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ismnotwasm

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10. The right does not understand that the left is armed

Fri Jan 30, 2026, 02:36 PM

Jan 30

They think their Facebook “lock and load” comments are intimidating. They think their unexamined 2A defenses protect them. They think their on-line targeting and harassment of those who disagree with them is courage. Yet they backpedal on their 2A certainty when one of their own is targeted. They are happy when they thought they were defending gun access, they have no idea how to defend the consequences, so they don’t try, just rush into cognitive dissonance and bias confirmation in a kind of mindless panic. The kind where you cannot see, cannot hear anything else.

They cling to the strongman, hoping he will keeping them safe.

It’s not new behavior as we know, it’s the behavior of the frightened.
And I believe that the Trump administration completely understands this. So yeah, I agree. They want political differences to evolve into violence.

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