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*Takes sip from Big Texan cup*

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You will never get incitement. But it does seem that there should be several different conspiracy theories (to overthrown the government, to interfere with Congress, etc.) that could be followed.

And if there is any proof that Trump or anyone near him actually contemplated martial law, that needs to be prosecuted.

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No, a joke about how if someone said that to a child of mine, he would not be ambulatory for quite a while.

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White, cisgender *men. Sure, they’ll let an occasional token wealthy white woman join their club, but if she so much as disagrees with them about pizza toppings I bet their thin veneer of “yeah, we guess you’re people, too” disappears.

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lie down with dogs, wake up with armed nazis infesting your house.

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Riiiight. Assemble a posse of the unstable, whip them into a frenzy and send them in the direction of the people you have been demonizing. "Who could have known they'd get violent?" "I wasn't in the mob, my hands are clean".

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the 1st Amendment Praetorian

who's gonna tell them that Warhammer isn't real?

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For quite a while, The Ohio State University and Ohio University were the only state universities in Ohio. Then, they established Kent State University. At one point in the early 20th century, an Ohio legislator introduced a bill to convert Kent State into an insane asylum, because it already had a wall around its perimeter.

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I don't really see why it could not be incitement. If you keep hitting social media sites saying next weekend we will be holding a huge rally a mile from the Capitol building. After that rally we will march on Congress and make them see things our way, making them fear for their lives if they do not bend to our will. We will take control of the situation whether Congress wants to or not.

That sounds like you are planning to put the dynamite in place and inserting a fuse, simply waiting for the incendiary comments you know will be spoken at the rally to light the fuse. Besides, if the Supreme Court can overturn most of the Voting Rights act and pretend there is no such thing as abortion rights, they can easily change what constitutes incitement. They probably would if it involved environmental protesters instead of right wing white agitators.

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This is the same guy that drew a serious political cartoon of Trump vanquishing evil windmills, isn't it?

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( I wuz making a Public Enemy reference)

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Sorry, I am even older than that!

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And then their "utopia" would fall apart, because they'd still be terrible people but they'd be out of scapegoats to blame everything on.

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On the other hand, a deer rifle with a scope can change who is president/governor/mayor in a split second.

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is this a third amendment thing? cause seriously the third amendment is the most ignored amendment and i would like to see that rectified.

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