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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #275 on: January 09, 2021, 12:23:45 PM »
Knew I should have kept that old phone and modem


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I even have a few ISA and PCI modem cards in a bin downstairs.  I should check on drivers for them.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #276 on: January 09, 2021, 12:26:22 PM »
They won't need to go jackboot on us, rounding us up.

They will just keep denying us access to things one by one.

Gun owners refusing to comply with voluntary buy backs will be denied bank accounts, credit and access to health care. They will freeze your retirement accounts. Non-compliant gun owners will be unemployable.

We will either submit to survive or be denied everything needed to live modern life.

They have plenty of time. No hurry.

Who you going to go out and shoot or go to war with?

I think you're right in that the government wouldn't need to go jackboot on us.  However, going jackboot seems to be the default government response most times.
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Conservatives see George Orwell's "1984" as a cautionary tale.  Progressives view it as a "how to" manual.

My wife often says to me, "You are evil and must be destroyed." She may be right.

Liberals believe one should never let reason, logic and facts get in the way of a good emotional argument.

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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #277 on: January 09, 2021, 12:41:06 PM »

Who you going to go out and shoot or go to war with?


It won't be a red vs blue war.  It will be a guerilla war.  Hit and run.  Bombs.  Sniping.  Harassing.  Burning down entire buildings to get one politician.  Target every politician in every way possible.  Some will get the message, eventually.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #278 on: January 09, 2021, 02:56:30 PM »
What do dissidents do when they can't have DNS?

(Serious question, I suspect we'll run into that with general deplatforming.)

Namecoin.

It's a blockchain based DNS that government cannot bully.

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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #279 on: January 09, 2021, 03:00:44 PM »
It won't be a red vs blue war.  It will be a guerilla war.  Hit and run.  Bombs.  Sniping.  Harassing.  Burning down entire buildings to get one politician.  Target every politician in every way possible.  Some will get the message, eventually.

Live life, be happy, go out on the town, go to your kid's PTA meetings. Every now and then something related to the feudal lords catches on fire. Strange, that.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #280 on: January 09, 2021, 03:20:18 PM »
Anyways, this is no longer inciting violence:


https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2021/01/09/kathy-griffins-photo-to-encourage-trump-to-resign-apparently-doesnt-violate-any-inciting-violence-rules/

I'd like to see someone come out with some life-size Biden and Harris heads - on pikes. Then I'd like to see people display them in their yards, in their pickup beds, etc. That would be cool right? The same people that thought Trump's bloody head was funny will think the same of the heads on a pike, right? It would be equality and unity.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #281 on: January 09, 2021, 04:02:00 PM »
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #282 on: January 09, 2021, 04:02:50 PM »
Anyways, this is no longer inciting violence:


https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2021/01/09/kathy-griffins-photo-to-encourage-trump-to-resign-apparently-doesnt-violate-any-inciting-violence-rules/

I'd like to see someone come out with some life-size Biden and Harris heads - on pikes. Then I'd like to see people display them in their yards, in their pickup beds, etc. That would be cool right? The same people that thought Trump's bloody head was funny will think the same of the heads on a pike, right? It would be equality and unity.


The tweet's been taken down, for what it's worth.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #283 on: January 09, 2021, 04:06:50 PM »
The tweet's been taken down, for what it's worth.

They say it's removed, the the picture is still there.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #284 on: January 09, 2021, 04:30:16 PM »
It's always about race

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    And yet, as days pass after pro-Trump insurrectionists stormed into the U.S. Capitol, the NHL world has been largely silent and passive, retreating once again behind its apolitical shield.

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    At its core, the storming of the Capitol represented a violent white supremacist insurrection, the actions of people worked into a frenzy against a multiracial democracy. When people, including NHL players, took to the streets to protest against police shootings and systemic racism, this is exactly the sick and debased ideology they were standing up against.

    On Wednesday though, when the opportunity presented itself to specifically condemn these actions—that were so clearly against what players say they stand for—why were so many in the hockey community so utterly silent?
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/01/09/usa-today-notes-the-telling-silence-of-nhl-players-since-the-storming-of-the-capitol-building-by-white-supremacists/
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #285 on: January 09, 2021, 04:35:07 PM »
It's always about race
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/01/09/usa-today-notes-the-telling-silence-of-nhl-players-since-the-storming-of-the-capitol-building-by-white-supremacists/

And there's some of what we're talking about in the other thread - removing language and definitions and replacing them to fit new narratives. Any time white people protest about anything, it means they're white supremacists and thus they should be dismissed or outright loathed.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #287 on: January 09, 2021, 05:26:26 PM »
To heck with the US Curling Team.  I want to know about the US Lawn Bowling Team!  Have they denounced the white supremacists that stormed the capitol?
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #288 on: January 09, 2021, 05:48:14 PM »
 :facepalm:

https://twitter.com/bigangrylaw/status/1348007294148227072

Please tell me that no one is this stupid.










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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #289 on: January 09, 2021, 06:03:02 PM »
:facepalm:

https://twitter.com/bigangrylaw/status/1348007294148227072

Please tell me that no one is this stupid.










Never mind, I already know the answer.

