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Basically they dared us to act or submit.

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those boxes seem to be getting ticked mighty fast.

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Excellent concise summary

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Us? We were granted no such immunity.

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Depends on which side of history you’re on.

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Yet I bet the majority of americans are sitting behind the computer complaining about how much of a shithole country they live in, and are therefore submitting.

If anybody take offense to my use of language, please remember that it is actually a presidential sentence. If your the people americans vote for can dish it, you can take it.

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People need to do more than just vote. Democracy is not just about voting. Get out side, into the streets

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America’s been a shithole for 20 years, the terrorists fucking won. Happy 4th of July btw

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20? Please. It’s never been great for people of color or lgbtq, and several others, and for the majority, it’s been at least since the 80s the downward spiral began.

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Dark Brandon Activate!

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Yes.

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It’s extremely frightening but now that the rule of law is dead in America, I am forced to ask myself, what are my red lines? One person in this country has almost completely unchecked power, what would a criminal president have to do before I start condoning violence?

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They’ve shown outright it’s all about what you can get away with.

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Finally someone gets it.

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Has the Supreme Court just overturned Betteridge’s Law of Headlines?

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n… ye… goddammit!

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That this has all of a sudden occurred, and so consistently, is in some ways more frightening than the headlines on their own.

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It honestly feels like they’re not giving us any other choice.

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You do have a choice. You can just lay there and take it. You know, like that asshole from the Heritage Foundation wants you to do.

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I’m running out of boxes of liberty here

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It’s wild they think they won’t be the first casualties of their own illegitimacy.

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