Cops stand by and watch of course.

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        Oh that’s a shame. Any recommendations on alternatives?

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    “lynch mob”

    Okay then…

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      Idk why you’re being downvoted. Here’s the definition of lynch:

      (of a mob) kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.

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        Lemmings gonna Lemmy I guess. They downvoted my explanation a little further down too, which included the definition. Now they’re probably going to downvote you too.

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        A riot, or a mob. A lynch mob is a specific thing. As you can guess by the name, it’s a mob set on lynching (or just generally killing) someone, or several someones. It is not a term for any old agitated mob. The Jan 6th rioters would qualify as a lynch mob since they had a noose, gallows, and were chanting “hang Mike Pence”.

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    The word “Zionist” has become such a dog whistle that I cringe when people use it

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      11 months ago

      To accurately describe the Nazis supporting israel?

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        My brain can’t even wrap around this comment… Nazi, Israel… What??

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          Nazis, the people doing ethnic cleansing to expand the Lebensraum for their Ubermensch

          Israel, the people doing ethnic cleansing to expand the Lebensraum for their Ubermensch

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            11 months ago

            I guess you can fit anyone into the Nazi mold if you twist shit around and try really hard

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              If everyone you know is a drop in replacement for the first word in that sentence I have bad news for you.

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                No, I don’t buy that anymore. No matter how left your are, If you even so much as disagrees with one little thing, you get called a Trump supporter or a fascist, etc. Everyone’s an extremist now and you can’t have a dissenting opinion or wrong think or you get called a heathen essentially. The right has been behaving like this for decades, but seeing the left doing too now means we’re fucked. Nobody is good enough, nobody is a “true Scotsman”, so it’s just a bunch of college age liberals in a circle calling each other Maga cause they can’t agree

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                  Lots of words just to say you’re ok with genocide.

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                  Imagine trying to no-true-scotsman a Genocide lmao.

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      It’s to differentiate the fascism.

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      A dogwhistle for what? Are you aware words have meanings, you can’t just repeat leftist talking points and pretend they support you lmao. That shit only works on fascists

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        You say words have meaning but you’re throwing around words you’re not using correctly.