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All non-fascists need to start punishing the fascists for their speech. We've been way too tolerant for way too long. Shout them down, ostracise, refuse service, etc.
I remember when Huckabee being denied a cheese plate or Rand Paul being followed by people asking him questions had them quaking in their boots and pretending they were being terrorized for such behaviors.
Imagine if it was a coordinated effort to just merely ostracize and verbally challenge these people? God, they'd be in a fetal position. They really do believe they are their god's gift to humanity and NO ONE has any right to question them or push back even if ever so mildly.
I don't just mean Huckabee and Rand Paul. I mean everyone with even so much as a whiff of MAGA about them, no matter how much of a nobody they are. I don't care if it's as mild as a little old lady in line with you at the damn grocery store check-out conversationally mentioning "hey it's a shame about that man on TV being murdered, right?" Berate her until she fucking cries.
America is becoming a Nazi bar and it's time to kick them all the fuck out!
We just ran am experiment on tolerating hate speech. Instead of protecting other speech, it endangered it. Experiments over, time to act on it