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ParticipantI watched perhaps 50% of the RNC this past week.
Lots of weirdos at the podium looking and talking like 80’s televangelists crossed with Dynasty (TV show from the 80’s) crossed with a current year megachurch deacon – like, the kind of church that has a waterslide and a gocart track. and a “worship band” with $300,000 in sound equipment.
There was a shifty fellow ranting about “no more antisemitism” that did not raise my hopes for the Republicans at all. He legitimately creeped me out in terms of his facial expressions, body language, etc.
A string of people talking about how we are going to have some massive military buildup. No, you fuckers. Live within your means. Budgeting is an actual word and words have particular meanings. Take budgeting into account when you consider maintaining 800+ bases worldwide and adjust accordingly, assholes.
Ramaswamy was nearly the only speaker I saw who said really basic, decent stuff reasonably eloquently. The entire party should have adopted that exact space, talking points, language, etc. NORMAL americanism.
Instead, they’re going back to the OTHER normal, of 80’s religious right folks burning D&D rulebooks .
This is the time to play to the SECULAR history of the Republican party and the secular traditions of different sides being able to argue politically AND still sit down at the dinner table together. Ramaswamy at least gets that.
The other thing would be, for the love of god, start eviscerating the Dems BY THEIR OWN stated goals and values.
Systemic oppression? In all the cities run by Dems for half a century? Stop dem oppression?
lost Roe v Wade? Haven’t the Dems been saying they want Roe V Wade to be permanent? Were they ALL retards who didn’t understand it was a court decision not a law? But in half a century they couldn’t even PROPOSE a bill let alone pass it? How many times did they have a majority in the house and senate? A super majority?
THEY say they want it, their constituents say they want it. Is half a century too soon for the Dems to deliver on a core issue for their constituents? And with a majority in house and senate and also in control of the executive branch when Roe V Wade was struck down, did ANY democrat even TRY putting a bill forward, even after roe v wade was struck down?
Why do the Dems not deliver on even their most basic promises?
To pass the bill, you’d have had to do the one thing above all you don’t want to do. You’d have to spell out in writing what you want and then you’d have to discuss it. Most Republicans are for SOME abortion being legally available everywhere – you could even just start there, with a bill that covers rape, incest, and risk of death of the mother.
If you wanted to expand from there, you could, but you’d have the situations most important TO YOUR OWN CONSTITUENTS nailed down really quickly. And to this day, have the Dems put a bill forward?
Not to mention, all attempts to label the Republican Party as The Racist Party and somehow responsible for racism going back to what, the 1800’s? 1700’s? Should get a continual stiffarm to the face all day long every day. Just brutally destroyed. Infinite material for it.
There’s so much hypocrisy involved on the Dem’s part, it’s like watching some huge bodybuilder get continually bullied by 3 scrawny 12 year olds. Just weeping and trying to avoid eye contact and not even trying to shuffle away. When they could just grab each 12 year old in turn and break them over their knee in 5 seconds.
Not pro Republican, but a little merciless deflation of the Dems would restore some sanity to society.
Post assassination attempt, NOW is the time to steer Dems towards admitting, at least privately, that they have behaved wrongly these past 10 years and that this ISN’T the america they wanted to create.
And now is NOT the time to emphasize the religious right, But there it is. Useless losers conceding their enemy’s frame every time.
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ParticipantGah. Agreed. A woman’s brain is a female body part.
You can only experience a Uterus as a female with a female brain, which only females have.
Males that identify as a woman and then go around on high heels wearing flower dresses and chunky pearl necklaces with a clutch purse do not recover from strokes any better than other men
Men who announce after their stroke that they are now Living As A Woman do not begin to recover better.
The brain structure is different. We fundamentally think differently – not, as a vernacular euphemism, differ in opinion. Structurally, thoughts occur differently as physical electrochemical events in reality. Giving women an advantage in recovering from brain damage.
IF we could tear apart a man’s brain and rebuild it with a woman’s brain structure, it would mean the actual death of that man. The maximum you could do is use the man as raw materials to create a brand new woman who believes and says she was the man.
Maybe they should try a brain transplant instead of a uterus transplant.
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ParticipantBlueAnon Watch: One-Third Of Democrats Believe Trump Faked Assassination Attempt As Conspiracy Theory Goes Mainstream
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/blueanon-watch-one-third-democrats-believe-trump-faked-assassination-attempt-conspiracySame 1/3 of Democrats that wanted to send me to Summer camp and/or have me die of starvation or exposure in the gutter? Asking for a friend.
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Participant“Largest IT Outage In History” Sparks Disruptions Worldwide
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/largest-it-outage-history-sparks-disruptions-worldwideEarly Friday, a global IT outage caused by an issue with cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike disrupted flights, banks, retailers, stock exchanges, 911 call centers, and media outlets. Experts say this could be one of the largest IT outages in modern history.
Good thing we have a securit— wait, what? The world’s largest ever IT outage came FROM Crowdstrike? Did they hire a Boeing engineer or what?
Timing.
