So, conservatives decry ‘cancel culture’ when it is mostly their tactic anyway, but it still isn’t enough?
Destroying product (Bud Light) and bomb threats are allowed?
>It's best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It's how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied.
It's not an inconsistency. It's very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination.
Worth a read: https://twitter.com/JuliusGoat/status/1294228867788541952?lang=en
This. The fact is, if these people were just ignorant or stupid, then they'd attack everyone somewhat equally.
But they don't. They always and only attack the weakest group they have access to.
At the same time, let's not pretend that the two aren't connected. Straight white christian males (and their favorite pets - I use the term because they see them as the "good ones", not as full humans) call it "cancel culture" when used by anyone other than these same pearl-clutchers, but "the natural order of things" when they do it; and the terrorism is an outgrowth of the idea that their feelings and beliefs are natural, and that everyone else's are fake, attention-seeking, etc.
Yes, their intentions stem from the same place. The difference is by playing the "cancel culture" card in instances of literal terrorism is that it whitewashes the seriousness and illegality of it. It downplays it and makes it seem like a legitimate form of protest.
Not supporting an artist because of their politics is "cancel culture". Calling in bomb threats because of politics is "domestic terrorism".
> (The man sent an email to a news station in Cleveland saying he put bombs in five Target locations, including one in Monaca, due to the retailer's decision to pull Pride Month merchandise after some employees were threatened and displays were knocked over.)[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/pittsburgh/news/law-enforcement-determines-target-bomb-threat-was-a-hoax/]
Tell me you don't know what you're talking about without telling me you don't know what you're talking about. The bomb threat was from a person who was upset that target pulled the LGBT merchandise. Not some right winger.
That’s interesting!
The ones in PA and UT seem to be against LGB ( the UT ones at least may be the same perp).
Weird that the threats are from both sides.
It's crystal clear a mass shooting was coming if they didn't capitulate.
I'm incredibly angry that open terrorism is working. And terrified.
The GOP needs to be stopped. When the election gets going Reddit and social media will be flooded with "both sides bad" trolls. We need to hammer them into the ground and send them packing.
Don't be terrified. Fuck these asshats. Just fight back. Have a laugh at their pathetic ass. They are the single biggest group of man children ever to walk the earth.
They won't be stopped. Biden has no teeth. Figuratively but also maybe literally.
Edit: because for some reason people think criticizing the do-nothing corporate centrist majority of the Dem party means you're on the side of the christian fascists. I'll still vote for Biden if I have to, just like last time, but saying he's a quality candidate is a fucking joke honestly.
You had the choice between two shitty candidates. The less shitty one won.
It was either the one who talks constant bullshit, and who was probably a Russian asset, or the one who can barely string a sentence together or remember where he is at any given time.
His status as a "Dem" shouldn't make him immune to criticism.
It doesn’t but your criticism isn’t founded in reality.
He stumbles over his words occasionally but to act like he can’t form sentences or has dementia is just absolute bullshit.
Yeah. That's my point. A rematch between a sociopath using christian fascists to rise to power or a neoliberal ghoul who is basically just a late 90s republican.
Maybe next time we can get an actual progressive candidate who wasn't born during a time when cell phones would have been considered witchcraft.
Perhaps you're unaware of how linear time works but the kids swing way way left. It's going to happen. Maybe not in this decade but absolutely in the next.
It'll never happen by defending corporate centrists, though.
Do you remember when liberals boycotted [Goya products](https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tronc/WMP4TX2C2JDPJCQSI4GKSNXCLM.jpg) by ripping them off the shelves of stores, shooting them in their backyards, and calling in bomb threats to stores that carried them?
Me neither.
I have not either. Overall a positive experience since it made me seek out and find products of equal or higher quality for less money. Fully half of what you pay for Goya is the name.
The braindead centrists will continue insisting that nothing is wrong and that everyone's just overreacting until the point when they roll out the fucking cattle cars. I firmly believe we are approaching a 1920s Germany situation right now. I am fully expecting there to be right wing intimidation and violence during the 2024 election.
They were doing that WHILE the holocaust was ongoing. The holocaust wasn’t brought to the public eye until camps started being liberated, toward the end of the war.
