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12 Jun 2024, 1:54 am

If we had laws like this one from Sweden, we could have prevented Charlottesville, 1/6, and a litany of mass shootings and bullying-induced suicides:

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Sweden prohibits hate speech, defining it as publicly making statements that threaten or express disrespect for an ethnic group or similar group regarding their race, skin colour, national or ethnic origin, faith or sexual orientation1. Penalties for hate speech range from fines to a maximum of four years in prison2. The country's courts have also held that it is illegal to wear xenophobic symbols or racist paraphernalia or to display inflammatory symbols at rallies2. Hate crime legislation also applies on the internet3.


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12 Jun 2024, 11:02 am



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p6jkSf32kU


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14 Jun 2024, 12:43 pm

His cult scares me more than him. I'm afraid that we'll have another insurrection if he loses, and these people won't stop treating him like their chosen one until he's dead. And then they'll wait to see if he is resurrected.


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14 Jun 2024, 12:52 pm

Jason Thayer wrote:
His cult scares me more than him. I'm afraid that we'll have another insurrection if he loses, and these people won't stop treating him like their chosen one until he's dead. And then they'll wait to see if he is resurrected.


With any luck until he's dead will happen sooner rather than later.


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14 Jun 2024, 1:46 pm

there will come somebody else out of the rotten woodwork to take his place. that always seems to be the case, the tag-team of infernally birthed evil never ceases.



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14 Jun 2024, 2:50 pm

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there will come somebody else out of the rotten woodwork to take his place. that always seems to be the case, the tag-team of infernally birthed evil never ceases.


Absolutely, but it'll take awhile for them to regroup and that seems like a good thing.


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14 Jun 2024, 7:23 pm

Is our only option to sit and wait for millions of "old white men" to die?


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14 Jun 2024, 7:31 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:
Is our only option to sit and wait for millions of "old white men" to die?
Sadly, yes.

:(



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14 Jun 2024, 8:06 pm

Fnord wrote:
Tim_Tex wrote:
Is our only option to sit and wait for millions of "old white men" to die?
Sadly, yes.

:(


And even then you have some of them telling younger generations how wonderful the 1950s were, so it never ends.


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14 Jun 2024, 11:45 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:
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I've decided whoever wins isn't really going to change my life. I don't like Trump to be sure, but MAGA fanatics are such idiots and tools. Not to mention the religious nut cases, gun nuts, and others that blindly follow.


The religious nut cases are very well-organized and want total dominion over every aspect of society and our lives.

Just look at Project 2025.

It’s not wise to write these people off as harmless nut cases, they know what they’re doing. This has been in the works for decades.


Exactly, that is the mistake I made I never thought Roe vs Wade would get over-turned I felt like ' Ha, let the anti-choicers scream about it, they can't actually force people to stay pregnant.' And now look at Texas and many other states.
The religious right is dangerous, and people really shouldn't laugh it off. People ought to take a look at current Afghanistan and Iran...project 2025 will make the U.S like that except in the name of Jesus instead of Allah.

That said if Trump wins I am not so sure the blue states are going to comply with project 2025, also not sure what they could do to fight against it though.


Texas would definitely comply with Project 2025. Abbott is as bad as Trump, maybe even worse. He prioritized banning dick pics over modernizing the power grid. Many porn sites have been blocked here. Weed? Forget it. Public nudity? Nope.


Give the conservatives enough time and they'll come with something so far-right it will make Project 2025 seem liberal by comparison. Maybe by 2045 people will feel nostalgic for the days they only had Project 2025 instead of the even worse thing that replaced it.


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15 Jun 2024, 12:31 am

Tim_Tex wrote:
Fnord wrote:
Tim_Tex wrote:
Is our only option to sit and wait for millions of "old white men" to die?
Sadly, yes.

:(


And even then you have some of them telling younger generations how wonderful the 1950s were, so it never ends.

IMHO that very communication to subsequent generations is why there is wisdom in the biblical statement "The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation."



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15 Jun 2024, 4:19 am

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Is our only option to sit and wait for millions of "old white men" to die?


That was the plan for a while. Then the younger generation spawned the Alt Right movement. Now, we have younger voters vocally Anti-Biden over the Gaza and Tick Tock issues.


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15 Jun 2024, 1:22 pm

the anti-biden young whippersnappers will result in the right wing getting their way.



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15 Jun 2024, 7:31 pm

No not at all



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15 Jun 2024, 11:41 pm

they will send their votes to third party candidates thus resulting in biden getting less votes than trumpioid.



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17 Jun 2024, 12:17 pm



Sounds like the brainrot is getting to him.


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