• SevenSkalls [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    19 hours ago

    Also anyone notice this little conspiracy theory jab at the end there?

    Going for the Muslim ban immediately is smart because it was a good comparison point. But then her answer gets worse from there, talking about defending aid for Palestinian refugees (they wouldn’t need aid and there wouldn’t be refugees if you didn’t keep providing weapons to Israel, and that doesn’t make up for causing a genocide), and then finally ending by hinting it’s not grassroots, but probably foreign actors or something.

    “I don’t think it’s all spontaneous. Some of it is grass roots. But some of it is… Something else.”

    Ooh, Russia mayhaps, Nancy? Just say it lol.

    • anarcho_blinkenist [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      15 hours ago

      the Muslim ban wasn’t even stopped by dems they did fuck all about it other than finger-wag like always. It was the courts that stopped it; the same courts the federal supreme court of which Obama gave a seat for free to his “good friends across the aisle” and didnt pressure RBG to retire and which Biden refuses to expand or pack and even denounces the idea. And which for lower courts Biden kept on a lot of Trump’s awful appointments ,like that Chevron lawyer who helped defend Chevron’s destruction of Amazon and poisoning natives and helped prosecute Donziger

      “outside agitators” to discredit protests and justify repression is old as dirt too; and often racist — they did that against MLK even. Wehrmacht Walz used it to justify sending in the army to crush the George Floyd uprising in Minneanapolis