We're Not Prepared for What MAGA Brownshirts Will Do in 2024

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"There is a historical parallel between the red MAGA hat-wearing extremists who commit wanton acts of political violence in the service of an authoritarian thug, and the brownshirt militias of Nazi Germany," writes @WajahatAli.

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We’re Not Prepared for What MAGA Brownshirts Will Do in 2024
Armed racist militias have already shown us what they’re willing to do—and that they take their marching orders from Trump.
10:36 PM · Jul 15, 2022

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The latest Jan. 6 Committee hearing revealed the incestuous relationship between violent militias, extremists, and Trump’s inner circle—whose decision to march to the U.S. Capitol was deliberate, premeditated, and planned.

The committee showed a draft tweet in which Trump wrote, “I will be making a Big Speech at 10AM on January 6th at the Ellipse…please arrive early, massive crowds expected. March to the Capitol after. Stop the Steal!”

Even though the tweet wasn’t sent, Katrina Pierson, Trump’s former spokeswoman, emailed rally organizers that Trump was going to “call on everyone to march to the Capitol.” Those marchers included Ali Alexander, one of the organizers of the Stop the Steal really, who sent a text to a conservative journalist that Trump was going to “order” them to march to the Capitol. Trump also wanted Alexander and Alex Jones (who has gotten rich propagating fake conspiracy theories) to speak at the rally because Trump “likes the crazies,” according to a text exchange between Pierson and Trump activist Kyle Kremer. Pierson added, “he loved people who viciously defended him in public”.

That included Stephen Ayres, a witness at the hearing and die-hard MAGA supporter, who said, “We basically were just following what [Trump] said.” As a result of doing his own research on the internet, Ayres was radicalized by right-wing lies, conspiracy theories, and disinformation. He assumed his dear leader wanted him to march to the Capitol, so he did, and as a result, he eventually pleaded guilty to disorderly and disruptive conduct, lost his job, and was forced to sell his home.

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[BlueTsunami2018]

1. I am.

I won’t get them all but I’ll get enough to make it worth it.

Everyone has considered their own mortality but I definitely didn’t have being killed by Nazis in my own country as a remote possibility.

Now I give it a coin flip.

[John Ludi]

2. My thoughts exactly.

I'm well past the point where my resistance will be limited to noble posturing.

[Straw Man]

3. One might do well to ask ...

... if banning semi-automatic rifles is the smart thing to do at this moment in our history, given that the right-wing wack-jobs are swimming in them and certainly wouldn't participate in any "buyback" scheme.

[Kaleva]

5. Semiauto rifles won't be bsnned

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You are talking of the proposal to ban semiauto rifles that have detachable magazines snd that have one or more certain military features.. Semiauto rifles with an internal magazine capacity of no more then ten rounds. can have all the military features and be legal. Like an SKS or M1 Garand.

[Straw Man]

13. I admire your optimism.

I think there's a ban fever going around, and it remains to be seen what its limits are.

[Kaleva]

4. Remember that Hitler murdered the leadership of the Brownshirts

Hitler's hold on power depended on the support of the wealthy industrialists and the military . Those two groups despised the Brownshirts so in order to keep their support, Hitler eliminated the Brownshirts.

[SunSeeker]

6. Trump did too.

While Trump gave the rich huge tax cuts, he let his supporters die of covid (along with a big chunk of the rest of us).

[Kaleva]

8. So the OP is talking about people who are already dead

and can't do anything.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. But will Joe Biden use Military and/or National Guard

in defense, unlike Jan 6?

[vercetti2021]

9. Fuck the Nazi's

We didn't fight them overseas to lose to them here. Fight these fucks with each dying breath.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

10. K&R

[Nevilledog]

11. Kick

[Wounded Bear]

12. History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme...nt