I’d do it again’ when he was near some of the cops. They let him go because he didn’t match footage they have of the shooter and he was in the wrong place for the shot. Then they rearrested him for obstruction of justice. I’m not sure on the second, maybe it’s the same person and they got mixed up with a game of telephone.

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          Why did he get arrested for obstruction? Or is this just a childish rational police response of “we made ourselves look stupid so you have to suffer”?

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          The republicans voted to not release the Epstein files yesterday. Did you know that? I bet most of America doesn’t know that… for some reason

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            I heard that Kirk was one of the ones that was actually pushing to release the files, like MTG. Trump himself being the one that reported him dead feels weird. The shot was too clean and perfectly executed. This is the job of someone that knows perfectly what was doing. This is at best a smoke screen, at worst is sending a message to the fellas at the GOP. If I’m right, MTG will either mysteriously drop it, or she will also be silenced.

            Sorry for the tinfoil hat moment, but something’s off here. So many people recording, the thing seems premeditated to me, almost a public execution

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              He also did an about face on that issue and said to drop it, so who fucking knows.

              Just glad there’s one less vile piece of shit in the world. This guy isn’t Franz.

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      I saw a picture earlier of some guy they said was the shooter & in custody, but then heard that they didn’t have anyone.

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        Yeah I heard on the drive home that that guy wasn’t the shooter but they threw him in jail anyway for “obstructing justice”. No idea what he did.