CommieCanUCK
Ye Olde King of OT
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Post by CommieCanUCK on Jan 8, 2021 13:02:12 GMT -5
I dare somebody to say ‘both sides’ now. Spend ten seconds in the comment section of any story about this. BLM= democrat= riot= BoTH SIdeS YoU GUisE!
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Post by squidhills on Jan 8, 2021 14:45:55 GMT -5
Hi! Longtime lurker, first time poster here. I just wanted to say that in that photo of the bearded wankers at the coup, I actually know the guy on the right holding the red flag. He's from the Frederick, MD area and, from my interactions with him, he seemed to be somewhat mentally challenged. And I don't mean that in a "Republicans are brain damaged" way, I mean he does not seem to posses a full set of mental faculties, and I honestly think he may have been pulled into this by falling in with a toxic group of "friends". I feel bad for him, but not the people who took advantage of him and pulled him into this insanity.
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Post by tannhauser42 on Jan 8, 2021 15:44:54 GMT -5
That is, sadly, something that happens all too often. Whether it be extremist political groups, religions, criminal gangs, or Nigerian princes, they're all happy to prey upon such people.
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CommieCanUCK
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Post by CommieCanUCK on Jan 8, 2021 16:38:52 GMT -5
Given that we already know the government knows what sites we frequent, do you think that gross violation of privacy could actually be used for good?
A lot of these kids are radicalized without their parents really understanding what it is their child is consuming.
Perhaps a standard form letter like "We have noticed that someone at this house is viewing extremist propaganda that has been linked to violent actions in the past. Please talk to your kid before he ruins his life"
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Post by dabbler on Jan 8, 2021 17:47:02 GMT -5
Given that we already know the government knows what sites we frequent, do you think that gross violation of privacy could actually be used for good? A lot of these kids are radicalized without their parents really understanding what it is their child is consuming. Perhaps a standard form letter like "We have noticed that someone at this house is viewing extremist propaganda that has been linked to violent actions in the past. Please talk to your kid before he ruins his life" I dunno, aren't many of the families these kids come from the same kind who would jump more at the government seeing their traffic than at their kid being radicalised?
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CommieCanUCK
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Post by CommieCanUCK on Jan 8, 2021 17:50:25 GMT -5
Well, yeah. There's no helping the generational deplorables. And I'm not talking strictly about the white nationalist shit. Incels are created mostly online. Their parents just probably think he's shy around girls, until he brings a gun to school.
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Post by Disciple of Fate on Jan 8, 2021 18:54:29 GMT -5
Well, we now know what gets Trump banned from Twitter, as it has finally happened, all it took was some winky faced calls to overthrow democracy.
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Post by semipotentwalrus on Jan 8, 2021 21:52:41 GMT -5
On a side-note, what the fuck is up with people pronouncing Antifa as though it was someone named Anne Tifa? That's some grade-A dishonest use of linguistics to make it sound like an Arabic word to elicit fear by associating it with brown people.
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Post by dabbler on Jan 9, 2021 1:36:06 GMT -5
Well, we now know what gets Trump banned from Twitter, as it has finally happened, all it took was some winky faced calls to overthrow democracy. Wait is he back to banned?
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Post by hatoflords on Jan 9, 2021 2:06:39 GMT -5
Trump has had his account permanently suspended by Twitter. His comments actually were rather innocuous, but Twitter probably saw their stock price wobble or something or maybe their patience ran out.
He was joined by Reddit banning r/Donald_Trump, an apparently infamous Trumper mod from r/Conspiracy, and a wave of suspensions and bans across social media against what looks like anyone who reacted to the rioting with naked praise? Lots of bannings.
It looks like Congressional Democrats are prepared to follow through on their threat of impeachment. Biden is maybe doing the best thing he can do by presenting it as Congress does what Congress gonna do. He can kind of afford to put himself above it and too the side. He'd be the first sitting President to never have to be concerned about ongoing impeachment proceedings. Congressional Dems can do it all themselves and the incident will force Republicans to go on the record about what Trump did and his flagrant disregard for his own actions.