Biden bans US sales of Kaspersky software over Russia ties
https://www.reuters.com/technology/biden-ban-us-sales-kaspersky-software-over-ties-russia-source-says-2024-06-20/Russia-based Kaspersky antivirus shuts down its US business due to sanctions — offices to close by July 20
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/antivirus/russia-based-kaspersky-antivirus-shuts-down-its-us-business-due-to-sanctionsUS Govt is blocking sale of Kaspersky products starting 7/20. Banned from antivirus updates, realtime protection etc in September.
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Participantyet…..”it’s the communists, Marxists, libtards, wokestards and ….who are ruining my beautiful life”.
Wokeism IS marxism IS communism. Go ahead and make a defense of wokeism as not marxism.
Since your current “strategy” is to not defend anything, I predict you will not. Also, if you favor Communism and you have read the literature, you already know it IS and the lines can be drawn easily enough because current-year marxism ie wokeism TELLS YOU and all the Frankfurt School Marxist Sociology Professors Who Hate You also TELL YOU.
They all TELL You in writing. I was aware of BLM before 2020. Went to check out their website, which on the front page, said it swore to tear down “capitalism and the american family.” Antifa using the same flag from street violence in the 20’s and 30s by marxists. Continually quoting marxist thought — you want to go with “Antifa is just an idea” or just double down on how silly it is to think Marxism affects modern day US?
You are – by choice – stuck in repetition of this same “pragmatic” tactic. Continually pretending amnesia and unawareness of the past decade. Continually, implicitly, requiring others — for civility — to do so along with you. Monkey see monkey do. “Can’t believe we got them to go into the Capitol after us” etc.
Nah, brah. I don’t think I will.
Lost my job to wokeists obsessed with a fake wokeist purification ritual/ loyalty test. Sat for HOURS on several mandatory corporate meetings in which I heard current year marxism THE ENTIRE TIME. Went to the library and saw it full of wokeist marxist bs. Watching institutions crumble, “abolish the police” (EXACTLY THE SAME TACTIC AND FUCKING WORDS AS MARXISTS IN THE 30’s OF THE LAST DECADE) turning cities to crap, having the Democrat party browbeating me with self-avowedly marxist thought for the past decade — but silly me.
Do you understand this doesn’t WORK anymore? Just for example, all the geek culture people who just wanted to be left alone as adults to enjoy their own subculture after having grown up receiving too many wedgies and locked in too many lockers, but then had hordes of batshit flying monkeys enter EVERY SINGLE sub-genre of geek entertainment and culture, educating us on EXACTLY current-year marxism? (why did the communist theatre kids emit a pteyradactyl scream and go after the GEEKS to “fight privilege”? ‘Cause you wanted to be high schoolers punching kindergarteners not high school theatre kids punching jocks, that’s why)
And now there’s a smooth ramp from Critical Drinker up through The Quartering, with stops along the way with Jordan Peterson, Jonathan Pageau, Benjamin Boyce, James Lindesy, TIK etc and I am hardly being comprehensive here — a smooth ramp from simple ranting about ruined geek spaces all the way up to understanding weird, abstruse marxist thought of the past few decades, name recognition of the originating assholes, names of the people retrofitting their ideas to originate wokeism.
(you should like this, Communist love to ask interrogation victims for names, make lists, declare who is “adjacent” or associated to whom)
Your “it’s just a dream go back to sleep” is way, way out of date. Nobody is buying it anymore. How did we learn it? We sure as hell did not want to. Waste. Of. Time. (marxism that is) We learned it from you. I don’t WANT your word salad bs nor the names of your thought leaders in my head. I’d be justifiably angry just for THAT. But here we all are. over the past 10 years. MILLIONS of people not buying it anymore.
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ParticipantLarry said there was no centralized communication network in place where all agents and state and local cops could talk to one central authority.
After Crooks was positioned on the roof, one cop boosted another cop up to the roofline – only for Crooks to point his weapon at him. At that point, the boosted cop fell.
Both of them radioed the threat on a “blanket tactical channel” before the shooting, on which “everyone who was on the tactical channel heard it“
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ParticipantDr D likes to bring his dribbles to a beloved crescendo. Like: “From each according to their needs”.
Then Ayn comes onto the stage. Grown man in awe with the “hero comics” masquerading as a literature? In the real world such a “heroes” are embodied in a grotesque forms of Bezos, Gates….even Musk.You’re like some weirdo who stayed in his basement playing video games ONLY when entering the cheat codes and playing on god mode, when confronted with some easy, common-sense way to accomplish something, like as a matter of form, insists on playing with the cheat codes anyway. Like it wouldn’t be “winning” playing equal to all those rubes slogging it out worrying about water and RAD levels, running out of ammo, and using their last stimpack.
You were just sticking the compensator upgrade on the standard Service Rifle in Fallout, you had no need to pull up the prompt with ~ and wait for the god version to load or anything, you just grab it and stick it on. Jesus.
In your compulsory perfidy, as always, gotta reframe the image of the person talking. NLP garbage.
Gotta purposely miss the point and then half-make it – what the other guy was saying.
YES. Ayn Rand is a total hack. The equivalent, for philosophy AND literature, of picking your nose at the dinner table. YES EXACTLY.
