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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe next time gun nutters bring up the "tyranny of the majority" talking point...
Just show them this map. And that is a favorite talking point of theirs. But this is more telling:
Link to tweet
Now ask - who's the majority again? They are. And do they act like tyrants? Yes. And does Trump think he's a dictator? Yes!
And then ask - how does history respond to tyranny? Not well.
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The next time gun nutters bring up the "tyranny of the majority" talking point... (Original Post)
Initech
Sep 2019
OP
Quick! Someone ask this bubble head to name at least one state in that map! nt
Guy Whitey Corngood
Sep 2019
#6
TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)1. They have a majority of empty land. We have the majority of people.
The picture is a false equivalence straw man.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)2. How do you impeach land, Lara?
That's what the Twitter responses say.
blm
(113,043 posts)3. I ask why the tyranny of the minority over the majority is OK
with them.
think4yourself
(837 posts)4. Nobody wants to impeach
a fake map. (Creative use of the color red, though.)
My Dog, these people are stupid.
safeinOhio
(32,673 posts)5. I tell them to look up Shays Rebellion.
George Washington had to come out of retirement to put down a militia that faced the tyranny of a liquor tax.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)6. Quick! Someone ask this bubble head to name at least one state in that map! nt
Initech
(100,063 posts)7. I bet they can't.
Well, they could name California because of how much they hate us...
Thunderbeast
(3,406 posts)8. DIRT DON'T VOTE!
ffr
(22,669 posts)9. Well then, here's the map from 1972. It's Nixon's map before he was impeached.
How ironic!
Did Lara tRump not see the extension of her idea?
Link to tweet
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212521305