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minus-squareconditional_soup@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up55arrow-down1·1 year agoAn illegal protest, according to conservatives, is any protest they disagree with. Waving picket signs or blocking traffic is disruptive, destructive, and illegal. Storming the capitol is, on the other hand, a perfectly acceptable peaceful protest.
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·1 year agoYep. Nationwide nonviolent sit in protests? Pass laws to make it legal to run them down on a car if you feel threatened. Violent storming of the seat of our nations power and symbolic political heart? Oh that’s just some guys being dudes.
minus-squareAgent641@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoStraight out of the dictators handbook.
minus-squaretheangryseal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoThis is my go-to explanation, but christofascists don’t care.
An illegal protest, according to conservatives, is any protest they disagree with. Waving picket signs or blocking traffic is disruptive, destructive, and illegal. Storming the capitol is, on the other hand, a perfectly acceptable peaceful protest.
Yep. Nationwide nonviolent sit in protests? Pass laws to make it legal to run them down on a car if you feel threatened.
Violent storming of the seat of our nations power and symbolic political heart? Oh that’s just some guys being dudes.
Straight out of the dictators handbook.
This is my go-to explanation, but christofascists don’t care.