• *dust.sys@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    PA resident here. Shapiro is as left as left gets these days without being actively snuffed by the Democratic establishment, so naturally the right sees him as a plant for the deep state or whatever they’re calling ‘the ones we don’t like’ these days. Republicans have a healthy majority in State Congress here after the 2024 elections, and they are towing the party line and implementing Project 2025 despite resistance from constituents and the Governor.

    Shout-out to Senator Doug “Literal Insurrectionist Traitor” Mastriano for being an all-around piece of shit, by the way.

    Either way, this is a physical attack on the current political minority. Combine that with the timing (the first night of Passover), this has all the signs of an act of domestic terrorism.

    The fact they’re not using that word right now, either they’re being abundantly cautious and just not ready to confirm that yet, or they are trying minimize the story because of who was involved and/or why it happened in the first place.

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      7 days ago

      Meanwhile, Trump’s idiot doj is saying people egging Teslas is terrorism. When actual terrorism is refused to be labeled as such, attempting to redefine the word to their twisted ends.

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        Good thing Trump is cracking down hard on the real anti semites – you know, students who don’t want US bombs used on Palestinian children…

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          It’s easy when the news is owned by for profits bound to repeat whatever is given to them for the ends of “both sides”, and the precipices of higher education like Columbia and Harvard jump aboard the misinformation wagon so as not to upset rich and powerful donors or lose “government grants” held at the barrel of allegiance.

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      Shapiro is as left as left gets these days

      Other than his unconditional support for a fascist apartheid ethnostate leading to cracking down on constitutionally protected free speech and freedom of association.

      And his being a proponent of further empoverishment of public schools to benefit poorly regulated for-profit charter schools that are usually either religious, of much lower educational standards than advertised, or both.

      Also he’s advocated for lowering corporate tax rates.

      without being actively snuffed by the Democratic establishment.

      Fair, I guess 🤷

      Shout-out to Senator Doug “Literal Insurrectionist Traitor” Mastriano for being an all-around piece of shit, by the way.

      Yup!

      this has all the signs of an act of domestic terrorism.

      Yup!

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        Francis Chardo, the Dauphin county district attorney, said that forthcoming charges will include attempted murder, terrorism, attempted arson and aggravated assault.

        According to the article, terrorism is one of the likely charges.

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      6 days ago

      Shit, I didn’t realize that asshole senator (Mastriano) won. Wishing you guys the best with that one, and hoping he’s run out of town next election.