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Scott Gaynor's avatar

The Russian manifesto in Ukraine sounds (un)surprisingly like the rhetoric from the right-wing media the past five years.

“They” are coming for you; They are trying to destroy you; the evil pedophiles are coming for your kids…so we - patriots - must destroy every last one of them, regardless of who gets hurt.

It’s been so scary because those who know history, know this is how genocides get started.

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rlritt's avatar

It's the same mentality and you're right. The glorification and decriminalization of gun violence was not some native reverence to the First 10 Amendments to the Constitution. This is has been a long time coming.

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