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by hintymad 2050 days ago
And AOC openly calls for hunting down Trump supporters: "Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future? ". So much for political freedom.
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Elections have consequences.
If "consequences" = "documenting and punishing millions of people for expressing different political opinions" then there is something seriously wrong with our political system.

Over 70 million people voted for Trump. If you hand-wave away his popularity and call all of them bigoted, then you are part of the partisan problem in our country.

No one said anything about punishments (except you). I don’t know if she is talking about citizens or public officials, but I think we should remember the public officials who helped trump’s attempt to destroy our democracy. They shouldn’t be allowed to naysay their support for him.
The Trump Accountability Project is what I was referring to.
> then there is something seriously wrong with our political system.

There's something seriously wrong with the far left. I've seen several articles and interviews now where the leftists can't believe that someone can hold a different view than theirs and vote for Trump. It's as if only they hold the absolute truth, and everyone else is the manifestation of evil. It's quite ridiculous.

We haven't seen any protests or destruction by the right after Biden won. Had Trump won, we'd seen wide spread chaos and looting and burning. It's not for nothing that many stores in large cities boarded up.

What they're doing by keeping these lists is not that different from the Nazis keeping lists of Jews. Very ironic.

Both left and right are becoming more partisan and more unable to form any sort of consensus or compromise. I think that's the real issue, when the goal of each side is only to crush their opponent.
I don't disagree. However, it's ironic that we're seeing Nazi/Fascist approaches taken by the left, who claim they're anti-fascist. I haven't seen that from the right so far.
Do they include instilling Nazi policies?
Like keeping and making publicly available a database of people who publicly supported a political candidate? Is that the Nazi policy you're referring to?
Correct. Cancel culture is destructive and toxic. The goal is to set loose the SJW mobs after those individuals. Ironic that they don't see that this very similar to what was done to the Jews in Nazi Germany. They don't see it in the midst of their virtue signaling destructive behavior.
This is far right talking point nonsense. Get a grip, or bring it to Facebook. This is not the place for this.
Notice how you didn't answer the question that they're doing the same as the Nazis, and try to dilute the discussion by saying to take it to FB (which I don't use). Just exposing the hypocrisies of the far left. Seems some people can't comprehend it.
That sent a chill down my spine. A giant red glowing: "WARNING".