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@Greyparrot
Is there a reason you are dodging the question?
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@Greyparrot
There was no damage, no aggrieved party
I you learned that I had your grandchild in my backseat while I took the car to 120, would you accept "no one got hurt" as a reason to forget it and move on?
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Right, and the mob boss never told you he was going to come after your family. He did however express concern over the well being of their safety.Your theory of coded language fails for this above many other reasons: It doesn't work when the addressed don't have the cipher.
It's not coded language, it's common sense. If I give you two, and I give you another two, you don't need a cipher to figure out I just gave you four.
This is why I keep using the mob boss analogy. There is no cipher there yet every person with an IQ above room temperature knows what the mob boss is saying. It's basic human communication and you have yet to provide any alternative theory or provide any examples to show how I'm not getting it right.
You assert "it will be wild" must mean violence.
My assertion is that this is the only reasonable interpretation in context. I've explained why in detail, you have yet to offer any meaningful rebuttal other than a very lazy attempt to provide an alternate example where the context was not only entirely absent but where the word "wild" itself was being used as a pun. F-
Your assertion that telling them the election rigged is identical to calling for violence is rejected both on the face and due to double standards.You agreed with it in this very thread.I did not.
Here is you in post 191:
I agreed that it follows that if elections are rigged violence is the only remaining option.
You did agree to it. It's right there ^. I would define the terms if there was anything to define but there isn't because it's really basic English. You can backtrack if you misspoke, that's fair although by this point questionable. But stop lying by saying you didn't agree to it. You did. Right there.
It is not irrelevant. It is evidence that the threat was not obvious, which goes to show that you're trying to rewrite history so that it appears obvious and inevitable that when Trump calls for a wild protest he must mean an attack. If it was so obvious, why is it that the entire left-tribe leadership failed to (in their erroneous view) 'protect democracy'?
First of all you are engaging in a clear black or white fallacy. Like I already explained, this isn't a question of either/or, it's a scale. They did beef up security at the Capitol directly because of Trump's fanning of the flames. The problem is that they failed to accurately anticipate the size and scale of the threat.
Second, there is nothing here that needs to be rewritten. The failure has already been investigated a dozen times over. Every investigation concluded that the officials responsible for Capitol security had all of the warning signs but failed miserably to act on them.
Third, it's not like this was something no one was taking about. I was at work on that day and still had my phone tuned into live feeds because I wanted to know if it would "get wild" myself, never anticipated Capitol security would be so unprepared though.
Articles and news broadcasts from before the riot are very difficult to find because search terms relating to J6 are swamped with reporting on the aftermath, but here is an audio report from NPR from a reporter on the morning of J6 talking about the rally and talking about the violent mood of the crowd. This was common knowledge to anyone paying attention to the news at the time.
I have said that he didn't call for violence, that he called for peace beforehand, that he didn't expect violence, and that violence was not part of his plan to save democracy.I have not said that he didn't want violence. Everyone who is angry wants violence. It was clearly cathartic for him to see people were just as angry as he was.
I should have just skipped to the end. This right here ^^^ is exactly the point and problem.
He didn't call for violence explicitly. What he did however was make very clear to his supporters that he wanted them there to commit violence, and he knew that by making this clear some portion of his followers would act on it. That's been my point since this thread started.
Your argument is at best, a legal defense. That is to say it is a defense that could only work in theory to provide reasonable doubt as to whether Trump is responsible. It fails miserably by the standards of applying basic logic and reason to determine whether Trump should ever be trusted with the oval office again.
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@Mall
I always find it telling when theists presume that a lack of belief in God can only be explained through our emotions.
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@Greyparrot
It actually doesn't work when you realize Trump isn't losing to "uncommitted" within his own party.
40% of republican primary voters chose the Trump alternative. You can't seriously think this only goes one way.
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@WyIted
Just a coincidence that these things were not crime until democrats got pissed at him
No, it wasn't a coincidence. When you decide to run for public office your life along with every secret you've ever tried to hide becomes a matter of public interest. Turns out that prosecutors have a much harder time turning a blind eye to your crimes when every detail of them is printed on the front page on the New York Times. There is nothing about this that is ominous or difficult to foresee.
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You're talking about Biden and his cult right?
"I know you are but what am I?" worked in third grade.
Right wingers calling Biden supporters cultists never creases to amuse me. If you really want to keep pretending you're ignorant enough not to know the difference you can start by replying to my post #53 in this thread:
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@Greyparrot
How is that grand Biden campaign strategy going?
His campaign sucks. Thankfully the guy he is running against is so repulsive to everyone who's not in his cult that he will probably win in November.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
You're pointing to three words out of an hour long speech while also ignoring everything else he did and said over the prior two months.He never told anyone to be violent. He did tell them to be peaceful.
Right, and the mob boss never told you he was going to come after your family. He did however express concern over the well being of their safety.
This is where we are in this conversation. On one hand, I am going to keep pointing to the months of Trump telling his supporters the democrats were stealing their country from them culminating in Trump calling for them to make one last stand giving them the time and place, in a message that clearly alluded to violence, where Trump would go on to tell his supporters to fight like hell.
And on the other hand you will point to one word Trump utteted in the middle of an hour long speech.
And to you, these two things are proportional to each other.
There is no point in debating this point with you any further. When someone has demonstrated such flagrant disregard for basic common sense and communication, there is no room left for a rational dialog
Your assertion that telling them the election rigged is identical to calling for violence is rejected both on the face and due to double standards.
You agreed with it in this very thread. You literally ended your last post by telling me you agreed with the violence for the exact same reason you are claiming the rioters were unjustified for believing Trump wanted the violence. The double standards aren't on this end.
No I asked you "Why were they so unprepared". You gave a reason why they would not want to appear militarized, but that motivation doesn't outweigh the motivation of wanting to prevent a riot (if you assume they are honest).
I don't have an explanation on why they were so incompetent so I offered a speculative answer. That was obvious by the word "probably" in my answer.
You are pretending the answer is an either/or, that they either believed there would be violence or they didn't, and since the Capitol was overrun they must have believed there would be no violence. That's nonsense. They had more security at the Capitol on J6 2021 than we had ever seen on J6 of any election year. That was directly because of Trump and the threat his supporters represented. They failed to anticipate the size of that threat. The reason why is irrelevant.
Damned either way apparently. If he didn't offer you say its because he wanted an attack to succeed (somehow at something), if he did that proves he was expecting violence.
Yes, either way the answer is damning. That's what it looks like when you are wrong.
If Trump did not offer the troops then every time he tells this story he is lying through his teeth. That is entirely consistent with a man who wanted violence and is now trying to backtrack.
If he did offer the troops then your position is contradictory. To believe he offered up 10k troops is to believe he recognized the likelihood of violence on that day. So if he was aware of it and didn't want the to be violence, he would not have held that rally or at the very least, he would have forcefully conveyed to his supporters that he did not want violence. Using the word "peaceful" once in the middle of an hour long speech that ended with "fight like hell or you're not going to have a country anymore" is the opposite of what any sane person trying to avoid violence would do.
Did I mention it was an hour long speech? Please perform the following excercise: find just one speech that anyone in history has ever given where the speaker clearly conveyed to his/her followers the need to be peaceful while using the word peaceful only once, and an extra bonus if you can find one in which they used the word "fight" 20 times.
Hint: you will never be able to find this because it never happened, because it is a completely absurd and frankly ridiculous thing to suggest. You know this damn well but you pretend not to. The reason why is beyond me.
Well if I have a functioning brain with the most basic understanding of military matters I would know that you can't shove people out of a building unless you have similar numbers and if the hallways are all full it's impossible without people getting trampled to death.There is also no point pretending you can instantly deploy more infantry. Even fast reaction aerial cavalry (chopper and osprey deployed) need to be on standby. Everything else but local police and whatever was there already would have taken hours. The metropolitan police went in at 2:24 PM. Shortly after there were people in full camo with combat helmets and M4s on the hill just forming a perimeter (so much for not appearing militarized). There was also a crowd control squad sitting over by the supreme court doing nothing.So I would say fill the building with tear gas and wait for them to leave, but it wouldn't be my call because nobody on scene was actually under my command. If you're implying that words alone would have mattered
The question is what would you as president have done in that situation. Three paragraphs in and your answer is literally "nothing". This is what flailing around looks like.
First rioter enters the building - 2:12 p.m"Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!" - 2:38That's 26 minutes. Not three hours. The reason the majority of people left is because congress left. Not Trump's tweet. Not tear gas. Not metro police.
