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Do we all forget that they were going to lynch anyone who said anything disagreeable on social media? They made a tracking site and everything.
I won't forget the 24 hours after when all I saw were people celebrating his murder and people literally trying to convince Republicans to start murdering Democrats. Then they realized they could get people fired for showing the wrong emotion and all the murder talk simmered down.
So people got fired for being happy a prick died. But to my knowledge, nobody was fired for trying to get people to commit murder.
In Trump's America, they should be glad ICE didn't track them down, break into their home at night and just shoot them while asleep in their beds.
This type of thing hasn't been reported anywhere, but given they're willing to murder peaceful citizens with impunity in full view of the public I'm willing to speculate the shit going on we don't know about is SO much worse.
So, this is terrifying to think about. Because honestly, I think they're too incompetent to keep stuff hidden. And he's generally not interested in secret stuff. He wants to be a loud dictator where people don't question him, rather than getting away with something he shouldn't do. In his mind, there's nothing he shouldn't do.
But we know that if something happens off camera, people generally don't care. So what happens when the next person takes advantage of that apathy.