• Dionysus@leminal.space
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    OTOH a massacre would likely destroy Republican legitimacy among a chunk of their supporters

    I think you over estimate the humanity of many of their supporters.

    Fox and friends would cover it like a massive terror of burning the city.

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      We dont need to flip most of their supporters to change things radically. Flipping 1 in 10 would do it

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        That’s what people aren’t getting. We will never have 100% come back to reality. Many are lost to the MAGA fantasy forever. We’ll deal with them later.

        We just need to wake up enough of them to weaken their voting base to either switch parties, or refuse to vote at all. Nothing is worse than someone who has been converted. Ex-MAGAs will be Trump’s worst nightmare.

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        Absolutely correct. More people need to understand what flipping just 10% on the end of the spectrum would do

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          Last time I ran the numbers in 2024 it would take more than 10% to get the 17 Senate seats needed to impeach. While that may have changed I still feel folks over estimate the impact of something like this on that voting population with the propaganda engine in place.

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      Agreed; if the State Regime Media was able to cover up the terrorism of J6 and paint the terrorists as the victims that needed a pardon from the felon-in-chief, AND have most of their audience feel that “cities burned to the ground” during BLM protests (and one of their more idiotic viewers - Taco - seems to think that Portland is still burning, FFS), then there is a sizable chunk of this country that will believe all kinds of obvious bullshit.