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06 Jan 2021, 5:30 pm

Here's a bit of a flashback, BTW:

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06 Jan 2021, 5:30 pm

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United States of America, this is you:

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This is one of the most shocking images I've seen for a long time.

Is this America? For now, but not for long.
With the malign influence of that infantile orange mess removed from his high-chair the healing will begin and America will rise again.


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06 Jan 2021, 5:32 pm

GGPViper wrote:
Here's a bit of a flashback, BTW:

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Linky no worky for me, I'm afraid?



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06 Jan 2021, 5:33 pm

GGPViper wrote:
Here's a bit of a flashback, BTW:

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Sadly I don't anticipate the chudstormers facing any prison sentences.


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06 Jan 2021, 5:35 pm

What a mess. :(


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06 Jan 2021, 5:37 pm

Redd_Kross wrote:
VegetableMan wrote:
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GGPViper wrote:
United States of America, this is you:

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Hey Pepe, here's something for your "oh but it's never going to happen" far-right criminal protest log.


Stop. Just stop. Haven't we had enough of this f*****g s**t on an Autism support site?

I didn't think it would happen either. I was wrong.


No deliberate provocation, no predictable response. That's really simple logic to follow.

As it was, though, we did have baiting and lots of smug, so now we have "told you so".

Loads of warnings this was on the cards, an amazing number of parallels with the rise of totalitarian dictators in the past, all written off as woke liberal hyperbole. So I'll have my ten minutes of NOW WILL YOU ALL WAKE UP, thanks very much.


Exactly. Now is pecisely the time to call this crap out.


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06 Jan 2021, 5:38 pm

Redd_Kross wrote:
GGPViper wrote:
Here's a bit of a flashback, BTW:

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Linky no worky for me, I'm afraid?

Firefox has trouble displaying some of these 'img' tags so here's the raw unadorned link:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErFFkFPXUAU ... name=small


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06 Jan 2021, 5:40 pm

Cornflake wrote:
Firefox has trouble displaying some of these 'img' tags so here's the raw unadorned link:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErFFkFPXUAU ... name=small


What it's worth, it's displaying in my Firefox. I assumed Redd Kross was talking about the links in the Twitter post that don't work in the image of the Twitter post.


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06 Jan 2021, 5:43 pm

The leftists really need to do some catch-up if we want to save the "both sides" argument!
We gotta get to work mobbing capitol buildings now, or at this rate we'll never catch up!

Remember when Obama was branded a radical? Because I sure as hell do. The obnoxiously moderate, sickeningly civil Obama was branded an anti-American, rabid, socialist, mob-rule-advocating radical. Remember that?
The right wingers really took a black president as a wake-up call that they needed to get back to good old fashioned voter intimidation and assassination threats and near-lynchings (like the one that almost happened WITHIN MILES OF MY HOME).

I'm "looking forward" to congressional Republicans finally deciding that maybe they should at least pretend to be civil.
"I knew inciting radicalism and enabling white supremacy might get people hurt, but I never thought it might get ME hurt :( :( :((("

I sincerely hope that in the following years, people who voted for Trump will have to sit in humiliated silence when history remembers them and him as they deserve to be remembered.


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06 Jan 2021, 5:44 pm

Two explosive devices rendered safe.


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06 Jan 2021, 5:47 pm

roronoa79 wrote:
The leftists really need to do some catch-up if we want to save the "both sides" argument!
We gotta get to work mobbing capitol buildings now, or at this rate we'll never catch up!

Remember when Obama was branded a radical? Because I sure as hell do. The obnoxiously moderate, sickeningly civil Obama was branded an anti-American, rabid, socialist, mob-rule-advocating radical. Remember that?
The right wingers really took a black president as a wake-up call that they needed to get back to good old fashioned voter intimidation and assassination threats and near-lynchings (like the one that almost happened WITHIN MILES OF MY HOME).

I'm "looking forward" to congressional Republicans finally deciding that maybe they should at least pretend to be civil.
"I knew inciting radicalism and enabling white supremacy might get people hurt, but I never thought it might get ME hurt :( :( :((("

I sincerely hope that in the following years, people who voted for Trump will have to sit in humiliated silence when history remembers them and him as they deserve to be remembered.


It seems like by the standards of the far-right crazies disagreeing with them is inherently radical but anything that advances their agenda can't possibly be radical, even if it's literally advocating for a coup or revolution.


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06 Jan 2021, 5:48 pm

roronoa79 wrote:
The leftists really need to do some catch-up if we want to save the "both sides" argument!
We gotta get to work mobbing capitol buildings now, or at this rate we'll never catch up!

Remember when Obama was branded a radical? Because I sure as hell do. The obnoxiously moderate, sickeningly civil Obama was branded an anti-American, rabid, socialist, mob-rule-advocating radical. Remember that?
The right wingers really took a black president as a wake-up call that they needed to get back to good old fashioned voter intimidation and assassination threats and near-lynchings (like the one that almost happened WITHIN MILES OF MY HOME).

I'm "looking forward" to congressional Republicans finally deciding that maybe they should at least pretend to be civil.
"I knew inciting radicalism and enabling white supremacy might get people hurt, but I never thought it might get ME hurt :( :( :((("

I sincerely hope that in the following years, people who voted for Trump will have to sit in humiliated silence when history remembers them and him as them deserves to be remembered.

I remember when Obama was call a conspiracist working somehow for the socialists and to impose shira law.


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06 Jan 2021, 5:48 pm

Woman shot has died


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06 Jan 2021, 5:51 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
It seems like by the standards of the far-right crazies disagreeing with them is inherently radical but anything that advances their agenda can't possibly be radical, even if it's literally advocating for a coup or revolution.

If you disagree with them then you hate america! You hate jesus! Theirs is the only true faith! All other interpretations of the Bible and Constitution are heresy! Burn the apostates! Lynch the heretics!!

Tell yourself that you and you alone are on the side of God and the (perfect! Infallible! Divinely inspired!) Constitution then you can rationalize violence of any kind, on any scale.


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06 Jan 2021, 5:55 pm

NPR is saying that legislators have been notified the Capital is cleared.


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06 Jan 2021, 5:56 pm

roronoa79 wrote:
... Tell yourself that you and you alone are on the side of God and the (perfect! Infallible! Divinely inspired!) Constitution then you can rationalize violence of any kind, on any scale.

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