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08-14-2017 , 02:19 PM

#51726

Our House

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Also Inso0, in the global battle between Dems & Dics, you're clearly a Dic.

08-14-2017 , 02:20 PM

#51727

6ix

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Inso0

Encouraging property damage against strangers. Keep it classy, 2p2.

What are your thoughts on the terrorist attack that took place Saturday?

08-14-2017 , 02:21 PM

#51728

Our House

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6ix.

08-14-2017 , 02:25 PM

#51729

Paramecium

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Inso0

Encouraging property damage against strangers. Keep it classy, 2p2.

You exhausted from all the winning yet?

08-14-2017 , 02:25 PM

#51730

Joshfan

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Inso0

Encouraging property damage against strangers. Keep it classy, 2p2.

I may have missed something, but who encouraged property damage?

08-14-2017 , 02:27 PM

#51731

TrollyWantACracker

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Inso0

Encouraging property damage against strangers. Keep it classy, 2p2.

Personally, I was referring exclusively to violence and mutilation. I would never mess with a man's truck.

08-14-2017 , 02:30 PM

#51732

ScreaminAsian

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Quote:

Originally Posted by 6ix

What are your thoughts on the terrorist attack that took place Saturday?

if it's what you say, Inso0 loves it.

08-14-2017 , 02:31 PM

#51733

otatop

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Joshfan

I may have missed something, but who encouraged property damage?

Quote:

Originally Posted by tomdemaine

gizmo,

Thank God Inso0 was able to pop in and clutch his pearls.

08-14-2017 , 02:31 PM

#51734

6ix

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

if it's what you say, Inso0 loves it.

now or later in the summer?

08-14-2017 , 02:32 PM

#51735

Paramecium

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https://www.commentarymagazine.com/p...ille-behavior/

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For years, under the radar and likely with the guidance of his political guru Roger Stone, Trump built a powerful and loyal following through what could be called—yes, I know this is going to sound condescending and elitist, but what can I say, I’m condescending and elitist—the proletarian media.

I’m talking about Alex Jones and Infowars, the conspiracy-theory radio-show/website on which Trump has appeared for years; the radio show has 2 million listeners a week, and Jones was said in 2011 to have a larger online presence than Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck. I’m talking about the WWE, which televises wrestling and which, in 2014, could claim a weekly audience of 15 million and on whose programs Trump intermittently served as a kind of Special Guest Villain in the manner of a villain on the 1960s Batman show. I’m talking about American Media, the company that owns the National Enquirer, the Star, the Sun, and the Weekly World News run by Trump’s close friend David Pecker; the combined weekly circulation of its publications is well in excess of 2 million. Trump helped make the birther issue a major one for a month in 2011 by talking about it on “Meet the Press” and “Good Morning America,” on network television. But he was surfacing an issue that had been roiling in the proletarian media, stirred and shaken constantly by his political guru, Roger Stone.

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Talk about flying under the radar. These media institutions have no cultural purchase whatsoever except for the contempt they breed. Nobody in the elites ever paid attention to them except to goggle at their ludicrousness as a passing Porsche on the way to the beach might goggle at a townie home with cars up on blocks in the front yard; or to express horror at the potential libelousness of the charges hurled in them. Such coverage would, in essence, wonder at the crudity of some Americans, and then move on.

By paying them heed, Trump was not only feeding his inexhaustible maw for attention. He was reaching a group of disaffected Americans entirely on the margins of American life, politically and culturally and organizationally. The dedicated prole-media audience, which might make up 5 or 6 percent of the electorate, is not enough to make a base. But it’s enough to make a nucleus. And what they knew is that he didn’t dismiss them. They knew he was listening to them. They knew he wanted to talk to them, wanted to hear from them.

The way Trump's base *gets their information* is story largely untold - because there's really no way to tell it w/o sounding elitist. So the mainstream press chooses just interview the subjects instead. Then we all gape at how these people could come up with these insane opinions, ponder at the alternate reality they live in.

08-14-2017 , 02:33 PM

#51736

Paramecium

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Quote:

Originally Posted by otatop

Thank God Inso0 was able to pop in and clutch his pearls.

Lol at being alive in America, aware of current events, and *that* is what triggers you.

08-14-2017 , 02:36 PM

#51737

Matty Lice

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Originally Posted by Our House

You can only president once too. If he actually pardons Sheriff Joe, his base will cheer like crazy. But he REALLY won't like the results from Congress or the rest of the country. Good deflection for when he needs it tho.

Isn't Sheriff Joe a state lvl crime conviction? I don't think he can pardon him.

Of course I'm not surprised he's trying.

It's a signal to the base saying "Wink,wink. I'm being tough on Nazis and White Supremacists. Carry on."

08-14-2017 , 02:38 PM

#51738

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Reposting these from a while ago b/c they seem more relevant now. There was another really relevant one about being on extreme alert for militia, but I can't seem to find it on the Googs (no, not using reverse image search).