And it’s like you, as a high schooler, went to the kindergarten playground to gloat and then beat up a bunch of 5 year olds, only to immediately have one of them slug you and go down with a glass jaw. That’s the POINT being made, you perfidious bastard.
Ayn Rand being right over and over is a total disaster is utterly ridiculous – THAT’S THE JOKE – so please STOP making Ayn Rand right. You see? Which you already know – and how much effort did you put into it vs prospective yield and outcome? Just super, super silly.
Like, by purposely misunderstanding in front of everyone, then… actually what? We’re under obligation to NOT go ahead and notice? To not be Big Meanies? Do it again.
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ParticipantCops Radioed “Blanket Tactical Channel” About Shooter After Rooftop Confrontation, Yet Nothing Was Done
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cops-radioed-blanket-tactical-channel-about-shooter-after-rooftop-confrontation-yetPCR:
“The fact that [the Secret Service] allowed a rifle armed shooter within 150 yds to a preplanned event is either malice or massive incompetence.”
Until you are at least willing to believe the blatantly obvious. Until you are willing to stop genuflecting to a faith you ostensibly disavow (but secretly implicitly do NOT) you will keep saying and thinking idiotic things like this.
There is NO INCOMPETENCE. There is only active or passive malice.
OR a staged event with Trump slapping a blood pack on his ear while ducked and fake dead crisis actors. Plausible?
The first step is to stop actively continually cooperating inside your head with abusers, if you want to not be abused.
Three hours before the shooting, security for the rally caught Crooks with a rangefinder and let him go.
40 minutes before the shooting, law enforcement circulated a picture of Crooks crawling around on the ground.
The parents of Thomas Matthew Crooks called law enforcement before the assassination attempt to warn them that their son was “missing” and they were “worried” about him.
Local law enforcement observed Crooks leave the area and return three times, during which they took two pictures of him and reported the suspicious activity.
Crowds were shouting at the police to do something about the guy on the roof with a rifle for several minutes.
After Crooks was positioned on the roof, one cop boosted another cop up to the roofline – only for Crooks to point his weapon at him. At that point, the boosted cop fell.
Both of them radioed the threat on a “blanket tactical channel” before the shooting, on which “everyone who was on the tactical channel heard it“
No, no incompetence. Passive malice, active malice, or deception.
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ParticipantYou are implicitly saying there were no moral connotations to the Civil War, secession, who came out winning.
Not my fault your main guy wanted to do late Napoleon era losing battles of attrition while starting off with less guys as opposed to economical early era Napoleon. Not my fault nobody listened to Longstreet about strategic attack, tactical defense. Thousand ways the South could have survived with a bit less confidence and arrogance. But having lost, it was about, like, power man.
Keep arguing with dead southerners who put themselves on record.
Sometimes better things happen in history and sometimes the better side wins. Morally better and stronger at the same time… sometimes. Hard to believe for me too.
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ParticipantAgain, the North compromised because of the implicit Southern threat of violence OR secession and all the consequences I have already outlined – the founding fathers chose to incorporate the southern slave states into the union rather than to let them go their own way for the same prudent reasons. Outside the union they would have been expansionist and adversarial. And would have preserved the evil institution of slavery for who knows how long. More hope of ending it sooner inside a Union containing free states.
Yeah, the South demanded Dredd-Scott, 3/5 representation based on owned human beings with no vote or agency. The North – like the founding fathers – took a long-suffering patient long view. Gradualist abolition.
The MOMENT gradualist abolition became a certainty – with a republican president and several Free states waiting in the wings – cosmic coincidence, Southern seccession.
ergo the NORTH is evil? golf clap..
I didn’t START this debate against revisionist Civil War History.
If there’s any modern day relevance or utility, it lies in what I was originally saying – Republicans have many, MANY low-hanging fruit available to them. They have easy, super-easy, barely an inconvenience ways of humiliating the Democrats and all they have to do is start punching back
But they’re losing losers who love punching themselves in the face and losing.
Democrats were pro slavery, pro secession, pro confederacy, pro jim crow, pro segregation, anti integration, right up until the moment they switched strategies – which just happened to be around the time they started the welfare state, with Lyndon Johnson saying “We’re gonna have those niggers voting for us for a century” upon signing the first big welfare bills.
And what happened as a result? Look at black families, black education, black upward mobility, crime affecting blacks – the Democrats were anti black right up until the Great Society shift in tactics, then the Democrats told black america they were “helping” while crapping on them for half a century.
Easy, EASY for the Republicans. Ignoring any mitigating moral factors on either side, the Dems have been shouting that Trump is Hitler and Republicans are Nazis continuously for a decade now. I’m not a Republican, I’m just saying they’re idiots who won’t punch back, not even once —- even greater idiots for making a Confession Of Faith by saying “America was a very very racist country” instead of taking the obvious easy shots at Dems or even just taking an optimistic view of american progress.
That is how this discussion started- if you scroll back, you’ll see. I was commenting on how the Republicans COULD have spoken at the RNC as an alternative to self-face-punching
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ParticipantThe war was fought over who would control the federal government, nothing more nothing less. You disagree? My family fought for the north by the way.
You are arguing with dead slave owning Southerners who put themselves on record.