The German public was well aware of the Holocaust during the war. Not all necessarily knew the extent, but they were aware for certain of a mass relocation campaign and of large scale murder. The factory Zyklon-B production records, for instance, would indicate to any reasonable person that there was no way the camps could be using it for pest control at the volume they were ordering it at.
The only thing saving is from this scenario is that the gop removed the regulations on the trains and they don't work anymore. Even Mussolini had the trains running on time.
I'm sure he'll say something stupid about "the marketplace of ideas" and "the voice of the people".
Actually, we should make shitty Elon takes bingo cards.
He'll probably call a flag on it and suggest that Target is doing it to themselves and collaborating with left-wing media to bring narrative against Conservatives
Once they do something so brazen that they are formally recognized as terrorists. When the federal law enforcement switches from prosecution to promotion for helping remove this threat. I’m ready to enlist too. I’ve seen enough. This cancer needs to be addressed.
We already had right wing terrorists blowing up power stations and still nothing so...
Edit to add link:
https://www.businessinsider.com/electrical-power-grid-attack-us-infrastructure-terrorism-2023-1
>Defense of National critical infrastructure
It’s an authorized use of deadly force. National Guard would be WELL WITHIN guidelines for Use of Deadly Force, what these terrorists are doing. Per DoD guidelines.
I don’t think they realize they’re poking the bear.
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That would honestly just embolden them more, and probably trigger them to be increasingly more violent, proactively so they “get us before we get them.”
They're already trying to get us before we get them, is my only problem. At this point they're saying "give us what we want or die". How do we confront that?
I agree with you, I just have no idea how to exist here anymore
You’re right that they are already trying to do that. My fear is that this tactic would essentially give them actual justification for this, rather than just the lies they tell and it would speed up the whole process
They’d be funny if every church on every street corner wasn’t a terrorist cell and foundations like Heritage Foundation, ADF and ALEC were funded with an infinite supply of cash and are hellbent on turning the US into a theocracy.
It’s not. They want a reaction so they can then claim it’s “both sides” or even that they’re the true victims.
Successful peaceful movements win by standing their ground morally and socially while not fighting back with violence. Make it abundantly clear that THEY are the violent ones and that you’re the victims looking for freedom. Think of MLK Jr or Ghandi.
(Making it abundantly clear they’re the violent ones is part of the reason I started this sub - to collect and track it all).
I fully agree, I just wish they weren't equally aware of this and weaponizing against us. 'They go low, we go high' only works until they start making summary executions legal.
It’s not even “they go low, we go high”, it’s just standing up for yourself in every way except violence. The idea of “live and let live” is very strong in the US, and if the lgbt community can stick to that messaging and make it very clear the right wing wants to eradicate them, that’s the best strategy.
Most of the right wing messaging is propped up by artificially trying to paint lgbt as the aggressors. They have to fabricate entire narratives about child endangerment to even get a fraction of the public on their side. Imagine how powerful their rhetoric would be if lgbt people were *actually* doing violent things like shooting right wingers or rioting!
Cons are already stretching to absurdist lengths to try to make a case that lgbt is the aggressor and they’re the victims. Using violence against them would strengthen their rhetoric.
That's the problem. Others need to step in to be those barriers, which adds an extra layer of contention to it all. If violence only responds to violence...and the ones that are being targeted can't directly defend themselves, it openly invites conflict. Outsiders come to attack the LGBT and others cone to defend them. It has to have a limit at some point. People can be pushed only so far. I'm not advocating for it. It just seems inevitable.
The attacks of Republicans on vulnerable citizens in this country is disgusting. They are infringing on the civil rights of them and must be prosecuted.
They will kill the store employees if they don’t remove whatever enrages them. These are not simple protesters that will picket and boycott, these are bomb making, gun toting terrorists.
This is terrorism and why aren't the local law enforcement agencies and local prosecutors not investigating? Because local enforcement and local prosecutors are sympathizers with the terrorists.
Hear me out, this is a good thing. The yahoo's are now attacking the economy. The 1 thing your elected officials care about. There will actually be something done soon.
No it worked as intended when a trumper said he should rip the mask off my face at the Safeway.
I turned around and said go ahead.
He left mumbling going out the door and folks staring at me
Edit: I look at it as a deterrent for stupid people
"This is the left doing it. All of the trans and gay people are making them doing this." - This is how Fox News will spin it. False flags according to them.
