Thanks for commenting to let us know that you don't care about the thread you are posting in.

Hey, long time no see! Well said.

Communists vs fascists hmm...where have I seen this before

The police removed the gates because they didn't want people to get pushed into them and suffocate or get trampled.
They assumed they would be able to stop the people at the stairs, but that tactic backfired quickly.
As for the selfie, that cop was going to be in that selfie anyway, he should not have posed for it, but he was still doing his job...standing around holding back the potential surge.

While I can totally relate, things like that would only lead to more escalation. At some point another person then feels obliged to go on a killing spree or to kill a president.

I am kinda hoping for the meme presidency to end with a nice gif or two of the Thug in Chief being dragged out of the WH by secret services but considering some of his cult members are about as crazy as he is, I'd prefer it if he managed one minute of presidential dignity in 4 years. Just one.

A civil rights protest where people want to stop being killed simply because of their race isn't the same as a riot where people want to perform a coup based on conspiracy theories

Aren't they mostly infecting each other tho? So they are doing their opponents a favor.

“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”

-Benjamin Franklin

Honestly they could even have Anonymous Masks or "ANTIFA" tattooed on their foreheads, that wouldn't make the whole thing less scary.
I mean they could be passing for someone else, or they could even actually be antifa. It still goes to show the state the "land of the free" is after 4 years of the Bully in Chief legitimizing all kinds of childish and hateful behavior.

The end of January cannot come too soon.

https://www.villagenews.com/story/2020/12/31/national/alleged-antifa-supporters-clad-in-trump-gear-storm-capital/64721.html

A retired military officer told The Washington Times that the firm XRVision used its software to do facial recognition of protesters and matched two Philadelphia ANTIFA members to two men inside the Senate. XRVision also has identified another man who, while not known to have antics links, is someone who shows up at climate and Black Lives Matter protests in the West

The plot thickens...

So some furry cosplayers invaded to take selfies for social media. Either that or a very kinky party going on. Both are horrible blows to democracy for sure.

haha the guy on that last pic looks like Sam Hyde

I'm so lost as what's going on there but it sure is a mess

That guy with buffalo clothes and Asatru tattoos looks like a regular Crusader Kings character :x

A lot of us aren't for either.

While the humans with brains are the majority, they never do anything about extreme ideologist. This is what caused wars in the entire history of humanity, especially with mass media on both side brainwashing humans.
At least third world war not going to be nuclear war, as it will be a civil war and not a war between countries.
The mass media using such extreme propaganda like it was common in 1930s Germany, and on both side, CNN, Fox, Twitter, Facebook, both side responsible with the subjective, offensive, aggressive propaganda.

Additonally, the 2 party dictatorship USA with their winner takes it all election system dont even allow the emerge of new political parties. I would say it would be different with a different election system, but election systems in Europe shows that humans want hate. In Europe it is easier for new parties to emerge, still humans voting for extreme ideologist parties while both side spread only hate.

Politic is like YouTube, hate gets most views:-(

we should make a poll and see what people think is the most likely doomsday scenario for 2021... here's a few starter choices

• Some form of Coronavirus (not necessarily covid-19)
• Rioting / Anarchy / Civil unrest
• War
• Zombies
• Aliens (note: this includes thanos)
• Asteroid
• Attack by subterranean mole-people
• Attack by lost sea-people
• global warming
• nuclear something or other
• a super volcano eruption (yellowstone caldera is still my pick if we get super volcano eruption tho)
• AI uprising / skynet

I fell the same...
This thread is slowly turning into usual reddit "throw a poo at other people" post

Seems like a good read, lol. I will read the entire thread when I have the time.

You don't sound better than them with how you write :)

That'll do: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/note-correspondents/2021-01-06/note-correspondents-the-situation-washington-dc

lmao @ "blue haired." There's no way a guy with this much impotent, ignorant rage is enjoying life. Hope things start to get better for you so you can hatch from your edgelord cocoon ASAP.