Also, you did none of that. Nothing wrong with being proud, but you didnt march sing or get shot.
You shall have no nation, no people, no culture? My people ARE mine. And if it was a southerner using expressions of “we,” I get the feeling that would get a pass.
Yes WE. If you want to initiate a new conflict again on the same exact basis, I’m ready to enlist. After Andersonville and decades of practicing slavery, not going to feel too bad about a march to the sea. Huh, weird the South didn’t immediately free their slaves upon independence, since they were fighting against power for self determination. All that extra manpower – happy to be part of their nation – would have been a big help.
And no, it was not for control of the Federal Government.
Lincoln was for gradual abolition of slavery, as voluntary as possible. To avoid a wholesale slaughter, which was how the South got to maintain political parity over the years, the implicit threat.
It was actually the same problem the Normans had. You want to live like your father lived with at least equal status? But they aren’t making more land in Normandy. So England is lost to the Anglo-Saxons, Italy is lost to Byzantium, and Outremer is carved out of the near east.
Lincoln was a gradualist in terms of abolition, but he was absolutely adamant that there would be no new slave states.
They realized they had permanently LOST Federal control of new Slave state creation.
1. This guaranteed gradualist abolition as more Free states entered the Union. You will have to DO something or MAKE something that a free person would WILLINGLY give you money in exchange for. You will not be able to live like your father.
2. If the US West is cut off, then only lands to the South remain. But these are only available with a foreign policy and military effort unconstrained by the North who are uninterested in Southern conquest.
It’s all about, as Crassus would have advised – get more land, put more slaves on it.
No more land, no more slaves, going to have to work for a living. Suh, you insult muh honuh.
Once the South started the shooting, it was going to end with re-incorporation into the union for the same exact reasons the Founding Fathers didn’t get into a big fight about slavery back in the 1700’s.
IF an independent slave nation existed, about as big as the North, with expansionist plans and an underlying NEED for continual expansion, the result would have been European powers playing the two off against each other – and preserving slavery as much as they could, to KEEP animosity going.
How long did South Africa last with apartheid? So maybe the South “abolishes” slavery and just keeps going? Who do THEY side with in WW1 and WW2? How does that tie up the North? nah, nah, just pure power.
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ParticipantI”m not even sure what you’re arguing dude. The war wasn’t about power but pure unblemished morals?
You think if power determines who wins or loses, that it is ABOUT power?
I talk about my Volga-Deutsche family here because it’s most relevant to current-year marxism, but the other side of my family were devout protestant dutch, practically straight off the boat, strong believers in the equality of men under God.
WE’RE the reason you lost Missouri almost instantaneously upon starting the war. We’re the ones who steamrolled you in the West while McClellan and others were gazing at their navels.
We joined to end slavery AND WE DID. Lost lives, limbs, sanity. “it wasn’t about slavery” but we sang anti-slavery songs as we marched TO OUR DOOM. And then we ended slavery, cosmic coincidence.
And they TOLD YOU why they did it. What their exercise of power was FOR. You have to refuse to read their own words to not know.
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ParticipantLincoln wasn’t an idiot and wanted to abolish slavery on the British model rather than have a Civil War killing hundreds of thousands of people? Gasp, he must have been pro slavery.
Republican party forms on the basis of anti slavery
Republican wins presidential election
Slave states secede in response
Slave states TELL YOU in their declarations of independence, correspondence of their leaders, diaries, op-eds in newspapers etc, near-infinite explanations on WHY so you ought to have no illusions
But Lincoln prefers to preserve the union – ie NOT have war.
The South had already invaded Cuba several times attempting to set up more slave states. The idea of a Manifest Destiny, expansion southward to the Magellan, to establish an empire of slavery was making the rounds.
There are some compelling quotes along those lines from Lincoln about what happens if the Confederacy goes their own way – you’re unaware of them? You ARE aware of them but cherry pick these others disingenuously?
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ParticipantWhen POWER determined whether East Tennessee or West Virginia could secede FROM THE CONFEDERACY, you purposely step over the point:
These “self-determination” Southern champions “fighting against power” blocked self-determination wherever power allowed them to do so.
Cosmic coincidence, those regions who wanted to have Slavery be illegal were those regions they didn’t want to act on the basis of self-determination.
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ParticipantThe Civil War was about power, nothing more nothing less
The declarations of independence of the Confederate states are on record. They TELL YOU the secession was for slavery. You can only remain unaware of this by refusing to read them
The US Postal Service continued to deliver mail after secession. Lots of correspondence between leaders of the North and South which have been preserved and are available to anyone to read. The Southerners TELL YOU their reasons.
And just look at their actions. “self-determination” but not for thee. For rights. What rights? Property rights. What property rights? Rights to human property. State’s rights to what? Determining what is property and property rights. they TELL YOU SO.
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Participant“POWER determined whether East Tennessee could not or West Virginia could secede”
I think you made his point for him.
You are missing a key element to this situation.
