Only through force can Washington, D.C. be changed, Florida Republican Matt Gaetz said Saturday while standing with Trump at the Iowa State Fair.
    • adriaan@sh.itjust.works
      28·
      2 years ago

      What makes you think vigilantilism is a problem with the extreme left?

      Just as an example off the top of my head, the murder of Ahmaud Arbery was done by right-wing looneys and defended by the far-right as morally good vigilantilism, leading to the repeal of Georgia’s citizens arrest laws (i.e., their laws for legal vigilantilism).

    • dtc@lemmy.world
      16·
      2 years ago

      Which is why they are not taken seriously by anyone else on the political spectrum.

      Oh no, the pedophiles don’t take us seriously, how sad.

    • paintbucketholder@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 years ago

      This isn’t hard to understand at all. Unless you want to throw out the laws that define our society and perscribe to vigilante justice based on feelings, instead of evidence and juries.

      A jury of his peers found Trump guilty of being a rapist, but I have yet to see a single “law and order!!! we have to rely on evidence and juries!!!” Trump follower acknowledge that.