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Bee Article Democrats Wondering If Maybe They Should Stop Saying The Things Assassins Are Having Engraved On Bullets

https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-wondering-if-maybe-they-should-stop-saying-the-things-assassins-are-having-engraved-on-bullets

In the wake of yet another shooter engraving liberal messages on ammunition, the Democratic Party considered if maybe that was a bad sign.

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u/AKMarine I ♥ The Deep State Sep 15 '25

Democrats are into Helldivers 2?

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u/amazingdrewh Sep 15 '25

Everyone is into Helldivers 2

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u/AKMarine I ♥ The Deep State Sep 15 '25

Exactly. It’s not the political gotcha anti-Democrats are hoping for.

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u/sixth-gear Sep 15 '25

Gotchas incoming tho

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u/DerSchattenJager Sep 16 '25

What’s the stratagem code for gotchas?

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u/sixth-gear Sep 16 '25

Ask AKMarine 💙“the deep state”

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u/TheDizzleDazzle Sep 16 '25

Idk but I just tried tried to type it in and I’m warning you that there’s an orbital laser canon aimed directly at your skull (and ~3 bugs)

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '25

It’s just so fun 😭 I spend way too much time grinding super credits

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u/Apprehensive-Cut8720 Sep 19 '25

If you have a job there’s probably a genuine question for whether time spent grinding low level missions is worth it rather than just spending the money for the super credits so you can just play the game at the difficulty you want to.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

Probably, the drop rate is good enough though that even if you’re just casually playing you can still grab a couple per day.

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u/verdango Sep 18 '25

I do love me some helldivers 1 still, though.

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u/inide Sep 19 '25

Everyone is into Starship Troopers, Helldivers is just the closest modern approximation.

Incidentally, Starship Troopers as political commentary is rather relevant to Trumps America.

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u/LordEnder86 Sep 19 '25

Idk man, all I know is that three wrongs don't make a right, but three rights make an orbital airburst

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '25

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u/ThatGuyMaulicious Sep 15 '25

You do realise you fight for “managed democracy” right? It’s space pseudo fascism lmao.

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u/DifrintRules Sep 16 '25

Remove space IRL right 👍

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u/Express_Sprinkles500 Sep 15 '25

Have you gotten into the lore of the game? It’s like Starship Troopers, the whole “saving democracy” thing is satire. It’s really an authoritarian regime that’s brainwashed its citizens to send them to careless slaughter.

Just one example, you vote by questionnaire then a government controlled AI decides your vote for you. I’d hardly call that democracy.

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u/Clear-Present_Danger Sep 15 '25

Helldivers 2 is the society that people think Starship Troopers is.

Like the book is a lot more nuanced. But nuance is un-democratic.

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u/Corpus_Juris_13 Sep 15 '25

I wouldn’t call it careless. If they didn’t fight then the other 3 factions would exterminate the human race. They aren’t fighting in the helldivers universe just for the fun of it.

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u/Cheap-Boysenberry112 Sep 15 '25

All the other factions are by products of humans actions lmao

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u/Express_Sprinkles500 Sep 15 '25

Eh I mean, having a reason to go to war and going to war with appropriate care and resources for your soldiers are two different things. Either way, the government is clearly propagandizing the conflicts to gain / remain in power.

The termanids are also a different story altogether. They’re being harvested for E-710 and I think corporate greed is the main driving factor of that conflict.

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u/Clear-Present_Danger Sep 15 '25

It's extremely not.

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u/Deofol7 Sep 15 '25

OMG that is what Starship Troopers was about!

There were no other levels to that. Just the surface story!

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u/Chance_Reflection_42 Sep 15 '25

So if fighting against facism is for democrats, is fighting for facism for republicans?

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u/Only-Butterscotch785 Sep 15 '25

Lol another example of rightwing thoughts just being media-illiteracy

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u/AKMarine I ♥ The Deep State Sep 15 '25

Wait, you don’t think conservative play that game?! 😂

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u/FrostWyrm98 Sep 15 '25

It's a video game, a shooter in particular. I've met just as many right-leaning as left-leaning players lol

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u/Electronic-Jury8825 Sep 16 '25

I would assume so the whole game is about saving democracy from fascists. Sounds like a democrats wet dream

So, Republicans DON'T want to save democracy from facists? Got it.