The people of these regions wanted to secede.. FROM THE CONFEDERACY
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Participantquite a few citizens of the US still believe the US Civil War was about slavery
secession was. they told you in their declarations of independence
also, when Eastern Tennessee asked to secede from slave owning Western Tennessee, they were denied. It was self-determination and independence! Rights! (no, not THAT self determination, self-determination to continue owning slaves, independence… to own slaves. Property rights… to human beings)
It was about State’s Rights – except when the Dredd Scott ruling enslaved ALL northerners to enforce slavery for the slave states in states where slavery was ILLEGAL. On pain of penury and imprisonment. Not even just govt authorities. ANYONE AND EVERYONE. Church bells pealing all over the South for this victory over states. This victory of authority over every individual human act of conscience and independent moral thought.
And when West Virginia seceded, Slave Owning Virginia was like, oh ho, Self Determination, our most valued precept! Just Want To Go On Your Own Way. Godspeed and our blessings upon you? Cosmic coincidence, nope.
POWER determined whether East Tennessee could not or West Virginia could secede – a right the slave states said people had!!! If the slave states had the power to STOP this right, they DID.
The war as opposed to secession? Ask the people who chose to start firing. After Bleeding Kansas, beating a defenseless old man almost to death with a cane merely for thinking you are doing something evil by being pro-slavery – what an insult to “honor” – to enslaving the entire North to pro slavery laws, on and on. Once they started firing, we’d already had enough.
Much like the mind-possessing body-enslaving Witches in Harvey Weinstien’s acolyte’s Acolyte, couldn’t imagine being confronted with a peer opponent. Every previous compromise and backing-down only adding to the impression one was confronting spineless cowards. FAFO.
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Participantbetter yet
“…even if Eisenhower had to bring in the 101st Airborne with fixed bayonets to defend school children from Democrats — and we sure could use SOME kind of defense for school children from Democrats again today, couldn’t we folks? Couldn’t we? (arms raised in “amirite?” gestire, knowing look, waits for massive applause to die down…) — but we did it, Republicans, we did it! We made school integration happen…. Republicans – AMERICANS have so, so much progress in civil rights to be proud of.”
Republicans: retarded losing losers who love losing.
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Participant“….and in 2020, I saw my black brothers and sisters rising up against systemic racism – they’d had enough, folks!! — that they were experiencing in cities all over our land – run by Democrats for the past half century police departments overseen by Democrat city councils and Democrat mayors, operating based on Democrat approved policies and procedures… our black children left unprepared by a school system run by an overwhelmingly Democrat-voting teachers union enacting Democrat promoted policies that made it so every year, education for our aspiring black children was worse than the year before…”
Right, Republican? Want to try any of THAT? No, just get up and say on international television your unqualified, non partial condemnation of your country?
Your candidate got shot. Do you think you might want to take off the kid gloves and run with “Democrat = racist” and then when they object to “improper tone” or say such talk is violence, just keep hammering away at their hypocrisy? No? You want to NOT do the obvious thing, the thing it is TIME for, prefer punching yourself in the face? We Republicans ALSO hate America?
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ParticipantI watched a bit of the RNC last night.
One Republican speaker: “America was a racist country. A very very racist country”
WHAT? You want to give that stereotype to the Democrats for free?
I suggest this:
America was a racist country. A very very racist country. Fortunately, we Republicans overcame it
—by Republicans blocking the Democrat push to create more slave states to spread slavery
— Republicans soldiering on, fighting the good fight against slavery against Democrat successes in suborning the Federal government into support of Slavery such as in the Dredd Scott case
— Republicans defeating the Slave States, who openly stated in their Declarations of Independence that they had seceded for slavery.
— Republicans, passing laws to forever outlaw slavery in these united states
—Republicans standing up against Democrats trying to stop Black voters from exercising their citizenship rights by passing the Civil Rights act of 1957 over their opposition.
—Republicans, in support of the Supreme Court decision, thwarting Democrat efforts to block integration of schools, even if Eisenhower had to bring in the 101st Airborne with fixed bayonets to defend school children from Democrats, we did it, Republicans, we did it!
—And through passage of the Civil Rights act of 1964, when 1/3 of Democrats voted against the bill. We were in the minority then, only 33 out of 100 seats, but by god we got that bill passed with 4/5 republicans pulling for civil rights.And today, the Democrats again want to judge people based on immutable characteristics, elevate these to primary overriding importance, run our governments, businesses, and social institutions on that basis – just like in dark days we Republicans fought to end.
Try something like THAT you idiots. “America was a very very racist country.” Are you with BLM-Antifa? Do you hate your own party, hate winning, love punching yourself in the face?
Like if you are going to do weird overdone spin, you want to do it on behalf of your political opponents?
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ParticipantMaybe part of the adrenachrome doubt is just …why? Why bother with such ridiculous disgusting effort, what marginal gains are there vs cocaine?
And there’s tradeoffs. If it is the most marvelous thing evar then it is the most horrible thing evar. Monks and stoics who haven’t set their bar for pleasure at its highest setting can enjoy a bird landing on their windowsill or a sunset in a way others can’t.
