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18 Jan 2021, 8:20 am
18 Jan 2021, 9:44 am
GGPViper wrote:
Obviously, the bluster and posturing from the Proud Boys, 3 Percenter, Qanon, Oathkeeper crowd etc. didn't translate into a desire to go head to head with 20,000 National Guardsmen in DC (and even more at the State level).
I'm guessing the vast majority of the would-be MAGA insurrectionists know this (too) is a lost cause… but a small core group of fanatics will likely be a real headache for law enforcement for years to come… the ideological similarities between the MAGA crowd and Timothy McVeigh cannot be ignored.
Seconded.I'm guessing the vast majority of the would-be MAGA insurrectionists know this (too) is a lost cause… but a small core group of fanatics will likely be a real headache for law enforcement for years to come… the ideological similarities between the MAGA crowd and Timothy McVeigh cannot be ignored.
Do they not know that their position is untenable, and that their actions serve only to increase hostility toward them?
Do they not realize that their short-term goals cannot be maintained even if they could be achieved?
Can they not see how utterly stupid their actions and appearances are to the general public?
Why can they not admit that Donald Trump lost the election and Joseph Biden is (soon to be) the new President?
Sucks to be them, I guess.
18 Jan 2021, 10:52 am
MrsPeel wrote:
But you know they're searching out their buddies online, and comparing notes on how powerful the left-wing conspiracy has become and how nobody cares that the FBI is aligned with antifa and out to get them 
Let them feel that way. Sucks to be them. I guess the left won.
18 Jan 2021, 10:54 am
18 Jan 2021, 11:04 am
League_Girl wrote:
... I guess the left won.
That is only what our extra-terrestrial reptilian overlords WANT you to think...
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18 Jan 2021, 4:47 pm
Fnord wrote:
League_Girl wrote:
... I guess the left won.
That is only what our extra-terrestrial reptilian overlords WANT you to think...ALL HAIL COMMUNIST BABY EATING SATAN WORSHIPPING LIZARD PEOPLE!!
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goldfish21 wrote:
Fnord wrote:
League_Girl wrote:
... I guess the left won.
That is only what our extra-terrestrial reptilian overlords WANT you to think...ALL HAIL COMMUNIST BABY EATING SATAN WORSHIPPING LIZARD PEOPLE!!
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18 Jan 2021, 5:22 pm
Hehehehe
The funniest part of all that tinfoil hat nonsense is that Satanists don’t worship Satan; because they don’t believe that Satan exists!
A (gay) Catholic youth worker I worked on a fundraiser with for homeless lgbt youth was STUNNED when I explained this to him.
Satanists believe humans are the pinnacle and we’re responsible to look after ourselves, our families, and friends w/o outside intervention from anything divine. Devil imagery is used to mock Christian’s belief in a higher power.
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goldfish21 wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
goldfish21 wrote:
So did anything happen in any state capitals today?
I haven’t heard anything. But I thought this was the day scheduled for riots at state capitol buildings ??
Or have attitudes shifted since the trump supporter insurrectionists from DC are all being arrested and charged for their crimes?
I haven’t heard anything. But I thought this was the day scheduled for riots at state capitol buildings ??
Or have attitudes shifted since the trump supporter insurrectionists from DC are all being arrested and charged for their crimes?
"Nothing" and that's the problem...The FBI have allowed hundreds of rioters to go home.
Isn’t it better that they’re all at home watching porn instead of breaking into buildings and murdering police officers?
The same could be said about the leftist rioters.
auntblabby wrote:
i don't want those crooks living next to me or in my neighborhood. i want them outtahere.
Yup.
All extremists are bad news, in my book.
18 Jan 2021, 7:07 pm
goldfish21 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
i don't want those crooks living next to me or in my neighborhood. i want them outtahere.
Unfortunately there are tens of Millions of Americans with red hat mentalities and they’re not going away instantly the moment trump is gone/in jail or whatever. There’s no easy fix to this mess. Those people are going to continue causing problems for quite some time to come.
You do realise that a lot of the hate was caused by the left's refusal to accept trumps election victory 4 years ago, right?
Whinging for 4 years is gunna piss off anyone, I would imagine.
It would also explain trump's mental health problems.
Humiliation isn't something that a narcissistic egomaniac can swallow easily.
I guess it might be a case of 'reaping what you sow.'
The same thing happened with the Versailles Treaty.
The same thing is happening with China* now, though that a stretch, imo.
18 Jan 2021, 7:07 pm
Pepe wrote:
Yup.
All extremists are bad news, in my book.
All extremists are bad news, in my book.
The tricky bit is recognising extremists as extremists, if you partially agree with what they're saying, or have a natural aversion to anything coming back the other way.
Welcome back.
18 Jan 2021, 7:12 pm
League_Girl wrote:
Apparently this was all supposed to happen today and no one showed up in all 50 states. I wonder if it was because of all the arrests that happened and people losing their jobs so they were all too scared to go thinking this will be them. Good, let them be scared.
Really?
I am not sure if I am Arthur or Martha, with you Amerikans, any more.
Some Republicans are ashamed of what trump did, and a fuming, which might have dampened the patriotic mood.
Nice one, trump.
Shoot yourself in the foot, why don't you.
18 Jan 2021, 7:12 pm
Pepe wrote:
It would also explain trump's mental health problems.
Humiliation isn't something that a narcissistic egomaniac can swallow easily.
I guess it might be a case of 'reaping what you sow.'
The same thing happened with the Versailles Treaty.
The same thing is happening with China* now, though that a stretch, imo.
Humiliation isn't something that a narcissistic egomaniac can swallow easily.
I guess it might be a case of 'reaping what you sow.'
The same thing happened with the Versailles Treaty.
The same thing is happening with China* now, though that a stretch, imo.
Trump supporters indirectly blaming other people for Trump's mental health problems would be "gaslighting" surely? "It's not his fault he's a monster, you made him do it!"
Uhuh, no.
18 Jan 2021, 7:14 pm
Redd_Kross wrote:
Pepe wrote:
Yup.
All extremists are bad news, in my book.
All extremists are bad news, in my book.
The tricky bit is recognising extremists as extremists, if you partially agree with what they're saying, or have a natural aversion to anything coming back the other way.
Welcome back.
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