• GiddyGap@lemm.ee
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    They said Easterday was homeschooled and “everything he knew was filtered through the lens of his parents” when he came to the Capitol. Easterday, they said, “plainly did not fully understand what the Confederate flag signified” and even Googled “what does the rebel flag represent” on the afternoon of Jan. 6.

    Awesome parenting.

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      Imagine doing an insurrection, looking at the flags waving next to you, and wondering what the fuck ideology it is that you’re attacking cops over.

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        Future history students will spend many hours studying and evaluating this only to conclude that it meant almost nothing at all.

        Which in itself will be an insight into how vacuous and pointless our culture was.

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          People also look at it as an example of how identifiable people are right now.

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        And people wonder why liberals look at Trump supporters like they are idiots. It’s because they are. Legit never met a Trump supporter I could use a word with more than three syllables in it.

        Feeling cute, might overthrow democracy later.

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        I think this is the majority of trump supporters. Just completely ignorant to what is happening and what the person they’re supporting stands for. All it took was a few lies for them to start an insurrection and they didn’t even bother fact checking before attacking the nation they claim to love.

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          I think so too. But the reason most of them are completely ignorant is because they are fear-addicted racists. None of them have bothered to check if Mexican “invaders” are “swarming” across the border carrying “sacks of fentanyl” or not. They are willing participants in their own brainwashing.

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      So can we run the neglect lawsuits here like the Michigan parents? /s kinda