The Capitol barricades were breached at 12:53pm. Trump's motorcade arrived back at the White House at 1:19pm. He's the president, if he didn't know the Capitol was starting to lose to the Mob it's because he didn't care.
The rioters then beach the Capitol at 2:12pm. Trump immediately after learning that Pence had been evacuated for his safety at 2:24 tweets to his followers "Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what needed to be done". That is not someone concerned with the violence.
So even if Trump wrote that tweet (he didn't), and even if he sent it out of genuine concern (he didn't) it is remarkably appalling that it took him that long to do so. At 2:32 - 6 minutes earlier - Laura Ingraham texted Mark Meadows "Hey Mark, The president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home.". Why the fuck is Laura Ingraham ahead of the President of the United States on what needs to be done to deter his own supporters and ensure the safety of the US Capitol?
Donald Trump watched those riots from 1:25pm all the way till 4:03pm till he finally got off of his ass to record the video everyone on his staff and in his inner circle had been pleading him to send out. That is absolutely disgraceful, but what's even worse is that there are people like you out there by the millions pretending that this is what it looks like when we have a president who doesn't want violence. The stupidity is utterly embarrassing.
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@Greyparrot
Also, the most recent harvard/harris poll has Trump up 8 points EVEN IF TRUMP IS FOUND GUILTY of inciting the Jan 6 riot.
How was that red wave?
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@Greyparrot
Why are you sad to admit what someone says in front of a camera doesn't represent actual negotiations?
That wasn't what I said I was sad to admit. Scroll up, read again, and try again.
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You assume just as you assume without "it will be wild" there would be no violence at the capitol (or anywhere else).Never said nor implied this.You did imply it. If "will be wild" isn't secret-speak for "violence" then it is irrelevant.
I never strayed from my original point. This is the game you love to play, note the bold on your original comment above, that's what I just told you I never suggested nor implied.
The argument is not nor was it ever that "will be wild" was necessary for J6 to turn violent. The argument has always been that his words were a clear allusion to violence, which means two things:
- It is therefore demonstrative of Trump's intent
- it was yet another indication to his followers that he was calling for violence
They said it at the Capitol genius.Show me.
This is literally the second link to pop up in my Google search. I would show you more but we both know that is a complete waste of time as you will find an excuse to hand waive away any example I provide.
She did set a place: "all over the country", which fairly describes the place of the subsequent left-tribe violence.Another example of your unseriousness.You drop the point.
Because the point was stupid and there are only so many hours in a day. "All over the place" isn't a location. My 10 year old niece understands that, if you don't it's not worth my time to explain it to you.
Why would pointing out your double standards take away from my ability to prove my own standards?
Because it's a distraction. If you could prove your points you would focus on that instead of giving me 40 individual responses to spread my time and attention to as well as putting anyone who might be interested in reading your points to sleep while we bicker over stupid shit like figuring out what 4 > 1 means.
Your arbitrary expectations for the ratio between urging peace and inflammatory (but not unequivocally violent) rhetoric are irrelevant.
Arbitrary expectations... This is exactly why you are not a serious person to discuss issues with.
What I outlined is a matter of basic communication and I gave you a whole other example to illustrate how it works. You had no thoughtful or substantive response to it. But this isn't something any good faith person can shrug off, it's the entire heart of the case.
At what point does a person's message become clear even in the face of what might seem like a contradictory message if viewed in isolation? How do we even go about understanding what a person wants in general? Why is it so obvious to any reasonable person that "nice family you got there, would be a real change of something were to happen to them" is not actually an expression of concern but rather a threat to you and your family? These are the things that matter if we're really trying to determine what the reasonable take away from the evidence here is, but you have no interest in that conversation. I wonder why? (actually I don't)
but cannot provide a single example in any other scenario where your theory of communication makes any sense.The theory of communication is that you don't get to pick the more obscure and contradictory interpretation because you need to GET TRUMP.
More obscure contradictory interpretation??? Yet another example of how unserious you are. You're pointing to three words out of an hour long speech while also ignoring everything else he did and said over the prior two months. The idea that those three words outweighed everything else is just plain stupid.
You know nothing about military solutions if you think that. The first step would be to bypass anyone you can't trust, get a platoon (personally by going to a base); have them ready, and then fire anyone who has ever shown a hint of questioning your orders or having any motivation to do so. Escort them to house arrest with your loyal soldiers.
Spoken like a true dictator.
The only option he had to steal the election was through the color of law, so he had to try this tactic of having his VP reject the electors.That is the only option he planned for.
Right, that's why he watched the riots by himself from the dining room wondering why no one else was as excited as he was.
And he knew that violence on the 6th would have made that whole plot easier.Why is that?
Because his goal was to stop the certification, and it worked... At least temporarily. The plan failed only because members of Congress, including and especially the republicans, decided that failing to fulfill their constitutional duty was going too far and because those same members refused to listen to Trump's lawyers calling them during the riots to tell them not to verify the results.
you're saying they cared about optics so they didn't want to militarize it like they did before (I bet whatever you're referring to is no more militarized than the capitol was on Jan 6).
That's a motivation not an explanation.
You literally asked me to explain their motivations.
Here's a real question for you; Trump says he offered them 10,000 troops... Do you believe he did? Yes or No?I think it's more likely than not that he mentioned something.
And why would he have made that offer of he wasn't expecting any violence?
Even if that was true, it's one unreasonable plan vs another unreasonable plan.
Yes, so stop pretending that all of this constitutional strategizing is a useful way to analyze this.
It also ignores the fact that Trump did absolutely nothing to stop the violence which according to you he did not want and was taken by surprise.Well except for telling them to respect the police and go home.
Right, in a Facebook post he didn't write and had to be pleaded with to allow to be released.
Here's another real question for you:
You're the president of the US. Your supporters gather to protest at the US Capitol. You learn that they have turned violent and are breaching the Capitol perimeter, you also get news that your VP had been evacuated for his safety. Congress is being evacuated as well.
Please enlighten me... What do you do? What do the next three hours look like for you?
If you are going to answer just one thing I've said with actual thought, make it this question.
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@WyIted
Good luck walking into negotiations with foreign countries by being honest.
Real negotiations between countries happen behind closed doors. If Trump wants to play this game there, he's welcome to do that. We're not talking about that, we're talking about a rally in front of cameras being televised for the whole world to see. Sad as it is that I have to say this - these aren't the same thing.
It’s entire purpose literally built on trustWrong. NATo is not weakened by a country being brow beat into contributing 2% of their GDP into their national defense. Nor is there any reason to distrust the United States if you do what you are told to do, and comply.
To say NATO isn't built on trust really makes me question whether you have any idea what NATO is or how it works. There is no police force to enforce article 5. If one country gets attacked, the only thing that ensures every other country comes to their defense is the commitment every country has to the pact.
When you have someone like Trump making his discontent for NATO so publicly obvious, it really makes other countries hesitant on whether they should come to our defense should we be attacked, and it also makes other countries think twice about whether they should pursue their own nuclear programs. Last I checked, we still agreed that nuclear proliferation war not a good thing.
Moreover, the main purpose above all for NATO is it's power as a deterrent. Article 5 is irrelevant if no one would dare attack a NATO ally as that would ensure their demise. But when you have an idiot like Trump signaling to the world that he might not intervene should an ally be attacked, it emboldens countries like Russia to continue expanding their empire. And right now it's said that Putin is planning to attack a NATO ally in the future which I would argue becomes far more likely to the point of guaranteed if Trump gets elected.
This is literally the same criticisms Trump would get for praising Kim Jung Un, because people are literally too stupid to know that threats only get you so much compliance and threats are much better if accompanied by a way to allow the leader to save face to his people, especially in asian or strong man culturess.
It never ceases to amaze me how Trump supporters find a way to excuse everything he says. If it's absurd, he was joking. If it's threatening, he was bluffing. If it's racist, we're just not listening closely enough. To understand Trump we have to learn how to read between the lines they say. We take him seriously, not not literally. They say.
But when Trump gives an hour long speech at the Elipse on January 6th where in that entire speech he used the word peacefully once... All of a sudden we are full of TDS if we take his statements as anything other than 100% literal. When he tells Zelensky "I need you to do me a favor THOUGH", no he's just asking for a favor. We have to take him literally, remember?
Whatever you need it to be, that's what it is.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Right, never seen anything more exciting than a bunch of peaceful protesters making their voices heard.I'll take that as acceptance of my answer.
So you don't understand sarcasm either. Noted.
