• njm1314@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I just want to say for the record that if anyone is on trial for brutally beating a KKK member and I’m on the jury I will never ever convict you. That is not a crime.

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        2 months ago

        Unfortunately jury nullification also has a very racist history. Not to say it can’t be used for good now!

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          As long as it still exists, use it for good I guess.

          We can’t change the system in a day, but we can use the tricks that racists use to nudge it in the proper direction.

          And if they don’t like it, sure they can go ahead and remove those tricks. Only makes our system more fair and straightforward, which is a good thing.

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      2 months ago

      I would never say something like that on record.

      Unrelated fun fact: having that kind of record come up in voir dire would immediately get you kicked off the jury.

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        2 months ago

        If a lawyer can find this they deserve to kick me off the jury. Although I will say I’ve never been picked for a jury I think I’m Kryptonite the most lawyers.

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      SPOILERS FOR Red Dead Redemption 2

      There is a proxy of the clan in-game. same outfits, etc. You can stumble across them one night and they’re about to light a giant cross on fire…and something goes awry and they light themselves on fire. This is also one of the very very rare instances where you can kill non-gang aligned randos in the game, unprovoked, without a hit to honor.

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    2 months ago

    The “great” times, half the US fantasize about, but then most of them will argue its always been the greatest country ever.

    So yeah, not at all surprising, this runs in the open.

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    2 months ago

    To be honest, attending that “event” in a KKK robe would do great to show Trump voters who they caucus with lol.

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    2 months ago

    What is the person on the right attempting to display in their hand? Is that like a crack pipe or a half eaten sandwich?

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    I am so sorry you have to pass close to these repellent creatures in your daily life in your towns and cities. Politics + television and internet have taken something that was already stunted and vulnerable, warped it beyond all reach of reality and sanity, on a mass scale.

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    Drove through New Hampshire a month ago and the road was littered with yard signs for Trump. Funny enough, once you got off the main road they became significantly less common. But someone definitely spent some time and energy absolutely littering I-93 with pro-Trump propaganda.

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    I don’t normally pick at the physical appearances of people just for the sake of it, but I’ve noticed that Trump attracts a certain type of follower. Take a look at the people in the background of the next Trump rally and tell me what you see.

    Those people and these people are the same. Just a bunch of trashy hillbillies. These klansmen are not the fringe supporters of Trump’s cult, they’re the ones down in the front. Like wax statues melting in the sun, their eyes glazed over enraptured as word salad pours out of Donald Trump’s mouth.

    And don’t say “well that guy wearing the klan outfit is just a troll, the other people there are not associated with that!”. If you’ve got one Nazi in a bar full of people, you’re in a Nazi bar. If you’ve got one klansman at a Trump rally, you’re at a klan rally.

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      Other than the presence of the Klan, those are normal people. This is exactly the kind of elitism they talk about encountering.

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        Normal people don’t hang out with klansman, we beat the shit out of them.

        These people are far from normal. They’re downright weird.

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            As a German I have a solution:

            If we see a Nazi, we punch them. And with see, I mean specific symbols, clothing or other specific identifiers.

            If I’m on a trump really, I should be able to punch the people in KKK outfits, the ones with swastikas, and the ones with old flags representing nationalism. And I should also be able to call the rest of them out.

            I like this solution. It’s a pretty straightforward one.

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    about 10 minutes from my house, there is a house that has had a red take america back flag flying for so long it’s faded and kinda blown out. their neighbor had 2 small BIDEN HARRIS signs put up about 2 months ago. then the shitty neighbor put up a yard sign for the orange turd and his couch fucker running mate. it wasn’t until about 2-3 weeks ago when the HARRIS WALZ signs finally started making their debut, that this guy put up a 3x4 sign with a couple more smaller yard signs.

    now there’s a life-sized cardboard cutout of “thumbs up” facing out the front door