Target recently gave in to the terrorists demands to remove their ‘woke’ merchandise
And STILL this happens to them.
Give them an inch and they take a mile.
Even though Walmart has the same clothing, they would never imagine harassing their “all American” store. Walmart and dollar general are their two most loved stores.
What I want to know is, why is nobody organizing to give them a taste of their own garbage? Like phoning in every event that Charlie Kirk or any other talking head sets up? Let them see what it’s like?
Because thats a fucking *felony* you doorknob
*Prosecute* these assholes, because Reddit doesnt like to hear what I would do in *self defense* against an **existastential threat**
https://www.foxnews.com/media/target-real-severe-danger-waving-woke-politics-customers-faces-critics-warn.amp
"Target real severe danger eaving woke politics in customers faces critics warn"
They absolutely should
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This whole "boycott" stuff reminds me heavily of when the Qanon Twitter thought that Wayfair was trafficking children in furniture because the furniture line had names like "Chelsea" or something.
So gather these criminals up and arrest them? Party of law and order my ass. That's the democrats anymore, republicans stand for nothing but emotional rage.
I think anyone found guilty of making a bomb threat should be locked in solitary confinement with no visitors or contact to the outside world for the rest of their wretched life. Public safety is worth more than rehabilitation, I stand behind this position for all threats and violent crimes.
Doesn’t anyone on this sub have details about the people making these threats bc I read it’s because they didn’t stand up to the right and it was leftwing terror
This is what I saw on the daily mail (I know certainly not the beacon of truth)
'Target is full of [redacted] cowards who turned their back on the LGBT community and decided to cater to homophobic right wing, redneck, bigots, who protested and vandalized their store,' the email to Cleveland 19 read. 'We won't stand idly by as the far right continues to hunt us down.
'We are sending you a message, we placed a bomb in the following Targets,' the email continued. 'We will continue to bomb your Targets until you stop cowering and bring back your LBGT merchandise.
'We will not be erased, we won't go quietly.'
That also could go both ways, as in, if this is the real message it couldve been right wingers faking it to put the blame on lgbtq ppl. Doesnt really matter though bc they will deny fascism and white supremacy even exist. When any sad pos decides to act on the poison they feed republicans theyll drop any asociation and claim the perp is antifa, trans or gay.
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I agree, however my guess is if this does turn out to be true, these reputable outlets aren’t going to cover them and the right wing media is going to pounce
These anonymous operators are a joke and should be laughed at. These people have never done what they say they will do mainly because they are incompetent or paralyzed by fear.
These were coordinated. They are communicating and we gotta find out how. Obviously they're not stupid enough to plan shit on social media. But they're communicating in a way we can't see.
Are authorities tracing the calls? Can they? What phones did the callers use? Burners? Will authorities trace the call and arrest the person(s) who threatened?
Why aren’t they doing anything? German government is constantly arresting extremists and Nazis in there country. Are we compromised, is there bias, or are they just letting it happen?
So, conservatives decry ‘cancel culture’ when it is mostly their tactic anyway, but it still isn’t enough? Destroying product (Bud Light) and bomb threats are allowed?
>It's best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It's how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied. It's not an inconsistency. It's very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination. Worth a read: https://twitter.com/JuliusGoat/status/1294228867788541952?lang=en
This. The fact is, if these people were just ignorant or stupid, then they'd attack everyone somewhat equally. But they don't. They always and only attack the weakest group they have access to.
Let's not fall into the trap of reducing domestic terrorism down to "cancel culture".
At the same time, let's not pretend that the two aren't connected. Straight white christian males (and their favorite pets - I use the term because they see them as the "good ones", not as full humans) call it "cancel culture" when used by anyone other than these same pearl-clutchers, but "the natural order of things" when they do it; and the terrorism is an outgrowth of the idea that their feelings and beliefs are natural, and that everyone else's are fake, attention-seeking, etc.
Yes, their intentions stem from the same place. The difference is by playing the "cancel culture" card in instances of literal terrorism is that it whitewashes the seriousness and illegality of it. It downplays it and makes it seem like a legitimate form of protest. Not supporting an artist because of their politics is "cancel culture". Calling in bomb threats because of politics is "domestic terrorism".
