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Showing Original Post only (View all)This Story Makes Me Feel Completely Hopeless About the Future of This Country(by Charles Pierce) [View all]
The folks at Reuters have poured quite a lot of time and effort into the task of making me feel completely hopeless about the future of the country, and I hope theyre happy about it, damn them.In Arizona, a stay-at-home dad and part-time Lyft driver told the states chief election officer she would hang for treason. In Utah, a youth treatment center staffer warned Colorados election chief that he knew where she lived and watched her as she slept. In Vermont, a man who says he works in construction told workers at the state election office and at Dominion Voting Systems that they were about to die. This might be a good time to put a f‑‑‑‑‑‑ pistol in your f‑‑‑‑‑‑ mouth and pull the trigger, the man shouted at Vermont officials in a thick New England accent last December. Your days are f‑‑‑‑‑‑ numbered.
The three had much in common. All described themselves as patriots fighting a conspiracy that robbed Donald Trump of the 2020 election. They are regular consumers of far-right websites that embrace Trumps stolen-election falsehoods. And none have been charged with a crime by the law enforcement agencies alerted to their threats.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a38199472/threats-against-election-officials-2020-fraud-lies/
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This Story Makes Me Feel Completely Hopeless About the Future of This Country(by Charles Pierce) [View all]
BradAllison
Nov 2021
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Mass psychosis, violent rhetoric, endless propaganda, and a breakdown of social norms.
Wingus Dingus
Nov 2021
#1
No, we are not fucked, what we need is the authorities to do their work, for voters to get repubs
Escurumbele
Nov 2021
#3
Is there any chance that local authorities can be pressured to go after these people?
LymphocyteLover
Nov 2021
#19
Happened before with pre WWII Germany being a prime example and then as now
cstanleytech
Nov 2021
#17