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'Some folks need killing': MAGA candidate praises violence in unhinged church rant

www.rawstory.com 'Some folks need killing': MAGA candidate praises violence in unhinged church rant

Controversial far-right MAGA Republican Mark Robinson has shocked yet again with his latest comments in North Carolina's gubernatorial race.And according to The New Republic's Greg Sargent, Robinson — whose past statements include Holocaust denial and saying that women shouldn't have been given the ...

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'Some folks need killing': MAGA candidate praises violence in unhinged church rant

www.rawstory.com /some-folks-need-far-right-maga-candidate-praises-violence-in-unhinged-church-ra/

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I don't believe for an instant that any of these people believe in any of their religions, just use them as means to justify their own vile sentiment and actions.
- It's worse. They completely believe their religions and it's their god that commands them to kill the sinners. It's a rationalization feedback loop: They are just doing what they are told to be proper religious folk.
  
  That's not a valid excuse. We didn't accept it when the nazis said they were just following orders, and we won't accept it now.
  
  Absolutely this… they believe it zealously, and the ends justify the means.
  
  This shit is just self serving. They'll believe whatever is convenient to excuse their shitty behaviour.
  
  That's not what the religion they claim to follow teaches, so no, they don't believe in their religion. They believe in the insane ramblings of politically motivated scammers.
- Fascists are fascists. It doesn't matter what particular holy book they wave around.
- That's blatantly apparent by them not following literally any of the teachings of Jesus. These people are anti-christ.
Yes, the billionaires
Thou shalt not not kill.
- There have to be exceptions to that rule, has anyone spoken to god lately to ask for clarification?
  
  Their god tells them whatever they most want to hear
This is probably very shallow and naive but...

I just completely fail to comprehend how any non- white person could be a MAGA supporter, or just conservative in general.

It just seems like a complete failure to understand the fundamentals of the political divide.

As in... Trump would send you back to Africa if it turned out he couldn't enslave you.
- Colonized minds only see power in the behavior of their oppressor. So to become powerful like them, mimic their behavior and you will gain acceptance.
  
  Until you aren't anymore.
- I don't understand how anyone is, how callous to your fellow humans do you have to be?
  
  That aside, even white woman are in on the hate... Even of other woman ffs
  
  https://truthout.org/articles/yes-55-percent-of-white-women-voted-for-trump-no-im-not-surprised/
  
  That said, most people don't think at all. They just go along with it
  
  Susan Sontag was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10% of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10% is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80% could be moved in either direction” —Kurt Vonnegut
- I don't understand how any person regardless of color could be a maga supporter. They're openly hostile to everything that benefits ordinary people, and also very open about taking any money saved from cutting programs and giving it to the 0.1%. How can someone support that? How can someone go "hell yes! Poison the planet and steal my social security so that Musk can have even more money! Fuck yeah, brother!"? It makes zero sense.
  
  As in... Trump would send you back to Africa if it turned out he couldn't enslave you.
  
  You can't send someone "back" to somewhere they've never been. African Americans have been here almost as long as Caucasians.
  
  The "send back to africa" part was sarcasm.
  
  In Australia "go back to where you came from" is the catch cry of xenophobes. There was a hate group in the 00's that literally wanted to deport anyone of Asian descent, regardless of their migration status.
They gonna find out that the left isn't exactly unarmed.
- Those armed leftists need to start working on the fucking Heritage Foundation.
  
  Good luck getting anyone in the left to act first. Hell, I'm crazy as a shithouse rat, and I wouldn't start a war until there's no other choice.
  
  Sadly, I think it will take active violence to stir resistance among the armed left to actually fight. It'll be reactionary rather than revolutionary.
A man gets a bit of recognition in his tiny corner of the universe and starts believing he is god.
For once, I agree with the message.
Isn't this illegal? Inciting violence is a crime afaik.
- Unless you're white and in the GOP, then it's any other day of the week
  
  Race has nothing to do with it. The guy is black anyways...
The comment section of the top post on my Lemmy front page is currently advocating for a class war, with some highly upvoted comments implicitly and directly calling for the killing or robbing of wealthy people simply because they're wealthy. If someone supports this rhetoric but opposes similar rhetoric from the far-right, then they're being hypocritical.
- At what point does someone fall into that category? Like, what's the annual income or net worth of someone that they feel deserves it? Does making $10k less than that cut off save someone? Or is it simply a moving bar, of anyone who is better off than they are?
- "Sure, an authoritarian organization wants to kill its ideological opponents, including us, but if we attack them we'll be hypocrites so I think we should just let them murder us instead... to avoid hypocrisy."

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