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I've had it with this narrative of "where is the respect for police when the right-wing terrorist mob attacks policemen". Yes, of course it's hypocritical to chant "Blue Lives Matter" and then bludgeon a police officer to death, or demand law and order and then storm the /1
Capitol. Great. 100 bonus points for pointing that out. You win as many washing machines as you can carry. What do you, hypothetical clever person that made this observation, now expect to happen? A sudden insight by Republicans or the extremist mob? "Oh, we were inconsistent /2
there, let's reevalue our goals and strategies"? The Nazi brownshirts also made a great fuss out of law and order and the importance of army and police. That never hindered them in fighting them, attacking them or breaching the law. That is thing number 1. But thing /3
is that you seem to assume that there is a logical problem in the first place. For these people, there isn't. Lenin never had a problem with murdering workers either, after all. These guys believe that they are in the midst of a revolution, in which they fight an injustice so /4
grave that normal remedies, norms and values don't apply anymore. And that leads to thing number 3, which is that you, hypothetical person, seem to assume that pointing out this hypocricy will lead to some public outcry and loss of support for these people. Let me gently /5
remind you that they have been peddling outrageous lies (think of Obama is a muslim and/or not American) for more than a decade now, without any consequence. Yes, great, these guys are incoherent and can't even keep their own story straight for five minutes. They don't need /6
to. They are right by virtue of history, fate, a mission by god, whatever. They are ALWAYS right. They don't write thinkpieces on @voxdotcom about whether their current approach is the best one in terms of policy outcome. They don't care. They wanna burn shit down. You are not /7
in a debate with them, a discussion or a competition in "the marketplace of ideas". These people don't believe in ideas. You can't attack them on these grounds. They believe, no, they KNOW they are right. Everything else is just blabber. /End
