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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Remember how the right wing/black helicopter crowd (but I repeat myself) would hyperventilate about "FEMA death camps" in the 90s? How Janet Reno was coming for them and their guns and was going to make their tiny penises shrivel up even more? (Well, maybe they didn't say that very last part, but you know that was a primary concern of theirs when confronting a woman in a position of authority over men.)

Every accusation is a projection with that bunch.

Also, the Alex Jones/second amendment jackasses are showing what utter FRAUDS they have always been about "defending against a tyrannical government". What a fucking load that was and is, and most of us called it back then. They are cheering the tyrannical government on, and some of them cannot wait to take an active role in assisting the tyranny.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

[...] was coming for them and their guns

But the government isn't coming for them, it's coming for their neighbours, so it's fine.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago

"Daddy, are they going to take us away next?"

[–] dickalan@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Fuck, I had almost forgotten that turd of a man. Alex Jones existed because I hadn’t heard from him in a while, thank you for reminding me Asshole still exist.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Every time he pops in the news I get pissed because it means he's got a microphone, and he shouldn't own anything. Sell that microphone on eBay and give it to his victims. He still owes them over a billion dollars.

He should be penniless, homeless, and naked.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

A lot of things he pretended to be Very Concerned About (TM) are now happening, or poised to happen.

And all these freedom-fighting , anti-big-gubbermint jackasses are showing what utter frauds they are and always were. If anything, they are busily giving Taco and his thugs reach-arounds.