I'm so thankful that the internet is allowing us to see people for who they really are. You see a few years ago I actually wondered how things got so bad that my grandfathers had to go fight in Europe and Asia back in the day. Now I know.
This Thanksgiving I'm just thankful you're not THAT crazy. Yes, the government needs restructuring, but seriously? That way? Like anyone with an AR-15 has a chance against a Predator drone. This creates problems though, to quote the great Immortal Technique: The problem from trying to change the system from the inside is that eventually it's the system that changes you.
If you're a fascist and you know it, call the feds
If you're a fascist and you know it, call the feds
Put an end to all free speech,
And report your families
If you're a fascist and you know it, call the feds
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Maybe if you're lucky they'll end up in solitary confinement for months on end in a move usually not even applied to some of the worst child rapists and murderers
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Dessert is gonna be great
Yup. Trespassing should have a sentence of no less than 41 months and a lifetime ruined. Especially for first time offenders who were waved in by police.
Show me a single person charged with either. Then convict them according to the codes in fair trials. Those words have legal meanings. I'm calling a spade a spade, I don't know what you're doing
First they lectured us on the importance of the right to protest as a means of excusing cities being burned to the ground, statues being smashed, property being stolen, people being beaten and attacked in the streets. All in the name of m'racism.
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Then they claimed that the right to protest doesn't apply to anyone actually protesting the GOVERNMENT itself... provided its their party in power.
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Then they arrested the non-violent protestors. Labelled them terrorists. Compared them to the terrorists responsible for 9/11. Used moral outrage as an excuse to Lock these in solitary confinement with no trial. A punishment, I say again, not even reserved for child rapists and murderers most of the time.
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And now we are told we should celebrate this behavior. No, better still, we should actively TAKE PART in the government Black-Bagging people because, well, that was a very very *special* building they trespassed on. And have you considered just HOW offended some people were?
Name one thing, one crime the people that day commited - and have been charged with - that equates the sentences they are serving.
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The fact that you think this is remotely reasonable is a testament to how little thought you must have given to the implications behind this.
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Back-patting a world where trespassing - publicly, and largely with the government's consent (unless you are going to sit there and tell me it was out of their power to stop this) - means you disappear without trial.
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A world where your family works for the government. And it doesn't even matter if they have proof. All they have to have is an allegation. So you watch what you say. Or try not to say anything at all.
When did any of us say that all the mostly-peaceful protesters were antifa? I know that one of the provocateurs/propagandists is, but that doesn't excuse the wrong done by those who did wrong. Whether they agree with me or not. A difference between you and I that I take pride in, Karl.
Now tell me, who was charged with insurrection or treason? And how are the trials going in those cases?
People can't seem to grasp the issue isn't exclusively the disparity between the vilification of the protestors at the capital vs the ones who commited weeks and months of actual violent terrorism on people who were punished if they tried to fight back
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The issue, the real issue that makes this so far beyond political discourse, is the way this is being handled.
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No citizen of a country should have to fear being taken by the government and thrown in solitary confinement without trial, without charges, without recourse.
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No one should be terrified that an act of trespass - even on government property - that was not connected to some heinous violence or GENUINE acts of terrorism should have the FBI raiding their homes. Especially on nothing but the word of your family, who should not take GLEE in sentencing you to this fate, either.
And if you think you're immune to this, you're a fool.
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Celebrating the government behaving this way - the double-standards and ever changing logic. The blatant abuse of power and disregard of rights. The longer it goes on, the longer they are not held accountable, the worse and more extreme they will get.
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The ripple effects will reach you eventually. Under these sorts of regimes, you WILL be found guilty of something.
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Y'all can cheerlead this shit to Auschwitz and back. Not a damn one of you would enjoy living in the world you're trying to create with this shit.
If you're a fascist and you know it, call the feds
Put an end to all free speech,
And report your families
If you're a fascist and you know it, call the feds
.
.
Maybe if you're lucky they'll end up in solitary confinement for months on end in a move usually not even applied to some of the worst child rapists and murderers
.
Dessert is gonna be great
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Then they claimed that the right to protest doesn't apply to anyone actually protesting the GOVERNMENT itself... provided its their party in power.
.
Then they arrested the non-violent protestors. Labelled them terrorists. Compared them to the terrorists responsible for 9/11. Used moral outrage as an excuse to Lock these in solitary confinement with no trial. A punishment, I say again, not even reserved for child rapists and murderers most of the time.
.
And now we are told we should celebrate this behavior. No, better still, we should actively TAKE PART in the government Black-Bagging people because, well, that was a very very *special* building they trespassed on. And have you considered just HOW offended some people were?
.
.
The fact that you think this is remotely reasonable is a testament to how little thought you must have given to the implications behind this.
.
Back-patting a world where trespassing - publicly, and largely with the government's consent (unless you are going to sit there and tell me it was out of their power to stop this) - means you disappear without trial.
.
A world where your family works for the government. And it doesn't even matter if they have proof. All they have to have is an allegation. So you watch what you say. Or try not to say anything at all.
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Isn't there a wall you could be projecting on, rather than all over me?
Now tell me, who was charged with insurrection or treason? And how are the trials going in those cases?
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The issue, the real issue that makes this so far beyond political discourse, is the way this is being handled.
.
No citizen of a country should have to fear being taken by the government and thrown in solitary confinement without trial, without charges, without recourse.
.
No one should be terrified that an act of trespass - even on government property - that was not connected to some heinous violence or GENUINE acts of terrorism should have the FBI raiding their homes. Especially on nothing but the word of your family, who should not take GLEE in sentencing you to this fate, either.
.
Celebrating the government behaving this way - the double-standards and ever changing logic. The blatant abuse of power and disregard of rights. The longer it goes on, the longer they are not held accountable, the worse and more extreme they will get.
.
The ripple effects will reach you eventually. Under these sorts of regimes, you WILL be found guilty of something.
.
Y'all can cheerlead this shit to Auschwitz and back. Not a damn one of you would enjoy living in the world you're trying to create with this shit.