All I get is
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Edit: Never mind, came up on the 3rd try
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #290 on: January 09, 2021, 06:07:19 PM »
Anyway, on the while inciting thing...

https://twitter.com/i/status/1347703375270350851
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #291 on: January 09, 2021, 06:24:50 PM »
Funny how when there's a request for the same data on the left the data is lost for some reason.

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Incoming-Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) on Friday sent a letter to the CEOs of social media platforms and telecommunications companies about last week's riot at the United States Capitol. Warner instructed the companies to "preserve digital evidence" of the riot.

Warner wants the platforms to "immediately preserve any and all posts, communications, videos and other media, meta-data, cloud backups, and subscriber information, whether currently on your platform or in any backup or archived state." He made the instruction in anticipation of formal legal proceedings.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2021/01/09/incoming-senate-intel-committee-chair-issues-tech-directive-over-capitol-hill-rio-n2582872
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #292 on: January 09, 2021, 06:32:06 PM »
What do dissidents do when they can't have DNS?

(Serious question, I suspect we'll run into that with general deplatforming.)

Honestly, we'll probably all end up on a forum accessible on TOR, hosted on servers in a neutral country.  I mucked with it in the past and found it fairy easy to do.

Also, we really should start creating pgp keypairs and distributing our public keys to people we communicate with.

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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #293 on: January 09, 2021, 07:13:11 PM »


Who you going to go out and shoot or go to war with?



DW & I were discussing that earlier this evening.  We decided it wouldn't make much sense to try to go after leftists/antifa/blm etc. - it'd be too hard to ID them.  Government workers, easy enough to ID, but well protected.

There is the question of who would take over the governance of the country?  And who would lead any efforts to replace the current .gov?  A full-blown coup would require a military style setup for the insurrectionists, with a leader (or committee), generals, captains, lieutenants, sergeants etc.

Guerrilla warfare would be do-able.  One would have to hope that the remaining leaders would get the (correct) message and start behaving as desired.

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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #294 on: January 09, 2021, 10:44:10 PM »
If it comes down to regular murders and assassination as tools of political debate (to say nothing of reprisal killings and "collateral damage"), there would not be enough of a country left functioning to worry about governing.  That's not a pathway I want to even consider at the moment.

I just finished an interview by Bret Weinstein of Jeremy Lee Quin, an independent reporter who was at the capitol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFJdjO0fD4E

Bret is a self described far-leftist, and Jeremy Lee Quin also identifies at left, but both have been deplatformed and are regularly attacked by "their side" for the unforgivable crime of being willing to talk with their political opponents in good faith.  I certainly didn't agree with everything said in the interview, but felt that they addressed it in as well as could be expected and provided some good context and importantly an outsider viewpoint that is at least trying for objectivity.

One major takeaway was the diversity of the crowd, including the people who broke in.  He mentioned interviewing someone who was favorable to white nationalism (notably the very first he has found so far while covering these kinds of events) but also running into "grandmas for Trump" inside the capitol building.

He also discusses the commonality of the tactics between the rioters at the capitol and the antifa affiliated groups.

Good interview, and worth the time to listen.

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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #295 on: January 09, 2021, 11:01:43 PM »
:facepalm:

https://twitter.com/bigangrylaw/status/1348007294148227072

Please tell me that no one is this stupid.


Never mind, I already know the answer.




Surely you know a lefty that deserves to go on that list..
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #296 on: January 09, 2021, 11:05:45 PM »

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YT is getting ready to cut out the footage from inside of the capital for "music copyright". The audio in the video is a siren, noises from the crowd, and my legally owned beat playing. It's unbelievable 🤦‍♂️ if you would like to see for yourself before it's cut out, it's said to be the time frame of [1:53:13 - 1:54:26] in my video titled "LIVE: Save America March Part 2 | Freedom Rally | Washington DC | Protest for Freedom | USA |"
https://www.youtube.com/post/UgyLkuMP601JhI-PjTd4AaABCQ
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #297 on: January 09, 2021, 11:29:15 PM »
Isn't it odd that there's no branch or organization in our government standing up for the historic American ideals and principles supposedly protected by the constitution? Like freedom of speech, freedom of association, protection of the institution of free and fair elections etc? It's hard to believe it's all compromised through and through.





 
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #298 on: January 10, 2021, 09:53:54 AM »
The Latest: Pelosi Ties Rioters' Actions to 'Whiteness'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is accusing the Trump supporters who rioted in the Capitol this week of choosing what she calls “their whiteness" over democracy.

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-01-09/the-latest-senator-wants-crime-scene-evidence-preserved

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the fallout of the storming of the Capitol by a mob of pro-Trump loyalists (all times local):

4:20 p.m.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is accusing the Trump supporters who rioted in the Capitol this week of choosing “their whiteness over democracy.”

The California Democrat used an online video meeting with her hometown San Francisco constituents to criticize the overwhelmingly white mob that attacked Congress on Wednesday as it met to formally finalize Joe Biden’s presidential victory.

“It has been an epiphany for the world to see that there are people in our country led by this president, for the moment, who have chosen their whiteness over democracy,” Pelosi said.

4:20 p.m.  :lol:  Clown world, honk honk
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #299 on: January 10, 2021, 10:36:52 AM »
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