[A]lso after Charlie Kirk’s death, the Heritage Foundation twisted data to claim that “50% of all major (non-gang-related) school shootings since 2015 have involved or likely involved transgender ideology.” That was in an effort to get the FBI to create a new domestic terror threat category for “Transgender Ideology-Inspired Extremism.”

How much longer until they decide to just round up the transgender people with the Gestapo ICE? It’s getting scary for transgender people.

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    “Cash Bounties” seems to be the GOP go-to in a country that’s increasingly impoverished and facing mounting inflation in cost-of-living. Quite literally paying one half of the poor to kill the other half.

    Folks kick around “when does the US Civil War start?” both in jest and in anxiety. But we’re getting into real Fugitive Slave Act territory with this kind of policy. Between ICE Agents racing around to hit deportation quotas and anti-Abortion Bounty Hunters getting introduced across the Gulf Coast, we really are barrelling towards the AnCap privatized police force meme.

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      It’s pretty unoriginal. They’re following the Nazis playbook.

      And I’m pretty sure the Nazis were following someone else’s playbook, I just can’t be bothered to go look at the list of historical assholes

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      Threatening people into turning in their neighbors is some NK bullshit. Paying people to rat on them is just the next evolution of capitalism.

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        Authoritarians love a snitch society. Imagine the worst asshold in an HOA, and now give them power to ruin your life.

        No thanks.

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      When Nazis came to power in Germany, many people attacked the Jews not because they were antisemitic, but because the state gave them tacit permission to rob and loot and Jewish homes and businesses. Due to the hard economic times, most average people were desperate

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      Maybe we’ll be able to bet on the bounty futures via CNN, make even more money hoss!!

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        Even more basic than that, it is just to be able to sell a f* ton of guns to gravy seals and make bank. End results be damned.

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          The tyranny or community school

          Or just this. They fucking hate other people so much, even their own neighbors. Y’all ever been to a conservative town or suburb? You can feel the tension of everyone being terrified of each other. Ready to turn on anyone in a moment if they do anything “out of line”. It’s a terrible and miserable way to live, the problem is they keep trying to put it on everyone else too.

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    “50% of all major (non-gang-related) school shootings since 2015 have involved or likely involved transgender ideology.”

    Let me guess, the white cis boy shooter hated trans people so its “involved transgender ideology”?

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    I swear I was saying they’d pivot to bounties to target outgroups early in this administration. The people I said it to didn’t believe me. Lo and behold, here we are. Floating the idea to test the appetite for it. Then probably remove or sideline people opposed to it internally, and then move forward with implementing it.

    I’m tired of my cynical ass being right on matters of things getting worse.

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      Wasn’t there something months ago about bounties and ICE as well?

      I remember making jokes that now it really would just be thugs in mask and being indistinguishable from ICE in masks who don’t identify themselves.

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        I’m on this bandwagon, more or less. 12 months ago I was certainly fearing some kind of gestapo, only in the form of the proud boys and other terrorist groups that were breaking bread with trump the first time around. What I couldn’t puzzle together was how those assholes would mange to mimic legit police and military, in order to have the optics to operate freely.

        What I didn’t expect was the whitehouse weaponizing the lowest-empathy-with-guns facet of the executive branch, all the while mimicking terrorist thugs in order to operate with maximum friction instead.

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    My rainbow flag is firmly planted in front of my house 24/7.

    Come get me, Nazi cunt.

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    How bout you focus on getting those Epstein files out you soulless brown nosed bootlick. She better spend the rest of her miserable existence in prison when this nightmare comes to an end

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      When she speaks, she sounds like she doesn’t even believe her own bullshit. Or anything at all, for that matter. She gives off no emotions at all. I’m not entirely convinced she’s even human. Just a zombie in human skin. AI behaves more realistically than her.

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      When WHEN!? I’m convinced that even if this somehow miraculously ends in the near future, the country still won’t prosecute anyone

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          Personally I’d rather see her choke to death via being hanged. Would be a rather fitting end for one of these wannabe klansmen, also it’s how the Nazis were executed though they were given the mercy of having their necks snapped. I do not believe in mercy for pissants like these.

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      She better spend the rest of her miserable existence in prison when this nightmare comes to an end

      I want so many of them to spend their lives in prison but given how milquetoast the opposition tends to be, I assume they’ll let them skate with some kind of bothsiderist slogan and a sentiment to “look forward”.

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    This is how atrocities start. This is the prelude to rounding up LGBTQ people. And then who?

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      They work on a last-hired-first-fired system. Once they get through one group they move onto the next. Womens rights? Racial segregation? The Jews? Slavery again? On and on they go until they turn in each other. I’m not the first to say it, but this is a suicide cult.

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      LGBTQ Americans won’t just go. Their allys won’t just stand around.

      Immigrants are easy. The illegal ones are illegal and typically work for right wingers in right wing states.

      Pride wasn’t a party at first. So actually going for it? That’s an existential threat to a large number of people’s futures.

      They would be fucking stupid to try.

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        Immigrants are easy. The illegal ones are illegal

        Sorry but can you explain exactly what the difference is between between disappearing a person who is declared illegal because of their immigration status and a person who is declared illegal because of their gender/orientation/religion ect?

        and typically work for right wingers in right wing states.

        I’d also would like to hear more about this alleged fact.

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        Oh yeah Hitler apparently admired a lot of American policies. Especially segregation. Which the US still had when they supposedly conquered fascism. (And years and years more, decades really) And then took a bunch of Nazi scientists, lol.

        But yeah, at least for several decades it was on the backburner and when Obama was president I was actually hopeful.

        But then…

        20-fucking-16.

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    It’s scary for all minorities in the Untied States, racial minorities, immigrants, LGBTQ people, disabled people, neurodivergent people, unhoused people. have I left anyone out?

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      Technicality, women are a minority too. But only by a few percentage points. There’s also minority religions, like the Jews. Pretty much insert anybody targeted by the Nazis.

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        If we’re going by US population (or most western countries population) women are not a minority. There are slightly more women than men, about 98 men per 100 women according to the 2024 census.

        Sure it’s a technicality, but you claimed the opposite was a technicality, so I figured it was important to clarify that your technicality is technically false.

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        Personally, I would prefer dead - the record is clear about their state of humanity. What isn’t clear is how many people have been ruined by them. The only value in keeping them alive, is to obtain information about the innocents who have vanished or possibly dead.

        There is at least 1,300 missing from Alligator Alcatraz. If it is possible to find survivors or lay rest the dead, that would justify keeping these POS on the mortal coil for a year or two longer in captivity. The most important thing is looking after people, before giving into a rightful anger.

        This sort of thing is probably a decade off, depending on how history plays out. I just want the order of operations to ensure innocent folks are alright, before doling out the punishment that must be delivered.

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    Trump already declared the cause of extremist violence is gender views. “threads animating this violent conduct include … extremism on migration, race, and gender” [EO: Countering Domestic Terrorism] .

    We’re a short step away from the Democratic Party being declared a terrorist organization.