Trump calls them extremists. Mainstream media casts them as unhinged. We saw something else at a protest for Luigi Mangione.

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    They keep using that word “Terrorist.” In 2001 my dad told me that “terrorist” is going to be used to describe anyone who dissents. I learned what dissent meant in 5th grade.

    “Terrorist,” “Anarchist,” “Communist,” “Negro,” “Redskin,” “Witch.” Arguably it’s not anyone who dissents, it’s anyone who has a difference from the Puritanical point of view.

    We’re extremists because we resist those who claim authority. Authoritarians are a disease that afflicted society, and will kill us all if we let it.

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      “I knew I was in trouble when he unhinged his ass… This was no common snake, it was the elusive Great Northern Head Lodger”

      Sorry I’ve been on a Far Side binge this morning

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    There is one group intending to cause terror. in the United States.

    Luigi Mangione ain’t in that group.

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    I think after charlie kirk got shot, they are trying to equate Tyler to Luigi.

    I do condemn the shooting of Charlie Kirk… But the shooting of Brian Thompson on the otherhand…

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    https://archive.is/BiwR4

    Previous protests for Mangione had also attracted health reform activists like Physicians for a National Health Program, which advocates single-payer health care. But no one from the group had come out that day. Members had been previously split about whether to attend the demonstrations. “Many of our members were really against it,” one PNHP activist told Courthouse News Service earlier this year, emphasizing that they did not condone Mangione’s actions…

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