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haresfur

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Posted: Jan 6, 2021 - 5:29pm



 kurtster wrote:

Well at least they did not move in and stay.

How short everyone's memory is.  Y'all were cool with this one ...  Can someone tell me what the difference is, please ?

Yeah, I already know ... It's okay when it's the guys on your side ...


 
I'm sure you won't like the answers. In part:

in Wisconsin they weren't carrying zip ties for taking hostages

intent. Wisconsin wasn't an insurrection to overthrow the results of a democratic election. 

Red_Dragon

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Posted: Jan 6, 2021 - 5:13pm



 kurtster wrote:

Well at least they did not move in and stay.

How short everyone's memory is.  Y'all were cool with this one ...  Can someone tell me what the difference is, please ?

Yeah, I already know ... It's okay when it's the guys on your side ...

2011 Wisconsin protests





The protest that wouldn’t end: Act 10
 

You're beyond pathetic, kurt.
Steely_D

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Posted: Jan 6, 2021 - 5:00pm



 kurtster wrote:

Well at least they did not move in and stay.

 

So are you agreeing with what happened today? You're trying to distract by bringing up something else but let's keep things simple. Was today's violent terrorism, including someone shot and killed, something that should've happened?
R_P

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Posted: Jan 6, 2021 - 4:44pm

Tu Quoque

kurtster

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Posted: Jan 6, 2021 - 4:39pm

 R_P wrote:
Law And Order
 
Well at least they did not move in and stay.

How short everyone's memory is.  Y'all were cool with this one ...  Can someone tell me what the difference is, please ?

Yeah, I already know ... It's okay when it's the guys on your side ...

2011 Wisconsin protests





The protest that wouldn’t end: Act 10
kcar

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Posted: Jan 6, 2021 - 4:17pm

Oh, but Antifa!





It's time to reject Trump and his mob. Forever.
R_P

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Posted: Jan 6, 2021 - 4:08pm

Law And Order

Red_Dragon

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Posted: Jan 6, 2021 - 3:27pm



 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

It's not foolish, it's fact.
What right thing? The police escorting them safely out the door (holding their hands to steady them lest they slip on the steps) in time for the early bird dinner at Applebee's and not arresting them? That right thing?
 


Look at how gently the pushed them back. "Don't hurt anyone, they're white people!"
ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Jan 6, 2021 - 3:04pm



 black321 wrote:


 Red_Dragon wrote:
Imagine how many of these people would be dead already if they weren't white.
 

sorry. that's a pretty foolish comment.
rebuking the police for doing the right thing.
the point you are trying to make isn't appropriate at this time.

 

It's not foolish, it's fact.
What right thing? The police escorting them safely out the door (holding their hands to steady them lest they slip on the steps) in time for the early bird dinner at Applebee's and not arresting them? That right thing?
Red_Dragon

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Posted: Jan 6, 2021 - 2:41pm



 black321 wrote:

sorry. that's a pretty foolish comment.
rebuking the police for doing the right thing.
the point you are trying to make isn't appropriate at this time.

 

We'll agree to disagree on this.

westslope

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Posted: Jan 6, 2021 - 1:57pm



 black321 wrote:


 Red_Dragon wrote:
Imagine how many of these people would be dead already if they weren't white.
 

sorry. that's a pretty foolish comment.
 
No. It is not.   

black321

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Posted: Jan 6, 2021 - 1:57pm



 Red_Dragon wrote:
Imagine how many of these people would be dead already if they weren't white.
 

sorry. that's a pretty foolish comment.
rebuking the police for doing the right thing.
the point you are trying to make isn't appropriate at this time.

Red_Dragon

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Posted: Jan 6, 2021 - 1:21pm

Imagine how many of these people would be dead already if they weren't white.
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Posted: Jan 6, 2021 - 12:47pm

Marauding protesters vandalize Speaker Pelosi’s office.


Scenes of looting in the Capitol roiled Republicans and Democrats, who pleaded with President Trump to intervene.
“When the looting starts, the shooting starts”
R_P

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Posted: Jan 6, 2021 - 12:39pm



Trump supporters, many of them wearing camouflage clothing, breached entrances on the east side of the Capitol, marched directly through the magnetometers and slammed the wooden doors inside.

Swarms of protesters roamed the halls, taking photos and breaking into offices. A man was smoking pot in a room where there were photos of mountains and maps of Oregon on the wall. A man put a framed photo of the Dalai Lama in his backpack. A man in a leather jacket ripped a scroll with Chinese characters.

Outside, people banged on the glass windows of the Capitol, breaking some panes. Crowds pressed past the front columns. People shouted at empty rooms inside with computer monitors on desks and empty chairs.


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Posted: Jan 5, 2021 - 10:55pm



 kcar wrote:
Violence in fiction is one thing. Violence and chaos in reality almost always causes Americans to shift their support to the Establishment in government and society.
 

People watch The Purge, but have no wish for it to be real. (Of course, the same was true of Outbreak)
kcar

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Posted: Jan 4, 2021 - 5:40pm



 sirdroseph wrote:

Not just political violence, violence in general.  We are a bloodthirsty lot however the love of money is what really drives the engine and the primary vehicle of said violence is the media.  They dangle the meat and film the reaction which of course is meat in it of itself.  Having said that I optimistically cling to the hope there are multitudes hanging in the shadows who are not consumers of the shit show.  Who knows?  Maybe the non voters have been right all along.
{#Eek}
 

Americans may like watching violence in TV shows and movies and video games but they do not like watching violence in the streets. The looting and destruction that took place around BLM protests—in some cases not caused by pro-BLM groups—helped diminish support for BLM and Democratic candidates. 

Violence in fiction is one thing. Violence and chaos in reality almost always causes Americans to shift their support to the Establishment in government and society.
R_P

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Posted: Jan 4, 2021 - 4:40pm

The leader of the far-right Proud Boys was arrested in Washington
Enrique Tarrio, the chairman of the Proud Boys, was arrested by Metropolitan Police on suspicion of burning a Black Lives Matter banner torn from a historic Black church in Washington during protests last month that led to several violent clashes, including stabbings, around the city.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Department confirmed that Mr. Tarrio, 36, had been arrested on charges of destruction of property, stemming from a mid-December incident in downtown Washington. Upon his arrest he was found to be in possession of two high-capacity firearm magazines and charged accordingly with possession.

The arrest also pits the Justice Department against some of Mr. Trump’s most ardent supporters; the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington acts as the main prosecutor’s office for the District of Columbia.

sirdroseph

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Posted: Dec 14, 2020 - 4:24am

 westslope wrote:


 kcar wrote:
 

Well, what does unite otherwise polarized Americans?   A deep abiding love of political violence.

Be honest, many of you support the anti-protesters because you love violence.
 
Not just political violence, violence in general.  We are a bloodthirsty lot however the love of money is what really drives the engine and the primary vehicle of said violence is the media.  They dangle the meat and film the reaction which of course is meat in it of itself.  Having said that I optimistically cling to the hope there are multitudes hanging in the shadows who are not consumers of the shit show.  Who knows?  Maybe the non voters have been right all along.{#Eek}
westslope

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Posted: Dec 13, 2020 - 12:26pm



 kcar wrote:
 

Well, what does unite otherwise polarized Americans?   A deep abiding love of political violence.

Be honest, many of you support the anti-protesters because you love violence.
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