Because we treat different things... Differently.For instance black people are different than white people so we can treat them differently.
Differences that are relevant.
My 10 year old niece would have figured that out.
But/For Donald Trump's actions... There would have been no violence on January 6th.It would have happened some other place and time. This is not a relevant difference.
Right, it would have happened the next time a major presidential candidate refused to concede and declared himself the victor, then went on to claim the other side stole the election. That's why every losing candidate has congratulated their opponent for hundreds of years. They all understood this, Trump didn't give a shit. It's another example of why we all said in 2016 that he was dangerous to the country, it's why Putin launched his own campaign trip help him - because he knew Trump would ensure the demise of our democracy.
You assume just as you assume without "it will be wild" there would be no violence at the capitol (or anywhere else).
Never said nor implied this.
I'll be able to do that just as soon as I can arrest them after pulling their text messages in a mass canvas, face them up against a jury of proud-boys, threaten them with ten years in prison, and imply that the only chance of lenience would be if they blame it all on Nancy Pelosi.
They said it at the Capitol genius. Others said it as they were being prosecuted regardless, others said it after their trials.
She did set a place: "all over the country", which fairly describes the place of the subsequent left-tribe violence.
Another example of your unseriousness. This is what it looks like when you don't have a logical leg to stand on but insist on defending your position anyway.
If you actually believed in your position and thought you could defend it, you would have little use for attacking my "double standards".Why is that?
Because my double standards would be irrelevant to the fact that you would be right, so your constant deflections and whataboutisms would only take away from your ability to prove it.
What you call a false exculpatory is absolutely damning proof of this. If you want people to attack without telling them to attack it would be hard enough to get that message across much less sending mixed signals.
It wasn't a mixed signal. I already explained this.
Trump spent months telling his supporters the election was stolen. He then called for them to come to the Capitol on January 6th. He told them it "will be wild" (despite your utterly stupid Pepsi ad example, that's an obvious allusion to violence), he spoke alongside his right hand man saying let's have trial by combat, he pointed to the building where their voices were in the offices of being stolen and then spoke and told them to fight like hell or their not going to have a country anymore.
All of this on one side, but on the other, he said "peacefully" in an hour long speech. Not one single sentence anywhere else in his hour long speech emphasized the need to be peaceful. Everything else about it was inflammatory. No one was confused. It's basic communication.
It's telling how you keep arguing that I'm wrong about basic human communication, but cannot provide a single example in any other scenario where your theory of communication makes any sense.
In Trump's mind there was still a chance to save democracy peacefully, and that was by congress rejecting electors. This fully explains why he organized a protest instead of trying to assemble loyalist from the military like anyone who wanted to use force to stay in power would have.
If Trump had tried to steal the election by force it would have failed because none of his senior officials would have went along with it, just like when he tried to make Jeffrey Clark the acting AG and his entire senior DOJ staff threatened to resign.
The only option he had to steal the election was through the color of law, so he had to try this tactic of having his VP reject the electors. And he knew that violence on the 6th would have made that whole plot easier. That's why instead of making phone calls to the national guard as any other president would have her instead had his attorney calling senators telling them to use the delay to stop the certification. That was the plan.
The right-tribe had not been violent before. Trump didn't expect it. Neither did the left-tribe. You don't have to take my word for it, you just need to ask the question: Why were they so unprepared?
Probably because we as a nation just went through months of civil unrest over excessive police force so they didn't want the look of a military vs the people the way they did a few months prior when BLM protested there. Regardless of why, all of the warning signs were there. It was objectively a monumental failure.
Here's a real question for you; Trump says he offered them 10,000 troops... Do you believe he did? Yes or No?
Those are two opposing things. You cannot argue that Outcome A was a natural and permissible response and also that no one should have believed that Outcome A was the desired outcome.Of course I can because there is temporal distance between them.
Not one thing you went on to describe in any way supports your statement here. The fact that there is technically a theory of peaceful resolution (to overturn the election) does not mean that any reasonable person would have bought it, and certainly no one did.
By this point every republican governor already signed off on Trump's loss, every judge including those that Trump appointed rejected his lawsuits, and every attempt to gain any real traction on Congress by this point was clearly DOA. No one in their right mind expected anything other than for Congress to certify Biden as the next president. This Monday morning quarterbacking you're doing right now completely defies all reality of the situation as it was on January 6th.
It also ignores the fact that Trump did absolutely nothing to stop the violence which according to you he did not want and was taken by surprise.
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@WyIted
He is literally making moves to make NATO stronger by forcing them to contribute 2% of GDP
Ah, so in other words Trump didn’t mean anything he said, he meant whatever you say he meant.
Threatening NATO members to encourage Russia to attack them does not strengthen NATO. NATO is only as strong as the confidence each member has in the group that should any individual country attack them, the rest will come to their aid. It’s entire purpose literally built on trust. Trump has made very clear that he doesn’t see why the US should be a part of NATO, he bashes it every chance he gets, and perhaps worst of all he’s convinced a significant portion of the country to think negatively about it, and our NATO allies have certainly taken notice. There is a reason Putin wanted Trump in office.
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@Greyparrot
Hypothetically, if Trump in 2020 asked the DOJ to assist in criminal investigations into Biden (let's for the moment forget Trump was impeached for doing that with Ukraine), would that make you dramatically support Biden less, or dramatically support Biden more?
Neither. If it were unjustified it would most certainly make me more fervent in my opposition to Trump, but whether I support Biden or a Democratic alternative would be irrelevant to that.
said he would encourage Russia to attack our NATO...This sounds like a partisan talking point and not an actual quote.
Reality often sounds like Democratic talking points
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@Mharman
Your argument is basically that Trump supporters are cultists because they are wrong on a bunch of things. I could collect the same amount of things I believe to be ridiculous defenses of prominent Democrats and leftist ideals, but that doesn't suddenly make the people who believe those things "cultists." To understate: A real cult has a bit more going on than just incorrect beliefs.
When a party's support for a presidential candidate dramatically increases because that candidate was indicted on 91 felony counts... It's probably a cult.
The argument that MAGA is a cult is not about differences in political beliefs, it's the fact that MAGA is at it's core not about politics, it's about one man
In 2020 the republican party didn't even put forward a political platform, they literally just pledged to support whatever Trump says.
Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are two of the most conserve republicans in the house and voted with Trump over 90% of the time, but they said Trump was responsible for January 6th so they were thrown out of the party along with dozens of others all because they spoke out against Trump.
Trump is right now trying to get his daughter in law to co-chair the RNC and has publicly said she would have the RNC pay his legal bills. No push back from any prominent republicans (who want to win reelection anyway).
Trump just days ago said he would encourage Russia to attack our NATO allies if they didn't "pay up" (he clearly doesn't even know how NATO works). Years ago this would have ended the political career of anyone dumb enough to say this. With Trump, no one says anything because they're afraid of crossing him.
These are just some examples of what cult looks like, and you will find no equivalent to it on the left.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Can you explain how Trump's "will be wild" comment was anything other than an allusion to violence? Yes or No?YesA wild event can be an exciting event:
Right, never seen anything more exciting than a bunch of peaceful protesters making their voices heard.
Can you explain how "uprisings all the time" is anything other than an allusion to violence? Yes or No?
No, because it clearly is.
I have said repeatedly now that anyone who rioted or looted in the summer of 2020 should be locked the fuck upBut you have not said nancy pelosi or maxene waters should be held responsible.
Because we treat different things... Differently.
But/For Donald Trump's actions... There would have been no violence on January 6th.
But/For Nancy Pelosi... Nothing about the BLM riots would have been any different
But/For Maxine Waters... Nothing about the BLM riots would have been any different
When you can show me the rioters and looters who said we're here because Nanci Pelosi told us to be, and you can show me where she called for them to be there... Then we can talk. But you know you'll never be able to show that, because you know damn well not a single person rioted because Maxine Waters told them to.
She didn't say "should" and neither did Trump. She predicted violence and said you have to be ready for to throw a punch.
Did she also go on to call for, organize and headline the rally she predicted would turn violent?
You speak as if we agree on what bad behavior is.There is no point comparing moral frameworks until both are internally consistent. If one is not internally consistent it's clearly wrong regardless of any other frameworks.That is why I always attack double standards first.
If you actually believed in your position and thought you could defend it, you would have little use for attacking my "double standards".
Whether my moral framework is internally consistent has nothing to do with whether yours is.