Or one of the main reasons society is collapsing – the internet and dating apps exaggerate hypergamy out of all proportion, a woman who is only a 6 or 7 out of 10 sleeps with a male 9 or 10 as a one night stand and then stays on her highest setting for the rest of her life, never able to settle down with a fellow 6 or 7, never to have a man of her own, always to share any man she can bring herself to accept – on her highest setting (but never have, only sleep with) with 20-30 women, as if in a harem, but with more chaos and uncertainty, until she hits the wall and cannot compete with younger 6’s and 7’s
Realization she SHOULD settle (ie settle down!) occurs around the time it is too late …because the realization is forced on her BY it being too late. And so saying “I can have it all” and “slut-shaming is misogyny” and just going for the one night stand 9 or 10 leaves her with very little of substance for the rest of her life. Anyone who tells her try stop sleeping around, find a decent dude at your own number or 1 level up/down is just crazy. What are you talking about? I had a 10 right here in my bed!
(the 10 men are either happily married (scooped up by high value women) OR they’re Chad running around having fun with hordes of women inexplicably willing to throw themselves at him because internet and apps and strong, empowered never settle. But why would a 10 that wants to settle down NOT be settled-down? With someone over 7. They’re the ones who hold the cards after all
And that’s just what’s available, found in nature.
A 10 man instead of a matching number on a 10 point scale burns out the romance-receptors sometimes PERMANENTLY. Traditions, it turns out, are solutions to problems we forgot we had. It was never literally about an intact hymen, but maybe women, being half of society, benefitted from standards as well as men? Maybe even arranged marriage was a defense against this awful, despair-inducing cul-de-sac? Your family shops around, negotiates the best-status mate they can for you. Then you have a man that is YOURS and you don’t end up being spat out the middle aged end of a chaotic war of all-women-against-all-women-as-dating. Bad choices happen there too, but statistically, I wonder which ones allow more and which allow less.
How many tiktoks etc are there of women confiding to camera “I’m broken and miserable” citing the dating experience described above? Near-infinite now? And ALSO any old-fashioned moralistic warnings of “that behavior will ruin you” is bad and wrong, sexist. Traditions are just solutions to problems we forgot we had. This is disappointing to an atheist libertine, but there it is. You, I, we, are human and we have a particular nature.
And SELF-avowed ruination resulted from a 1-3 point jump up a 10 point scale????
adrenachrome is presumably 1000 on a 10 point scale? 10,000? what fool would WILLINGLY ruin their life? A nanosecond of it would do so.
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ParticipantJ.D. Vance, Senate Candidate, Urges ‘Mass Civil Disobedience’ After Biden Vaccine Mandate
https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-senate-candidate-urges-mass-civil-disobedience-after-biden-vaccine-mandate-1627872J.D. Vance: Ohio State’s vaccine mandate is outrageous ‘invasion of medical privacy’
https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/letters/2021/08/27/j-d-vance-ohio-state-vaccine-mandate-outrageous-invasion-medical-privacy/5609943001/well alright then
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ParticipantNYT Headline: FBI Hunts for Trump Rally Gunman’s Motive as RNC Kicks Off
Ok fine yes first who tf is JD Vance?
Wait what, motive?!?!? YOU, NYT. YOU, you miserable never-ever good faith actor miserable mean spirited shits, YOU. For a decade!
Calling Trump Hitler and Republicans Nazis since 2015
Who, who on earth in all of history is most assasinatable? Scale of 1-100 who is 1,000 assasinatable, at leat to normies? HITLER. Cosmic fucking coincidence you said Trump was Hitler how many times? Can Ai or some weaponized autism person COUNT for us how many times NYT said Hitler? (You’ve already set an intern to ctrl-f “hitler” and start scrubbing your history, no doubt)
Hey, back in 2015, weren’t, at every normie political rally, like happens at every mainstream political rally for a new presidential run, weren’t psychos “punching nazis in the face” and worse? Cosmic coincidence (anarcho-tyranny) law enforcement/protection was never stepped up to stop it?
What’s more righteous than attacking Hitler-following Nazis? And they DID attack people? And how did you REPORT on that, NYT? “Trump followers inflammatory – so much violence at Trump rallies”
Immediate reaction to Trump getting up after being shot “Fight Fight Fight” — I have a problem with how inflammatory Trump’s rhetoric is. After being shot per YOUR last 9 years of rhetoric. no remorse. no apologies. no promise to change.
but anyway, who the fuck is JD Vance and why do I care? It pisses me off that he’s so obscure I don’t even know whether to be pissed at this selection or not. based/not based? woke/not woke? neocon? bud lite drinker? dual Israeli citizenship? Don’t know.
(Not Tulsi, not Ramaswamy, not RFK, what’s this dude’s street cred? Is this an act of defiance or did the shooting scare Trump into a blobist VP pick?)
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Participant“Which makes more sense?”
If there was no bullet hitting Trump’s ear, If there was a plan that if anyone ever takes a shot at him, he’s going to do a particular thing… if he has an explosive Hollywood blood pack to slap against his ear after ducking, THEN the alternate theory makes sense.
I have wondered if Russia did the same general thing. State Department. Calls up and, with a Narcissistic gloatsneer, says “Wonderful Nordstream you have there, shame if something happened to it” assets positioned to freak out Russia, plan is to continually stress out Russia with threats to Nordstream – Russia responds by blowing it in such a way that it perfectly fits with threats.
