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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee 146 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (13 children)

If conservatives gave a damn about kids and sex crimes, these lists should have caused enough public rage to burn the party to the ground.

It didn't. So republican are unassailably the party of sex offenders and those who support sex offenders.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (9 children)

The civil war never ended. The South just kept waging it through other means.

And now they're in control of the government and do what they always wanted- destroy it. That has been the outspoken agenda of the right wing conservatives for the better part of a century.

Starve the beast, small government, all that shit is them saying: we don't want democracy, we want to rule as colonial lords, own slaves, and to hell with elections.

How people still don't realize this is fucking mind boggling.

There is no "two party state", there is only one party that believes in democracy and rule of law at all, the other is a christofascist-anarchist terrorist cell hellbent on unraveling society where might is right, so that they can rule with impunity like feudal lords.

That's it.

Lincoln should have had every single one of them rounded up and shot after the war. You don't skip the last dose of penicillin or you might as well not have taken it at all.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

tbf, Grant was pretty ruthless in his post-war pursuit of Confederate holdouts. He didn't have them shot, though, they were mostly hung.

The problem is that it is very hard to eradicate an idea violently. It just goes into hiding and bides its time, unless you just want to do a full genocide or something. I mean, it's not like people stand up and volunteer for their own execution when they know certain folks are being executed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

I think you narrow it down to owners of gray suits and go from there

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