Truly Grim, Authoritarian Inauguration

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  1. dairyair

    dairyair Well-Known Member

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    I guess you didn't hear about Jan 6, 2021.

    Google it
     
  2. Sanskrit

    Sanskrit Well-Known Member

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    Dealt with elsewhere in thread and the forum generally.
     
  3. dairyair

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    Public wasn't welcomed. Due to Jan 6, 2021
     
  4. Sanskrit

    Sanskrit Well-Known Member

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    False. Protests of Trump's Inauguration in 2016 were far more violent, yet the Trump Inauguration proceeded as legitimate ones always have.
     
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    Modus Ponens Well-Known Member

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    You're an obsessed Factionalist, and part of the reason for Conservatives' embrace of Authoritarianism. The country's survival depends on the defeat the ideology that has you under its spell.
     
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    "Authoritarian Empire Inauguration" ?

    My opinion?

    Over-the-top beyond-the-pale hyperbole.

    Cynic meter is redlining.

    And wrong.

    I'd explain why, but debating hyperbole, especially the kind springing from the well of cynicism is a fool's errand.

    But, okay, you asked politely, so I'll give it a shot.

    Why do I call it cynical? Because, after watching the inauguration, which was quilted with love, beauty, song, poetry, and all sorts of feel-good things, that this is your reaction, hell, there is no other conclusion other than pure cynicism that I can come up with for your opinion. I was amazed by it, I was thinking this guy must be from another planet, because that is the last thing I saw. Did I see some soldiers? Sure, but just the other day Trump's minions, proud boys ( or whatever they call themselves) laid sieged to the capitol and threatened the life of the vice president, hunted for the speaker, and 5 people were killed and...their threats have continued on social media. So, if you can't, not from any part of your being, find a way to cut the new president some slack on the security imposed, and be completely oblivious to the rest of the event, which progressed more on TV ( owing to covid ) I find that mindboggling.
     
  7. kungfuliberal

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    You admit to not reading information others provide to defend their position, yet you proceed to promote your supposition and conjecture on the subject as fact. That is not a rational, fact based discussion, that is willful ignornance
     
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    No, YOU stated that there was "irrefutable" proof that calling the yahoos storming the Capitol terrorist is a lie. I'm asking you to provide that proof for the reader. Shouldn't be hard, if it's as you say
     
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    Click the arrow next to my name on that response and see if you can find that post. You won't, because it's been deleted, as a monitor has informed me.
     
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    They had to do that. Imagine how having 12 people show up for Biden's inauguration would look.
     
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    You seem to like to revise what has transpired. Here, you combine two responses....one directly to you and one to another poster concerning you. Let me clarify for the reader:

    The monitor here deemed my full response to one of Sandy's diatribes as a rule breaker, and deleted it. Sandy only copy and pastes what looks good to his responses, which is why only the following survived.

    http://www.politicalforum.com/index...an-inauguration.584108/page-3#post-1072397074

    Obviously, Sandy feels he doesn't have to justify or prove anything he posts beyond a certain point. His opinion, supposition and conjecture (in his mind) is an apt replacement for facts and the logic derived from all the pertaining facts. One can't have a rational debate with such a mindset as aforementioned.
     
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  13. kungfuliberal

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    Obviously you must live in a part of the world were the pandemic hasn't affected you, otherwise you wouldn't have made such an absurd statement.
     
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    So to clarify for the readers: Sandy just says whatever he wants and treats it like the gospel truth. To maintain that stance, he REFUSES to read any material that can document FACTS that CONTRADICT Sandy's assertions and beliefs. So in short, any thread or post Sandy creates is essentially not for discussion, but more for the type of 3rd rate propaganda that permeated the Trump administration and his enablers in the media and Congress. Pathetic, but not unexpected.
     
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    Has anyone noticed that there is another conspirator added each time the conspiracy is cited?
     
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  16. kungfuliberal

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    Oh yes indeed....Fox News, WABC Talk Radio, conservative flunkies like Savage and Limbaugh just keep piling them on. Pathetic.
     
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    The OP is a riot. Requires no provable facts using valid, documented sources...just a shot gun blast of sour grapes at the FACT that Trump lost the election....popular and electoral votes. This will go one for the rest of the lives of folk like the OP author. Sad.
     
  18. Andrew Jackson

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    No kidding.

    "Authoritarian"? :roflol::bored:

    It is absolutely hilarious.

    Sour Grapes, to the Max.

    Maybe it is just me, but this is how I see it:

    Certain people are going to be in for a LONG 4 YEARS.
     
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    lolol thank you for that! it translates to AMERICA IS WINNING AGAIN!!!!
     
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    Tranquil only to those who agree with whatever brand of authoritarianism that they agree with that is in power. They do not mind trampling the rights of others.

    For those of us that are not comfortable with any brand of authoritarianism at all, we are uncomfortable with both Biden's and Trump's brand of authoritarianism because of the historically we understand it always leads to tyranny no matter the brand.
     
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    No words have been more accurate.

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    I thought you guys were pro-military. Wasn't Trump all about expanding the military. Trump supporters didn't have a problem with federal troops in Portland during the protests. Do you get that our Capital building was over-run by a mob last week, and that is why we have soldiers protecting our leaders right now?
     
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    Would Emperor Joseph sound better to you? :angel:

    I'm not bitter, I voted for LP candidate, not for the first time. I've known for many years that Emperor Joe is a strong supporter of the status quo of perpetual war.
     
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    Gave you a like. Haaaaa!!!! Good stuff. Didn't spit any coffee; spilled the whole cup.

    :applause: (I rarely use icons. Your post is special.)
     
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    Oh, so it's us oppressed serfs, the common people opposed to the Chain Link Corporate-Uniparty Aristocratic Hegemony, who are somehow the dangerous "factionalists?" What faction would that be, the "Leave Us Peasants Alone" faction? I doubt even Goebbels could pull off that Newspeak projection, but keep trying, it's funny.

    State Religion (men in women's sports, COVID1984 manufactured hysteria), Purity Tests (vetting soldiers, doxxing), Rampant Censorship, Pravda Propaganda Press, Show Trials (impeachment of officials not in office and rafts of other spurious litigation), Enemy Lists, Reeducation Camps and Exile (appeals to such all over this forum and elsewhere), Human Rights Violations (2A, Free Assembly, Free Speech, Travel), Brownshirt Thugs (ANTIFA, BLM, Soros astroturf), Palace Guards (FBI, CIA, ATF and a dozen other heavily armed federal police), Domestic Militarization and Bloodthirsty, Unecessary Foreign Wars abroad.

    That ain't -us-, that's all -YOU-.
     
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