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Re: Chronicles of a Stillborn Zombie Coup

Post by JimC » Tue Dec 05, 2023 2:39 am

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Re: Chronicles of a Stillborn Zombie Coup

Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Dec 05, 2023 11:10 am

Shouldn't laugh really. gallstones was one of the first people I became aware of being radicalised online. Many more followed.
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Re: Chronicles of a Stillborn Zombie Coup

Post by Cunt » Tue Dec 05, 2023 2:57 pm

Brian Peacock wrote:
Tue Dec 05, 2023 11:10 am
Shouldn't laugh really. gallstones was one of the first people I became aware of being radicalised online. Many more followed.
'whatever happened to Gallstones'

'radicalised online'

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Re: Chronicles of a Stillborn Zombie Coup

Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Dec 05, 2023 3:34 pm

No. Pretty much everyone is happy to engage with me, especially those that disagree, and likewise I with them, because most of us actually enjoy having our ideas challenged and rarely resort to silly personal nonsense. Even when we do we usually kiss and make up quickly. You probably shouldn't confuse your experience for the experience of everyone else.

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Re: Chronicles of a Stillborn Zombie Coup

Post by Cunt » Tue Dec 05, 2023 3:44 pm

Brian Peacock wrote:
Tue Dec 05, 2023 3:34 pm
No. Pretty much everyone is happy to engage with me, especially those that disagree, and likewise I with them, because most of us actually enjoy having our ideas challenged and rarely resort to silly personal nonsense. Even when we do we usually kiss and make quickly. You probably shouldn't confuse your experience for the experience of everyone else.
Geez, where did they all go, BP?

FortyTwo, Gallstones, Seth, meeky...seems anyone not far enough to the left has coincidentally gone elsewhere to post. Or maybe some of the rules here favour one political side of the aisle (my theory)
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Joe wrote:
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he doesn't communicate

The 'Walsh Question' 'What Is A Woman?' I'll put an answer here when someone posts one that is clear and comprehensible, by apostates to the Faith.

Update: I've been offered one!
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Post by Tero » Tue Dec 05, 2023 4:29 pm

It's a struggle for social media outside the giants to survive. There are dozens of Ratz active on FB.
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Re: Chronicles of a Stillborn Zombie Coup

Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Dec 05, 2023 5:11 pm

Cunt wrote:
Tue Dec 05, 2023 3:44 pm
Brian Peacock wrote:
Tue Dec 05, 2023 3:34 pm
No. Pretty much everyone is happy to engage with me, especially those that disagree, and likewise I with them, because most of us actually enjoy having our ideas challenged and rarely resort to silly personal nonsense. Even when we do we usually kiss and make quickly. You probably shouldn't confuse your experience for the experience of everyone else.
Geez, where did they all go, BP?
Same place the lefties went probably.
FortyTwo, Gallstones, Seth, meeky...seems anyone not far enough to the left has coincidentally gone elsewhere to post. Or maybe some of the rules here favour one political side of the aisle (my theory)
Lol. More vaguely and explicitly lefty members have withdrawn from the site that right-wingers, but you seem to think the rules should show the righties some special consideration. Why is that?
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Re: Chronicles of a Stillborn Zombie Coup

Post by Cunt » Tue Dec 05, 2023 5:38 pm

Brian Peacock wrote:
Tue Dec 05, 2023 5:11 pm
Cunt wrote:
Tue Dec 05, 2023 3:44 pm
Brian Peacock wrote:
Tue Dec 05, 2023 3:34 pm
No. Pretty much everyone is happy to engage with me, especially those that disagree, and likewise I with them, because most of us actually enjoy having our ideas challenged and rarely resort to silly personal nonsense. Even when we do we usually kiss and make quickly. You probably shouldn't confuse your experience for the experience of everyone else.
Geez, where did they all go, BP?
Same place the lefties went probably.
FortyTwo, Gallstones, Seth, meeky...seems anyone not far enough to the left has coincidentally gone elsewhere to post. Or maybe some of the rules here favour one political side of the aisle (my theory)
Lol. More vaguely and explicitly lefty members have withdrawn from the site that right-wingers, but you seem to think the rules should show the righties some special consideration. Why is that?
Many of both kinds, for lots of reasons.

Why do you suggest I think righties should have special considerations? I just think the rules favour the lefties.

But you were the one musing about where Gallstones went, then said they were radicalised online. Maybe that's where all your leftys went, too.

Lots of radicalisation going on with both sides.

It's almost like someone out there benefits from both sides fighting...

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Joe wrote:
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The 'Walsh Question' 'What Is A Woman?' I'll put an answer here when someone posts one that is clear and comprehensible, by apostates to the Faith.

