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@Double_R
Planted evidence is a fact.
In a court, it is rarely, if ever a damning fact.
photographic evidence, video evidence,
You do know most of the FBI photos released to MSNBC are probably not admissible "facts"....right?
In most legitimate FBI cases, a jury sees the evidence when they show up in court to see it for the 1st time.
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@Best.Korea
Or a desperate attempt to save Democrats.
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@zedvictor4
Are the American people really that gullible and irresponsible?
Yes. We are doomed to Bidens and Trumps.
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@RationalMadman
What's your working theory on why the Enlightenment happened in Europe?
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@Kaitlyn
Also pushed the lie that all kids needed the Pfizer Vaccine.
During a recent lawsuit, MSNBC lawyers admitted in court that her show isn’t based on facts, and shouldn’t be taken seriously.
So technically, She’s not lying, she’s “entertaining”….while posing as a legitimate news source….so, yeah, she’s lying.
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due to the fact caucasians are as a society more open to just socialise and get by with a new maniac in charge, rather than instantly jump to fight them out of power from within they sooner go to war for them on scale/extend that is nationwide in the breadth of obedience and fear that is not quite the same for other tyrants.
Hmm... Let's compare a list of current or recent dictators:
Africa:
- Paul Biya - President of Cameroon since 1982.
- Idriss Déby - President of Chad from 1990 until his death in 2021.
- Isaias Afwerki - President of Eritrea since 1993.
- Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo - President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979.
- Abdel Fattah el-Sisi - President of Egypt since 2014.
- Denis Sassou Nguesso - President of the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) with intervals since 1979.
- Omar al-Bashir - Former President of Sudan from 1989 to 2019.
- Yoweri Museveni - President of Uganda since 1986.
- Robert Mugabe - Former President of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017.
Asia:
- Kim Jong-un - Supreme Leader of North Korea since 2011.
- Xi Jinping - General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of China since 2013.
- Hun Sen - Prime Minister of Cambodia since 1985.
- Nursultan Nazarbayev - Former President of Kazakhstan from 1990 to 2019.
- Bashar al-Assad - President of Syria since 2000.
- Emomali Rahmon - President of Tajikistan since 1994.
- Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow - President of Turkmenistan since 2006.
- Islam Karimov - Former President of Uzbekistan from 1991 until his death in 2016.
Europe:
- Alexander Lukashenko - President of Belarus since 1994.
- Vladimir Putin (could be in Asia category as well) - President of Russia with intervals since 1999 (Prime Minister in some periods).
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan - President of Turkey since 2014.
Bonus Track:
Current African warlords:
- Joseph Kony - Leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda.
- Ibrahim Ag Bahanga - Former leader of the rebel group National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) in Mali.
- Bosco Ntaganda - Former military leader and founder of the M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
- Thomas Lubanga - Former leader of the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) in the DRC.
- General Laurent Nkunda - Former leader of the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP) in the DRC.
- Charles Taylor - Former President of Liberia, associated with warlordism during the Liberian civil war.
- Alieu Kosiah - Former commander of the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (ULIMO) in Liberia.
- Muhammad Ali - Leader of the Janjaweed militia in Darfur, Sudan.
- Hissène Habré - Former President of Chad, accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- Jean-Pierre Bemba - Former Congolese rebel leader and founder of the Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC).
- Sultani Makenga - Former leader of the M23 rebel group in the DRC.
- Ahmad al-Mahdi - Leader of the Patriotic Resistance Front in the Central African Republic (CAR).
- Joseph Karama - Leader of the Nduma Defense of Congo (NDC) rebel group in the DRC.
- Alieu Badara Mbye - Leader of the West African Liberation Forces (WALF) in The Gambia.
- Ali Darassa - Leader of the Union for Peace in Central Africa (UPC) rebel group in the CAR.
- Abubakar Shekau - Former leader of the Boko Haram extremist group in Nigeria.
- Agathon Rwasa - Former leader of the National Liberation Forces (FNL) in Burundi.
- Seleka leaders - Various leaders associated with the Seleka coalition in the CAR, such as Michel Djotodia and Noureddine Adam.
- Vincent Otti - Former deputy leader of the LRA in Uganda.
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@Kaitlyn
This is the same MSNBC anchor who pushed a lie that Pfizer's Vaccine would prevent you from getting Covid on to half of the radical left USA.
