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Re:The divide between political parties is smaller than we t... by rayiner on Saturday February 06, 2021 @09:26AM (#26046683)
Is she talking with people who “do mean it?” I can’t find any articles describing who she was talking to. Maybe I’m just uninformed. But that seems like the talk that is pervasive in anonymous chat boards (there’s even one for law students called autoadmit—it’s a cesspool). All that stuff is leaking out into real name services now. But I’m not convinced these people are really plotting to kill anyone.
Re:The divide between political parties is smaller than we t... by tptacek on Saturday February 06, 2021 @10:58AM (#26047358)
They aren't all plotting to kill anyone. But enough of them are that Capitol was stormed by a mob that beat a police officer to death with a fire extinguisher and a plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan was foiled. And MTG knows that. She's opted herself into culpability for the actions of these people by vigorously and repeatedly endorsing them --- and specifically them, and specifically their violent actions.

I think people do hyperventilate about right-wing conspiracy nutjobs. But lending institutional support to actual insurrectionists isn't just Twitter drama.