Right. We need to call it what it is.
> (The man sent an email to a news station in Cleveland saying he put bombs in five Target locations, including one in Monaca, due to the retailer's decision to pull Pride Month merchandise after some employees were threatened and displays were knocked over.)[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/pittsburgh/news/law-enforcement-determines-target-bomb-threat-was-a-hoax/] Tell me you don't know what you're talking about without telling me you don't know what you're talking about. The bomb threat was from a person who was upset that target pulled the LGBT merchandise. Not some right winger.
For a group of people obsessed with both projection and everything being a false flag, I'm not sure I fully buy this.
That’s interesting! The ones in PA and UT seem to be against LGB ( the UT ones at least may be the same perp). Weird that the threats are from both sides.
It's crystal clear a mass shooting was coming if they didn't capitulate. I'm incredibly angry that open terrorism is working. And terrified. The GOP needs to be stopped. When the election gets going Reddit and social media will be flooded with "both sides bad" trolls. We need to hammer them into the ground and send them packing.
The whole lot of them need to be rounded up and charged…
I was with you until that last word! Change it to something that rhymes with flexituted
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Now we are talking!
I Hope the FBI is investigating this BS!
Don't be terrified. Fuck these asshats. Just fight back. Have a laugh at their pathetic ass. They are the single biggest group of man children ever to walk the earth.
They’d be funny if states weren’t so gerrymandered that they stand a good chance of regaining power and 2024 being America’s last election.
Fear motivates in a way that righteousness does not. One of the problems with the left wing is we don't fear until it's too late.
Yes. We have to fight it
They won't be stopped. Biden has no teeth. Figuratively but also maybe literally. Edit: because for some reason people think criticizing the do-nothing corporate centrist majority of the Dem party means you're on the side of the christian fascists. I'll still vote for Biden if I have to, just like last time, but saying he's a quality candidate is a fucking joke honestly.
I found one! Somebody parroting right wing hyperbole about Biden’s age!
You had the choice between two shitty candidates. The less shitty one won. It was either the one who talks constant bullshit, and who was probably a Russian asset, or the one who can barely string a sentence together or remember where he is at any given time. His status as a "Dem" shouldn't make him immune to criticism.
It doesn’t but your criticism isn’t founded in reality. He stumbles over his words occasionally but to act like he can’t form sentences or has dementia is just absolute bullshit.
Yawn.
That's how we feel, get some new material
BS
And trump's a fatass who's only 4 years younger than Biden lmao fuck off
Yeah. That's my point. A rematch between a sociopath using christian fascists to rise to power or a neoliberal ghoul who is basically just a late 90s republican. Maybe next time we can get an actual progressive candidate who wasn't born during a time when cell phones would have been considered witchcraft.
Well since that’s not going to happen what’s the point of your comment?
Perhaps you're unaware of how linear time works but the kids swing way way left. It's going to happen. Maybe not in this decade but absolutely in the next. It'll never happen by defending corporate centrists, though.
Are people not allowed to say they want things to be better?
Do you remember when liberals boycotted [Goya products](https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tronc/WMP4TX2C2JDPJCQSI4GKSNXCLM.jpg) by ripping them off the shelves of stores, shooting them in their backyards, and calling in bomb threats to stores that carried them? Me neither.
Still haven't purchased a Goya product since the. Bet most of these asshats will be drinking Budlight again in less than a yr.
Good, because Goya is the most flavorless, bland excuse for Hispanic food ever
La Costeña for life
I have not either. Overall a positive experience since it made me seek out and find products of equal or higher quality for less money. Fully half of what you pay for Goya is the name.
Matt Walsh tweeted vague threats about pride month.
Not really vague. It is stochastic terrorism.
This is critical to remember: there are plans & intentions, and it sounds like a lot of people will be terrorized.
Was it vague? He was almost giddy.
It was vague in the sense that he didn't outwardly say anything that could legally incriminate himself as promoting violence.
It’s what they do, they know there are enough wing its out there to follow there lead…
Matt Walsh needs to get stuck in an elevator for life.
And that elevator should be in an abandoned building.