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@zedvictor4
Give him 4 more years to grow on you
Lincoln was remembered for starting the civil war with his election, but he is also remembered for ending it.
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@FLRW
That's what De Klerk said about Mandela.
ANC is now currently destroying South Africa, just like Maga will destroy America. Hooray!
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@Critical-Tim
The larger question is whether society's goal is to survive or act morally.
An irrelevant question if the society is extinct.
Regardless, from a good and evil standpoint I would like to determine whether the continuation of the species is considered cumulatively Good, Evil, or neutral.
The philosophy of objective morality suggests that any accepted behavior that increases evolutionary fitness of the species is the standard of what is objectively good. Most of the behaviors that are good for the species are not necessarily good for the individual.
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But obviously guilty in the court of public opinion is not the same thing as being obviously guilty in a court of law.
For a lot of people, that is not obvious at all.
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The Meuller report listed 11 counts of obstruction of justice by Trump
"there were “difficult [legal] issues that would need to be resolved,” in order to reach a conclusion that the crime of obstruction of justice was committed by Trump."
"Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment.”
-Mueller
Also. Trump was later exonerated after his failed political impeachment over obstruction.
Turns out that Trumpmanbad alone doesn't justify the intent to obstruct justice.
as well as the indictments of 34 individuals and 3 Russian businesses.
Not Trump.
Crenshaw’s and Haley’s menacing but vague language makes clear that they both understand there’s almost certainly no statute to invoke here. They are not calling for measures consistent with the rule of law but are instead appealing to dark fantasies of cultural revenge.
So you agree, FBImanbad isn't evidence of criminal intent.
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@Best.Korea
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Donald J. Trump. He's an existential threat to democracy itself. If we don't destroy him, the unparalleled peace and prosperity Biden brought to America will be over for good. But there's still time to stop Trump before it's too late. Here's a few ways to destroy Donald Trump. First off, impeach him for the third time. It's bound to work. Number two, Bribe Melania to reveal the source of his strength. It's got to be his hair. Number three, put a Big Mac right underneath a dangling piano. You didn't hear it from me. But Hillary Clinton has successfully used this method three times before. Effective and hilarious. Number four, become a porn star, have an affair with him and get him to pay you hush money through a shady arrangement. I think somebody already tried that before. Nah, scratch that. Okay. Here's a really good one. Outlaw tanning beds and then nuke the sun like in the matrix so he can't have such a glorious tan. His supporters will abandon him by the thousands. Send the FBI to raid Mar-a-Lago again. Third time's a charm. Oh, send him on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney. Diabolical. Next up, start World War III and hope one of the Russian bombs hits Mar-a-Lago. The current administration is working on this one right now. Okay, how about this? Catch him in the act of drinking a Bud Light. Political career over. And finally destroy democracy itself. You see, if a democracy elects Trump, then we have to destroy democracy to, to save democracy. It's, it's complicated. Alright guys that's the best I got. If you can think of another sure fire way to destroy Donald J., leave them in the comments below. Then we can link arms and destroy him together.
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@Double_R
A lot, in which case you failed to provide a single example.Or nothing, in which case you clearly do not know anything about the Mueller report.
As regards to Trump or the FBI, nothing criminal was proven with either.
One had a lot of Orangemanbad and the other had a lot of FBImanbad.
Same story, different characters.
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That's right. Nothing on the left is propaganda
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Madcow:
"you have to wonder if the justice department is considering whether there is some political solution to this criminal problem; whether part of the issue here is not just that Trump has "committed crimes," but that Trump has "committed crimes" and plans on being back in the White House, do they consider as part of a potential plea, offer something that would prescribe him... proscribe him from from running for office again? I don't know..."
O'Donnell then mansplains to Madcow:
"I would imagine if anything like that happened that it would have to come from the defense side of the negotiation, that the that the Trump team would would say
"oh by the way, and with this we will also, you know, drop out of the uh the race for president," otherwise it would put the justice department in this position that Donald Trump claims they're in...."
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@Kaitlyn
It's about whether it's morally correct to have children.
A society based on this would be extinct, which is why we have natural instincts that could be classified as "immoral instincts" to override rational thought.
This would also bolster the claim that a society built on rational thought is not evolutionarily fit to survive.
