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the beastly fido @theophite.bsky.social

the model conservative utterance for two decades has been a death threat

aug 26, 2025, 10:23 pm • 370 60

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The Guz @paco-button.bsky.social

Mainstreamed with Rush, then Gingrich & FOX. Framing politics as a temporary battle with an eventual winner.

aug 26, 2025, 11:20 pm • 5 0 • view
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TacoBellLabs @tacobelllabs.bsky.social

the growth of "murdering liberals is my stated goal"-type bumperstickers and rhetoric has been steadily monotonic since the early 1980's, but yeah it was around Obama's first term when it fully tipped from gunshows and fringe voices to a mainstream statement

aug 26, 2025, 10:45 pm • 41 3 • view
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waldocat.bsky.social @waldocat.bsky.social

Sarah Palin's infamous "Lock and Load" campaign poster. After the Tuscon mass shooting, "No they're surveyor scopes"

aug 26, 2025, 11:31 pm • 14 0 • view
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TacoBellLabs @tacobelllabs.bsky.social

after Gabby Giffords' shooting, "proof you can shoot a liberal in the head and not damage anything" bumperstickers

aug 26, 2025, 11:34 pm • 14 0 • view
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SCP @10-5.bsky.social

Since the John Birch society at least. They had some wild bumper stickers

aug 26, 2025, 11:40 pm • 7 0 • view
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SCP @10-5.bsky.social

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aug 26, 2025, 11:41 pm • 7 0 • view
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Rigel @rigelr.bsky.social

Mind you, "END JUDICIAL DICTATORSHIP" has become recontextualized these days.

aug 27, 2025, 2:14 am • 4 0 • view
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Wallace Fard Dude @stork-sculpture.bsky.social

The soft suburbanites who think killing evildoers will make them feel something really need to talk to people who have actually killed people.

aug 27, 2025, 9:15 pm • 0 0 • view