Is this America?

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A Potted Plant

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If anyone wants to listen to a very sobering podcast check out "It Could Happen Here" that discusses the possibility of another American civil war.


After today it's quite clear some of our fellow countrymen believe we're already in one.

If You're trying to succeed from from a county are you still a countryman?
 

Tbof

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Isn't this whole thing proof we are living in a simulation? There's no way all of this can be real. One of the headlines today is that the president was locked out of his Twitter account.

WTF is happening?
lol. Thank god a good joke to relax everyone. Well Done Can we say god on this site ?
 

soulchild

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Shits so crazy it even brought @soulchild out of the wood work

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Patrick

Overthinking the draft from the basement already
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so i wonder how they get cell service inside a stone building?
micro-cells? owned and operated by the government?
gee, wonder if they registered their ESN when connecting?
ah, i'm just being paranoid.
the generic pardon will be written tonight.
how's that stock market looking? oh, dow up 1.x%.... who knew this would be good for markets?
 
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carvegybe

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Love the jokes, but this $hit is serious. The country is divided because there is a growing disenfranchised part of the population which is growing in size because of the very forces that made the country great: capitalism, entrepreneurship, etc. In the meantime the american dream turned out to be nothing but a dream for many. Now, some of these people are more and more susceptible to rhetoric that the system is rigged against them. At some point populism becomes too attractive and violence creeps in and/or democracy suffers. History offers plenty of examples.

Biden/Harris getting into power will be a bandaid. Real solutions will take decades to redress inequality and curb the pursuit profits for the benefit of the average man and woman. Whether such policies are put into place will depend, in part, on whether the electorate can, on individual basis, think beyond solely supporting policies that benefit that specific individual or that individual's business and think about the collective, the environment, the poor, etc. I say this as someone who comes from the communist block and gets goose bumps when the word "collective" is mentioned. The way forward requires abandonment of principles of trickle down economics and implementation of more distributive policies. We need to change course from a path that, in the short term, might appeal to those seeking to preserve/grow capital, but in the long run will lead to populism, violence and, very likely, loss of that capital. This is the most unequal developed country in the world and a nuclear superpower. Think about that for a moment. We have been warned.
 

Patrick

Overthinking the draft from the basement already
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Love the jokes, but this $hit is serious. The country is divided because there is a growing disenfranchised part of the population which is growing in size because of the very forces that made the country great: capitalism, entrepreneurship, etc. In the meantime the american dream turned out to be nothing but a dream for many. Now, some of these people are more and more susceptible to rhetoric that the system is rigged against them. At some point populism becomes too attractive and violence creeps in and/or democracy suffers. History offers plenty of examples.

Biden/Harris getting into power will be a bandaid. Real solutions will take decades to redress inequality and curb the pursuit profits for the benefit of the average man and woman. Whether such policies are put into place will depend, in part, on whether the electorate can, on individual basis, think beyond solely supporting policies that benefit that specific individual or that individual's business and think about the collective, the environment, the poor, etc. I say this as someone who comes from the communist block and gets goose bumps when the word "collective" is mentioned. The way forward requires abandonment of principles of trickle down economics and implementation of more distributive policies. We need to change course from a path that, in the short term, might appeal to those seeking to preserve/grow capital, but in the long run will lead to populism, violence and, very likely, loss of that capital. This is the most unequal developed country in the world and a nuclear superpower. Think about that for a moment. We have been warned.

i'll just throw out there that with the pandemic, there are a bunch of people focused on the wrong thing because they have nothing to do.
this wasn't a million person march on the capitol. it was a select bunch that were allowed in, and encouraged to continue.
this was planned. when all legal remedy available failed to successfully contest the election, this is what was left.
just need to make sure the scorned lover doesn't burn it down on the way out.

on your other notes - yeah, we got some work ahead of us.
 

Norm

Mayor McCheese
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Love the jokes, but this $hit is serious. The country is divided because there is a growing disenfranchised part of the population which is growing in size because of the very forces that made the country great: capitalism, entrepreneurship, etc. In the meantime the american dream turned out to be nothing but a dream for many. Now, some of these people are more and more susceptible to rhetoric that the system is rigged against them. At some point populism becomes too attractive and violence creeps in and/or democracy suffers. History offers plenty of examples.

Biden/Harris getting into power will be a bandaid. Real solutions will take decades to redress inequality and curb the pursuit profits for the benefit of the average man and woman. Whether such policies are put into place will depend, in part, on whether the electorate can, on individual basis, think beyond solely supporting policies that benefit that specific individual or that individual's business and think about the collective, the environment, the poor, etc. I say this as someone who comes from the communist block and gets goose bumps when the word "collective" is mentioned. The way forward requires abandonment of principles of trickle down economics and implementation of more distributive policies. We need to change course from a path that, in the short term, might appeal to those seeking to preserve/grow capital, but in the long run will lead to populism, violence and, very likely, loss of that capital. This is the most unequal developed country in the world and a nuclear superpower. Think about that for a moment. We have been warned.

I think a lot of this is spot-on, but my observation of people is that most will do anything to help their neighbor but fuck the guy on the other side of the neighbor.

We as a society are pretty selfish and short-sighted. There’s plenty of work to do but most people don’t want to work hard for much of anything these days.
 

UtahJoe

Team Workhorse
Team MTBNJ Halter's
my thoughts...

If this is the huge "TRUMP IS NEVER LEAVING" last stand campaign....id say we got off light...doesnt even look like the vote counting got delayed but a few hours.......Although I did have this fantasy of him chaining himself to the desk in the oval office....then the secret service just put bars on the office doors and he became another tour attraction like the lincoln bedroom.

I read they escorted the senators and congressmen/women out....So thats 635 people...how many guards does it take to escort that many people out? no idea...im guessing quite a few tho. So is this when everyone stormed in? And would it have been better if the cops opened fire and killed hundreds of these idiots?

Like this dipshit?
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I mean this just made me laugh...and thats a great pic...hope it was worth a stint in prison

Like I know cnn is calling this an insurrection....I mean look up the famous insurrections in this country....wilmington, NYC draft Riots, battle of athens, blair mountain.....I find it a little hard to compare with today

But all that aside, @Pearl id be interested in hearing the explanation in the different amounts of force out there. Its a valid question
 
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