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Post by Emblematic Wolfblade on Jan 9, 2021 2:08:24 GMT -5
Trump has had his account permanently suspended by Twitter. His comments actually were rather innocuous, but Twitter probably saw their stock price wobble or something or maybe their patience ran out. He was joined by Reddit banning r/Donald_Trump, an apparently infamous Trumper mod from r/Conspiracy, and a wave of suspensions and bans across social media against what looks like anyone who reacted to the rioting with naked praise? Lots of bannings. It looks like Congressional Democrats are prepared to follow through on their threat of impeachment. Biden is maybe doing the best thing he can do by presenting it as Congress does what Congress gonna do. He can kind of afford to put himself above it and too the side. He'd be the first sitting President to never have to be concerned about ongoing impeachment proceedings. Congressional Dems can do it all themselves and the incident will force Republicans to go on the record about what Trump did and his flagrant disregard for his own actions. It'll also make trump the first president to be impeached twice. Or, if he gets 25'd, the first president to be removed by that. Either way, another record first for trump.
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Post by hatoflords on Jan 9, 2021 2:16:45 GMT -5
Parler was also removed from the Google Play app, seemingly on rumors that Apple is preparing to ban it from Apple. Apple has delivered an ultimatum that Parler will either act on numerous reports of people espousing violence on the platform in 24 hours, or they will be removed from the App Store.
This is, humorously, going on while Trump's last Tweets seemed to hint at plans to launch his own social media app, presumably one he owns and thus will never be banned from.
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Post by hatoflords on Jan 9, 2021 2:32:01 GMT -5
Oh, and in a case of justice serving, the following rioters have been arrested;
-The guy who proudly photographed himself in Pelosi's office and stole her mail. The FBI claims to have found pipebombs and guns in his truck. -The founder of Proud Boy's Hawaii -The W. Virginia state rep who filmed himself with the rioters, then deleted the video and hoped no one noticed -The DC court has heard over three dozen cases relating to the riot and the Justice Department has launched several federal investigations (most famously, into the felony murder of one capital police officer who was ironically a Trump supporter according to his social media).
The deaths in this whole incident actually feel preposterously karmic. One woman was trampled while holding a 'don't tread on me flag.' Another tasered himself and died. One was shot by capital police trying to get through a window that seems almost too high and narrow to actually get through. And in all of that, they killed a fellow Trump supporter. I was angry before about how pathetic this 'riot' ultimately was, but I honestly didn't expect it to get more pathetic. Meanwhile, there's a woman crying about being pepper sprayed while visibly rubbing an onion in her eyes in front of a camera.
Are we being punked?
All this while the FBI apparently investigates the offices and homes of a dozen Tennessee Republicans and aids, apparently in relation to bribery accusations (similar to the case in Ohio) over a bill that was immediately struck down by a judge as unconstitutional XD
Dominion has also demanded $1.3 billion dollars in damages in their lawsuit against Trump's election lawyer and his campaign.
I do have to say, after the last 4 years this sudden crash down of people finally paying for their actions, is very cathartic. Kind of a fucking shame it only happened after some people died, not counting all the other people who've died the last four years because of Trump's mouth.
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Post by adurot on Jan 9, 2021 3:00:47 GMT -5
How can you gloss over the guy tazering himself to death? He tazered himself in the nuts. Repeatedly. He repeatedly tazered himself in the nuts while trying to steal a painting and suffered a heart attack.
FBI is also investigating the capital PD and building staff over it being an inside job or assisted by them. Getting in too easily, finding off the maps and out of the way offices way too fast, ect.
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Post by Emblematic Wolfblade on Jan 9, 2021 3:50:25 GMT -5
I don't remember if it has been mentioned, but they've identified six republican lawmakers who were part of the coup.
Hopefully they all are removed from office and spend a nice long bit of time in jail.
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