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What, you think someone seeking power is going to stand at a podium and announce "I want a fascist dictatorship"? He has been relentlessly attacking the legiti

What, you think someone seeking power is going to stand at a podium and announce "I want a fascist dictatorship"? He has been relentlessly attacking the legitimacy of democracy, encouraging political violence, stoking racial hatred, and threatening to imprison his opponent. On most days he does all of this before 11am. How much of a fucking hint do people need?

ythl 10y ago
No, we can just see right through the gross hyperbole that people are so fond of invoking. It's like the anti-circumcision folks saying things like: "Circumcision is a barbaric practice in which babies have their genitals violently mutilated by religious nutjobs." People that have actually been circumcised roll their eyes at such a phrase because it completely disregards the meaning and weight of the words "barbaric", "mutilate", "violent", etc.
gspetr 10y ago
> encouraging political violence And where did actual violence happen? How is it that it's his rallies that are violently attacked? And his headquarters that got firebombed. Not only that, the attackers had the gall to draw swastika and call the victims nazis.
- jacquesm 10y ago
  The parallels with what happened a while ago in Europe are interesting. That particular fire's cause was never 100% cleared up, a false flag operation was suspected but never proven. But by 1939 it didn't matter anymore... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
- nathanaldensr 10y ago
  It doesn't matter what actually happens; it only matters what Trump haters want to happen. Trump is being taken to the woodshed over things he hasn't even done yet and may never do, yet Obama, the Clintons, the Bushes, et al--who actually have committed crimes--get free passes.
- MK999 10y ago
  The Left is the party with the rent-a-mob
  - Torgo 10y ago
    This got modded down, I guess, because people haven't seen the video that outright proves that Democrats are paying people to start violence at Trump events.
    - MK999 10y ago
      Willful ignorance
- bobwaycott 10y ago
  It was not Trump's headquarters that were firebombed. It was a NC county's GOP office. Those are very much not the same thing.

ythl 10y ago

No, we can just see right through the gross hyperbole that people are so fond of invoking. It's like the anti-circumcision folks saying things like: "Circumcision is a barbaric practice in which babies have their genitals violently mutilated by religious nutjobs." People that have actually been circumcised roll their eyes at such a phrase because it completely disregards the meaning and weight of the words "barbaric", "mutilate", "violent", etc.

gspetr 10y ago

> encouraging political violence And where did actual violence happen? How is it that it's his rallies that are violently attacked? And his headquarters that got firebombed. Not only that, the attackers had the gall to draw swastika and call the victims nazis.

jacquesm 10y ago
The parallels with what happened a while ago in Europe are interesting. That particular fire's cause was never 100% cleared up, a false flag operation was suspected but never proven. But by 1939 it didn't matter anymore... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
nathanaldensr 10y ago
It doesn't matter what actually happens; it only matters what Trump haters want to happen. Trump is being taken to the woodshed over things he hasn't even done yet and may never do, yet Obama, the Clintons, the Bushes, et al--who actually have committed crimes--get free passes.
MK999 10y ago
The Left is the party with the rent-a-mob
- Torgo 10y ago
  This got modded down, I guess, because people haven't seen the video that outright proves that Democrats are paying people to start violence at Trump events.
  - MK999 10y ago
    Willful ignorance
bobwaycott 10y ago
It was not Trump's headquarters that were firebombed. It was a NC county's GOP office. Those are very much not the same thing.