Let me break this down:

Openly defying court orders multiple times= dictatorship Threatening to jail political opponents despite them being pardoned= dictatorship Deporting American citizens who have legal citizenship= dictatorship Can’t put it any simpler.

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    Hey where was the motherfucker arguing they wouldnt deport legal people with me here? Huh? Where ya at?

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      They literally don’t care. All they want is to win an argument against leftists in the moment; they actually see it as a weakness to be beholden to facts.

      They’re playing a different “game” entirely, one where rhetoric is more important than reality.

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        This point should be understood by all - they’re programmed to get a dopamine hit in the moment by pissing you off.

        They’re not arguing in good faith and all the time you spend making rational statements is a waste. Nobody is keeping a scorecard that punishes them for losing an intellectual discussion.

        The opposition to MAGA has to find a new path, because applying rational arguments in discussions ain’t going to work.

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          This is why calling them weird was sort of effective. It’s not a fact, it’s an opinion. Now, I think it’s a widely held opinion, but the point is it wasn’t something they could argue with. It was sort of playing the game they’ve been playing.

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            Playground antics can work on these types of people. First, you have to understand who they think they are, and what they take pride in. Then attack them incessantly based on the knowledge of what constitutes their ego.

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    Constitutional crisis time! Who’s ready to defend their rights and fight for democracy!

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    If anyone wants context for why she was denied entry, apart from photos supportive of terrorists found on the phone

    The doctor also reportedly told agents that she attended the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah while in Lebanon, but that she supported him “from a religious perspective” and not a political one.

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      The article says that Customs and Border Patrol agents “found “sympathetic photos and videos” of prominent Hezbollah figures in the deleted items folder of her cellphone.”

      That statement is vague enough in itself (could be memes from a group chat, could be something someone shared in a whatsapp chat that she had no interest in - we don’t know). What we do know is that having pictures sympathetic to Hezbollah figures on your phone is not illegal, and it doesn’t automatically equate to ‘being supportive of terrorists’. I have photos of Trump in my phone from group chats and from web cache of viewed articles, and I hate the treasonous c*nt.

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      I don’t think anything that they did to this lady was legal but for her to attend the funeral and then admit that to the agents seems like a exceedingly bad decision.

      I’m kinda mystified why you’d attend a funeral of such a figure, take a bunch of pictures of you there(?), and fly back to the USA with the administration currently in place and not expect a shitshow. Is this an extreme version of ‘don’t talk to the cops’ or was this lady just very naive? Even as a US citizen I’d probably wipe my phone before flying back to the US just to avoid anything weird popping up if it was searched.

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        Sounds like she can go teach in Europe now pretty easily. She’s got a great story. Fucking slick, if deliberate.

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      Marching it the streets.

      Mass protests.

      Malicious compliance.

      Organized disruptions of everyday life.

      Sabotage.

      All that first.

      Guns are for when they refuse those.

      You are a literal years ahead of the curve when it comes to lasting change. Be a martyr if you want. I dont care. But if we didnt follow behind luigi, we arent there yet. So shoot someone and get gunned down. Be my guest. You first.

      Have you even done the bare minimum of protest before advocating for fucking violence? Are you lazy or just an armchair antagonizer?