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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Gaetz: Only Through Force
Date: 08/14/23 12:06 PM
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Well, thank you for the lesson in false equivalence.

Nah, bruh. You people have been sniggering at your Black Bloc street army beating up folks for years.

Secretly, you wish you could bloc up, go out there and Bash The Fash. Because everyone's justified in punching a Nazi, amirite?

The left has been cheering on political violence for years and in fact...
theguardian.com - US political crisis radicalizing republicans democrats alike

[d]emocrats, however, expressed support for political violence for a different purpose. The survey found support for the use of force to coerce members of Congress to 'do the right thing' grew from 9% in January to 17% ' an estimated 44 million Americans ' at the end of June, with the sharpest rise among democrats. Support for violence to restore the federal right to an abortion also increased during this time.

jonathanturley.org - Age of rage uchicago report finds million american view violence as justified to keep trump for power

Unleashing such rage is difficult to control and often those leading the mob find themselves later pursued by it. This is why, during the French Revolution, the journalist Jacques Mallet Pan warned, 'Like Saturn, the revolution devours its children.'

You'll pretend to wring your hands and you'll point to the Extremely Extreme Radicalization of Everyone But You but we both know that not-so-deep-down-inside how you feel. As I said: you've been clapping for it for a long time.
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