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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: Umm 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Antifa at it again in Seattle
Date: 05/12/24 1:02 PM
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"Of course you don’t. But here’s the thing: *he does*, and so do most of these “antifacscist” posters chiming in.

Ever heard any of them denouncing all the riots when Trump was President?"


Dope,

You regularly post falsehoods about what other people think and believe. You have done it for more than two decades. I go back and forth on whether you are being dishonest when you do this or if you are just not smart enough to understand what others are saying. Which is it? Are you lying or just not capable of basic comprehension?

Because what you are saying is absolutely 100% false.

I (and almost every other poster that I know of here who was active during Trump's disaster of a presidency) regularly denounced anyone who engaged in violence or looting during the BLM protests. I regularly said anyone engaged in violence or looting should be arrested and charged to the fullest extent. I always said that for three reasons. One, I believe in law and order. Two, I think those engaging in violence and looting were taking away from the correct message of the 95%+ of the protestors who were there peacefully. Three, it allowed dishonest people like you to paint all BLM protestors as rioters and dismiss their message, despite that not being true.

No one here supported any looting or violence. Almost all here explicitly said it was wrong. To say otherwise is dishonest or stupid. Which are you?

"Or see them standing up for principles when Biden was siccing his DOJ on regular citizens?"

Wrong again. Laughingly wrong. I would definitely speak up if Biden ever did that. For one, it has never happened and I am quite sure there is no evidence of that ever happening. Biden rarely ever directs his DoJ to do anything. He respects an independent DoJ (please prove he doesn't, you won't). The few times he has mentioned the DoJ he does so in a way where he is talking about people who are breaking the law. So if you are talking about "regular people" who are bashing a cops face in with a broken flag pole, or a "regular person" threatening a school board member because Tucker Carlson put some nuttiness in his head, then those are people breaking the law and they should be brought to justice (that is what rule of law means).

"The irony of it all is that all these people railing against Trump don’t mind fascism at all; they just want it applied in the correct direction."

Nobody behaviorally projects like a nutter cultist.

I can give you multiple, concrete examples of Donald Trump explicitly using the power of the executive branch against his political enemies for political purposes. You have never had a problem with any of it. In fact, you often justified it or made excuses for it.

"We’ve had a Trump Presidency and despite a lot of paranoid ravings on this board…it wasn’t anything like fascism. ."

The definition has been posted in this thread. That you want to ignore examples of it under Trump doesn't make those examples go away. It just means you are willing to engage in your usual willful ignorance.
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