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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

No.

Fuck you, GOP. The only acceptable intolerance is intolerance.

I shall fight you on the beaches, I shall fight you on the landing grounds, I shall fight you in the fields and in the streets, I shall fight you in the hills; I shall never surrender my country to your bigotry and fascism.*

(*) All credit to Churchill

[–] SPRUNT 19 points 4 months ago

"Unity" to the GOP means everyone acquiesces to them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As it does more often than not, “unity” means “I’m gonna keep doing the same crazy and explicitly hostile shit I’ve always been doing, and I want you to unify with the idea of me doing that and not give me any static about it”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

They call for unity from the perspective of the abuser.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

All these "journalist" need to stop with these "both sides" headline bullshit. The RNC contained nothing about unity, and they continued their calls for violence. The media needs to wise up at some point and realize that a Trump win means that Project 2025 will allow him to turn all media into state sponsored propaganda machines, else lose their license and be out of business. So unless they all want to be the next RT (which Trump really only needs one), they better stop this whole "balanced" nonsense and start reporting on these monsters for the danger that they are. Continuing to treat them like they have "turned a corner" just continues to normalize their destruction of norms and disdain for the law.

This title should read more like, "During an unhinged RNC, GOP nominate Trump and call on MAGA to 'fight, fight, fight' against democracy".

[–] jeffw 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What in this headline is “both sides”? It’s literally all about how the GOP is full of shit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The whole title. They had no talk of unity, and repeating it even to later denounce it only aids the ring wing talking points, and is completely missed by people only reading headlines.

I read that title as, the GOP calling for unity even amongst its growing hard right faction, but not a bit of that is true.

[–] Etterra 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

GOP "unity" is "we shall dictate to you and you will unify with that."

[–] SkybreakerEngineer 6 points 4 months ago

"Stop resisting"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I can't deny they've done a good job of reaching out to traditional Republicans. You can call them liars all you want and I agree but what matters is who was on stage. Maga isn't worried and the suburban "I'm not racists" think there is a moral center to the party.

[–] caffinatedone 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not hard to have "unity" when they've worked to purge anyone from the party who disagreed with the cult.

[–] CharlesDarwin 2 points 4 months ago

And they want to bring that same "unity" to normal Americans, too.

[–] ATDA 4 points 4 months ago

Trump was commenting on getting revenge on political foes like a week ago and uses the word "unity" haha

[–] CharlesDarwin 3 points 4 months ago

The Nazis were for unity, too. Unity under one Reich for all of Europe (at least).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Analysts say a stew of extreme ideologies simmers under the softer image the RNC projected this week of a party that would make room for any MAGA-style patriot, whether a rap-world model or a Nicaraguan immigrant or a Sikh attorney.

He drew outrage for a speech at a church last month in which he said, “Some people need killing.” Mike Lonergan, Robinson’s campaign spokesman, said on X that the candidate’s words referenced World War II enemies and were taken out of context in a “gutless and dishonest smear.”

Greene has said that if she had led the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, “it would’ve been armed” and “we would have won.” At the RNC, she ridiculed Democrats for observing Transgender Visibility Day, for allowing “millions of illegal aliens to pour in” and for failing to provide “unity.”

Within the convention, White supremacist or anti-government symbols of the sort that are sometimes visible at Trump rallies were scarce among attendees, though one woman sported a dress designed like an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, which is associated with Christian nationalism and political violence.

Texas delegate Adolpho Telles, 74, noted that the gathering also featured more establishment Republican figures, such as former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, along with some surprise appearances that were interpreted as gestures toward national unity.

As Haley was onstage urging the crowd to embrace a big-tent Republican vision, Dhillon was on the receiving end of bigoted online attacks from fellow conservatives Across social media, pro-Trump commenters blasted her “satanic chants” and “witchcraft,” calling her a “pagan blasphemer” and demanding her deportation.


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[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom -4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And those people further left will continue trying to work with these fucking goons who won't even come to the table, let alone compromise on anything.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

if an election defeat is bad enough, it does not matter if they "come to the table".

our government has been fractured for so long, its hard to remember when it actually worked.

please vote - so that, with luck, we might be able to vote again.