That seems intuitive to me. That fits THOUSANDS of instances I worked in Executive Escalations when I projected vulnerability so that an NPD caller could throw themselves on perceived red meat, get drunk on perceived power, make unreasonable claims/demands, and get shot down. Throwing red meat out there IS the reasonable way to deal with Narcs. You get them drunk on narc supply so that you CAN document total insanity and shut them down.
If a bullet actually hit his ear… you cannot plan that at all. As far as planning goes, that’s the same as making a plan to be assassinated.
Maybe that WAS the plan. Maybe there was a whole chain of responses planned for Trump actually dying and that was the plan, thus Trump’s raised fist, don’t care about a shooter, “I’m supposed to be dead” Maybe it was one last chance to die to assassination with even better optics. Maybe Trump is really THAT on board with a plan to save the US. Considering he COULD be sipping a margarita on a yacht in between golf games in retirement, he IS choosing a whole lot of trouble for no personal gain. It seems more likely he got on board to do whatever needs to be done and is NOT in charge – if there’s any coherent White Hat plan going on at all.
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Participantinside geek/gamer joke. either you get it or you don’t…
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ParticipantAnarcho-Tyranny – selective non-enforcement, selective non-protection, selective incompetence
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Participantmotherfucking Mike GODWIN was the writer of the Bezos-Amazon-WashingtonPost Person-Who-Disagrees-With-Me-Is-Hitler article????? GODWIN???
Like you would do for a Babylon Bee article?
Is this a case of satire? Negative Levels of Awareness Of Irony? (NLAOI)
No, no. Different than that. Remember when the CDC announced, during the height of the Deadliest Pandemic Evar (DPE) that Racism was an Even Yet Greater Pandemic (EYGP) and gave its dispensation, like the fucking POPE, to massive gatherings of thousands in all major cities WHILE locking everyone down? As if “pandemics” were a spiritual, mystical event unrelated to physical concerns.
The creator of Godwin’s Law explains why some Nazi comparisons don’t break his famous Internet rule
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/08/14/the-creator-of-godwins-law-explains-why-some-nazi-comparisons-dont-break-his-famous-internet-rule/That’s right, the INVENTOR of Godwin’s Law has given his blessing, his dispensation in this matter. To freely froth at the mouth at Nazis as an exception to his general rule. As an expert ie Pope-On-This-Thing (POTT)
([RIP Mogambo Guru. Respec.])
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ParticipantJeff Bezos:
“Our former President showed tremendous grace and courage under literal fire tonight. So thankful for his safety and so sad for the victims and their families.”Reply:
“This is your newspaper”
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ParticipantBiden: “We settle our differences at the Battle Box”
"In America, we resolve our differences at the battle box." pic.twitter.com/4YmPyXK25g
— MAZE (@mazemoore) July 15, 2024
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ParticipantThe New Republic:
On today’s episode of The Daily Blast, Greg Sargent talks to Zack Beauchamp, author of a new book called The Reactionary Spirit, about whether this despicable attempt to kill Trump will lead to will lead to an escalation and what it says that American society is again at this…Glen Greenwald reply:
This is the magazine that just published a cover story explicitly depicting Trump as Hitler, complete with the Hitler mustache, Nazi fonts and a panel of “fascism experts” (e.g. the scholar @brianstelter).Now they have to pretend to find the assassination attempt “despicable.”
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ParticipantIt would be nice if the Democrats would openly apologize, walk back the past 8-9 years. “What we did was wrong. THIS is what we did. All of it was wrong and evil. We must change.”
Not only the continual wish-somebody-would, allusions to, outright statements of assassination, imagery and depiction of assassination, continual for 8-9 years, bad as that was
The continual painting of anyone who does not completely disagree with you as vile scum, super dangerous yet also pathetic. Vermin to be eliminated FOR those opposing simultaneous holograms.
“Make them welcome nowhere.” The elimination from the public square, the continual pressure throughout the economy – missed promotions on merit, missed hirings on merit, firings via cancel culture, the death of civil society, the death of high trust society (San Francisco, Oakland, etc) the death of free speech, the continual hostility to “business” because profit = evil.(we love ginormous corporations just not YOU) how many hundreds of billions – no, TRILLIONS has this continual culture war cost society? Hidden by being spread out and going unmeasured? How many deaths of despair has it caused? Thousands? Millions?
And for the Dems, NO SPARROW escapes the culture war
Just for example, that kid from a catholic school, waiting for a bus while wearing a MAGA hat, harassed by some creep that approached him, keeping his cool while smiling uncomfortably, doing NOTHING wrong…
…resulting in the entire media establishment broadcasting him as “the smiling face of racism” and a blizzard of Democrat social media BEGGING FOR SOMEONE TO SHOOT UP HIS SCHOOL.
This would be a wonderful moment for some adult, if there are any sane adults left in the Democratic party, to review all this and say this was ALL wrong.
There IS a civil war, it’s been going on for years in dead earnest with lives lost or ruined and AGAIN it is the Democrats that started it. The other side has been fighting it all along by NOT going crazy like them.