Now even if Trump had said "Go my minions, attack! Show no mercy!" That would make him responsible for the attack, but it would not make him morally responsible for the evils that result from the attack.In order to know that you would have to know that no other necessary condition was a violation of rights. In this case the necessary condition of Jan 6 was the rigging of the election which was a violation of social contract. No cause that comes after that aggression can shift the blame.
We both know that we have diametrically opposing views on whether the election was rigged, and we already seemed to agree that if the election was actually rigged, violence is a naturally predictable and to some extent a morally justifiable consequence. So it would appear that our only difference here is on the evidence of election rigging.
But that's not what you have been arguing here, or at least you did not stop there otherwise we wouldn't be debating this week's later.
You are simultaneously arguing that the election was rigged and therefore violence was a natural, morally permissible, and to some extent a necessary response, but also that Trump despite leading the charge on the case for a rigged election never wanted the violence and that any reasonable person would recognize that he never wanted there to be violence.
Those are two opposing things. You cannot argue that Outcome A was a natural and permissible response and also that no one should have believed that Outcome A was the desired outcome.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
It's called humility. Google it.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
If results = being praised by other so called experts then that means nothing.
Yep, why would the people who do something for a living recognizing a special ability in an individual doing that very thing be meaningful when I can just declare myself to know better?
You would know, but the lack of substance remains.
dUh goOd OnE bOss
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@WyIted
Wow, and here I was thinking you were trying to have a serious conversation.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
For instance when you ask an expert why they were wrong about something they give you the logical error or the bad data that they relied upon. When you ask a pseudo-expert they scoff and walk away.
So you judge expertise not by having demonstrated results in their feilds, but rather by how articulate they are in a debate style format.
Bullshitters are very good at articulating their bullshit too.
I would say I'm an expert and recognizing the difference between experts and pseudo-experts.
And I would say I'm an expert at recognizing expertise detectors vs expertise detector wannabes.
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My god dude. Pay attention.This one particular point isn't even about incitement. Right now, we are talking about Trump's "will be wild" comments. Specifically, we are talking about whether those comments were an allusion to violence. That matters in this conversation because it demonstrates Trump's intent, which is an important element of whether he should be held responsible and to what degree.Responsible for.... _______?
*Sigh* So once again I have to teach you how basic communication and argument works. Fine. Settle down.
When debating nuanced topics, we often have broad categories and sub categories. In this case, incitement is the broad category we are discussing. That can be broken up into at least two sub-categories; incitement (of the rioters - in other words, did they riot because they believed Trump wanted them to), and intent. The significance of Trump's "will be wild" comments, is that it demonstrates his intent, so it is a sub category of the larger topic.
Here, let me give you another example; theft. To prove theft you would generally have to prove two things: (1) that the object was taken by the accused, and (2) that the accused intended to take it. Without the second, it's not theft, or at the very least you cannot hold someone accountable for it (this goes back to the guy who leaves the store with an unpaid item in his shopping cart vs the guy who shoves the item down his pants and runs).
So when I said this part wasn't about incitement, I was saying this part wasn't about the question of whether Trump's words here (will be wild) caused the rioters to riot. Once again and for the, what, 5th time (?), Trump's "will be wild" comments demonstrated that Trump was well aware of the potential for violence at the rally that he was calling for, organizing, and headlining. And he followed through with it anyway. That demonstrates intent.
Do you have an argument against this? Can you explain how Trump's "will be wild" comment was anything other than an allusion to violence? Yes or No?
that "it will be wild" predicts violence and further that a prediction of violence is endorsement of violence and an endorsement of violence is incitement, and incitement of a riot is insurrection.
Not one of these "is's" logically follows.
I can very easily predict violence without endorsing it.
I can very easily endorse what happened on January 6th without being the person who incited January 6th.
I can very easily incite people to riot without inciting people to engage in an inserection.
You can hardly enter a thread with this title, claim for pages that someone incited something and act surprised when someone assumes you're talking about inciting an insurrection.
I never said Trump incited something. I've said, dozens of times in this conversation alone, that he incited the January 6th riots. After all this time, after all these posts, you are just now realizing that I never talked about insurrection. Yet another example of how you don't listen.
It changes nothing. Left-tribe leaders have used violent rhetoric and predicted violence far more often, with more clarity, and with no "false exculpatories". If Trump is somehow morally or criminally responsible for the behavior of right-tribe rioters then so are left-tribe leaders.
This right here is the problem. No, what left tribe leaders are responsible for has nothing to do with what Trump is responsible for. Every situation needs to be assessed on its own merits.
This thread is about January 6th. This conversation specifically has been about whether Trump is responsible for the violence that occurred that day. That's the argument I've been making from the start. You started off engaging in that argument, but once you could no longer defend your position you started with the constant whataboutisms of the BLM riots.
So it really is this simple, here's the question; Is Donald Trump responsible for the violence that occurred on January 6th? Yes or No??? Do you have an answer to this question that is not "but BLM!"?
This is the difference between us. I have said repeatedly now that anyone who rioted or looted in the summer of 2020 should be locked the fuck up. The person who suggested there should be uprisings was dread wrong. I have no issue calling out bad behavior by whatever you are calling in your own mind "My tribe". Can you do the same?
And I'm sure I know what you'll say next; "but you've been defending them this whole time!". No, I haven't. Pointing out that two different things are different is not an endorsement of either of those things. My original position stands; Trump was responsible for January 6th. Explain how he is not.
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If someone does something you think is unhealthy and they think is healthy, would you force therapy?If someone does something you think is healthy, but they think is unhealthy, would you allow therapy?
It's not a black or white, need to look at the situation as a whole.
The main thing that justifies making someone else's decisions for them is being able to show that the individual is either not mentally capable of such evaluations or is impaired in such a way that they do not understand the ramifications of their own decisions. The OP only vaguely referenced this idea only by suggesting that some people regret their decisions. So like I said, we all regret decisions we make so that is not nearly a good enough justification.
Liberty says that if a homosexual wants to consult with someone to try and change sexual orientation (or anyone wants to consult with anyone to change anything about themselves) they have that right.
Literally the point I have been making.
given that psychologists have proven themselves clueless again and again I would say we don't need to answer that question because there is no science to consider.
Right, the experts have no expertise. Apparently you're the only real expert, because you read a few things on the internet. Very on brand.
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Also, context matters. When we're talking about gays/ trans people we're talking about people making choices for themselves.No we aren't, unless you suggest they choose to be gay/trans, in which case you're backpedalling on the very basis of what you're saying in the first place.
I have no idea what you're talking about. This sounds like we're having two entirely different conversations.
This began with the OP:
Is [de-conversion therapy] wrong to insist on the l.g.b.t.?
Again, if you're insisting then it is by definition not something they want for themselves, so you are in fact pushing them into something you want for them instead.
I consider it basic common sense that we should all have the right to decide what's best for ourselves. If you disagree on that then please make your position clear.
But back to the point, everything about how this conversation began and everything I've said since makes clear that we're talking about people making their own choices. Simply saying "no we aren't" is not a response. Tell me what part of my posts departed from this.
Nope, I didn't say a pedo or animal luster acting on it (nor did I rule that out), I said the very lust in itself.
You did not say that. Here is your response in post 8:
Pedos and animal fuckers especially come under this in a way you're alluding to being wrong.
You never mentioned nor implied that you were merely talking about lust. In fact, "animal fucker" by definition implies action. And when people talk about pedophiles, they are rarely talking about people who don't have sex with children, so you weren't being clear here at all.
Moreover, since the topic here is about insisting that others de-convert (who by logical extension do not want to) then it makes no sense to invoke a person who merely has a desire to have sex with children but won't (likely for moral reasons). Anyone who fits that category would be expected to welcome de-conversion therapy so there is no reason I would assume that's what you were talking about.
The mind that's attracted to that is no different in helplessness to the mind attracted to one's own gender or that believes it's in a wrong body.
Nonsense. It is morally wrong to have sex with children, it is also highly illegal. Anyone who has this desire has every reason to want something different for themselves.
There is nothing immoral or illegal about having sex with a person of the opposite gender or transitioning, So there is absolutely nothing for this person to feel helpless about.
Your logic is to never impose on people a conversion they don't themselves innately want
No, it's not. Nothing about my posts imply that I'm speaking in absolutes, that's not how rational conversations are generally had.
if gays or trans people want it then what?
Then that is what they want for themselves.
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So your theory is that you can predict violence and that's not incitement but only when there is no date attached?If there is a date attached, now it's incitement?
My god dude. Pay attention.
