Do they look anything like this?
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Sirc is so cute, now that she got the breast reduction.
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That was a weird one. They attacked 200 people with like 5 antifa supersoldiers.
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Interesting to hear that attorney try to use that language in court in front of a Judge…
or a jury, LOL.
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Legal types excel at tactful language, as Churchill described it.
“The ability to tell someone to go to Hell in such a way they would look forward to it.”
“And who exactly do you rule, the large, dark nipple people?”
–The Chosen One.
Those are two words I never thought I’d see side by side.
I know. That’s crazy. Then again, that’s exactly the kind of lawyer that defends Q-shaman in court. What other tactic does he have left in the bag?
He has a point though. A lot of those people had histories of serious mental health problems and just from looking at them, it’s kind of easy to see what went wrong.
The whole “does Q-shama look like a conservative thing” kind of glossed over the existence of political wackjobs. Crazies love an old timey Dionysian revel. Going berserk given the first convenient excuse was what they always wanted to do but never had an opportunity to do so from the relative safety of 100 to 1 mob attack against cops who were mostly ordered not to use lethal force.
Its a meme. Forgot its origins.
Meant to be taken ironically, I suppose?
Edit: if I had to guess it’s related to The Falcon and the Winter Soldier TV show on Disney Plus since the Flag Smashers of the TV series are clearly based on Antifa loosely rather than on the Marvel C-list character from the origin of the name. I was a little disappointed in the series TBH because the “political radical” antagonists were weak stand-ins for the violent rightwing militia group “Watchdogs” from the original John Walker storyline in the 80’s who I suspect Disney saw as politically problematic. The John Walker Cap was a short sighted bleating fascist caricature that built up a false narrative of patriotism to mask his greed for wealth and fame. He was ironically targeted by his former allies who betrayed him for their own gain and the morality lesson was that he directly created the conditions that killed his family. The entire story arc was Marvel’s attempt to illustrate the dangers of radical political propaganda and how the leading perpetrators are typically mere opportunists with no real political inclination other than self promotion and accumulation of wealth and power. The Disney thing, well, it was OK but in my opinion they really dropped the ball and watered down the story. In the Original the “New Captain America” starts the arc with no moral compass, trading in the false image of patriotism and ends utterly hollowed out after learning a tragic lesson on right and wrong along the lines of the movie “Apt Pupil” except with a dead family instead of mere public exposure for his crimes.
It predates that. Someone, said that well before. I do agree the flag smashers were fashioned after them though.
I’m having a hard time envisioning double mastectomy Asian trans man as a huge threat to freedom without a little more context in the matter.
This is why I’m immediately extremely suspicious of any person who cloaks themselves in stereotypical populist tropes. Political orientation doesn’t make a person good or bad. It’s how they act on political orientation. Either as the authors of manipulation or just another face in the stupid angry mob is worse meets bad regardless of ideation. “Tankies”. Rose Twitter. Q-Anon. MAGA asshats. They’re all just protofascist dupes to me whether they understand that or not regardless of how they self identify politically. Moussolini started out feigning socialist ideology until he his people had crushed all dissent within their ranks and then he tilted to feigning support for conservative ideology until he could crush any of them. In the modern era he did it first and he did it best until his own supporters killed him and dragged his body through the street because just like him they were socialists when it was convenient to be socialists, fascists when it was convenient to be fascists and anti-fascist partisans when it was convenient to be partisans.
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It’s a surefire defense.
Judges are human, they have a lot of discretion surrounding determining the future of any average fool.
I heard it was a single rabbit.
Ten years ago.
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How about a jury? Or are these guys going to do court trials?
It’ll be a mix of pleas but quite a few (over 10% of the more than 450 charged) are facing serious conspiracy charges for organizing planning what was essentially the biggest domestic attack on the US government since the civil war (for worst, McVeigh still holds that title).
These groups are still profilerating the organizing online, too, many flocking to calls like Flynn’s.
If everyone gets off on a plea or acquitted “because dumb”, and nobody truly pays a price…other than the Capitol Police…