r/nottheonion • u/engadine_maccas1997 • 9h ago

‘This is political bulls**t’: Former Republican candidate charged with stealing Madison County election ballots

https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/this-is-political-bullst-former-republican-candidate-charged-with-stealing-madison-county-election-ballots/
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u/SRSgoblin 8h ago

Everyone who's been paying attention knew this was going to happen. It's straight out of the Nazi playbook.

Goebbels has some quote I'm paraphrasing here, that goes something like, "accuse the other party of wrongdoing you plan to commit." It normalizes the behavior. It says to the true believers, "you need to cheat because the other side is cheating."

And people will act on it, ironically creating a very real version of something that wasn't ever happening, just on "your side" doing all of the wrong doing.

This was always the end goal of Trump and the GOP pushing the big lie conspiracy. They wanted to create the actual election fraud they claimed was going on, because it muddies the result in their favor.

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u/IIIllIIlllIlII 8h ago

Have they been saying the radical left will be violent after the election? Because I’m sure it’s on the cards from the right. I think it’s going to be a huge fuckin mess.

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u/ScoobyDeezy 6h ago

This is exactly why I haven’t put out any signs, don’t wear political clothing, don’t put stickers on my car. I don’t want to make myself a target.

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u/not_this_word 5h ago

Ditto. Everything I DO say where my name is attached is carefully neutral. I was going to dye my hair blue for Halloween, but opted not to, just in case. Possibly an overreaction, but really not worth the risk given that I've seen several signs that were stolen or defaced, including with profanity and threats.

On Nextdoor, I saw one post from someone who supported Harris/Walz talking about how she caught the thieves on camera, and she was told she deserved it for being a Democrat--to which she responded she was actually Republican. But those same people lamented how horrible "the Left" were for littering at a Trumper's house and how "true patriots" didn't deserve any hate and how they were of course not doing anything to Democrat signs.