This one particular point isn't even about incitement. Right now, we are talking about Trump's "will be wild" comments. Specifically, we are talking about whether those comments were an allusion to violence. That matters in this conversation because it demonstrates Trump's intent, which is an important element of whether he should be held responsible and to what degree.
So no, this has nothing to do with predicting violence. It has to do with whether one expects there to be violence and what one does with that expectation. Someone who really believes it "will be wild" and doesn't want that, would not have continued to hold that rally let alone tell the crowd to fight like hell.
So how do you respond? By pointing out that the individual making the uprising claim was speaking to someone, just like Trump. Wow, good one.You said:[Double_R] That has absolutely no relation to a comment made by some obscure politician expressing a viewpoint aimed at no one.That's a bit silly and I pointed that out.
A comment spoken to someone and a comment aimed at someone are two different things.
It's the notion that you can throw "context" out like a pokemon card and then you don't have to find a defamatory statement that continues to simultaneously disgust and amuse me.
Them you are disgusted and amused by a conversation you made up in your own mind.
I explained in detail how Trump's statements were defamatory. You never absorbed it because you don't have the capacity to handle nuance. All you wanted was one statement that was defamatory on its own, that's not how language works. Context matters no matter how forcefully you ignore it.
I will be ignoring any further comments you want to make on that here, if you want to rehash the defamation debate go back to that thread.
And I've repeatedly denounced the actions of those who looted or rioted, so what's your point?My point is clearly and repeatedly to apply the standards you imply to the big picture instead of the narrow targets you intend.
You can't apply my standards until you understand them which requires actually reading what I wrote, something you have no demonstrated no interest in.
The fact that you keep trying to compare January 6th to the BLM riots proves just how uninterested you are in a good faith conversation. The two are not analogous to each other. All you're doing there is looking at the two, going "dUh TheY wEre bOTh vIolEnt" and... that's it. It's the context of that violence that matters to this conversation, but context doesn't seem to exist for you.
Anyone who believes political violence is acceptable is not my tribe.Yet you don't consider them insurrectionists despite many meeting the definition you imply.
Because they weren't trying to overthrow their government genius.
And if you had bothered to listen to a word I've said, ever, you might notice that I've never called January 6th an insurrection. Have you not noticed that I use the term rioters? Have you not noticed that I keep saying Trump incited the riots? No, of course not.
You're too busy arguing against "the left" through me to care about what the actual positions of the person you're actually talking to... are.
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The fact that she used the word insist already refutes that we're talking about anyone who wants to go through it.She (taking your word on gender) said 'insist' about LGBT. Not the therapy.
"Is de-conversion therapy wrong?"
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@WyIted
II don't want to be disrespectful but I stopped reading here because I provided an example and you just said "outlier" I could provide 10 more and you would say the same thing
It's a country of over 300 million people. With today's social media, I could find you 10 examples of anything. That's generally why we rely on data.
Still, if you had bothered to keep reading I explained further what I would need, specifically the example combined with the backlash so we can see what the opposition actually has to say about it and assess it's legitimacy from there.
I find it hard that this thing that has been all over the media you haven't seen because right-wing sites will actually show pictures from the books. All I can think of is that you are a partisan hack that only follows left wing sources.
Or perhaps I'm just not inundating myself with every anecdotal example the internet has to offer. If my child's school is showing inappropriate things to my child I will be having a conversation with her teachers or the schoolboard. Other than that I'm really not interested in this and am scratching me head as to why the political right has made this a front and center issue in our politics.
I think you re aware of he indoctrination taking place and being disingenuous when you claim to not notice that California is passing laws that allow teachers to socially transition children or noticed that youtube is getting millions of views from a song about how "Yes we are coming for your kids". https://youtu.be/ArOQF4kadHA?si=FwcFYnbNJfOG3Zwt
This is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. I've seen this video, I find it hilarious. The message here is that they're coming for your children... To turn them into empathetic human beings. Yet you saw this video and saw what exactly?
If a video talking about teaching your children to be accepting of others has you so triggered that you would post it here as support for what you are against, then why on earth would I take your word for it when you tell me about the evils you're fighting against?
I am sure you have seen children shows that are now shifting to promote trans ideology.
You mean teaching children that it's ok to be who you are? Yes, I've seen one or two.
Different people have different values. You don't want your kid hearing that Jesus died on the cross for his sins in school and I don't want mine picking up a book in the school library where I have to explain an image he is swwing of 2 guys sucking each others cocks, or even descriptions of that.
I would have a problem if my child's class taught them about Jesus because that is a violation of the separation of church and state. I couldn't care less if my child comes home asking me about Jesus and telling me that's what others told them because I'm not the least but afraid of my child being exposed to the world. If my child is learning ideas that I consider harmful... I will do what parent is supposed to do and talk to them about it.
When my child is old enough I plan to teach her how to think, not what to think. I want my child to grow up feeling empowered to decipher between right and wrong, between reality and bullshit. You can't indoctrinate a child who knows better. When I see cries of "indoctrination" all I see is fear and insecurity.
It doesn't matter if it is technically porn.
If your argument is that it is porn, then yes it does.
What matters is having some level of respect for other members of the community.
That's literally what the left is fighting against you to ensure your kids understand.
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It's just a kind of tradition to address no one by by standing at a podium and talking to a camera transmitting to millions.
As usual, you cannot defend your BS so you try and wiggle out of it.
The claim was that the person who made this comment is comparable to Trump, even though Trump was describing a protest that he was calling for, organizing, and headlining. The individual who made this uprising comment was talking about some vague notion of people somewhere doing something on some date. Those two things are not comparable.
So how do you respond? By pointing out that the individual making the uprising claim was speaking to someone, just like Trump. Wow, good one.
And the funny thing is, this wasn't even the original disagreement, we're only comparing these two statements in the first place because you brought it up as a whataboutism because you couldn't just accept that Trump's "will be wild" comment was a clear allusion to an expectation of violence.
In many ways, this perfectly illustrates the problem with this conversation and with your ability to comprehend the subject. This isn't an intellectual discission to you, it's some sort of battle between good and evil. And because evil can't win, even the simplest ideas must be rejected. So for example the notion that context matters when trying to understand what someone is saying is labeled as a tactic of manipulation regardless of the fact that's it a basic reality about communication.
Pointing out your double standards is not whataboutism.
It is when you do so in a way that changes the subject from the ridiculous claim you were making.
Your theory is that people who broke windows would also harm people.
No genius, my theory is that people who already harmed people, would continue harming people.
That's been made crystal clear by this point, if you don't understand it it's because you don't want to.
Under that theory BLM riots contained tens of thousands of assassins
And I've repeatedly denounced the actions of those who looted or rioted, so what's your point? Are you even talking to me anymore, or has it become so difficult for you to understsnd the most basic arguments because you're no longer talking to any individual, but instead are trying to argue with left wing ideology itself?
You can run, but you can't hide. The left-tribe is worse on violence.
Anyone who believes political violence is acceptable is not my tribe. Go argue about this with someone who cares.
That's why you lose every single point of comparison.
My comparisons fail (to you) because you don't even know what's being compared. You seem unwilling or incapable of understanding that there's more to political differences than which tribe as a whole is more violent.
You can't utter a single principle that doesn't incriminate the left-tribe more, and I'm not even close to being tired of [strawmanning your position] so please try again.
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While people have the individual right to make piss poor decisions, they DO NOT have the right to force those decisions onto EVERYONE!!!!
That's exactly why the question asked in your OP is wrong, as I just explained.
And that is exactly what the left is doing through the force of politics, laws, and public leftist intolerant violent rhetoric, doxing and threats (and violent actions, too).
This has nothing to do with our prior conversation. Would you care to share what you're talking about now?
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@RationalMadman
This applies to all people you change in ways you deem better that isn't how they naturally are. You have an assumption that no gays and lesbians etc want to be turned straight and also have an assumptions that all pedos and bestiality people do, this is my point.
I didn't imply any of that. The question in the OP was whether it was wrong to insist that gays/trans go through de-conversion therapy. The fact that she used the word insist already refutes that we're talking about anyone who wants to go through it.
Also, context matters. When we're talking about gays/ trans people we're talking about people making choices for themselves. The idea of someone engaging in a violation of others had nothing to do with the conversation, you injected that into it. So now your responding to my post attacking the idea you injected. It's not what I was saying.
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@WyIted
And yet there are thousands of school administrators doing it everyday and then when conservatives make laws to prevent it, the left throws hissy fits.
Citation please.
If it is rare, what is with the backlash against schools that choose not to have porn available for children?