08-14-2017 , 02:40 PM

#51739

goofyballer

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Paramecium

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

It's like a semi-respectable skinhead haircut for the alt-right guys who want to hold down jobs. Business up top, white supremacy on the sides.

Meh, it's fashionable, lots of people around here (not me) have that style. Man buns have come and gone but that **** stuck around.

08-14-2017 , 02:42 PM

#51740

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FWIW, I've been using Dictator, Fascist, and Authoritarian interchangeably. Is there any difference?

08-14-2017 , 02:55 PM

#51741

Dominic

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Originally Posted by AllCowsEatGrass

Google has a reverse image search feature where you can upload a picture, and google will provide results of where else on the internet Google has indexed the photo. There are a couple ways this might be done.
https://dsp.stackexchange.com/questi...-by-image-site

Just go to google.com, click Images, then click the camera icon to search by image, and you can either upload an image saved on your hard drive, or paste the URL of the image.

Searching my avatar provides many results for PJ Harvey!

PJ Harvey is the Queen of Rock. My all-time favorite artist.

08-14-2017 , 02:57 PM

#51742

Nonfiction

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Our House

I've been wanting to start a thread on WW3 over the last week, because a strong case can be made that it already started. Not the US vs NK, but Russia leading the charge of a global battle between Democracy and Authoritarianism. We can argue about when it started, or whether the 2016 US election attack should be the catalyst because it's the strongest Democracy and the biggest instance the world has seen so far.

Regardless, we have to move past the ancient notion that only military conflict equals war. As the Wired article above states, Russia only uses their military as a final takeover step, once the country has been weakened enough (in so many ways) for them to prevail. Although, we should note that the deafening of Diplomats in Cuba is the first known physical harm directed at multiple American citizens.

How many here think we could already be in the middle of WW3: Hybrid Warfare: Dems vs Dics?

08-14-2017 , 02:58 PM

#51743

otatop

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Matty Lice

Isn't Sheriff Joe a state lvl crime conviction? I don't think he can pardon him.

It's federal because Sheriff Joe refused to listen to State court rulings.

08-14-2017 , 03:00 PM

#51744

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Racism also prevalent in voter suppression. Indiana is getting pretty agressive lately.

Indiana Republicans Apparently Don’t Want Black People to Vote

Quote:

So Hamilton County—where more white Republicans live—had three early voting stations, while Marion County—where more Black Democrats live—had only one.

...

Republican officials admitted in court testimony that a construction project will disrupt parking in downtown Indianapolis, according to the Star. Only one early voting station and no guarantee of a place to park? Just more roadblocks being erected to make it harder for people to vote.

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“This is a clear way to make it more strenuous for people to vote,” Brown told the Star.

Republicans, of course, are waving off criticism, saying that the decrease in early voting in Marion County is due to lack of funding. Maybe Black people in Marion County just don’t want to vote!

08-14-2017 , 03:10 PM

#51745

tomdemaine

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Quote:

Originally Posted by otatop

Thank God Inso0 was able to pop in and clutch his pearls.

I condemn the act of car keying on many sides, on many sides. I would never suggest gizmo key some trumpist *******s car and certainly wouldn't offer to pay her legal bills if she did, to take a random example.

08-14-2017 , 03:11 PM

#51746

Dominic

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lol just told Jim Acosta fake news when Acosta was representing all media in the press pool

08-14-2017 , 03:18 PM

#51747

TheHip41

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Inso0

Encouraging property damage against strangers. Keep it classy, 2p2.

WHITE POWER

08-14-2017 , 03:21 PM

#51748

TheHip41

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Quote:

Originally Posted by 6ix

What are your thoughts on the terrorist attack that took place Saturday?

One down, millions to go

08-14-2017 , 03:35 PM

#51749

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Originally Posted by Nonfiction

How many countries being duped, infiltrated, and politically exploited into converting away from Democracy (and 0 that I've heard of in the other direction) would make you draw the line? I honestly don't know what my number is, but I do know it's not just based on whether America is fully transformed. Millions of innocent people are suffering and/or dying over this, much like the citizens of Russia and NK.

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If we can't beat Trump et al in time, we'll be joining them much faster than expected. He's been escalating since January, and the acceleration keeps just enough pace to always stay ahead of the resistance. Mueller and other investigations heated up strongly in the last 2 months, and things like Jr's meeting, Browder/Magnitsky hearing exposing Trump & GOP, raiding Paul Manafort's home, etc. forced him to step up the deflections into what we're seeing lately from Scaramucci, crazy attacks on Sessions and Congress, more overt racism than before, threats of actual military conflicts in 3 or 4 countries, and it's all (including lies, obstruction, witness tampering) gotten more obvious to the naked eye. Even serial killers don't increase suspicious activity and public crimes when they find out the law gets closer to catching them. Nobody does.