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WizumbODaSage

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2. We live in a country that has normalized violent threats against non violent people...
Fri Feb 14, 2025, 06:44 PM
Feb 14

... The Freedmen sentencing defendants to death. Ted Nugent at a concert threatening President Obama & Hillary Clinton with a rifle in each hand. Jokes about Paul Pelosi being clobbered by a hammer. But criticize my cigarette smoke or take a knee at a football game and the fire team is ready to mow everybody down. We are on an asymmetrical battlefield. They threaten paranoid violence at every step on thousands of broadcasts & podcasts... we're still on peaceful marches, strongly worded letters and 5 year prosecutions that get settled out of court. Out of that you don't get millions in the street braving thousands of rounds.

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