The Important Sounds of Things Falling Apart
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It was obvious when it was happening, but it's confirmed that this was, in fact, fuckery.
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Amazing video
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Slash the tires on the fucking van.
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That's true. But at some point it's going to happen.
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You'd have a dozen, and 46 innocent bystanders would also have multiple bullet wounds.
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Something like that is going to happen soon.The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Jul 29, 2020 12:53 pmYou'd have a dozen, and 46 innocent bystanders would also have multiple bullet wounds.
Between the paramilitary activities, the angry protestors and hyper-armed "militias" and others, something horrible and fatal is going to occur.
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Trump and his nazi advisers are clearly counting on that.Pruitt wrote: ↑Wed Jul 29, 2020 1:02 pmSomething like that is going to happen soon.The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Jul 29, 2020 12:53 pmYou'd have a dozen, and 46 innocent bystanders would also have multiple bullet wounds.
Between the paramilitary activities, the angry protestors and hyper-armed "militias" and others, something horrible and fatal is going to occur.
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Yeah, we predicted this over 2 years ago. If things didn't look good going into his final summer, you could count on him stirring up shit to scare the mouthbreathers.
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And, as I always try to point out... They can plot and scheme, but the vast majority of Americans isn't buying this shit.
As dangerous as Barr is, his scheming with Trump shouldn’t draw Democrats into a panic. Trump’s and Barr’s efforts to gain partisan advantage by abusing police power and trampling constitutional rights have backfired thus far. Just as Trump’s 2018-vintage abuse of military power to gin up white panic over “caravans” of migrants traveling toward the southern border didn’t help Republicans avoid a midterm landslide, his determination to ignore the pileup of genuine crises the country faces, and inundate Americans with manufactured ones instead, won’t necessarily help his party’s cause, and may actively harm it.
The same logic extends to whatever else Trump and Barr have in store. Nearly everything Trump associates himself with soon becomes toxically unpopular, and we should expect that pattern to apply to any “report” Barr issues in bad faith, and any attempt he makes after the election to disenfranchise millions of voters. Trump may even be so widely loathed that the results of the election will be clear on election night, despite a pandemic-induced surge in mail voting, and Barr will fall back. Either way, there is no scenario in which Barr and Trump try to junk millions of ballots without triggering a mass revolt. Their thinking is premised on the very high likelihood that Trump loses both the national popular vote and the swing-state vote, but that the latter margin may be close enough to nullify through lawfare or brute force. If this thinking becomes widely understood before the election, it could fuel enough turnout to spoil their plans, or discourage Barr and Trump from fomenting a legitimacy crisis, or both.
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With NYPD cars having run into protestors this spring, advising them to lie on the ground in a circle around the van is inadvisable for similar reasons.tennbengal wrote: ↑Wed Jul 29, 2020 1:25 pmTrump and his nazi advisers are clearly counting on that.Pruitt wrote: ↑Wed Jul 29, 2020 1:02 pmSomething like that is going to happen soon.The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Jul 29, 2020 12:53 pmYou'd have a dozen, and 46 innocent bystanders would also have multiple bullet wounds.
Between the paramilitary activities, the angry protestors and hyper-armed "militias" and others, something horrible and fatal is going to occur.
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“All I'm sayin' is, he comes near me, I'll put him in the wall.”
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I saw it tweeted a couple times yesterday with one of them saying, "You could use any of about 90% of that article as the pull quote to get people to read it." No lie there.
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Just read that article, and now I need a cigarette.
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Honestly, I was wary of it, because so many things written like that are overwrought or overly fatalistic. That one did a great job building its case.DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 12:36 pmI saw it tweeted a couple times yesterday with one of them saying, "You could use any of about 90% of that article as the pull quote to get people to read it." No lie there.
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So...is the only way this ends is if Biden somehow wins and then calls the military out to disband police?
Because, otherwise, if trump wins,...the police have sided with the white supremacists and they have all the guns and in that scenario the libs really do get got.
Because, otherwise, if trump wins,...the police have sided with the white supremacists and they have all the guns and in that scenario the libs really do get got.
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Nah. Biden will win solidly enough, just like Obama did in 2008. There will be crap like the Tea Party all over again, and probably a few more instances of stochastic terrorism, but even those assholes aren't going to go to war over Joe Biden.tennbengal wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2020 4:50 pm So...is the only way this ends is if Biden somehow wins and then calls the military out to disband police?
Because, otherwise, if trump wins,...the police have sided with the white supremacists and they have all the guns and in that scenario the libs really do get got.
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And what if Biden doesn’t win?
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Then most straight white people will be fine in the short and medium term.
Until climate change/poisoned water/bad air kills us all.
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One theory would hold that in a second term, a president wouldn't have to be guided by a need for reelection and would therefore be guided by his heartfelt principles. But, as far as I can tell, Trump's only guiding principles are his personal desires for money, fame, and importance. But, based on his cabinet appointments, one could also infer that he really wants to destroy a lot of entrenched institutions (such as NATO and other alliances, environmental protection, business regulation, affirmative action, ...) Sooo...
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I'm not sure this is true. I'm financially equal or better than four years ago but mentally in a far worse place, which is part of the intent.Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2020 5:45 pmThen most straight white people will be fine in the short and medium term.
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Good point.mister d wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2020 5:54 pmI'm not sure this is true. I'm financially equal or better than four years ago but mentally in a far worse place, which is part of the intent.Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2020 5:45 pmThen most straight white people will be fine in the short and medium term.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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I’m worse off in every facet.
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But the Swamp loves you more than it ever did before.
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I’m way better financially truthfully but just off the charts not great mentally so I’d trade the money if I could.
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Steve - this is what I mean:
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That strikes me as correct. What heads it off? Because, I think it is heading that way quickly.
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Well, sure, but that's in response to people on the left (sort of) rioting, burning shit, etc. I have no doubt that the more the non-right burns buildings, that will give police and their allies on the violent right a platform for their own, deadlier, violence.
If Biden wins the election, though, I don't think the non-right will be out there burning buildings down.
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"Kyle" (second of these two tweets) is the guy believed to have shot and killed protestors in Kenosha last night. There's more in the thread I pulled this tweet from.
Like the second of these two tweets.
Like the second of these two tweets.
It's right at the start as he runs toward/past the person shooting the footage."I just killed somebody."
Think about that."I just killed somebody."
Police not just allowed this, but thanked the person for being out on the streets with a gun."I just killed somebody."
"I just killed somebody."
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Yup. This is what the right wants. This is why the 2nd Amendment is sacred to them. They need to have their personal militia at their disposal when minorities take to the streets in protest. It's fucking gross.
Here's a pic of the guy without a mask on:
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Steve, the above remains my point.
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The shooter has been arrested and is expected to be charged with intentional homicide.
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Amazing they were able to take him into custody without incident. A real credit to those police.
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Let's just hope I'm the one who gets to say "I told you so."
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