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Escalating violence as armed protests planned in all 50 state capitals
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RE: Escalating violence as armed protests planned in all 50 state capitals
January 13, 2021 at 10:47 am
(January 13, 2021 at 10:30 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: ♫Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there♫
LOL - actually - it isn't State Farm... It used to be. Those bastards kept raising my rates - so now it's Progressive...
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RE: Escalating violence as armed protests planned in all 50 state capitals
January 13, 2021 at 10:51 am
I used to work for State Farm. I insured my stuff with GEICO. Because I worked for State Farm.
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RE: Escalating violence as armed protests planned in all 50 state capitals
January 13, 2021 at 11:02 am (This post was last modified: January 13, 2021 at 11:04 am by brewer.)
(January 13, 2021 at 10:24 am)onlinebiker Wrote:
(January 12, 2021 at 1:44 pm)brewer Wrote: Terrorists, rioters, insurgents ............... pick your own definition. Why do you think I agree with the armed individuals in Portland?

I didn't say you did.


But where was all the outrage about.those armed people in Portland?

Not a peep on this forum......

Why do you suppose that is?

The two scenarios are not the same. And I did not agree with the armed camp and take over in Portland.

And you have selective memory.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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RE: Escalating violence as armed protests planned in all 50 state capitals
January 13, 2021 at 11:58 am
I don't think it's a memory problem. He knows that..to our eternal shame...the american response to both portland and antifa was rejection, distance, and denouncement. That's part of what emboldens the separatists. We routinely signal that we agree with them in important ways.
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RE: Escalating violence as armed protests planned in all 50 state capitals
January 13, 2021 at 1:05 pm
(January 13, 2021 at 11:02 am)brewer Wrote:
(January 13, 2021 at 10:24 am)onlinebiker Wrote: I didn't say you did.


But where was all the outrage about.those armed people in Portland?

Not a peep on this forum......

Why do you suppose that is?

The two scenarios are not the same. And I did not agree with the armed camp and take over in Portland.

And you have selective memory.
They are exactly the same....


Wailing children who think that if they kick and scream loud enough and cause enough mayhem that they will get their way.

Their CAUSE is different - but their actions identical.

You are never justified being a shithead. Regardless of your cause.
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RE: Escalating violence as armed protests planned in all 50 state capitals
January 13, 2021 at 1:25 pm
(January 13, 2021 at 1:05 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:
(January 13, 2021 at 11:02 am)brewer Wrote: The two scenarios are not the same. And I did not agree with the armed camp and take over in Portland.

And you have selective memory.
They are exactly the same....


Wailing children who think that if they kick and scream loud enough and cause enough mayhem that they will get their way.

Their CAUSE is different - but their actions identical.

You are never justified being a shithead. Regardless of your cause.

You just proved that they are not the same.
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RE: Escalating violence as armed protests planned in all 50 state capitals
January 13, 2021 at 1:29 pm
(January 13, 2021 at 1:05 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:
(January 13, 2021 at 11:02 am)brewer Wrote: The two scenarios are not the same. And I did not agree with the armed camp and take over in Portland.

And you have selective memory.
They are exactly the same....


Wailing children who think that if they kick and scream loud enough and cause enough mayhem that they will get their way.

Their CAUSE is different - but their actions identical.

You are never justified being a shithead. Regardless of your cause.

The cause is what makes all the difference.

Suppose I take an axe, smash my way through your front door, and drag your unconscious body outside where I throw you into the back of a vehicle that speeds away with you.

Now, my cause could be that I want to carry you off to my secret lair and harvest your organs. Alternately, I could be a fireman saving your life.

My actions are the same in both cases, but my causes are different. Am I a shithead in both cases?

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RE: Escalating violence as armed protests planned in all 50 state capitals
January 13, 2021 at 1:41 pm
(January 13, 2021 at 1:29 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(January 13, 2021 at 1:05 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: They are exactly the same....


Wailing children who think that if they kick and scream loud enough and cause enough mayhem that they will get their way.

Their CAUSE is different - but their actions identical.

You are never justified being a shithead. Regardless of your cause.

The cause is what makes all the difference.

Suppose I take an axe, smash my way through your front door, and drag your unconscious body outside where I throw you into the back of a vehicle that speeds away with you.

Now, my cause could be that I want to carry you off to my secret lair and harvest your organs. Alternately, I could be a fireman saving your life.

My actions are the same in both cases, but my causes are different. Am I a shithead in both cases?

Boru
Not a good analogy.

When you "hold a protest" you are assuming responsibility for it going tits up and turning into a riot.


When it goes from protest to riot - you lose any moral high ground you might have.

Being an appologist for a riot because "it's a good cause" makes you as big a shithead as the rioters...

It is why I see protests as a bad idea.

Got a cause? Great. Organize. Raise funding. Sue the shit out of the opposition.


How do you think the NRA and other gun rights groups keep winning?

It wasn't by toting signs, chanting slogans and burning down their neighborhood .....
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RE: Escalating violence as armed protests planned in all 50 state capitals
January 13, 2021 at 2:15 pm
I wish having a spy successfully foment unrest worked as well in Civ VI as it has with Trump.
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RE: Escalating violence as armed protests planned in all 50 state capitals
January 13, 2021 at 2:20 pm
Trump is a thug, a criminal and he showed how ruthless he can gets with the Kashoggi murder:

https://atheistforums.org/thread-56810-p...pid2019594

This man will burn the white house and all of America and the world to satisfy his interests. A crazy bastard and he should be impeached and trailed now.
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