Like I said, what the right often calls porn is nothing close to it. Words have actual meaning if we're both speaking English.
But please do provide an example of left wing backlash over not allowing actual porn to be available for children.
I've also seen what many conservatives are calling porn. In some cases it's just a guy dressed up in drag.There it is. You literally defending showing children porn by downplaying it as books about drag queens and not what it actually is in most cases.
No, I literally just pointed out that a lot of what's being called porn isn't porn. Read what I wrote.
And since you really need me to explain my comment further, I was merely expressing why I (and I assume most liberals) tune you guys out when you talk about this - because we've seen this nonsense before. But go on and provide that example. I look forward to being enlightened.
And after you can provide an actual legitimate example of porn being shown in schools, being banned, and a "left wing" backlash, next will be to show that this is not some anecdote but an actual thing happening throughout the country making it worthy of a national conversation. Looking forward to seeing it.
How many isolayedincidents do you need to make it a pattern
You tell me, how many unarmed black people have to be killed by police on video before that becomes a pattern?
why attack laws that prevent teachers from showing kids porn if it isn't common or the intent of the left to do so?
I don't know which specific laws you're referring to, but just because you brand a law as something doesn't mean that's what it actually does. Remember the "Inflation Reduction Act"? Do I get to charge every republican who voted against it as being pro-inflation? The reality is normally more complicated.
Beyond that Don't talk to me until you watch ops documentary. It's ridiculous that I can listen to 10 hours of the lefts best arguments on a weekly basis but you refuse to watch a single 2 hour documentary
If that's how you want to spend your free time have at it. That has nothing to do with me.
I did watch some of it, take the swimmer story for example. It's a grotesque story, it's also the same story I hear every single time the issue of trans women in woman's sports comes up, so again to my point - just how prevalent is this? Why with all of the things going on is this country is this what you guys are laser focused on? That's what I just can't wrap my head around.
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@Mall
De-conversion therapy is trying to fix the transgender regret.The ones that insist on de-conversion therapy are the ones that are helping those that are seeking the help for the therapy.Do you support those that transition as well as those that reverse the transition?
I support the right of people to decide what's best for themselves, regardless of whether they are transitioning or de-transitioning.
The question asked was whether it was wrong to insist that LGBTQ or Trans people go through de-conversion therapy. You're trying to justify the negative position on that by suggesting it's about helping trans people. I can't speak to any individual's motivations, but on a wider scale that's complete bullshit. Transphobia is rampant on the political right, that's why this issue is constantly being conflated with protecting children from pedophiles and groomers despite them having absolutely nothing to do with each other. The motivation for pushing de-conversation therapy on a mass scale is beyond obvious.
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This is simply false, all job training and correction of prisoners comes to mind.Pedos and animal fuckers especially come under this in a way you're alluding to being wrong.
You have a right to decide what's best for yourself. You don't have a right to violate others. Obvious difference.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
If "will be wild" is an allusion to violence. "uprisings all the time" is 5X allusion to violence.
Another example of why context matters.
When Trump said it "Will be wild", he was referring to the "protest" that he was calling for, organizing, and headlining. That has absolutely no relation to a comment made by some obscure politician expressing a viewpoint aimed at no one.
This is yet again, another whataboutism because you cannot defend your own bullshit. Trump signaled very clearly to his supporters that he was expecting them to be violent. Anyone who understands English can see that.
Your theory allows for incoherent people but you would not allow that people thought protesting would change the behavior of politicians because it was too irrational to think such a thing. Mmmm
My theory is that people who have already demonstrated their violent intentions... Cannot be asserted as non-violent. This is basic common sense.
I've explained this to you what now, two times? Three times? Why is this so difficult for you?
They didn't beat up police for the sake of beating up police, they beat through police. Any police who got out the way had nothing to worry about.
Ah yes of course, what were those Capitol police officers thinking by trying to stop a mob from breaking into the US Capitol while Congress was certifying the results of the presidential election? Why didn't they just get out of the way? Silly them.
And yes, they beat their way through the police. We agree. And they did it just so they could get to Congress and stop them... by yelling at them.
No way you are being serious.
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It's no longer amusing to point out your obvious strawmen.
It's what you've been arguing. Bad enough you don't read my arguments, at least read your own.
Great argument as to how Trump's "will be wild" comment was not a clear indication of violence.It's a great argument about yardsticks. You decide how pearl clutchy you want to be, I'm just keeping you honest
No, you're just throwing out a red herring because you know you can't defend the absurd point you've been trying to make.
Trump's "will be wild" post was an obvious allusion to violence. Shrug that off all you want, it's still true.
I already rank those historians as the worst historians of this decade
Of course you do. They disagree with you so it must be them, never you. Another demonstration of how one manages to create their own reality.
And your theory on that is that they thought yelling at Congress or Pence would cause them to change their minds.That is the theory of protests.
Does that theory include injuring 140 Capitol police officers and forcing Congress to evacuate the US Capitol? Sounds pretty incoherent to me, but you're defending Trump so of course it is.
You have put forth a theory of motivation that requires there are no better explanations, and there are. I don't need to prove those other explanations for them to be better explanations than your zero evidence theory.
If you are going to offer an alternative theory of motivation then you absolutely need to show your theory more reasonable, which has failed miserably.
My theory only requires that the people rioting were doing so because they were following the leader with no coherent plan on what to do next. There is nothing remarkable about that idea at all, people who are angry do stupid things all the time. Your theory is that the people who beat up police officers in order to get to Congress would have all of a sudden turned peaceful once they got there. That's just stupid.
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@Mall
Is it wrong to insist on the l.g.b.t.?Particularly to transgenders being that they regret the decisions made .
Yes, it is wrong to insist that someone else be converted into what you want them to be with no regard for what they want themselves to be. Why are we even talking about this?
Everyone makes decisions they later regret, that is not an excuse to advocate for taking that freedom away from others.
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@WyIted
The point to sexualize them is about spreading Marxist ideology. Marxists are against the traditional family unit because it gets in the way of making the government the authority. The same reason for the anti religious impulse.Why do I know this? I was a Marxist.
So in other words... It's all projection.
Is it really that crazy to think that many of these people are well intentioned but believe something different than you?
I watch bread tube and I never see these people criticize showing children porn.
Probably because this is to many (myself included) a silly issue to be elevating in our politics. I've never in my life met anyone who thought it would be anything but outrageous for an adult to show someone else's child porn, so I have a very hard time believing this is anything but a collection of isolated incidents right wingers are using to craft a picture that isn't real, much like all the videos of unarmed black people being killed by police that go viral on social media.
I've also seen what many conservatives are calling porn. In some cases it's just a guy dressed up in drag.
I think this is all just a distraction. Right wingers have nothing else to talk about.
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Which is all irrelevant to the discission.It is not if they believed it was possible and they did.
It's quite amusing watching you try to argue that the people beating up police officers with flag poles and spraying then with bear mace were really just constitutional strategists who did all of this because they had a plan to get the electors sent back to the states, a plan that btw, wanted nothing to do with violence against members of Congress.
Arguing with Trump supporters is always a fascinating experience.
So out of control that they set things on fire, causing the demonstration to be fiery in a literal sense. Oh wait, they didn't set anything on fire, that was the left.... using fire bombs they made with premeditation, and then it was called fiery but mostly peaceful by left-tribe propagandists as the flames blazed high.
Great argument as to how Trump's "will be wild" comment was not a clear indication of violence.
Yep, these sure are tangled knots I'm tying. I wonder if forty years from now historians will scour the internet and interview people and you'll be asked if you really believed what you were typing.
Historians are already ranking Trump the worst president in the country's history, about 4th worst according to conservative and republican historians. That's not going to change.
Trumpism will be a case study for decades to come in how political bias can warp a person's brain.
No Vice President is going to change their mind on whether they should certify the United States presidential electionWhat if that vice president was named Donald Trump? Steve Bannon? Kari Lake?
Then they would have not have certified the results
regardless of who is protesting.
You conveniently left out the next part - "on the basis that they don't want to upset a peaceful crowd of protesters outside". Your argument is that the rioters plan all along was to beat their way to get to Congress just so that they could yell at them. And your theory on that is that they thought yelling at Congress or Pence would cause them to change their minds. Setting aside of course that you don't have a shred of evidence to support this, that's just plain stupid.
Right, 10 Trump supporters who managed to injure 140 Capitol police officers.and murder half the population of the world with fire extinguishers as well as turning Nancy Pelosi into a newt (it got better).
