• @[email protected]
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    314 days ago

    pardon Jan 6 rioters

    Any that, ladies and gentlemen, is the nascent core of the American Sturmabteilung.

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      33 days ago

      I really fucking don’t think he’ll pardon any of these guys. That would mean he cares for poor people

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        3 days ago

        I’m not sure you understand the full power of the Nationalist Christian movement. It’s not about pardoning the poors. It’s about creating a paramilitary force with fanatical loyally to him, and him alone. He’ll be viewed by them as a savior/messiah even more than he already is by those people specifically. He will be seen as the Chosen One by those people, because he specifically saved them from “unjust imprisonment and political persecution” (for the record, it’s fully justified prosecution, because they fucking rioted and broke into the capital, trying to stop a peaceful fucking transfer of power). This is just a new and horrifyingly fascinating evolution of the große Lüge: continue to reframe an event by pardon people for crimes they actually committed that you’ve consistently told everyone aren’t crimes because you wanted those crimes to succeed.

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          33 days ago

          Yep, it’s to let everyone know that you can commit any kind of violence as long as you’re wearing a red hat and the fuhrer will pardon you.

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          13 days ago

          because they fucking rioted and broke into the capital

          Agreed with everything you said here, except they planned this. Riots tend to be spontaneous. This was plotted and schemed for months.