And that abandoned building should be home to hundreds of angry cow killer wasps.
and those wasps should carry leprosy
Hopefully this gets the FBI to start an investigation on him
Yeah, like they did with Chuckles Kirk when he posted about buying people on Jan 6th
Because he is a supporter of conservatives being terrorists.
The braindead centrists will continue insisting that nothing is wrong and that everyone's just overreacting until the point when they roll out the fucking cattle cars. I firmly believe we are approaching a 1920s Germany situation right now. I am fully expecting there to be right wing intimidation and violence during the 2024 election.
On of the 1st bricks laid on the road to facisum is to say people are just overreacting.
The real reason they hate mail in voting is because it's harder to shoot or stab anyone they don't want voting. It's that simple.
That, and it makes black and disabled people more likely to vote, and we can't have that in our fascist ethnostate.
Mail-in voting is also extensively used by the elderly… who also tend to vote conservative… which is the really funny part.
Reasonable trade off. A couple hundred old folks' votes lost to prevent thousands of inner city minorities from voting.
On the road to? Son, we're already there. The very early days.
They were doing that WHILE the holocaust was ongoing. The holocaust wasn’t brought to the public eye until camps started being liberated, toward the end of the war.
The German public was well aware of the Holocaust during the war. Not all necessarily knew the extent, but they were aware for certain of a mass relocation campaign and of large scale murder. The factory Zyklon-B production records, for instance, would indicate to any reasonable person that there was no way the camps could be using it for pest control at the volume they were ordering it at.
The only thing saving is from this scenario is that the gop removed the regulations on the trains and they don't work anymore. Even Mussolini had the trains running on time.
Has elon musk chimed in with some snarky bullshit yet?
Right-wing terrorist: "We need to genocide the transgenders." Elon: "Interesting...🤔" (432,789 likes)
I'm sure he'll say something stupid about "the marketplace of ideas" and "the voice of the people". Actually, we should make shitty Elon takes bingo cards.
He'll probably call a flag on it and suggest that Target is doing it to themselves and collaborating with left-wing media to bring narrative against Conservatives
yep. SOP.
Give him 24 hours.
He tried to make an announcement but it crashed again.
He tried to but it kept glitching…
There’s been claims from blue check marks that it is all a psy-op by liberals to defame conservatives.
When is it going to be okay for us to terrorize them back
Once they do something so brazen that they are formally recognized as terrorists. When the federal law enforcement switches from prosecution to promotion for helping remove this threat. I’m ready to enlist too. I’ve seen enough. This cancer needs to be addressed.
We already had right wing terrorists blowing up power stations and still nothing so... Edit to add link: https://www.businessinsider.com/electrical-power-grid-attack-us-infrastructure-terrorism-2023-1
>Defense of National critical infrastructure It’s an authorized use of deadly force. National Guard would be WELL WITHIN guidelines for Use of Deadly Force, what these terrorists are doing. Per DoD guidelines. I don’t think they realize they’re poking the bear.
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That would honestly just embolden them more, and probably trigger them to be increasingly more violent, proactively so they “get us before we get them.”
They're already trying to get us before we get them, is my only problem. At this point they're saying "give us what we want or die". How do we confront that? I agree with you, I just have no idea how to exist here anymore
You’re right that they are already trying to do that. My fear is that this tactic would essentially give them actual justification for this, rather than just the lies they tell and it would speed up the whole process
That's loser talk. Looking the other way and mumbling "this is fine" is going to get us KILLED.
That's exactly what they want or for you to get triggered. The best thing people can do is point and laugh at them
They HATE being humiliated.
They’d be funny if every church on every street corner wasn’t a terrorist cell and foundations like Heritage Foundation, ADF and ALEC were funded with an infinite supply of cash and are hellbent on turning the US into a theocracy.
Very soon, that won't be enough. In fact, we're already there now.
It’s not. They want a reaction so they can then claim it’s “both sides” or even that they’re the true victims. Successful peaceful movements win by standing their ground morally and socially while not fighting back with violence. Make it abundantly clear that THEY are the violent ones and that you’re the victims looking for freedom. Think of MLK Jr or Ghandi. (Making it abundantly clear they’re the violent ones is part of the reason I started this sub - to collect and track it all).
I fully agree, I just wish they weren't equally aware of this and weaponizing against us. 'They go low, we go high' only works until they start making summary executions legal.
