• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    Called it. These pussies would either have jackbooted thugs evicting anyone getting uppity, have some “vetting” process involving loyalty tests for entry, or they’d just nope out entirely, is what I figured.

  • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldOP
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    So yeah, the GOP method of handling the situation is as follows:

    1. Employ the Trump method: Don’t hold town halls at all. No town halls = no angry voters. No angry voters = problem doesn’t exist! taps head

    2. If you must hold town halls, either do them online where dissenting voices can easily be silenced by a mute button, or make sure they’re invite-only so the only people that are allowed to enter are those who support Trump’s position.

    3. Blame any other dissention on “Democrat agitators”.

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        It’s actually incredibly easy to find where these people, or their family members are. It doesn’t need to be one large event. It can be death by a thousand cuts

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        Jan 6 was planned for MONTHS ahead of time, by a group that already had a wide and organized network of radical agitators. It took years for those groups to get to where they were to pull Jan 6 off. And it still failed. The left doesn’t have anywhere close to that level of organization anymore. They used to exist in the labor unions and civil rights groups but the government has systemically targeted and destroyed them. It takes time to rebuild that organization. It’s not a matter of “balls”.

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          It doesnt matter. You dont need years of planning to go stand outside of DC with signs. If a sea of people simply show up all with the same message (possibly aided by the already established movements) we’d have a Civil Rights 2: Scared Fascist Boogaloo. But everyone is too afraid of “looking like them”.

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          Also it was supported by the owning class. Elmo didn’t ban the hashtag for jan6 on twitter and probably pushed it in the algorithm.

          Anything that goes against the flow gets shadow banned on Twitter and probably all the other billionaire owned platforms.

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            TBF, fElon didn’t take control of xitter until late 2022. But even before fElon, xitter was not fantastic.

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    Whoa, these people are really angry at what we’re doing… Let’s keep doing it and just stop listening to them!

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    If they won’t make themselves available to you, go to where they are. They have local offices, cars, homes.

    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      We have a constitutional right of the people to petition the government for a redress of grievances. It is not specific what that petition for redress is. Be creative.

  • Lukas Murch@thelemmy.club
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    This should be a red flag for Trump voters, but they won’t see it as such. They’ll just bend over and keep taking it.

    The democrats don’t really treat their voters any better. Run a losing campaign and ask for donations the morning after. We need legit third party options.

    #FDT

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    Fearing the angry mob and a known/timed location intersecting with one highly desperate, pushed to the limit individual, probably.

    High odds town halls won’t be a thing going forward. What’s also high odds is this is only the beginning of pushing the masses to the edge of the unknown (what they’re capable of). I greatly dislike this timeline.