Election results discussion thread (and sadly the inevitable aftermath)

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crimson5pheonix

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You know who argues by posting tweets?
That sounds suspiciously like you have nothing to say to yet another show of right-wing violence. Don't think I didn't notice you cutting out those parts in previous posts.

So again, why are cops as friendly with people at a cook out as they are with people breaking down the doors of congress while congress is inside and calling for executions?
 

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So again, why are cops as friendly with people at a cook out as they are with people breaking down the doors of congress while congress is inside and calling for executions?
I don't know that they were. In that video, it doesn't look like any doors are being broken down. What's the timeline here, cause I know at some point someone goes too far out of line and gets shot, and I'm betting it's after selfie time.

I'm trying to understand the events, not characterize them in the way that best suits my priorities.
 

crimson5pheonix

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I don't know that they were. In that video, it doesn't look like any doors are being broken down. What's the timeline here, cause I know at some point someone goes too far out of line and gets shot, and I'm betting it's after selfie time.

I'm trying to understand the events, not characterize them in the way that best suits my priorities.
You serious?

VIDEO: You can see Capitol Police and Chamber Security with guns drawn and barricading the door with a bench. This was taken by Congressman @RepDanKildee, from the House Chambers, as a pro-Trump mob attempted to break into the House floor. @wxyzdetroit
 

crimson5pheonix

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Something something looters should get the bullet too.
 

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But he said he would be walking with them, what, he lied?
Well, that's Trump for you. He enjoys winding people up and watching them go, for the sense of power it gives him.
 

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74 million people voted for this imbecile. How does a person with at least average IQ look at that guy and thinks to him/herself that Trump is their guy, the guy that will set things right, the smart guy who knows his stuff. How the actual fuck can anyone, let alone 74 million people, be that fuckin' stupid?
Drunk the Kool-Aid, believed conspiracy theorists, or are just cartoonishly evil. I'd like to think that some are just terrified of the reality of Trump and are mentally running from it, but quite a few just have to be evil.

How did X many people support Y, who is a figure we've read about in the history books who appears obviously evil to everyone born later? We generally just say "evil" for most of them, still works.
 

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74 million people voted for this imbecile. How does a person with at least average IQ look at that guy and thinks to him/herself that Trump is their guy, the guy that will set things right, the smart guy who knows his stuff. How the actual fuck can anyone, let alone 74 million people, be that fuckin' stupid?
Because the US has two options only normally

Trump was deemed by people to be the lesser of the evils and based on his track record, it's been a lot of noise but due (likely in part to incompetence) he's barely done any real damage.
 

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Trump was deemed by people to be the lesser of the evils and based on his track record, it's been a lot of noise but due (likely in part to incompetence) he's barely done any real damage.
370,000 dead from covid-19, many avoidably. Interesting to know that's not "real damage" in your world.
 
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Trump was deemed by people to be the lesser of the evils and based on his track record, it's been a lot of noise but due (likely in part to incompetence) he's barely done any real damage.
370,000 dead from covid-19, many avoidably. Interesting to know that's not "real damage" in your world.
Wait I said that? I'm an asshole...

but seriously why do quote me for something I didn't write?
 

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370,000 dead from covid-19, many avoidably. Interesting to know that's not "real damage" in your world.
Not to mention lives lost by Trump's betrayal of the Kurds, and families forcibly separated at the border (the latter being a continuation, but also an intensification, of previously existing policies).

but seriously why do quote me for something I didn't write?
Looks like the quote function's messed up again. That was Dwarvenhobble, not Godzillarich.
 
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