And of course, the tragedy of millions killed and injured by the now illegal to call a vax notavax, was because they saw society as filled with enemies that needed to be cleansed, cancel culture was already in full swing, and the shot was a perfect purity test to force even more “deplorables” out of their jobs, to treat them even more as vermin and hopefully have them end up dying of fentanyl in a gutter homeless or something.
And they ran headlong to their own injury, so eager were they to do this. Should have chosen some harmless symbolic thing, like baptism with water, or the roman passing under the yoke in defeat.
Ran headlong onto a path to WW3 with Ukraine as well. All part of the same insanity as we well know. Any sane adults left in the Democrat party?
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ParticipantHow does a person just casually get inside the building, especially dressed as the shooter was, plus rifle, and gain access to the ladder
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ParticipantThey’re not saying a 22 is a high velocity
They’re saying this particular gun was the type of 22 that IS high velocity such as Hornet.
22 Hornet vs 22LR:
Similar Diameter Bullet, Very Different Results:
https://ammo.com/comparison/22-hornet-vs-22-lr“The 22 Hornet load is more powerful than the 22 LR, 22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire (22WMR), and 17 HMR.”
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Participant1997. Dancing nurses. Dancing hypodermics. wtf
It’s like Boomer managers took the video and message, subtracted HOW GenX said it, which subtracted what was actually meant, and went with it as 2020 zeitgeist. Uncanny.
snowflakes?
“If you think that I don’t know about depression and emotional pain – You’re insane, or you’re a fool who hasn’t paid attention to a word that I say. In a way, I can’t help but feel responsible, I always knew that you were insane with your pain”(Also 1997 – GenX: Heroin, Piercings, Gay, Obvious tranny. Yawn. DGAF.)
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ParticipantWhat’s going on here? Shooing people away from behind Trump? Guy is crouching like you do if you are passing under a running helicopter rotor even when you know it’s too high to clip you. Squats right down like he was expecting it.
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Participantoh yeah. I almost forgot about
RANKING MEMBER THOMPSON INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO ENSURE NO SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION FOR CONVICTED FELONS SENTENCED TO PRISON
https://democrats-homeland.house.gov/news/legislation/ranking-member-thompson-introduces-legislation-to-ensure-no-secret-service-protection-for-convicted-felons-sentenced-to-prisonDonald Trump Could Lose Secret Service Protection Under New Bill
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-bennie-thompson-secret-services-rfk-1892371Not only do they engage in lawfare, silence opposing voices, block opposition parties from being on the ballot, but they work hard to continually malign opposition candidates while removing their protection
RFK Jr. Continues to Seek Secret Service Protection; Threats Detailed in FOIA Response
https://www.newsweek.com/rfk-jr-continues-seek-secret-service-protection-threats-detailed-foia-response-1915057Did they downgrade Trump’s detail in quantity and/or quality in lieu of stripping him of it altogether? Having members of his close protection team too short to block bullets and who duck when there are bullets suggests an answer.
An internet comment from someone watching footage of his various SS team members…
The one female couldn’t find her holster. That says she doesn’t practice her draw. DEI incompetence at its finest. Sooooo many questions I don’t expect to see answers to. Maybe if Trump can survive til 1/20/25, the truth will come out. Don’t be shocked if more attempts are made. If I was Trump, I’d avoid air travel and go by bus.
First have a talk with band members of Metallica and Baroness
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ParticipantA few interesting comments I’ve run across
Biden openly refuses to call it an assassination even when directly asked
“I don’t know enough. I have an opinion, but I don’t have any facts.”Right, right. When a bullet passes through a presidential candidates’ ear, that’s what we call friendly- no, Right Neighborly Fire.
A hundred plus cops, sheriffs, state police and Secret Service but not one cop on the only rooftop in the vicinity and only 130 yards from the President???
There is no way an honest Secret Service leaves a roof top 400 feet away unoccupied. This was a government attempt on a Presidential candidate.
Every rooftop within 500 yards, with a sight line to that stage should have had some kind law enforcement on it or controlling access to it. There is no way anyone with bad intentions should have been where the shooter was. The head of detail, and the head of the agency should have already resigned.
Indeed, why is no one quickly resigning or being fired?
Manpower issue? How about 1 cop at the foot of the “ladder” or whatever else was used to get to the roof with the instruction to not let anyone up there?
Pro tip to Trump supporters: If his detail seems to be badly placed, set up 2 folding tables with 10 boxes of donuts each. One at the foot of the obvious ladder needing 1 security guard, 1 on the roof that obviously needs 1 security guard.
I just traced 430 feet from my house on Google Maps and walked outside to see what that looks like. That’s CLOSE, only 4 houses away.
what’s the plan now? Oops, we don’t know how to guard candidates. We’re discovering this skill for the first time. We don’t have 50 years of modern Secret Service protocol to base our actions on. Nobody could have predicted.
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ParticipantIf you are the Secret Service agent directly between the person you are protecting and the shooter, make sure to lower your body armor protected torso below the level of the targets heart. That’s what they teach, right?
I watch TV, I know how things work. That’s how Kevin Kostner deals with danger to Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard. Clearly.
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