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The prolife party is calling for death? This is a familiar pattern. How long you think until it comes out hes fucking kids?
Hey dude, got news for you. The leader of your party fucked children. Seems how he'd measure their vaginas is more of a risk to kids.
“I think we need a law in Tennessee that would allow for capital punishment for those who commit an assault on the sanctity of life”
The absurdity of his words speak for itself
Start with Elon Musk.
And then stop.
Id add parents that sent their kids to conversion therapy
While Elon is a prime target, don't stop. What about Vaught? Thiel? Or Miller? Or Bannon?
How many more times do politicians have to call for the deaths of innocents until we stop demonizing people who call for the deaths of politicians.
Goddamn fucking monsters.
Hmmmmm. Should people take this as an open threat to their safety and take out the threat? Just asking.
What if we killed him first? Just saying that it's been long past time to take these threats seriously. Killing him could quite literally save some trans folk down the line.
I have the impression that a civil war would be the only realistic way to remove the Epstein Class from our society. They are too tightly entwined with "our" leadership to be excised by voting.
Hopefully I am wrong. Unfortunately, the last decade has been full of misery and jackassery. 🙁
Roll over.
Good.
Calling all Italian plumbers!
Ya know… I may not fully understand what it is to be trans, but my reaction to that is curiosity, a desire to learn. To understand.
How this can motivate a person to think this, to do this… I just don’t get it.
Why are they this way? What makes a person so bigoted that their answer is “executions”?
Christian Fundamentalism.
There's your answer.
Ya'll Qaeda.
We are really going to have to confront the fact that about a third of the country are hardcore religious extremist theocrats who want a brutal theocracy and do not give a single fuck about ideas like democracy, human rights, and an impartial legal system, beyond cosplaying like they care about them for the sake of appealing to normies.
You don't understand how people can think this way because you weren't raised, indoctrinated, in this way of thinking.
I was, and I am telling you at least 1/3rd of the population of the country is like this.
I'm not anti religion broadly, but we do need to start putting restrictions on what religion is acceptable. You worship the local river spirit that asks for a festival every spring? Super cool. Your fertility god needs you to have an orgy? Awesome. You evil war god demands you kill or enslave everyone unlike yourself? No, that religion should not be allowed to continue existing.
Exactly your "one true god" demands I follow its rules? Go fuck yourself. My gods get a say in how I live my life, yours don't
Why do Muslim fundamentalists throw acid into children's faces?
Same reason Christians want to kill gays and trans people.
God's love ♥️
The truth is, Evangelical Christians are Devil worshipers. If your religion preaches hate, you're worshiping Satan, not God.
because they think people are good or evil.
and evil ones must be punished and killed.
it's that simple.
lots of people think this way. it's far more common than not.
the question is what your criteria for good and evil are.
Reactionary ideology is about loss and blame.
The current reactionary stripe in the US is focused on White Evangelical Supremacy, so everyone who is not in that group is a prime target.
White Evangelicalism has lost a heap of prestige in the last 30 years, while LGBTQ+ rights have been ascendant. This is the reason why trans people have long been taegeted by the reactionary right: they want to roll back all of the gains made to sexual minorities, and trans people make the easiest targets.
They also target immigrants for largely the same reason: they're a highly visible population who doesn't conform to their ideal White Evangelical model, so they use terror tactics to oppress them.
The goal is to make life intolerable for the people they hate so that they don't have to compete against ideas that make the world a more equitable place. It's no coincidence that the reactionary right rallied around fighting diversity, equity and inclusion: they are an evangelical white supremacist coalition.
Tbh I don't really care much about trans people, in the same way I don't give a fuck about the person living 3 streets away that I don't know. I don't understand why people give a shit what someone else wants to be called, or wether they want a dick, vagina, tits or a funky mix. It doesn't negatively affect anyone's life in any way, so I see no reason to negatively affect theirs.
Religious nutjobs and authoritarian cunts are the people negatively affecting other people's lives. And so their lives needs to be equally negatively affected for true balance in the world.
I guess like a kind of karma, only I don't believe any force of nature will take care of it, so people must do it instead.
I'm 46. I've lived in a lot of places, and I have met a lot of people-- people of all shapes, sizes, flavors, etc.
Of all of the people who hold some sort of bigotry (especially the actual bigoted assholes) I ever met, not a single one of them arrived at that opinion by themselves. Most everyone holds some sort of biases and bigotries, even those who actively try not to. It's human failing... we all have them. But there's a difference between a minor, subconscious bias and "I don't want X people in my church." One of those can, very easily, be addressed with education, social exposure, etc. Generationally, one of those things was going away because it was being addressed. The second issue, the outright bigotry, on the other hand, I believe is a much more complicated issue requiring a more complicated solution. It appears, outright, to be much more simple, but that's just what it look like. u under the surface, I suspect that there is much more that contributes to this attitude... and that understanding that is critical to combating it.
Their worldview:
There only exists good and evil
They are on the side of good
LGBTQ, abortions, homeless, immigrants, atheists, non-Christians, and anyone not on their side are on the side of evil
Anything that is not on our side is disgusting, and there's nothing in the world worse that being disgusting.
They're trained from birth on to accept this, they fight the schools to not break this worldview.
Yet:
We have pedos in power, Billionaires draining the blue and white collar working classes dry. They don't see that as disgusting. They're powerful and on their side.
When they're trained from birth that people X are the problem and it's socially reinforced by their church and circle of friends and yet those people that are 'the problem' aren't being punished, it becomes their goal, their duty, to be the change they want to see in the world. We know how to program humans. Extremists have been doing it for thousands of years. They are programed to be this way and it's not so easy to stop it from happening. They don't change their worldview one bit, until it affects them directly, and even then, many would cut off their own family rather than accept that they've been programmed.
His policies:
If he had his way, everyone in my family and many of my friends would be dead and the survivors would be trapped in poverty. The Republican Party is just the American Nazi party these days.
"These days"...
Another fucknut Christian Fascist from Liberty University. There is absolutely nothing Christian about these brainwashed sick fucks.
Well, I'm bummed that I had to find out who this fucker is and that he's running for governor for my ~~hellhole of a~~ home state. But I will use this knowledge to not vote for him at this years midterms.
And they told us we're overreacting when we say these people want us dead
If it makes anyone feel any better, I think a literal cheeseburger would poll better than he is right now for the gov race.
Unfortunately Blackburn is also a massive piece of shit.
A massive piece of shit that TN has voted for over and over for like 2 decades because of the big R next to her name
She's almost cartoonishly evil yet is reelected all the time. Both crazy and impressive, in a terrible way of course.
TIL gubernatorial is a word. Adj of or relating to a governor.
Okay, so he is threatening multiple people with death, including family members just for being family
So this means we can threaten his life and the lives of his family members, then? I mean, rules for mee, rules for thee, right?
I propose we kill any politician who proposes nazi ideologies, or any religious rules they like. Sounds only fair to me. If he wants to kill me, I want to kill him before he gets anywhere near power
Unironically, yes. We didn't follow through on reconstruction, we didn't follow through with the Nazis, we didn't follow through with the maga insurrection. Without crushing the ideology entirely, removing the leaders, and punishing the adherents it'll never go away.
No doubt this piece of fucking shit has a hard drive chock full of child SA material, trans porn and all kinds of other shit he supposedly would be "opposed" too. GOP are every allegation is a confession and anything they have a strong opinion against they ashamedly have a fetish for. That's their major tell.
Another day, another ugly ass redneck white man showing his insecurity over his micropenis.
Pro life want to KILL KILL KILL!
I call for the execution of people calling for the execution of trans- or trans-affiliated persons.