Yeah, that's what it looks like when you find yourself trying to argue something even you know is ridiculous.
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but you have no right to indoctrinate my kids into your religion any more than I would someone else’s.
Can you please explain the difference between teaching kids and indoctrinating them?
When I was a kid I was taught that America is the greatest country on earth, how does this not qualify as indoctrination?
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@WyIted
I literally posted a video of a principal saying outright that it is okay to show porn to 8 year olds.
Then that principal is an idiot. What does that have to do with liberals vs conservatives?
This is why I asked for evidence that shows it is being done in some concerted way related to our politics. I'm not interested in anecdotes.
I don't have a problem with parents objecting to their kids being shown highly inappropriate sexual content at schools, I have an issue with people acting like these extreme examples are really the norm, and acting like this is some kind of plot by liberals to sexualize your children so that they can... well... whatever batshit crazy conspiracy plot follows from this.
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IF congress rejected the electors and states choose new electors there would be genuine elections again.Thus elections would no longer be rigged.
Which is all irrelevant to the discission. The people storming the Capitol weren't sitting around strategizing over constitutional provisions. This is exactly the non-response I was expecting.
Again, Trump told them over and over again the election was rigged. According to you that means violence is justified. His message was heard loud and clear.
have you ever heard of a wild but peaceful demonstration?I've heard of fiery but mostly peaceful demonstrations.
Fiery means passionate. Wild means out of control. Says people who speak English.
But that's fine. "Will be wild" when referring to a political protest doesn't mean violent, according to you. Because that makes sense.
Just another example of the knots one has to twist themselves in to defend Donald Trump.
Uh huh, and they needed to be violent to delay the counting?I have a simpler theory: Pence sees giant crowd chanting, thinks he has no choice but to obey the people, and reject the electors.
No Vice President is going to change their mind on whether they should certify the United States presidential election - a decision that will effect the outcome for over 300 million Americans - on the basis that they don't want to upset a peaceful crowd of protesters outside.
This is the kind of stupidity one is reduced to when trying to defend Donald Trump.
If you really believe the people who beat up police officersAll 10 of them
Right, 10 Trump supporters who managed to injure 140 Capitol police officers. They must have been superheros.
But you defend Donald Trump so it all makes sense.
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@WyIted
We don't oppose sex Ed. I speak for all of us. We oppose grooming.
Everyone opposes grooming children, this is a Boogeyman right wingers made up because they don't have any real issues to run on.
Please provide evidence that this is actually happening in any concerted way that has anything to do with politics.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
You said yourself that the conclusion to the totality of Trump's words/actions lead to the conclusion that he was calling for violenceI did not. You did make believe with me like you do for Trump.
Oh really? Let's see what that looks like. Here's you in post 191:
Do you have any other defense of his speech then since we agree that it was contradictory for him to argue he wanted them to be peaceful"we" I never agreed to that. I agreed that it follows that if elections are rigged violence is the only remaining option.That does not mean anyone who questions election validity has incited a rebellion. If it did then the democrats still started it (1860, 2000, 2016 take your pick)
*If* elections are rigged, *then* violence is the only remaining option. According to you.
So what was Trump's message ever since election night 2020? That the election was rigged.
So what follows from that logically (according to you)? That violence is the only remaining option.
You have in fact agreed with my position, and now you're trying to claim I've been arguing that it's ok to just make up whatever position one wants, even as you agree with the takeaway here. You're just lying now.
And you are correct, questioning election integrity does not amount to incitement of rebellion. It is also absolutely not what Trump did - he repeatedly said the election was rigged. That's not "questioning" the results. Says the English language. And violence does in fact follow from that. Says you.
You also conveniently forget that Trump in addition to telling his supporters the election was rigged, also called them to come to the Capitol warning them it "will be wild" (have you ever heard of a wild but peaceful demonstration?) so he gave them the time and place to do it. This isn't rocket science.
and Trump is a very stable genius for knowing how to manipulate mobs but also a complete moron for thinking if you tie up Nancy Pelosi a new election will be organized.
Yeah this is that usual Trump defender argument that suggests intelligence is just one thing and we're all smart or not smart and that's it, which completely ignores how the human brain actually works.
We're all better at some things than we are in others. Think of the guy who is studying to become a physicist but can't figure out how to talk to a girl. Trump is a moron in pretty much every way a person can be, but he has at least one undeniable skill; he's a very good con man.
Some say he's a genius at marketing but I don't know if I'd go that far, in my view his marketing tactics only appeal to stupid people so I'm really not that impressed by it. I think of things like the nicknames he gives his political opponents. It works with his base because they're a bunch of children so that kind of thing appeals to them. I could never pull that off because I'm not dumb enough and immature enough to find that amusing so I would have never thought to try it out as a political strategy.
Regarding the second part, you still clearly do not even know what this conversation is about. Trump's strategy was not to have Nancy Pelosi tied up so he could declare himself president for life. His plan was to use the mob as a means of delaying the certification so he could continue working behind the scenes to overturn the election. The mob rioters were just pawns to him, he was trying to execute a much larger plot.
You can't be serious.I am.
Then you are way dumber than I thought. If you really believe the people who beat up police officers on their way into breaking into the US Capitol did all of that just so they could stop at the hallways and yell at members of Congress... I mean my god this speaks for itself.
I've already made clear that anyone who was guilty of this should have been locked the fuck up.But you don't think those who lied to them should be locked the fuck up. That is the double standard.
It's always going to be a double standard when you ignore the differences. I've explained in detail why these are dramatically different things, all you've done is strawmanned them and then attacked the silly arguments you made up. You're having an entire conversation with yourself.
You're rewriting history because history proves you have double standards. "Illegitimate" does not mean "Russian tweets make us upset".
Nor was that my argument. Enjoy talking to yourself.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
I understand what you are claiming. It's just a non-sequitur."If I don't think somebody is sending a clear and logical message then I get to make up a secret meaning and hold someone responsible for the secret meaning"
At this point you must be trolling, no one is this stupid.
Not a single thing I've said would lead anyone with an IQ above room temperature with this understanding of my position. I've argued that context matters and then explained the context to Trump's words. I've explained that when someone has sent you a message which 99% of their words and actions align with, you don't walk away with the 1%. And I've explained how Trump's words lead to the conclusion that he's calling for violence.
Or to hear you explain it back; "dUh YoU geT TO jUst maKE uP wHAteveR yOU wAnt"
This post isn't really for you. I prefer to talk to people who read.
But what's really remarkable about this "lack of understanding" is that not only do you understand it, you agree with it. You said yourself that the conclusion to the totality of Trump's words/actions lead to the conclusion that he was calling for violence, our only disagreement here is whether three words in one sentence of one speech cancel out everything else he had said and done for the prior two months. I say it doesn't (because that's basic common sense), you argue it does. But that disagreement demonstrates that my conclusion is not made up. You're a brazenly dishonest hack.
Still some people are insane (or pretend to be for political advantage). There was that guy with the zip ties, what was his plan? Tie up Pelosi till she agreed to a new secure election? If people wanted to hold congress hostage they wouldn't have left the guns behind.
Two things can be true at the same time. It's remarkable that you acknowledge how dumb people can be while arguing that January 6th couldn't be what people like me are saying because people aren't that dumb.
Yes, any thinking human being planning to hijack American democracy would come up with a better plan than to show up unarmed and attack the Capitol. That's the entire point of stochastic terrorism. Everyone (including Trump) knows there are idiots out there. Everyone knows when you can rally thousands of people into a mob you're going to get some percentage of them to do outrageous things. That's the point. Trump knew damn well what he was doing when he called them all to the Capitol.
The only general plan was to get to the gallery and scream at congress
Right, that was really clear by the way they broke through police barriers, beat up police officers, and broke through the windows to get into the capitol. All of that just to yell at Congress.
You can't be serious.
This is significantly less absurd than the BLM rioters cleaning out electronics store "for racial justice". Still the insane media propaganda smirked and said "A riot is the language of the unheard."
I've already made clear that anyone who was guilty of this should have been locked the fuck up. You are having a conversation here with yourself.
In a letter from July 2012, he describes MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” as his favorite TV program.Guess what Maddow talked about constantly in 2017?
Ok, now show me the segment of her show that would lead any halfway intelligent person to the conclusion that she was calling for violence. I'll wait.
I do find it interesting that you're basically claiming democrat claims of illegitimate elections are irrelevant because they're obviously lying. Bold strategy
Not even close to anything I've said. Learn to read.
