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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 04:25:19 JST Paul Cantrell

   Hmm, maybe time to go back and study the language of anti-immigrant scare tactic campaigns, and maybe those racist William Horton ads from the 1988 presidential campaign, to learn how to talk about these fascist coup rioters that Trump pardoned.

   Not for the logic. For the language. https://universeodon.com/@jaykuo/113918896484167394

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 04:27:33 JST Paul Cantrell

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     “[Politician] freed [person] and then they committed a crime!!!” has been such a reprehensible but effective tactic since forever — and now here at last is a situation where that negative judgement is actually a fair one, and I don’t know how to summon the rhetorical forms to do it. #uspol

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     Keith Ivey (kcivey@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 07:19:08 JST Keith Ivey

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     @inthehands In the two cases I've seen so far it's been that they had already committed crimes between J6 and their pardon. So it would have to be "Trump freed [person] who committed [crime unrelated to J6]!" But give it a little more time and no doubt some of them will commit new crimes.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 07:19:08 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Keith Ivey

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     I don’t think any one of those past political attacks, not a one of them, had anything approaching that level of nuance