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    They want to make sure that the next jury thinks twice about convicting. Truly chilling and completely unsurprising after Trump has been stoking them with lies every day.

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      This was America’s first and closest foray into fascist takeover, the same exact way that other democracies have fallen this last century or longer.

      Just because it was really dumb this time, and in the end the guilty party was actually found guilty by the law, we are nowhere close to out of danger on this front.

      Trump will be dead in a few short years and we’re all going to stop talking about him, this is assured, and in that huge, gaping power vacuum with millions of followers ripe for the plucking, they’re going to be coerced by some new figure and led to the exact same ideas about burning the country to the ground just so they have a leader who “hurts the right people.” And this new leader of the vulnerable masses might not be so dumb or so wildly delusional and may actually succeed at the same exact plan.

      Get more involved in your local politics people, state, county, city and community elections are what prop up fascists in the upper reaches. Know who is actually representing you.

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        He was not found guilty of an attempted fascist takeover. This is the falsified business records case. It’s the most trivial case against him. Going after the jurors who convicted him in this case is going to be chilling on the juries for the cases that matter so much more.

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        Ironically, even atheists are mostly down with the rules of this game, and can’t understand why the religulous STILL just don’t fucking get it.

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      You mean the group that burnt down the Serapeum of Alexandria, and gouged out the eyes of Hypatia with seashells?

      Yeah, this really seems a step too far for those guys.

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      Ronald has a white face though. He also has a charity, too.

      He’s more of the anthropomorphized annoying orange, but with a following of racist rednecks

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    isn’t this something else that is illegal? It’s so irresponsible for Trump and GOP to constantly use bullying tactics to silence people. If something happens, Trump and GOP are responsible. These people have become full on terrorists

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          I doubt it. There are far too many that will keep up with tradition. I do think he wants to do what you are saying though.

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        I was just looking at another thread where a newscaster is talking about GOP supporters owning 90% of guns. Why bring this is up if your intent isn’t literally terrorism? If something happens, who will be held accountable for inciting a mob? This is disgraceful

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    At what point does this sort of thing stop being politics and start being organized crime? So now I halfway-hope the vigilantes that try to do this will end up facing criminal charges for it

    But, I also halfway-expect cops and prosecutors to look the other way if the victims of this kind of crime ends up being the kind of people they’d be disproportionately policing and convicting anyhow

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    These people are TOTALLY NOT RACIST but think it’s ok when a Black Child gets gunned down for no reason but it’s NOT ok when a white guys gets found guilty in a court of law by a jury of his peers.