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Hiden Biden is believed by some in the American intelligence community to be convinced that his re-election prospects depend on a victory, or some kind of satisfactory settlement, in the Ukraine war. Blinken’s rejection of the prospect of a ceasefire in Ukraine, voiced in his June 2 speech in Finland last week, mirrors this thinking.
Putin should rightly be condemned for his decision to tumble Europe into its most violent and destructive war since the Balkan wars of the 1990s. But those at the top in the White House must answer for their willingness to let an obviously tense situation lead into war when, perhaps, an unambiguous guarantee that Ukraine would not be permitted to join NATO would have kept the peace.
Ukraine’s counter-offensive is going slowly in its early days, and so news of the war briefly disappeared from the front pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post. The newspapers’ fear of another Trump presidency seems to have diminished their appetite for objective reporting when it delivers bad news from the front. The bad news may keep coming if the Ukraine military’s limited air and missile power continues to be ineffective against Russia.
It is believed within the American intelligence community that Russia destroyed the vital Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro River. Putin’s motive is unclear. Was the sabotage aimed at flooding and slowing the Ukraine Army’s pathways to the war zone in the southeast? Were there hidden Ukrainian weapons and ammunition storage sites in the flooded area? (The Ukraine military command is constantly moving its stockpiles in an effort to keep Russian satellite surveillance and missile targeting at bay.) Or was Putin simply laying down a chip and letting the government of Volodymyr Zelensky understand that this is the beginning of the end?
Meanwhile, there has been an escalation in rhetoric about the war and its possible consequences from within Russia. It can be observed in an essay published in Russian and English on June 13 by Sergei A. Karaganov, an academic in Moscow who is chairman of the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy. Karaganov is known to be close to Putin; he is taken seriously by some journalists in the West, most notably by Serge Schmemann, a longtime Moscow correspondent for the New York Times and now a member of the Times editorial board. Like me, he spent his early years as a journalist for the Associated Press.
One of Karaganov's main points is that the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine will not end even if Russia were to achieve a crushing victory. There will remain, he writes, “an even more embittered ultranationalist population pumped up with weapons—a bleeding wound threatening inevitable complications and a new war.”
The essay is suffused with despair. A Russian victory in Ukraine means a continued war with the West. “The worst situation,” he writes, “may occur if, at the cost of enormous losses, we liberate the whole of Ukraine and it remains in ruins with a population that mostly hates us. . . . The feud with the West will continue as it will support a low-grade guerrilla war.” A more attractive option would be to liberate the pro-Russian areas of Ukraine followed by demilitarization of Ukraine’s armed forces. But that would be possible, Karaganov writes, “only if and when we are able to break the West’s will to incite and support the Kiev junta, and to force it to retreat strategically.
“And this brings us to the most important but almost undiscussed issue. The underlying and even fundamental cause of the conflict in Ukraine and many other tensions in the world . . . is the accelerating failure of the modern ruling Western elites” to recognize and deal with the “globalization course of recent decades.” These changes, which Karaganov calls “unprecedented in history,” are key elements in the global balance of power that now favor “China and partly India acting as economic drivers, and Russia chosen by history to be its military strategic pillar.” The countries of the West, under leaders such as Biden and his aides, he writes, “are losing their five-century-long ability to siphon wealth around the world, imposing, primarily by brute force, political and economic orders and cultural dominance. So there will be no quick end to the unfolding Western defensive and aggressive confrontation.”
This shakeup of the world order, he writes, “has been brewing since the mid-1960s. . . . The defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the beginning of the Western economic model crisis in 2008 were major milestones.” All of this points toward large-scale disaster: “Truce is possible, but peace is not. . . . This vector of the West’s movement unambiguously indicates a slide toward World War III. It is already beginning and may erupt into a full-blown firestorm by chance or due to the incompetence and irresponsibility of modern ruling circles in the West.”
In Karaganov’s view—I am in no way condoning or agreeing with it—the American-led war against Russia in Ukraine, with the support of NATO, has become more feasible, even ineluctable, because the fear of nuclear war is gone. What is happening today in Ukraine, he argues, would be “unthinkable” in the early years of the nuclear era. At that time, even “in a fit of desperate rage,” “the ruling circles of a group of countries” would never have “unleashed a full-scale war in the underbelly of a nuclear superpower.”