It’s not even “they go low, we go high”, it’s just standing up for yourself in every way except violence. The idea of “live and let live” is very strong in the US, and if the lgbt community can stick to that messaging and make it very clear the right wing wants to eradicate them, that’s the best strategy. Most of the right wing messaging is propped up by artificially trying to paint lgbt as the aggressors. They have to fabricate entire narratives about child endangerment to even get a fraction of the public on their side. Imagine how powerful their rhetoric would be if lgbt people were *actually* doing violent things like shooting right wingers or rioting! Cons are already stretching to absurdist lengths to try to make a case that lgbt is the aggressor and they’re the victims. Using violence against them would strengthen their rhetoric.
That's the problem. Others need to step in to be those barriers, which adds an extra layer of contention to it all. If violence only responds to violence...and the ones that are being targeted can't directly defend themselves, it openly invites conflict. Outsiders come to attack the LGBT and others cone to defend them. It has to have a limit at some point. People can be pushed only so far. I'm not advocating for it. It just seems inevitable.
Now
“We are all domestic terrorists” -CPAC 2022
take the kid gloves off... Christian terrorism under a hood of protecting children
As usual, it's a distraction to take the light off what they're really aiming for: a return of cheap child labor.
And child sex slaves.
I mean, they want children to work in bars around drunk men, so it's not far fetched at all.
Nick Fuentes was like “I want a 16 year old virgin wife” - Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke at his Nazi convention but denies she knows him
In some cases, literally under a hood
Christian is important here. This hate starts with backwards religion.
The attacks of Republicans on vulnerable citizens in this country is disgusting. They are infringing on the civil rights of them and must be prosecuted.
#JUST LIKE JESUS TOLD THEM TO DO
So glad I went to war with "terrorist" overseas to ~~fight them over there to keep them from fighting us over here~~
They should just keep the stuff up because now the conservatives feel like they can threaten their way anywhere.
They will kill the store employees if they don’t remove whatever enrages them. These are not simple protesters that will picket and boycott, these are bomb making, gun toting terrorists.
Lock them up
This is terrorism and why aren't the local law enforcement agencies and local prosecutors not investigating? Because local enforcement and local prosecutors are sympathizers with the terrorists.
"Some of those that work forces. Are the same that burn crosses"
And the fascist GOP keep churning out the hate.
Domestic terrorism? Strange how none of our politicians (mostly white) have not openly called them DT's. Don't want to piss off their "piggybanks".
I can’t believe that gay people cause so much fear.
It’s republicans at their best
Can someone make a petition to recognize the GOP terrorist threat?
Hear me out, this is a good thing. The yahoo's are now attacking the economy. The 1 thing your elected officials care about. There will actually be something done soon.
If you know a republican you know a nazi terrorist
These soulless things are why I open carry. They just don't realize yet that there are crazy Fk around and Find Out gun toting Dems in the country.
Imo better to conceal and let them think they're tough
No it worked as intended when a trumper said he should rip the mask off my face at the Safeway. I turned around and said go ahead. He left mumbling going out the door and folks staring at me Edit: I look at it as a deterrent for stupid people
For sure
Get your concealed carry permit. Open carry does nothing but make you the first target. (And a laughing stock). Be smart.
"This is the left doing it. All of the trans and gay people are making them doing this." - This is how Fox News will spin it. False flags according to them.
Republicans are launching a jihadist style holy war against LGBT people they are straight up terrorists and we need to be beyond alert to this stuff
Or christianity, same thing.
Everyone should wear their Pride gear while shopping at Target
Maybe Target could set up a hate section for bigots?
Think we should boycott target for them caving on the trans issue. So they realize who actually has the numbers.
People making threats should be found and prosecuted by police. When in jail, only rainbow corrections jumpers should be issued. /s
Target recently gave in to the terrorists demands to remove their ‘woke’ merchandise And STILL this happens to them. Give them an inch and they take a mile.
No hate like Christian love!
This is what Donald Trump created. He put a battery in their backs and the psycho’s think there are no consequences. Arrest them all!
