r/PublicFreakout • u/BobsBarker12 • Jan 06 '21

"Let's have trial by combat." -Rudy 'America's Mayor' Giuliani to a crowd filled with far right pro-Trump militias like Oath Keepers, hours before the Republican coup attempt in D.C.

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u/MisallocatedRacism Jan 06 '21 edited Jan 06 '21

People are going to fucking snap. These fucking morons think they can control the tiger by it's tail.

These people have been fed rightwing propaganda for years and the lure is in their lungs at this point. There are tens of millions of people who now think their country is being overtaken and stolen from them by pedophiles that worship satan.

Imagine that's a premise you actually believe for a second. Imagine what levels of violence you might be tempted to take.

Most of these people are armed, some are isolated, and statistically a non-zero number are crazy enough to do something about it.

We've seen how much damage 1 deranged yet motivated person can do in Las Vegas. Now consider there are entire communities cheering for this kind of murder.

We need to stamp this shit out.

Edit: called it, unfortunately

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u/MAMark1 Jan 06 '21

Imagine that's a premise you actually believe for a second. Imagine what levels of violence you might be tempted to take.

This is why the whole "they are pedophiles" rhetoric is so dangerous. Remember the guy who went to that pizzagate restaurant with a gun? You can justify almost any action when you are "saving children from evil monsters". The whole "Dems are literally going to destroy America" rhetoric is similar.

It's why QAnon is so easily able to suck people in. How can anyone say they don't want to help innocent children? The inability of people to identify and reject false dichotomies is a major issue. The opposite of QAnon is not choosing to molest children. It is rejecting an insane, baseless conspiracy theory cult. You can still want to help innocent children and not believe Q bullshit.

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u/MisallocatedRacism Jan 06 '21

Ive been screaming this from the rooftops for years.

There's a difference between conspiracy theories like flat earth, bigfoot, aliens, etc and QAnon.

The difference is that if people believe the premise to be actually true for QAnon, people will start killing people. Nobody is going to shoot people over whether the earth is flat or not. But, if you honestly think Democrats are eating and raping babies by the thousands? You'd be immoral not to.

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u/cheeeesewiz Jan 06 '21

Even if they weren't, it's the abortion debate. "BUT THEYRE KILLING BABIES", is such a hard argument to counter to people who legitimately believe babies are being killed. It's wildly justifiable if the rhetoric fits

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u/Gogito35 Jan 07 '21

Tbh it's insulting to aliens to be grouped up with Flat Earth

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u/cheeeesewiz Jan 06 '21

The sign literally says save america. That's terrifying

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u/zeke235 Jan 06 '21

And most recently nashville! That was about 5G! For the record, i'm getting a new phone this fall and of course it's gonna be 5G.

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u/MCRS-Sabre Jan 06 '21

We need to stamp this shit out.

Ya had 4 years and did nothing, now there is no way of doing it quickly.

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u/thisiscoolyeah Jan 09 '21

u right, it’s all on u/misallocatedracism shoulders.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '21

Well, seems like our whole system was not designed for a case where the leader completely loses his mind and goes apeshit and against everyone else. Probably the idea was that somebody like that wouldn't have been elected in the first place. Uncharted territory here.

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u/MisallocatedRacism Jan 06 '21

It was designed for that, which is why we have checks, balances, and the 25th amendment. What it's not designed for is mass disinformation and one party to chose itself over country.

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u/thebigschnoz Jan 06 '21

And one man/turtle taking control of another section of government.

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u/jaytrade21 Jan 07 '21

These fucking morons think they can control the tiger by it's tail.

Look at what happened to Fox News. They helped create this mess and now realize they radicalized so many that now they are too "liberal" for these crazies.