Karagonov’s argument only gets more scary from there. He concludes by arguing that Russia can continue fighting in Ukraine for two or three years by “sacrificing thousands and thousands of our best men and grinding down . . . hundreds of thousands of people who live in the territory that is now called Ukraine and who have fallen into a tragic historical trap. But this military operation cannot end with a decisive victory without forcing the West to retreat strategically, or even surrender, and compelling [America] to give up its attempt to reverse history and preserve global dominance. . . . Roughly speaking it must ‘buzz off’ so that Russia and the world could move forward unhindered.”
To convince America to “buzz off,” Karaganov writes, “We will have to make nuclear deterrence a convincing argument again by lowering the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons set unacceptably high, and by rapidly but prudently moving up the deterrence-escalation ladder.” Putin has already done so, he says, through his statements and the advance deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus. “We must not repeat the ‘Ukrainian scenario.’ For a quarter of a century, we did not listen to those who warned that NATO aggression would lead to war, and tried to delay and ‘negotiate.’ As a result, we’ve got a severe armed conflict. The price of indecision now will be higher by an order of magnitude.
“The enemy must know that we are ready to deliver a preemptive strike in retaliation for all of its current and past acts of aggression in order to prevent a slide into global thermonuclear war. . . . Morally, this is a terrible choice as we will use God’s weapon, thus dooming ourselves to grave spiritual losses. But if we do not do this, not only Russia can die, but most likely the entire human civilization will cease to exist.”
Karaganov’s notion of a thermonuclear weapon as “God’s weapon” reminded me of a strange but similar phrase Putin used at a political forum in Moscow in the fall of 2018. He said that Russia would only launch a nuclear strike if his military’s early warning system warned of an incoming warhead. “We would be victims of aggression and would get to heaven as martyrs” and those who launched the strike would “just die and not even have time to repent.”
Karaganov has come a long way in his thinking about nuclear warfare by comparison with his remarks in an interview with Schmemann last summer. He expressed concern about freedom of thought in the future and added: “But I am even more concerned about the growing probability of a global thermonuclear conflict ending the history of humanity. We are living through a prolonged Cuban missile crisis. And I do not see the people of the caliber of Kennedy and his entourage on the other side. I do not know if we have responsible interlocutors.”
What should we make of Karaganov's warming of doom? Do his remarks in any way reflect policy at the top? Do he and Putin kick around the idea of when or where to drop the bomb? Or is it nothing more than an expression of Russia's decades old inferiority complex when looking to the gleaming West, where it finds—as we see in the Biden Administration today—endless hostility toward Russia.
“This could be the clarion of a movement in Russia,” one longtime Kremlin watcher told me, “for a dangerous shift of policy or it could or the off-the-wall ramblings of a concerned but deeply Russian academic.” He added that any serious Nato political strategist should read and evaluate the essay.
Is the future of the world really only in Russia’s hands—and not in ours? Or even more troubling, do we let the value of American Defense stocks dictate foreign policy? Because if that is the case, then the USA profits more if Putin wins all of Ukraine, and therefore, guarantees a perpetuation of the war machine as the conflict is never allowed to de-escalate.
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@ebuc
Biden killed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians by waging a war for oil and staging an undemocratic revolution.
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@TWS1405_2
To the extent that plaintiff is seeking relief related to the availability of documents under
FOIA, that claim is governed by the Supreme Court’s holding in Kissinger v. Reporters Comm.
for Freedom of the Press, 445 U.S. 136 (1980). In that case, the Court held that FOIA does not
give rise to a private right of action to compel an agency to retrieve documents that are not in its
possession, even if one assumes that the documents were wrongfully withheld under the Federal
Records Act. Id. at 151–52.12 The Court explained in that case: “It is therefore clear that
Congress never intended when it enacted the FOIA, to displace the statutory scheme embodied in
the Federal Records Act and the Federal Records Disposal Act providing for administrative
remedies to safeguard against wrongful removal of agency records as well as to retrieve
wrongfully removed records.” Id. at 154.13 The same reasoning applies here. There is no
indication in the record that Congress intended to supplant the limited remedies available in the
PRA with FOIA.
THE COURT: What enforcement mechanism, what thing, what power can they
exercise under the statute that I can order them to do that makes your injury
redressable?
