GOP lawmaker calls for Dem congresswoman to be executed for urging Trump protests
https://azmirror.com/2025/09/25/john-gillette-gop-lawmaker-calls-for-democratic-congresswoman-to-be-executed-for-urging-trump-protests/
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MrSmiley@lemmy.zip · 73 pts · 1y
Republican rhetoric follows Le Bon’s The Crowd method: Affirmation, Repetition and Contagion.
First they espouse an idea or belief (ex. Radical Left are violent animals). The crowd accepts these statements as true, regardless of reality.
Then blast it on repeat through every medium so it becomes internalized in their minds.
Finally, the contagion phase, where the crowd is spurned to action, whether it is getting out to vote, storming the capital or going door to door murdering “The Enemy Within.”
It’s not difficult to see what the fascist intent is behind the extreme violent rhetoric.
IamSparticles@lemmy.zip · 60 pts · 1y
"Instructing people on how to protest peacefully is an act of treason and you should be hanged for it."
Mmmmmkay. I wish I was leaving out some sort of nuance or context, but no. That's straight up what he's saying, unapologetically.
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world · 60 pts · 1y
May his calls for violence be answered back on him.
PeacefulForest@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 364d
Sideshow_B00b@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 364d
No no no.. Don’t you see? Violence is only ok when it’s inflicted upon immigrants, non-whites, LGTBQ community, anyone left-of-MAGA and women.
/s
Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 364d
Even MAGA isn’t safe. There have been a lot of faces eaten by leopards, and they haven’t all been left of MAGA. If anything, this really just proves that being the token friend doesn’t protect you. Being “one of the good ones” isn’t good enough. The only thing that matters is conformity, and things like non-conforming race, gender, or sexuality will be punished regardless of who you voted for.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 1y
Ever accusation is a proud statement of violence from these typical Republicans.
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 1y
Coward.
creepystephenscreepiestdoll@lemmynsfw.com · 24 pts · 1y
How's that NOT inciting violence‽
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y
Reactionaries don't care about the truth. They play rhetorical games and are only concerned with "winning" the current argument.
Furthermore, their morality is not concerned with fairness or making the world a better place for everyone. Instead, they firmly believe that an action is right or wrong because of who does it.
They also don't care about hypocrisy; rather, they revel in flaunting the fact that rules are for other, lesser people.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 364d
Easy, just say it isn't.
creepystephenscreepiestdoll@lemmynsfw.com · 6 pts · 364d
So I really hate how correct that statement it.... it's gotta be a really repulsive individual chooses the easy way.
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works · 47 pts · 364d
Uhh so what was January 6th?
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 37 pts · 364d
He's right though. None of the Jan 6th insurrectionists were hanged and the behaviour continued.
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 364d
I'm actually baffled that Americans have scoffed at treason so hard. A slap on the fucking wrist is all they got.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 364d
Plenty of us wanted to murk the bastards or at least seize assets, the problem is that due to civility bullshit there was no practical political will. Every fucking dem and independent could've wanted literally any punishment for it but short of lynching a couple Congress critters to get the ball rolling nothing would've motivated the required actions.
Gstocklein@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz · 6 pts · 364d
That was different.
/s
MasterBlaster@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 1y
The most common tell in his enraged statements is that he, like most MAGA cultists, accuse others of exactly what he does regularly, and brazenly. For him, though, that is moral righteousness.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 364d
"The violent left"
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 1y
Rep. John Gillette (R) is an antifa member of the "radical Left" then, right? As defined by Republicans and Trump saying how it's those groups calling for political violence.
CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one · 14 pts · 364d
This hateful moron blamed Jews for Pearl Harbor.
aviationeast@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 364d
Yes all those Japanese Semitics....
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 364d
I hear they have pretty good sex, cooking, and wolf taming techniques
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1y
You first, Mr GOP
VasovagalSyncope@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 1y
Would be fucking nice if this community wasn't complicit in suppressing dissenters like reddit mods
0ndead@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 364d
wtf are you on about
VasovagalSyncope@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 364d
The mods remove comments that talk about solutions to current problems when you focus on the rich.
Like reddit mods