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Yeah the article explained that. If they can ban a president then nobody is safe.

I watched that whole thing. I have a lot to say about the phantom pain.

I liked Jeff Bezos fucked up eyes

see, twitter isn't all whining snowflake republicans with their weird sexually repressed delusions.

once again, all gas no brakes coming through with the best topical coverage of any media outlet, mainstream or online.

he's the best thing to happen to 'gonzo' or beat journalism in ages. highly entertaining channel. basically a cultural and anthropological record.

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that sounds like an incredibly dumb podcast, and not at all representative of the sorts of – quite justified – critiques i've seen around on the internet. there's no way it's the 'left-wing' or supposed liberal line that they want to sack the congress building or terrorize elected representatives. wtf?

'it wasn't that serious', well, touche. but many more people died, police officers and representatives of the state, nonetheless, than at any left-wing or 'terrorist'-organized activity in D.C.

Last edited by uziq (2022-01-08 05:03:44)

erm mostly the only people to die at BLM protests were people mowed down by right-wing thugs in vehicles.

i think there's only been one recorded instance of someone getting killed by antifa? and that itself was an exchange of fire in the streets between a proud boy/PB-adjacent guy and some antifa guy who had nothing to do with BLM.

e: have googled it and seems there's a decent list of such cases as the above. right vs. left and both sides turn up to protests with guns. highly smart behaviour.

Garrett Foster was reportedly carrying an AK-47 rifle when he was shot to death in July by an armed man who had been driving a car through a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters in Austin. Whether Foster threatened the driver with his gun is still disputed. The man who shot and killed Foster, the US army sergeant Daniel Perry, had previously tweeted “Now is the time to take up arms and protect yourselves against violence” and responded to a Trump tweet in June about “protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters” by saying, “Send them to Texas we will show them why we say don’t mess with Texas.”

In Louisville, the photographer Tyler Gerth was shot and killed at a downtown park where protesters gathered. The alleged shooter, Steven Nelson Lopez, was homeless and had a history of severe mental illness, and had reportedly been asked to leave the park earlier because of his behavior. Many of the protesters in the park were armed and on edge, and returned fire when Lopez started shooting, local news outlets reported.

In Las Vegas, Jorge Gomez was wearing body armor and carrying several guns when he was shot to death by Las Vegas police at a protest in June. Before he was shot, several protesters told Gomez they disapproved of him being armed, and even a journalist questioned him about why he was holding his gun in his hand with his finger on the trigger, the Las Vegas Sun reported. Las Vegas police officer Shay Mikalonis was shot in the head during the same protest, and reportedly remains paralyzed from the injury. Officials have said the 20-year-old Las Vegas resident charged in the shooting had not been participating in the protest before the attack, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

highly politically motivated . 'BLM is a dangerous movement!'

Last edited by uziq (2022-01-08 05:08:30)

yeah, i know, i wasn't disagreeing with you. just the absurdity of these people's viewpoint. fully bedranken the kool-aid.

uziq wrote:

that sounds like an incredibly dumb podcast, and not at all representative of the sorts of – quite justified – critiques i've seen around on the internet. there's no way it's the 'left-wing' or supposed liberal line that they want to sack the congress building or terrorize elected representatives. wtf?

'it wasn't that serious', well, touche. but many more people died, police officers and representatives of the state, nonetheless, than at any left-wing or 'terrorist'-organized activity in D.C.

Congress has a 20% approval rating. It is the least liked institution in America.

If BLM had managed to sack Congress, liberals would be mealy mouth about the whole incident too.

The people who did it should be put in prison. But we really need to stop giving into our post-9/11 impulse to hyperventilate.

I think January 6th actually showed the strength of the republic. The police didn't mass defect to the rioters. National Guard and militarized police had a delayed response but still went and put down the riot. Congress was back in business only hours later and finished their count that night. Nobody was emboldened to fight against the recount. People in other parts of the country who showed up to their local government offices got sent away or arrested. The government is now continuing to find and prosecute people who were there. Everyone went to work the next day just fine. I don't think the stock market even went down the next morning.

Maybe things would have been different if Trump marched there with the crowd like he said he would. Maybe the police and national guard at that point would have been cowed into submission. Trump's people occupy congress while he declares the count void. But Trump is lazy and a coward so no worries there.

Fascism isn't here. We aren't near a fascist takeover. My point about the approval ratings is that congress is universally loathed in this country. Both sides are willing to excuse their side sacking congress.