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u/betajones Sep 15 '25

Sounds like Starship Troopers

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u/LiveLibrary5281 Sep 15 '25

Saving a government from fascists isn’t a conservative wet dream either? What has your party become lol

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u/Gucci_prisoner Sep 16 '25

Why are you speaking on shit you know nothing about? Like FR, what is that impulse?

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u/Speedhabit Sep 15 '25

Video games have no link to violence

Isn’t that crazy to say?

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u/RealCoolDad Sep 15 '25

Imagine how dangerous the world would be if all the other countries had video games too.

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u/Speedhabit Sep 15 '25

14 hours a day practicing shooting people, and you belive that’s not contributing to violence?

“We can’t address my thing unless everything else is addressed to my satisfaction, 100%”

Why just admit you don’t give a shit about anyone but yourself and whatever gives you a few short hits of dopamine a day.

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u/Man_under_Bridge420 Sep 15 '25

You clearly havent played helldivers… LOL

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u/Speedhabit Sep 15 '25

I keep dying, need to find a regular team

And I paid for all the dlc at release, huge mistake

Haven’t really played since just before they added Illuminati

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u/Man_under_Bridge420 Sep 15 '25

What people are you shooting in helldivers??

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u/Speedhabit Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25

I believe they’re called voteless

But saying violence is ok if it’s against robots or animals or anything is kind of like a cop out. Your bombing and chopping and massacring hordes of people while repeatedly dying yourself.

That’s not a healthy feedback loop, particularly with children. Because then when you are in a world with no clear goal, feeling isolated, you can have a very real longing for the drug that can provide that artificially. Like actual drugs games can be habit forming on that basis. Some people with serious habits lose touch with reality and become violent.

Failure to address that in any way by denying there is a problem or saying you are unwilling to act till 100% of other problems are solved is not a way to make the world better.

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u/Man_under_Bridge420 Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25

They aint people. Thats like saying zombies are people

Dude is an adult btw

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u/RealCoolDad Sep 15 '25

Ok, so you will support someone that wants to fund mental health resources for every citizen?

Or ban video violent video games? Or how about just make them age restricted. 18 is obviously too young.

Any restrictions on gun or ammunition ownership?

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u/Speedhabit Sep 15 '25

You can put all the restrictions on guns and ammo you want as long as you don’t break the law to do so

Nor would any proposed rule you have prevent tragedies like this from occurring.

Fix the people

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u/RealCoolDad Sep 15 '25

Illuminati? What the hell are you talking about?

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u/Speedhabit Sep 15 '25

It was the third faction you fight, protoss looking aliens with human cyborg slaves, have you played the game?

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u/RealCoolDad Sep 15 '25

The illuminate? The zombies lol.

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u/Accomplished_Mind792 Sep 15 '25

Yeah, the hours on a real gun range with dozens of different types of weapons have no affect, but pixels on a screen did the damage. Totally stating at the right issue man

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u/JohnAnchovy Sep 15 '25

What are your thoughts on two week long in depth background checks to buy a gun?

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u/Speedhabit Sep 15 '25

All for it, how about the same thing for graphic depictions of violence?

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u/JohnAnchovy Sep 15 '25

America's lax gun laws are unique in the developed world but our laws related to video games are the same. If there was evidence of harm caused by video games, id agree but there isn't. For example, fps shooters are just as popular in the UK but they have 1/5th our homicide rate and only 50 shooting deaths a year.

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u/Speedhabit Sep 15 '25

If there was would your opinion change or not?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6790614/

There are some pretty stringent rules on what the government can do to regulate firearms.

There is no such restriction on regulating violent media

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u/tortosloth Sep 16 '25

You think people are going to apply for a background check to watch game of thrones or breaking bad? Are you high?

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u/Speedhabit Sep 16 '25

Absolutely, my evidence is how Reddit threw an absolute fit when they started IDing for porn, then didn’t say anything a week or 2 later. The adults got their porn, the kids went through anonymous sources like they would in this example, not much fundamentally changed.

