SerLava [he/him]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • And a lot of the Jan 6 chuds really, really thought they’d get away with it. They had two very strongly held beliefs:

    • If we’re holding Thin Blue Line flags and screaming the word constitution, the state wouldn’t touch us!
    • If we really, truly believe, in our heart of hearts, that we’re covered by a legal exception to do crimes, the state can’t touch us!

    The test for many legal exceptions is whether a “reasonable person” would believe such-and-such. But conservatives really think that if they strongly profess a belief, that’s just as good. It’s why they started calling all their opponents pedophiles. The actual concept doesn’t even cross their mind, to them it’s just a word that means “can be murdered”






  • It was effective because Republicans get a lot of mileage out of pretending to be the “everyman” - and since they can’t claim it on economic grounds, they claim it based on pure vibes. But really anyone who’s at all involved in Republican politics is actually a freak far beyond either your average republican voter, or even a center to left political freak. Their policies are incredibly unpopular to the point where if you even tell a conservative voter what the policies are, they think they’re so outlandish that you’re literally lying to make your opponents sound insane. It made cons mad because it was working. Then the Clinton people broke down the door and put a stop to it