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Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Dec 05, 2023 6:04 pm

You really don't know what you're talking about I'm afraid.
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Post by pErvinalia » Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:11 pm

Cunt wrote:
Tue Dec 05, 2023 3:44 pm
Brian Peacock wrote:
Tue Dec 05, 2023 3:34 pm
No. Pretty much everyone is happy to engage with me, especially those that disagree, and likewise I with them, because most of us actually enjoy having our ideas challenged and rarely resort to silly personal nonsense. Even when we do we usually kiss and make quickly. You probably shouldn't confuse your experience for the experience of everyone else.
Geez, where did they all go, BP?

FortyTwo, Gallstones, Seth, meeky...seems anyone not far enough to the left has coincidentally gone elsewhere to post. Or maybe some of the rules here favour one political side of the aisle (my theory)
This is bullshit, as pointed out before (ignored by Cunt as usual). Far more lefties have left this site than right wingers.
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Re: Chronicles of a Stillborn Zombie Coup

Post by L'Emmerdeur » Thu Dec 07, 2023 3:55 am

Trump lawyer in the 14th Amendment case in Colorado (disqualification from the ballot for engaging in insurrection): Asked if preventing the peaceful transfer of power falls under the definition of insurrection, he says, 'I don't think so' (video). He's tap-dancing, but not particularly adroitly.

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Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Dec 07, 2023 7:29 am

Although that :this: feels like a tone-policing argument, statutes are quite particular in their wording and definitions, so it's a legitimate question imo, and to some extent the Right have point when they focus on that term 'insurrection' - just not for the reasons they think.

The disingenuous Right say that you can't call it an insurrection because it didn't succeed, therefore it was merely an objection, or a protest or, some may grant, a riot: there was no violent overthrow of the government, so no insurrection in a strict sense, so nothing to see here, and to suggest otherwise is a gross misrepresentation broadcast only for political reasons. But one can agree that it didn't succeed and still recognise that the intent was there; that it was an attempt, or that it was a preparatory action, and thus we coyld view it as a 'failed insurrection'. We could also acknowledge that action to undermine the election result doesn't necessarily have to be explicitly violent to achieve the desired ends of overthrowing the government. In that sense we could just as easily call the totality of what took place a minority (as opposed to a 'popular') uprising, revolt, or revolution, or even a coup - and where the authority of the government is expressed through the presidential office to negate a democratic election result, we could call it an attempt to install a dictatorship.

In fact, neither the courts nor the public have to rely on, or become overly fixated on, determining the exact, 'correct' descriptive terminology in order to acknowledge there is a case to me made against Trump et al where the desired ends can be established--which they clearly can in Trump and ithers' own words--and where the variety and nature of the action taken to achieve those ends can be identified and evidenced--which they already have been.
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Re: Chronicles of a Stillborn Zombie Coup

Post by Joe » Thu Dec 07, 2023 2:17 pm

I suppose we could ask, what if the assault had succeeded?

Let's say the police resistance wasn't able to delay the mob and they burst into the House chamber with both houses in session. How many people would they have to kill or disable to knock the federal Legislative branch out of commission for a significant amount of time? If Pence, Pelosi, McConnell, and Grassly were left dead or unable to serve, wouldn't that be what the military call a decapitation strike?

In that event, who would balk at Trump invoking the Insurrection Act, declaring martial law, and bringing in troops to "restore order?" Who would dare with the mob still loose. Consider that there were "stop the steal" events at 24 state capitols going on at the time.

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Post by L'Emmerdeur » Fri Dec 15, 2023 10:29 pm

In that scenario it all depends on what the commanding officers are willing to do under the rubric of 'restore order.'



A member here (currently on sabbatical) is fond of the term 'dirty smear merchant.' I don't think he'd apply it to Rudy Giuliani, if only because he's been found to be exactly that by a court of law.

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Rudy Giuliani should pay a pair of Georgia election workers he repeatedly and falsely accused of fraud $148 million in damages, a federal jury said Friday.

The eight-person jury awarded Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, the sum after a four-day trial, during which they testified that Giuliani’s lies in support of former President Donald Trump’s bogus stolen-election claims subjected them to a torrent of racist and violent threats and turned their lives upside down.

The amount awarded to Freeman and Moss was for three different kinds of damages — defamation, punitive and emotional distress. The plaintiffs were awarded $20 million each for emotional distress, and $75 million between them in punitive damages. Freeman was separately awarded just over $16 million in defamation damages, while Moss was awarded almost $17 million.

Giuliani called the dollar amount "absurd" and told reporters he would appeal.

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Re: Chronicles of a Stillborn Zombie Coup

Post by JimC » Sat Dec 16, 2023 12:51 am

Getting damages from that arsehole is certainly justified, but the total is somewhat absurd, since I'm pretty sure Rudy doesn't have that amount tucked away under his bed...
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