[PLAINTIFF’S COUNSEL]: Once the records are determined to be
[P]residential records there is an obligation to assume custody and control of
them. How – and I will just say, once again, how they go about doing that –
Judicial Watch is not challenging how.
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And once the determination is made [that they are] [P]residential records, it opens
the door. It leaves for the possibility that [A]rchives will go out and get the
records. It leaves the possibility that they’ll use one of their enforcement
mechanisms or they may use other avenues to get them.
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THE COURT: We’re talking about very mushy unenforceable orders at this point
. . . . I just don’t think I could issue an order that says ‘try your best.’ Then how
would anybody be able to ascertain whether they’ve complied[?]
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It proved just as much as the Mueller report.
Which is why people are revolting against a government that has no accountability.
In the past, corrupt government manufactured multiple scapegoats to convince the people. Today, they don't even pretend it is necessary to do that to maintain power and control.
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grats on being a successful gay.
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@zedvictor4
Trump will be the new Hitler, nobody will forget.
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Welcome to the new world of Maga. You guys really screwed the pooch on this one.
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grats on being a successful gay.
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I'm surprised Stolen Valor has anything to say about an actual Marine.
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@TWS1405_2
Do you have an issue with the video?
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@TWS1405_2
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@TWS1405_2
Clearly you are not seeing the current crusade against the "uppity white man"
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@zedvictor4
He was and will be.
People never will forget.
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@ebuc
Biden should be brought up on war crimes in the Ukraine.
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@TWS1405_2
There was a time when "uppity blacks" (like Emmitt Till and Nat Turner) were executed for defending themselves. Now the shoe is clearly on the other foot.
Social Justice is neither social nor is it justice.
It's just another version of Jamal Crow.
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@Double_R
What I don't care about is using the justice system to appease the ignorant among us as part of some grand scheme to sway the electorate in the direction I desire. That would have long term consequences just as bad if not worse than the alternative you seem to be advocating for.
So you oppose BLM and other social justice movements that want discretionary Justice. Welcome to the based Maga world and the end of modern leftism.
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@DavidAZ
Here is a clip of schoolkids revolting against the deep state:
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@Double_R
What do you think is going to happen when the corporate oligarchy that passes for a Democracy fails to re-educate Maga?
It's not a nonsense question because Maga continues to grow despite the best efforts at censorship and re-education. Even the children are starting to push back on the classic indoctrination. They are the ones that will create your new reality.
You don't seriously believe in your "reality" that jailing Trump is going to do the opposite of what you want. I know you can't possibly believe this.
But that's the actual reality, despite your ideology.
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@Double_R
. These people need to depart from politics and go find themselves a therapist.
I joked with EBUC in another thread for suggesting this as a valid way to eliminate Maga, and here you are unapologetically repeating the same mantra.
I would have never thought you so deficient.
This "reality" isn't a reality.
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@ebuc
All MAGA cultist need to go in for mental evaluation at certified mental instititutions.
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@ebuc
Didn't you say you wanted to put half of Amagaca in a mental institution, with violence if necessary?
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@TWS1405_2
I'm surprised you don't want the FBI to be in charge of the government. We don't even have to elect them. They can just take care of us with no input. Historically, benevolent oligarchies always do well.
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And this is why we will continue to have Maga, because the left and the establishment right have absolutely no clue how to deal with Maga.
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@Double_R
So can you identify a non-angel on the left?
If you can't and are unwilling to quell the crowd, then the crowd will do its own quelling. That's a historical axiom. This goes beyond a simple thought exercise. It gets to the heart of good and evil, and who gets to define that. People in power or the people themselves.
The crowd isn't interested in your endless apologies for your role models. They don't represent them.
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@Best.Korea
American politicians are easily influenced.
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@Double_R
this is your quote:
"No one is claiming they're angels, that's just a concoction of the political right in an attempt to level the playing field not by showing the virtue of their positions, but by inventing a Boogeyman on the opposing side to compare themselves to."
Yet every post you made since then refutes this as you contend you can't identify a non-angel on the left even hypothetically if you had to fabricate one for appearances.
You claim that there are non-angels on the left, but you can't identify them.
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@Best.Korea
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@zedvictor4
There is no America anymore. The corporate oligarchy holds the trademark.
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@DavidAZ
Not only can't he select a non-angel as a scapegoat, he can't even select a hypothetical bad guy on the left.
Not a single one.
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