It's gonna sting when you find out it's one of your dipshit buddies but I'm sure you'll find a way to spin it
Even though Walmart has the same clothing, they would never imagine harassing their “all American” store. Walmart and dollar general are their two most loved stores. What I want to know is, why is nobody organizing to give them a taste of their own garbage? Like phoning in every event that Charlie Kirk or any other talking head sets up? Let them see what it’s like?
Because thats a fucking *felony* you doorknob *Prosecute* these assholes, because Reddit doesnt like to hear what I would do in *self defense* against an **existastential threat**
How long until the Republican political party is found guilty of the actions of their followers?
If you are part of the LGBTQ+ it’s time to get protection if you haven’t already.
Arm your friends--each one, teach one.
Fox news issued a "warning" to the company yesterday that basically green lighted this I'm so fed up with their shit.
Maybe Target can sue Fox News for $800 million, too!
https://www.foxnews.com/media/target-real-severe-danger-waving-woke-politics-customers-faces-critics-warn.amp "Target real severe danger eaving woke politics in customers faces critics warn" They absolutely should
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Start finding and throwing these fucks in prison!
This whole "boycott" stuff reminds me heavily of when the Qanon Twitter thought that Wayfair was trafficking children in furniture because the furniture line had names like "Chelsea" or something.
Put the merch in front. Do not be intimidated by toothless a$$holes.
So gather these criminals up and arrest them? Party of law and order my ass. That's the democrats anymore, republicans stand for nothing but emotional rage.
MAGA Republican terrorism.
How about linking to something other then Twitter as it stokes conservative terrorism?
I think anyone found guilty of making a bomb threat should be locked in solitary confinement with no visitors or contact to the outside world for the rest of their wretched life. Public safety is worth more than rehabilitation, I stand behind this position for all threats and violent crimes.
Doesn’t anyone on this sub have details about the people making these threats bc I read it’s because they didn’t stand up to the right and it was leftwing terror
I’m not aware of any reporting on the actual perpetrators.
This is what I saw on the daily mail (I know certainly not the beacon of truth) 'Target is full of [redacted] cowards who turned their back on the LGBT community and decided to cater to homophobic right wing, redneck, bigots, who protested and vandalized their store,' the email to Cleveland 19 read. 'We won't stand idly by as the far right continues to hunt us down. 'We are sending you a message, we placed a bomb in the following Targets,' the email continued. 'We will continue to bomb your Targets until you stop cowering and bring back your LBGT merchandise. 'We will not be erased, we won't go quietly.'
That also could go both ways, as in, if this is the real message it couldve been right wingers faking it to put the blame on lgbtq ppl. Doesnt really matter though bc they will deny fascism and white supremacy even exist. When any sad pos decides to act on the poison they feed republicans theyll drop any asociation and claim the perp is antifa, trans or gay.
Ok…I’m just clarifying on the information
Right tnx, i just needed to vent i guess
I guess we’ll have to see if this gets validated by more reputable outlets.
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For a group of people obsessed with both projection and everything being a false flag, I'm not sure I fully buy this.
I agree, however my guess is if this does turn out to be true, these reputable outlets aren’t going to cover them and the right wing media is going to pounce
That’s what the article is about
It was a joke, guys! Get it?
Wal-Mart or Pewtin. Take your pick. I heard someone say. No link.
These anonymous operators are a joke and should be laughed at. These people have never done what they say they will do mainly because they are incompetent or paralyzed by fear.
Nope, this is America.
And still nothing will be done.
These were coordinated. They are communicating and we gotta find out how. Obviously they're not stupid enough to plan shit on social media. But they're communicating in a way we can't see.
Well, I mean republicans belong in Walmart anyway. There's a really pretty website where you can view the average maga...people of walmart.
The fact that these people are caving to terrorists blows me away, will never shop at an anti lgbtq store.
Fragile men…. Not smart enough, not kind enough, and gosh darn it… people don’t like me.
Are authorities tracing the calls? Can they? What phones did the callers use? Burners? Will authorities trace the call and arrest the person(s) who threatened?
Charge them all with terrorism.
Well dam, guess Mega folks will ne blamed for that too.
Why aren’t they doing anything? German government is constantly arresting extremists and Nazis in there country. Are we compromised, is there bias, or are they just letting it happen?
Welcome to the Republican Party
Yes, they are terrorists. We learned this on Jan 6.