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Comment by karmonhardan | Hacker News Reader

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It's the kind of blame-ambiguifying ("Can't do anything, law says so," "Can't do anything, courts say so.") that happens when the opposition to a given reform are perfectly happy to beat, bomb, and shoot anyone who dares to try to [integrate schools/secure voting rights/offer reproductive care/marry two people of the same gender/etc.].

What you're actually asking for is for America to finally undertake its own form of denazification, and hoo boy, if you think that things are rough now...

Remember, there was an actual insurrection by these folks 4 years ago. They literally entered the building housing our legislature and threatened the lives of our lawmakers. There is, like, zero question of why there's been a chilling effect on finding legislative remedies to American issues, even if you cut out the massive influence of lobbyists. No one wants to get Abe'd.

>What you're actually asking for is for America to finally undertake its own form of denazification

This is the kind of claptrap that makes it difficult to take the hard left seriously.

There is a direct line between the KKK, American Nazi Party, and Republicans and "moderate" Democrats who are just over the past few years aging (dying) out of office. The ideology of the latter is going strong. But I appreciate the insult; it's the kind of hysterical mischaracterization that tends to come out when one is close to prescribing the proper corrective action to right-wing malfeasance.

> They literally entered the building housing our legislature

Just for the record, there's nothing special about doing this. It's actually fairly surprising how open a lot of the buildings in DC are.

> and threatened the lives of our lawmakers

This part I don't get how more people didn't get shot. I mean I guess it lowered fatalities but when you get into a tug of war with the cops as the rope I don't get why shooting doesn't start.

> there's nothing special about doing this

"There's nothing special about breaking down the doors of the bank while it's closed in order to chase the staff and rummage through all of the drawers, people enter banks all the time."

The parent poster was obviously concerned with how and why they entered the building.

>when you get into a tug of war with the cops as the rope I don't get why shooting doesn't start.

I assumed this meant the cops were complicit.

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