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The Georgia Republican is fast falling out of favor for her opposition to the Ukraine aid bill.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s failed fight to end aid to Ukraine, and her sort-of-serious crusade against House Speaker Mike Johnson, has cost her the support of right-wing media.
The Sunday front page of the New York Post, owned by the conservative Murdoch family, was the latest outlet to attack Greene, invoking the “Moscow Marjorie” nickname coined by former representative Ken Buck.
Fox News, another arm of the Murdoch media empire, had already taken aim at the Georgia Republican last week, with columnist Liz Peek calling her an “idiot” and saying she needs to “turn all that bombastic self-serving showmanship and drama queen energy on Democrats.” This follows an editorial last month from The Wall Street Journal, also in the Murdoch portfolio, that called Greene “Rep. Mayhem Taylor Greene” and accused her and her allies of being “most interested in TV hits and internet donors.”
Even a non-Murdoch outlet is on the attack, as conservative Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Debra Saunders demanded to know “who put Marjorie Taylor Greene in charge?”
I mean, context does matter. If you’re replying to a post or comment about a person or group of people, “guillotine” comes with a pretty clear implication: “they should be sent to the…”
If you were responding to a question like, “What tool did Mel Brooks’ character use to provide circumcisions in Robin Hood Men in Tights?” “Guillotine” may be an acceptable response. Again, context matters.
Saying they can’t ban a word is the same excuse white supremacists use when they coopt shit like the “OK” gesture to symbolize white power.
A very thin veneer of plausible deniability doesn’t somehow make a call for violent executions align with policies against violent rhetoric.
Even if I say “we should guillotine the billionaires” why is that wrong? I fully believe we should, and literally eat one as a message. Why would some low wage mod care that I’m calling for the death of billionaires? Billionaires aren’t people.
Look, billionaires are bad for society, but normalizing this kind of dehumanizing violent rhetoric is how we get violent extremists.
When someone finally decides to act in this language and mails a bomb or goes to Tesla HQ with a gun, guess who is probably not going to be there
The mailroom worker or the receptionist are going to be in the line of fire while Elon probably isn’t even in the same state.
3.5 million people died during the French Revolution, only a tiny fraction of them were actually part of the ruling class. Acting like this is some ideal to strive for is childish. The “joke” stopped being funny the 27-millionth time it came up in the comments of a “Billionaire Bad” article.
At best, you’re distracting from people discussing real solutions to wealth inequity, at worst you’re promoting violent extremism. If I were moderating a community I’d probably boot you as well to make room for more productive conversations.
Let’s cry liberal tears for the poor billionaires while they continue to fuck us. Nobody has balls, that’s why we keep getting fucked