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by pjc50 1988 days ago
Middle-aged conservatives buying insurrection cosplay gear is, I would say, a problem in itself that America is really unwilling to confront. The boundary between pretend and reality gets very, very thin and the ammunition purchased is live.

(It could even fall under existing restrictions on ""gangs"", if those weren't targeted at nonwhite people only!)

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If they are white then we call them mafia, unless they are white and more brute, in which case we call them a mob, which is, to be fair, a word commonly used to refer to the people at the Capitol on the 6th.