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Worse than Buchanan, worse than Jackson, worse than Nixon, worse than Reagan

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[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 122 points 1 year ago (12 children)

4th most upvoted comment in a thread of 843 comments:

Jan 6th made him the worst, say what you want about Buchanan or Jackson but at least they did their atrocities within the system they were elected to uphold.

"Say what you want about genocides, at least they weren't Jan 6"

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 84 points 1 year ago (2 children)

jesus fucking christ lmao that comment feels like it was written in some kind of laboratory as a distillation of pure liberalism

That's not what reddit is?

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Liberals only talk like this about 1/6 because they’re convinced that it will be used to stop Trump from winning the presidency. Their TDS means that stopping Trump is more important than even acknowledging the many genocides the USA has and still is perpetrating.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Do what you want as long as it isn't against the rules!"

God these people are pathetic

I'd love to give them such an intense wedgie that their underwear rips.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A tacit admission that liberals construct their morality around what the state deems acceptable

It a worldview like that, a half-hearted insurrectionist riot becomes worse than countless massacres and dispossessions

A literal upside-down ideology

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

A literal upside-down ideology

A privilege held by those safe from the state violence that's levied against others that they carelessly protect; the moment they get a taste of this violence (and I hope they do), now they want reasonability and humanity and they start being rational. An infantile view of life is a privilege of the safe.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wtf

Isn't it also not true of Andrew Jackson? He refused to enforce a supreme court ruling, famously. Lol.

You must consider that most of these people are politically and historically illiterate.

[–] buh@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

now that I think about it Jan 6 was actually good since only chuds and cops were killed

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And in true gift that keeps on giving fashion, the chuds were dragged by fellow chuds and accused of being leftists.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

You can tell how reluctant they were to use the word “atrocities”. It won’t be long before even that is too much to ask for from these genocide apologist fucks

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

If the system allows for genocide then that system doesn't deserve to exist.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

They were just ~~following~~ giving orders!

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Jackson brazenly flouting a supreme court decision is "working within the system", apparently

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Say what you will about the guy who actually kicked off a Civil War, but look at these TikToks.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

once again, admitting that their main problem with the nazi genocides was that they were illegal...

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

these are definitely sockpuppet accounts (at least the upvotes). Please don't assume even the average PMC labor aristocrat is like this lol. but idk maybe pmc labor aristcrat redditors are.