“During the sentencing, US district judge Timothy Kelly, who was nominated to the bench by Trump, said the evidence suggested Tarrio was “the ultimate leader” of the seditious conspiracy, “the ultimate person, who organized, who was motivated by revolutionary zeal”.”
That's very true, but all of their minds were made up about that years ago. I know the average person is fucking stupid as fuck, but I can't help but wonder how many people are still sitting on the fence when it comes to Trump.
Well, in most Western democracies, the really stupid seem to amount to about 10 to 20 percent (rising sadly). Due to a (completely intended) lack of education and decades of propaganda by the right, that amount seems to be about 30 percent in the US. That’s still very much a minority! On the other hand, Hitler only needed about 35 percent of the popular vote to dismantle democracy in Germany (different political system though).
Funny that you get downvoted like that. Trump wasn’t posting on the Proud Boy’s page to plan the attack, he’s the match that set the gas on fire, he’s not the guy who spread gas all over the living room… He always has the possibility to deny everything and say he didn’t expect them to be dumb enough to actually attack the place because that would be sedition/treason and only an irrational idiot would do that! Where’s this guy organized stuff and put his plan to execution… He’s the irrational idiot…
Trump and the people in Trump’s immediate orbit were in direct or very close indirect contact with all of these groups. They knew exactly what was going to happen. In addition to the normal nutty Trump crowds they reached out to these psycho fascist militias and told them to be there to “fight like hell”. People like the Proud Boys know exactly what an invitation and rhetoric like that mean. This was not a rally that got out of hand. This was all planned out and coordinated with other schemes like the false elector scheme and the Georgia phone call. This was deliberate and planned. Trump is an idiot but he knew what he was doing. This has all been documented in the impeachment hearings, the Congressional Jan 6 investigations, and the recent indictments.
I don’t think it was either of them leading. It’s probably organized crime. Also probably why they try to amp up bitcoins… They got drug and trafficked Bitcoin they want to launder easier. Roger Stone, I think, is a closer connection to the real people puppeting these morons. Probably why Robert Kennedy jumped on board with the rightwing nonsense, because the mafia already killed JFK and he’s owned.
Oh, I completely agree on that point. But let them fade into the dark where cockroaches belong and stop giving them free advertising for their gofundme accounts!
When Coast Guard officers told Baluchi they were cutting short his “manifestly unsafe” voyage, Baluchi threatened to kill himself with a 12-inch knife if anyone tried to apprehend him, and claimed to have a bomb aboard, which turned out to be fake, according to the complaint. Three days later, Baluchi—who authorities have intercepted in his Hydro Pod at least three times previously—finally surrendered
If only there were some well-established type of business, one with lots of rooms available for short periods of time that don’t share those hallways of rooms with full-time residents. Something you would pay a fee for and they would let you stay in one of those rooms. I wonder what we would call it? Maybe an AirbnTel?
The pro-gun community love to blame Ulvade police. “The problem isn’t dogshit gun laws that allowed a teenager with a history of death threats and animal abuse to buy two rifles on a whim from a company that targets edgelords, it was those darn cowardly cops!”
So to get the obvious out of the way first, brave cops don’t make much difference. During Sandy Hook, police were on the scene in minutes and breeched within minutes of that. The shooter still killed more people, he just didn’t get to mutilate the children beyond recognition with his cool guns.
But the less obvious thing the pro-gun community doesn’t seem to realise is that they themselves are one big Ulvade PD.
They too promised us public safety but stand around doing nothing while other people suffer the consequences of gun violence. They too get to dodge the consequences of their failures and joke about it with their buddies months later. They too leave it to everyone else to clean up their mess.
Frothily blame the police all you want, but gun owners are just as spineless and useless.
Yes, the parents. How many gun-owning members of the public without children inside volunteered to go in shooting, since they promised everyone they’d be safer if we kept the dogshit gun laws that armed the murderer in the first place?
The reality is that for all their flowery rhetoeic, gun owners only care about their own self interests. The middle-aged, morbidly obese man who wouldn’t even wear a mask is not going to fight a tyrant for you. He just wanted to keep his toys.
And if they don’t care about people being murdered with legal guns, why should I care about them being murdered because they didn’t have a legal gun?
I mean yes, sorta. The selling point of guns is that you can defend yourself. The good guy with a gun part is secondary.
The good guy with a gun is also a lie. If you want to strip out the flowery rhetoric and promises that are never delivered, sure, go ahead. You’re left with a group of people who are happy to put other people in danger for their own (often false) sense of security.
Also this us vs them mentality doesn’t seem good for productive discussion.
Nope, fuck that. They’ve had 20 years of polite discussion and potential compromise and they’ve done nothing. It clearly is us vs them.
the art makes it look crowded - residential and commercial areas are right next to each other, no fences - designed to get the most out of the space - with a park somewhere off in the distance?
I think we should create a global rule that if you want to live far from people in a “rural” setting or something, you must live exactly like indigenous peoples hundreds of years ago.
No technology, just in harmony with nature.
If you drive a truck, you are forbidden from nature. If you want a TV, fridge, modernly constructed house, you can’t set foot into a single blade of grass outside of metropolises.
sorry if you weirdos want to live like medieval free-peoples, that’s ok as well
I lived in Los Angeles for 10 years. The pollution gave me bad acid reflux, which is actually a symptom we asthma sufferers can have. I moved to a semi-rural place and that reflux went away. So you’re basically saying I should either be forced to be ill or live like I’m Amish.
You can live in a nice city with a lot of parks, good public transit, minimal cars, nice architecture etc.
It’s just a fact we must accept, living in a rural or semi-rural way just won’t be possible anymore. Climate change is really gonna fuck things up way too much and people don’t seem to get that.
If we want to survive as a technologically and socially advanced species and not regress to the Stone Age, we have to give up old Medieval ideals of living in the country-side.
There’s lots of those in my part of the world, maybe not yours.
But just because the cities around you suck, it doesn’t mean the idea of cities suck. That all cities suck. That we’d all be better off living in semi-rural suburbs or some other American hellscape.
It seems your perspective on this is 100% based on your individual experience and it includes 0 big-picture thought.
I never said that all cities suck. I was talking about the ‘anyone who doesn’t live in a city has to live like it’s the 19th century’ thing. I’ve told you that multiple times. I’m not sure how to be more clear about it.
But how can REALITY get more clear? We’re going through the very early stages of global cataclysm. We will only survive as a social and technologically advanced species if we concentrate in a few small spots, and basically abandon and work to rehabilitate the other 99% of the Earth. For a long long time probably.
I don’t understand how living like you guys even slightly looks like a good idea unless you’re extremely self-centred and don’t give a fuck about the world. Which I guess makes sense, we’re in this shit situation because most people are like that I guess.
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