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Kinda like Musk after the first assassination attempt. These people are chomping at the bit to go all-in fascist as soon as they think the gates are open

"I was just joking" is every fascist's go-to line when they realize their hatred is not accepted by present company. Walking that line between serious hate speech/incitement and "only joking" is absolutely characteristic of fascism.

Republicans think that a joke is what you retroactively call something you said in earnest as soon as you get pushback.

You can stay on CNN if you falsely call every Republican a Nazi

That's not falsely though. If you're supporting a party that's running a Nazi, you're a fucking Nazi.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

No need for (a). That's barely a cover and certainly not part of his racist mathematics.

Wow.

Oh this country is so fucked.

Part of the reason why this is encouraged is a lack of condemnation and sanctions on Israel for its pager terror attack. Instead you had many media outlets praise how "sophisticated" that attack was and many made "beeper jokes" on twitter and co.

The endorsement this terror attack by Israel gained from all parts of the mainstream political spectrum of course results in the American and European fascists endorsing to use it to terrorize their political opponents. if Israeli fascists get praised for terror attacks, ehy shpuldnt western fascists be also praised for it?

After all, many of these opponents parties themselves praised this kind of terror. Note that this is not exclusive to the US. In Germany there also have been dozens of supposed liberal and progressive politicians and journalists cheering on the terror attack and making "beeper jokes" to suggest killing people in Germany in this way too.

How the fuck do you accuse someone of being a terrorist and then threaten to blow them up?

Same way you claim your political opposition is committing widespread voter fraud, and then yours is the only party ever caught doing it.

Same way you accuse trans folks of being "child groomers," when the vast majority of cases involve men from your own political party or religious group.

Same way... Well, you see where this is going.

If the story hadn't been written out, I would definitely not be able to follow the cacophony that was that goddamn video.

The conch?

Never. Stop. Lying.

As long as you keep getting platformed, some number of people will eventually believe you.

No X links please.

Reposted as unlisted on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@Zikeji/113389042020055586

1. This wasn't what this article was about, so it doesn't need to take a position on the pager attack itself.
2. This article links to articles about the pager attack that fills in all the details you claim were missing, you just have to read (hard, I know).

I feel like every time there's a story posted that's even tangentially related to Israel, there's some Lemmy user in the comments ready to complain that the article wasn't written with their preferred anti-Israel slant...

At some point, we just have to accept that you're complainIng for the sake of complaining, not for the sake of adding anything to the conversation. You seem more interested in being heard signalling virtue than actually saying something of value.

CNN loves mainstreaming guys like Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck, and Eric Erickson to collect the wingnut welfare checks that come with them.

It's only when they start costing more than they bring in that they get cut loose. Then they roll out new "respectable" conservative front men to replace the old ones.