That's not what we mean when we say Biden didn't win the presidency. We mean the election was illegitimate, not that results weren't announced and treated as real by the people with guns. That is exactly what many left-tribers believed and exactly what the rhetoric https://gop.com/video/12-minutes-of-democrats-denying-election-results/ would lead them to believe.
No one is disputing the results. Biden was certified as the winner. Biden was sworn in. Biden controls the military and the west wing. We all agree on this, that's not what we're talking about.
We're talking about how you are taking two different things and calling them the same. Those two different things are as follows:
The left in 2016: The president received the most legal votes in the states he needed to win the electoral college, but he did it with the help of Russian disinformation which we do not respect.
The right in 2020: The president did not receive the most legal votes in the states he needed to win the electoral college, he only took power because our democracy was hijacked via a massive left wing conspiracy.
Do you understand how these two things are different? Do you understand why that difference matters?
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@ADreamOfLiberty
If it is a logically absurd message, then it is not a message at all.If it's not a message, it's not a message of violence.
I just explained this to you. Did you read it? Are you even trying to understand it?
The message that was logically absurd is the idea that what he really wanted was for them to be peaceful. It's absurd because it contradicts everything else he as well as everyone associated with him had been telling them to that point.
It is not a logically absurd message that he wanted them to be violent because that message is consistent with everything else he had been telling them. This is where the 99% vs the 1% point came in. Speaking of which...
If "They're stealing our elections" is the 99% that is the opposite of "peacefully" then democrats "our democracy is in danger" = 100% with no "peacefully".
So rather than address the actual point I just made explaining how basic communication works which shows your point to be wrong, you just invoke a whataboutism, and a false equivalence at that.
The difference between Trump's claims of a stolen election and every other clip in your little super cut is that not one of those claims leads to a call for violence.
The central claim you keep equivocating is that Trump is an "illegitimate president", which placed in it's actual context means that Trump's victory isn't taken with the respect a president is normally granted being that his election victory was aided by misinformation being peddled by a foreign advasary which the Trump campaign welcomed at the very least. The reason this is entirely different is because even the democrats making this charge acknowledge that Trump is in the White House because legal American voters are still the ones who wrote Trump's name in, even if the reasons many of them did so might have been because of Russian disinformation. That's the baseball analogy - the runs scored (legal American votes) were scored even if it was off of foul play by the other team.
That difference matters, because it doesn't matter if he won illegitimately... He still won. Democracy is not in danger because the candidate who racked up the most legal votes is the candidate in the oval office. The remedy for this issue is therefore to educate our fellow Americans into why this was an issue and decide it at the ballot box next time around. In other words, the remedy is democracy itself.
Trump's message was nothing like this. Trump's claim is that the American people did not actually vote for Joe Biden, but rather they took the oval office by force. The remedy therefore cannot be to win at the ballot box through persuasion (aka democracy). The only remedy for that is to meet force with force.
These are two entirely different messages. Do you understand?
And yet no one attacked the US Capitol on January 6th 2017. How odd.They attacked the white house instead.
Another example of your unseriousness. Your claim was that the democrats did the same thing Trump is accused of by calling Trump illegitimate. I pointed out that if that were true one would think someone would have rioted on January 6th of those years yet no one did. So of course, you bring up an unrelated riot over a totally different issue.
Do you know what stochastic terrorism is?A deep state concept meant to justify censorship.
Yeah, that's exactly what I thought. You have no idea what it is and have no interest in finding out. Like many of your answers, it really shows why you believe the things you do.
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@Mall
Donald Trump is the greatest president.
Vladimir Putin agrees.
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@Greyparrot
Trump's superpower is that he is the only person not calling his supporters "deplorable" or "ultra MAGA extremists"
Agreed. They've never in their lives been regarded as anything other than Morons, so Trump is the first person to make them feel validated which is why they will never abandon him. But that knife cuts both ways, it is also exactly why Trumpism will never survive without Trump. His connection to his supporters has nothing to do with values, reason, or policy. It's personal, nothing more.
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@Greyparrot
Of course it is. No means no. Everyone has to attend those seminars.Or you could gaslight people into thinking no actually means yes and see how that goes for them.....
Nothing I just argued has anything to do with whether one accepts "no", my point was entirely about what conclusion one would draw from the full exchange in context.
What is it with you Trump defenders who can't even understand how basic English and human communication works?
And yet no one attacked the US Capitol on January 6th 2017. How oddNo, the left-tribe violently protested other days, most recently over Joe's Gaza genocide.
Completely irrelevant to the conversation.
You just contradicted yourself in the same sentence. Not all people that were violent on Jan 6 were even Trump supporters, and not all Trump supporters were violent, but don't let that stop you from being hypocritical about mislabeling groups and people in the most demagoguery partisan hack fashion....
Do you know what a generalization is? Do you understand the role that it plays in conversations about large groups?
And who decides what stories the mass media shows? You are right, it is not arbitrary. Very rich people pay a lot of money to manufacture outrage and to make sure the public isn't TOOupset about actual problems that they might be exposed to outside of that well constructed propaganda.
Again, completely irrelevant to the conversation. Why do you even bother?
To your question, the media covers stories that the people will tune into. Why you need that explained to you I don't know...
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@ADreamOfLiberty
which btw includes a lot of right wingers pretending to be BLM riotersYep, just like those antifa/FBI infiltrators.
This conspiracy theory never ceases to amaze me. Do you believe January 6th was a violent day that Americans should care about?
If yes, then you contradict every argument you've made here excusing it.
If no, then how does this "plot" make any sense at all?
So either the left-tribe rioters are professional criminals and know how to hide from authorities or there was no witch hunt which was so draconian that non-violent 69 year olds got remanded.
Once again, the circumstances here are entirely different. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that you are far less likely to get arrested breaking windows at an AutoZone in Tulsa Oklahoma during the middle of a riot than you are breaking into the US Capitol. Do I really need to explain to you why? HINT: it's not because of your political affiliation.
I do defend violence against the government if it has a chance of working, but its your standards (or the lack thereof) that is being discussed.
What's being discussed is why we are looking at the exact same thing and seeing completely opposite pictures. But the answer to that seems clear, you're a hypocrite. You sit here railing against the BLM rioters while saying out loud that you defend violence against the government of it has a chance of working. And that's not the first time you have endorsed an action that if done against the side you agree with would be sitting here also railing against. Meanwhile you have no real criticisms of my position other than to strawman them or deny basic ideas that you accept in any other area of your life, like the idea that context matters when it comes to understanding what words mean.
The purported vice president Kamela Harris implied she would kill her political rivals in an elevator.
My god this is so incredibly stupid.
She made a joke. And do you know how we know it was a joke? By putting it in context. Not a single person who listened to her took that as anything else, and here's the crazy part... If a Kamala Harris supporter, say at a rally, ever took her seriously and implied they would "help her out with that" Kamala would have instantly stopped the rally and spend the next five minutes at least lecturing to the crowd about how physical violence is never an acceptable outlet for political discourse.
Any politician would do this. Any normal human being would do this.
But has anyone ever seen Trump do this? No I'm not talking about Trump swatting away an interview question by giving the answer he knows he's supposed to give (by contradicting earlier statements with no explanation), no I'm not talking about him giving lip service to these ideas with a smile on his face as his supporters giggle because they all know he's just saying what he needs to say to keep the liberal media off his back... No I'm talking about him actually, forcefully, clearly, unequivocally, conveying to his supporters that physical violence is not acceptable? No, no one has ever seen this, which is even more remarkable given that his supporters are notoriously more likely to issue death threats then that of any other politician.
He knows full well what's going on yet not only does he do absolutely nothing to stop it, he continues to invoke it. No reasonable person can claim this man is not intentionally relying on physical violence as a means of getting what he wants. The same cannot be said of any other prominent figure on the left.
If you were honest you would admit you could also fill in like 30 people instead of just "Trump".In both cases media personalities and politicians delivered the message and the people got angry because they believed it. In both cases the average believer would say they had good reasons to believe it besides hearing it from a politician.
Yes, and every single one of them was taking the lead from Donald Trump. We've seen how this plays out; Trump makes an absolutely ridiculous claim (like 3,000 illegals voted on CA in 2016) and then right wing media outlets repeat it, the base grabs hold of it, so the media and now republicans treat it as a credible allegation, which gives it legitimacy, which leads to more people believing it.
This works because Trump has a superpower no other politician in our lifetime has ever had; he gets to spout completely baseless bullshit and it doesn't hurt him because his supporters don't care about facts and reality. It's all a game.
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