A thread about conspiracy theorists storming a government building during a key democratic process, and the takeaway from this is... a spaghetti of how the left is at fault because of...
:checks notes:
Acceptance of people outside of the cishet margin, and the propaganda of the left. When it's the right on the siege, primarily caused by a cult of personality fostered by the presidential bubble, who popularised the idea that if you don't like a factual challenge, you can just ignore it by calling it 'fake' no matter what evidence is presented.

Thats a hard yikes from me, chap.

The average people in the middle aren't storming government buildings during really important stuff about voting and election, so uh, why would anybody point them out, given they're totally unrelated to the subject? And why exactly would those people be called nazis for non-participation?

The supposition of 'average people getting called nazi!' is quite hollow when you're clearly regurgitating a bogeyman, given its total disconnection from the situation we're discussing. The 'hate' youre seeing here is primarily people who are angry a key process is being interrupted by conspiracy theorists (and how lukewarm the response to said extreme action was), and on the other side we have people rapidly trying to deflect the seriousness of the situation by randomly brining up the BLM protests and then trying to project a childish 'this is what you get / deserve' neener-neener across the aisle, while claiming they're being neutral and pointing out a double standard in the opposition.

Being angry at an injustice is a normal response. Being frustrated with dishonest portrayal is a normal response. Absolute conflict avoidance is not a healthy response, especially to subjects with severe repercussions. Even if you were really just saying people should be chill and agree to disagree and whatnot, how exactly do you reconcile that with how you immediately segued into an unrelated, regurgitated talking point ("everyone gets called nazi, they're sick and tired of it!") while simultaneously suggesting we regard such an unusual and severe event and respond to it mutedly?

You're saying one thing but doing another within the same post, while also claiming others should not engage with an important subject. This is why shortsighted centrism is considered the 'agnostic poverty' of politics. It comes across as both "I don't want to hear it, so you shouldn't talk so much about it" while also sneaking a footnote in of [insert disconnected talking-point here]. While we're on that subject, do you know what a great way to deal with hyperbolic "you're a nazi" claims is? To not then passively / surreptitiously support actions and mentalities that follow suspiciously facist tendencies. Surely even you can see why selective direction of criticism towards one side while having a blase or permissive attitude to another even when one has a far more unified criminal purpose (or outright wears overt signs of membership to literal prejudice groups) it sets a very distinct tone, right? And how people have been warning for the longest time that this kind of behaviour is on the rise? How when this incredibly illegal and drastic event happened, so few people were actually surprised? I mean. Really? :P We're at a point where -this- is no longer unexpected? If now isn't a time to be witness to our failings and come to a reckoning over what is wrong, then when exactly, is social conflict justified?

To be permissive of the blatant in one hand, but then also to be critical of another despite having a less unified negative element, is a double standard that sets a very premise. In fact, to say that such behaviour is not 'defending' one side, or that they 'equally disapprove of the other' is something of a lie of ommission, isn't it?

I mean, look, Its okay to feel disillusioned, or exhausted, or to hate the extremes you see from both sides. Thats normal. Shits exhausting and depressing. Its okay to want to be hands-off and deal with your own stuff, or be worried about where the conflict may lead. But suggesting that lucid people not express valid concerns with passion isn't it, my guy. Even if it results in verbal fights, even if dishonest players step in to vomit buzzwords and talking points, the dialogue is important. Stagnation and refusal to address the elephants in the room is what led us to this impasse. Without the ability to shake each others branches of the leaves that simply dont stick, the only speakers left are social media checkmarks, mainstream media vs fringe talking-heads, and the tribalistic groupies.

Yeah it's ugly, but its important we scour ourselves of the grime before it turns into an immovable crust. Not challenging ourselves is how opinion set into... well, the types of people who literally just stormed a government building to interfere with a lawful election process. Consider asking yourself why you're committed to shrugging and saying to be more hands-off and civil, but are also willing to leave a carbon copy of the very non-neutral "people get called nazi!" talking point in the middle of that despite how unrelated it is. If you don't challenge why you just popped a squat and laid an idealogue egg in plain sight while claiming to be neutral, you're going to keep acting as an infection vector to the very thing you claim you want to stop.