TrickstaPriest

So we are basically back to the Republican party being "violence against democrats is justified, just forget that we backstabbed your favorite guy" across the board now?

Not sure how the Republican party expects unity after this list. Like, openly accepting bribes as President? I'd love a good 24 million...

Fun set of videos I wish I found sooner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3E2FdedPwU "Facts and Logic" is the first of the list, goes bottom up https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwCiRao53J1y_gqJJOH6Rcgpb-vaW9wF0

Today is about the fact that I decided to try to start to run my first hero game in a decade this spring or summer

Well, yes. I expect they will vote, which is fine... but we do need to push for that voting too. Given the forces at play on Inauguration Day, I'm not surprised there wasn't anything more. Given that it appears Trump didn't pardon anyone who was at Capitol Hill... I'm not sure what'll happen next

You have my sympathies Like every doomsday cult, this will eventually pass.

I'm glad nothing happened, but with the presence there I wasn't too surprised. I was curious if Trump had pardoned any of his Republican peers... or any of the Capitol Hill crew. It seems like he's largely abandoned his protesters and anyone in Congress (whether they backed him or not)?

Good political historical discussion relevant to recent things. I'm curious to find more resources on this

Was wondering who he pardoned besides Bannon...

For a mental break

She sounds positively lovely 😕 Can't imagine why she might feel uneasy about 'white supremacists' being considered evil >_<

Yep. Exactly 😕 And in general, a lot of people who aren't as deep in the hole just say "oh that doesn't pass the sniff test" because the general Q bs is to take advantage of everyone's suspicion of everything to make it all seem 'relatively even', excusing literal sedition in favor of monarchy/dictatorship because 'them riots were bad'. Or just suggesting 'those people weren't really trying a coup'. Even when there's literally hundreds of videos of the event, and many people chanting/saying they want to 'overturn the election' and/or punish the traitors, etc...

Literally the sentiment I'm running into is "everyone is lying. All of them. Every single one. You don't get it. You never get it. etc etc" summing up as 'you are a fool for listening to anyone trump/oan are the only people telling the truth!' There's a lot of people I'm running into that don't believe this yet, but are rationalizing in the exact same way as these people. Which means they are literally on that road, right now, to becoming those people.

Literally still see half the people I know are 'on the fence at best'. I think we are underestimating the effect of propaganda over years, let alone the two weeks its been.

Pretty interesting that it's Russia that's stepped in. I was only half-in-the-pool of them being closely involved (deniable but possible), but that pretty much clinches it for me. Hey now it's the US that's the subject of proxy wars of foreign countries! yaayy... 😕

Unfortunately it's been less than two weeks and I already get more pushback about BLM and the Floyd protests than I do about the Capitol Hill riot among almost half the friends I have.

This was definitely 'I mean, the capitol hill thing wasn't nearly as bad as those BLM people'. 😕

Almost everyone I've talked to in AZ who I know isn't a die hard liberal thinks that "well the capitol hill riots at least didn't burn any buildings down". Literally the concept of what happens when your democracy is violently taken away is a foreign concept to even my close friends here

Exactly.

Hypocrisy indeed. Imagine if they were forced to confront certain legal-but-crappy tactics? https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/georgia-early-voting-long-lines https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/voter-suppression-novembers-looming-election-crisis/613408/ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-locations/southern-u-s-states-have-closed-1200-polling-places-in-recent-years-rights-group-idUSKCN1VV09J https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/03/22/live-arizona-primary-coverage-presidential-preference-election/82096726/ My two picks: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sethcohen/2020/06/22/kentucky-and-jim-crow-2-dot-0/ "On Tuesday, Kentucky will hold the a state-wide primary election that was delayed from its original date in May because of the pandemic. But voters seeking to cast ballots will need to look harder for a place to vote, as the state slashed the number of polling locations from 3,700 in a normal election year to less than 200 for this week’s primary election. The move particularly impacts Black voters, as Jefferson County, the county with the state’s largest Black population, will have only one polling station." Jefferson County/Population 766,757 (2019) https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdenn/the-us-eliminated-nearly-21000-election-day-polling-locations-for-2020 From the last: What emerged was a patchwork of cuts large and small across the country. Many states made these cuts as they were expanding mail voting — 23 states made it easier to vote by mail this year because of COVID. But the overall trend is clear: Most states are eliminating polling locations, a trend that could disproportionately impact poor, young and non-white voters. Of the 45 states that weren’t using mail voting exclusively before the 2020 election, 40 of them have decreased the number of Election Day voting locations from 2016. Of those 40 states who made cuts, 35 are not sending mail ballots to everyone, and 19 require many voters to take it upon themselves to apply for a mail ballot application. The five states that refused to allow mail voting for most people all cut voting sites, including the emerging swing state of Texas. The net result of all of these changes: A 20% dip in polling places across the country from 2016, and a 22% drop since 2012. And while the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated this trend, it didn’t create it: There were more than 3,000 fewer polling locations in 2016 than in 2012.

As you can imagine, I don't like the overreach. But man, the crazy people out there (going this far for Trump). 😕

And bots. A purge could have killed lots and lots of bots.

I mean, I'm more willing to talk about the bad that happened during the George Floyd protests than I was before this event happened. But this event is endangering on another scale. There's going to be snapback for a while. The censorship issue is more of an issue of fighting over what is causing endangerment, because I assure you that's something I've seen for over a decade. I'm not surprised it ended this way.