• ileftreddit@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    Trump during Bidens administration: “he’s weaponizing the justice system, waaahhhhh”

    Trump now: “weaponize this baby, let’s fuckin go”

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      17 hours ago

      These people spent years mewling about “lawfare”. Just like they bitched about “free speech”, “cancel culture” and “making comedy legal again”.

      And what do they do the minute they get (more) power? They start up with tons of legal action against virtually every facet of society. They worked to actually cancel comedy.

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      It’s tactical. The idea is that if you convince your supporters that your enemies are breaking the rules and getting away with it that your supporters will cheer you punishing those enemies by breaking those same rules.

      It’s just like in sports. People get upset when the refs punish their team for what they perceive the other team getting away with.

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        16 hours ago

        at this point if Rs complain about some made up bullshit that should be a given that we go ahead and use it against them because they’re gonna believe it’s being done anyway, and they’ll go right ahead and do it when they’re in power