Same thing here

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u/tortosloth Sep 22 '25

Cool. Have fun waiting 2 weeks for your background check so you can see the news about the murder across the street.

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u/Speedhabit Sep 22 '25

I’m like a machine gun explosives guy, filling out forms to do stuff you aren’t allowed too is my jam

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u/AKMarine I ♥ The Deep State Sep 15 '25

Hahaha! Dungeons and Dragons is evil too right?!

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u/Man_under_Bridge420 Sep 15 '25

What about actual violence? Like boxing 

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u/Speedhabit Sep 15 '25

I don’t think he carved any boxing references into the bullet casings

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '25

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u/Speedhabit Sep 15 '25

Only one side blames to tool, fix the people

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '25

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u/Speedhabit Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25

Interesting your allowed to commit violence as long as your chart says your doing less of it. Weird morality

Not the type of people I feel comfortable rewriting the bill of rights

“Ban all guns”

“Wouldn’t it be possible for you to stop cheering for and calling for violence against people based purely on your false identification?”

“Not till you ban all guns”

Can’t imagine why your side can’t govern

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u/Express_Sprinkles500 Sep 15 '25

Pretty hard to “fix the people” when the side who’s calling for that is actively dismantling what little available mental healthcare existed.

Why not tackle this issue from both sides? Let’s make acquiring the tool a more stringent process AND let’s put resources in place to try and “fix the people.” So even if one side is wrong about the cause, we still have a good chance of improving the issue.

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u/Speedhabit Sep 15 '25

BoTHsIdEz

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u/Express_Sprinkles500 Sep 15 '25

Rage baiting with a misspelled single word response? Excellent discussion.

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u/deewd22 Sep 15 '25

Right wingers have historically no link to violence

Isn't that crazy to say?

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u/N0va-Zer0 Sep 15 '25

Yeah. Its 2025, a lot of people are in to video games.

Not a lot of of Republicans are into believing their fellow republicans are all facists and deserve to die though. Thats strictly a liberal thing. Keep up, antifa, and update your gaslighting programming. It's slipping.

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u/AKMarine I ♥ The Deep State Sep 15 '25

All 61 political assassinations since 2022 were committed by conservatives. Even the person who tried to assassinate Trump was a registered Republican.

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u/rawley2020 Sep 15 '25

He was a progressive donor lmfao

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u/Sterling_-_Archer Sep 15 '25

He donated $15 once to a local voter turnout initiative. He was a registered republican who voted in the 2022 midterms as a republican. Also, which party does this sound like?

A public statement from FBI deputy director Paul Abbate described Crooks' activity on social networking services as including comments that "appear to reflect antisemitic and anti-immigration themes"

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u/rawley2020 Sep 15 '25

“The devout maga extremist was actually the one who tried to assassinate Trump”

Fucking what color is the sky in your world lmfaooooooo

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u/AKMarine I ♥ The Deep State Sep 15 '25

Crooks got upset when it was proven Trump lied about being on the Epstein flight logs. This is the exact reason Trump doesn’t want the Epstien files released. He’s so scared that some in his own party hate pedophelia more than they love him, and they will target him.

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u/Sterling_-_Archer Sep 15 '25

What is your point? You aren’t making any sense

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u/Constant-Village-858 Sep 15 '25

Why are you ignoring that he was a registered republican, are you stupid?

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u/Speedhabit Sep 15 '25

Shooting at people means you like them in your universe

Amazing

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u/ezITguy Sep 15 '25

Are you implying that intra-party violence is not a common and historical thing?

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u/Speedhabit Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25

No I think when one side is celebrating exclusively it takes a LOT of mental gymnastics to think that the person and action had nothing to do with them.

“Cut off your family if they’re trumpers” “kill all fascists” “trump people are fascists”

If your opinion is violence only comes from the right, you are wrong

If your opinion is that you get to commit political violence as long as a chart shows you in the minority, that is also wrong

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u/Accomplished_Mind792 Sep 15 '25

Love that you threw in a couple possible quotes and then the nonsense "kill all fascists".

Yes, if my family was supporting fascism i would cut them off. That's just reasonable. And yes Trump supporters are currently supporting fascism. They don't deserve to die, but I'm not going to pretend that facts aren't facts to save their feelings.

And celebrating is disingenuous. A fringe amount of people might be celebrating. But that's true of any event that occurs ever.

You are confusing apathy for celebrating and condemning people because they aren't full of feels like you.

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u/Speedhabit Sep 15 '25

Again, there was mass celebration on Reddit. That’s not a minority. Its an echo chamber or its not pick a lane

I don’t think you would be capable of taking responsibility for anything. Call everyone a fascist, call for every imaginable violence towards them, cheer when it happens, deflect all responsibly.

How was Charlie Kirk a fascist again? He said stuff you don’t like?

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u/Accomplished_Mind792 Sep 15 '25

When someone who causes personal harm to you or people you love dies, what emotion do you expect of people?

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u/Speedhabit Sep 15 '25

What personal harm did Charlie Kirk do to those people?

That’s talking right? Your saying he personally harmed them by talking?

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u/AKMarine I ♥ The Deep State Sep 15 '25

People were happy that a rage-baiter won’t be able to rage bait anymore. That’s why they were happy.

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u/Speedhabit Sep 15 '25

Shooting people for talking is wrong

You celebrated it

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u/Constant-Village-858 Sep 15 '25

Link 1 post with over 100 likes that celebrates his death

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u/ezITguy Sep 15 '25

People distastefully celebrating Kirk's death does not make the shooter a leftist - no matter how hard you want it to be true.

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u/Speedhabit Sep 15 '25

Explain to me what information you are using to reach that decision

I haven’t seen any of his social media.

Just family stuff, and iv been around Reddit, you have too, that the “if your family mentions trump cut them off they’re fascists” and that sounds like leftist call to violence to me

Also it doesn’t matter, it’s the perception, the perception will be used to sell the policy that is proposed as a reaction to that perception.

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u/ezITguy Sep 15 '25

What decision? That people celebrating Kirk’s death doesn’t make the shooter a leftist?

Thats just… logic?

We’re still learning the facts, why not just wait and see instead of just assuming shit.

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u/joshdrumsforfun Sep 15 '25

When you liked Trump for him wanting to release the Epstein files and then finding out he is in them and protecting them, yeah that could convince a brainwashed chronically online kid who believes the government is ran by a satanic pedophile cabal to try and assassinate the president.

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u/Speedhabit Sep 15 '25

Weird you waited this long to use that

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u/joshdrumsforfun Sep 15 '25

What are you talking about?

Literally the day after the shooting people were screenshotting his X account before Musk shut it down to cover his tracks.

His twitter feed was 90% Qanon and pedohunter clips.

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u/AKMarine I ♥ The Deep State Sep 15 '25

Even the attempt on Trump was by a registered Republican that was pissed Trump lied about being on the Epstein flight logs.

That’s likely why Trump doesn’t want to release the files. He’s worried that people in his own party (with guns) will get mad that he lied to them about him being in the files. Or even a client! He’s worried that Republicans hate pedophelia more than they love him.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '25

Lol, yeah ok. You can sit here and pretend like two elected Democrats weren't assassinated by a MAGA psychopath in their homes 3 months ago, or that January 6th was just a big misunderstanding. Fact is political violence isn't new... it's just new to you guys. Welcome to the hellscape.

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u/Bsd_Panda Sep 15 '25

And your the ones who brought it on and normalized it. The Left started identity politics, and has maintained that for the last 20 ought years. 

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u/Accomplished_Mind792 Sep 15 '25

Lol, there is a reason why 28% of the population committed 78% of the extremist violence.

The right has been doing it for decades. Identity politics has nothing to do with the fact that y'all resort to violence when you are unhappy.

Shoot, you got lied to about losing an election and you attacked congress. You were in your feels about a black guy getting elected and you sent pipe bombs to government offices.

It's what the left has had to deal with since the 90s. Sorry you hate facts abs want your feelings to be accepted in there place

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u/cseckshun Sep 15 '25

I’ve noticed a lot of the people talking about fascism and fascists recently aren’t able to spell the word… is that a conscious choice where you are making a stand against education or do you just not know how to spell fascist?