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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #325 on: January 11, 2021, 10:10:05 AM »
You almost think they assume R's will never regain power in D.C. for some reason. 

They assume that even if the R's do regain power there won't be any organized retribution.  They are almost certainly correct.

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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #326 on: January 11, 2021, 10:32:11 AM »
D's and R's are riding the same fascist wave. Now is the time to pick sides, lick boots and prove your loyalty to the new overlords.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #327 on: January 11, 2021, 11:07:55 AM »
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #328 on: January 11, 2021, 03:31:04 PM »
From just perusing news articles, there are dozens of them regarding the arrest of such and such individuals identified in the crowd in the capitol. It's already looking like they have arrested more people for this than for all the antifa riots all year.

Kind of also shows how big brother isn't the gov, but social media, since it's there that info to track all these people down given by all kinds of individuals on social media is how the arrests are happening. Who needs cameras on every street corner and drones when you have a liberal neighbor with a friendface account?
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #329 on: January 11, 2021, 03:35:14 PM »
Basically we went from December 2020 to January 1984.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #330 on: January 11, 2021, 03:51:51 PM »
From just perusing news articles, there are dozens of them regarding the arrest of such and such individuals identified in the crowd in the capitol. It's already looking like they have arrested more people for this than for all the antifa riots all year.
Doesn't help that the Trump rioters by and large didn't wear masks and didn't all go dressed alike.

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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #331 on: January 11, 2021, 03:59:52 PM »
Doesn't help that the Trump rioters by and large didn't wear masks and didn't all go dressed alike.

I wonder if some of the identification is being done via facial recognition over security cameras?  If so, there must be a database somewhere containing a ton of average, ordinary folks facial ID without their knowledge.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #332 on: January 11, 2021, 04:02:42 PM »
I wonder if some of the identification is being done via facial recognition over security cameras?  If so, there must be a database somewhere containing a ton of average, ordinary folks facial ID without their knowledge.

All the photos loaded up into facebook etc have to be good for something right?
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #333 on: January 11, 2021, 04:03:38 PM »
All the photos loaded up into facebook etc have to be good for something right?

This is true.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #334 on: January 11, 2021, 04:03:48 PM »
I wonder if some of the identification is being done via facial recognition over security cameras?  If so, there must be a database somewhere containing a ton of average, ordinary folks facial ID without their knowledge.

what the hell do you think all those apps to "turn your selfie into a painting/retouch your selfie/pixar-ify yourself" are?

What do you think the crap on facebook is?

Americans have been forking over ALL their identifying info, data, and biometrics to these tech companies for years.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #335 on: January 11, 2021, 04:05:07 PM »
what the hell do you think all those apps to "turn your selfie into a painting/retouch your selfie/pixar-ify yourself" are?

What do you think the crap on facebook is?

Americans have been forking over ALL their identifying info, data, and biometrics to these tech companies for years.

I don't mess with any of that crap, so my awareness of it is somewhat limited.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #336 on: January 11, 2021, 04:30:19 PM »
They probably don't even have to use facial recognition. It should be easy to nab everyone just based on their phone location data or the metadata of the photos they themselves took or otherwise provided. It's possible they were smart enough to turn off their phones but if they weren't smart enough to wear a disguise, or if they deliberately wanted to ve identifiable then I doubt it.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #337 on: January 11, 2021, 04:32:25 PM »
They probably don't even have to use facial recognition. It should be easy to nab everyone just based on their phone location data or the metadata of the photos they themselves took or otherwise provided. It's possible they were smart enough to turn off their phones but if they weren't smart enough to wear a disguise, or if they deliberately wanted to ve identifiable then I doubt it.

Refer to many of the morons that were smiling for the camera as their pics were taken and uploaded to the social medias.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #338 on: January 11, 2021, 04:37:35 PM »
To be fair to the morons, they had no reason to think they would be prosecuted.

Was anyone prosecuted from the Kavanagh hearing storming? I know there were some arrests, but I thought it was catch and release.

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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #339 on: January 11, 2021, 04:43:34 PM »
To be fair to the morons, they had no reason to think they would be prosecuted.

Was anyone prosecuted from the Kavanagh hearing storming? I know there were some arrests, but I thought it was catch and release.

This is accurate. We just went through literal MONTHS of politicians making excuses for ACTUAL rioting and burning of businesses, police stations, federal buildings.

Nobody thought they'd be prosecuted for sitting in a chair cheesing for a picture.

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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #340 on: January 11, 2021, 04:47:15 PM »
It's being called an act of sedition, treason and insurrection.

I sat through a bit of a Phone Townhall with my congressman. He was so enraged he splattered me with spittle through the phone  :P

The Democrats not only are looking at trying to get Trump supporting congressman thrown out of congress but looking at legal actions!
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #341 on: January 11, 2021, 05:09:46 PM »
It's being called an act of sedition, treason and insurrection.

I sat through a bit of a Phone Townhall with my congressman. He was so enraged he splattered me with spittle through the phone  :P

The Democrats not only are looking at trying to get Trump supporting congressman thrown out of congress but looking at legal actions!

I suspect they are searching for a legal excuse to summarily execute them.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #342 on: January 11, 2021, 05:15:40 PM »
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #343 on: January 11, 2021, 05:17:13 PM »
https://babylonbee.com/news/to-avoid-tech-censorship-the-babylon-bee-releases-innovative-new-print-edition
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #344 on: January 11, 2021, 05:25:38 PM »
AR15.com got booted off GoDaddy.  Backup site at https://www.ar15-backup.com

I'm not the most web-savvy person, but ar15.com seems to be working fine for me (as of this writing).

(ETA: never mind.  Typing "ar15.com" takes one to ar15-backup.com.   :facepalm:)
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #345 on: January 11, 2021, 05:36:52 PM »
To be fair to the morons, they had no reason to think they would be prosecuted.

Was anyone prosecuted from the Kavanagh hearing storming? I know there were some arrests, but I thought it was catch and release.

Point taken. Some of the charges I'm seeing for High School antics are frightening.

That's not to take away from people facing charges for things like beating that one cop half to death. However treason and sedition charges for posing for pictures kinda take away from the more serious crime.

In the meantime most of the antifas that were charged came under misdemeanor mischief type charges, and most of those were dropped IIRC. Not to mention the vice president elect posting bail for them.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #346 on: January 11, 2021, 06:07:10 PM »
Mother of horned invader who stormed Capitol says he hasn’t eaten because jail doesn’t serve all-organic food
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/01/11/mother-of-horned-invader-who-stormed-capitol-says-he-hasnt-eaten-because-jail-doesnt-serve-all-organic-food/
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #347 on: January 11, 2021, 06:22:55 PM »
The horned guy, big leader of the insurrection ;/

https://heavy.com/news/jacob-chansley-jake-angeli/

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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #348 on: January 11, 2021, 06:24:46 PM »
I wonder if some of the identification is being done via facial recognition over security cameras?  If so, there must be a database somewhere containing a ton of average, ordinary folks facial ID without their knowledge.

 Where do you think your drivers license photo ends up? Notice how they have you stand a certain way, hold you head at a certain angle?

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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #349 on: January 11, 2021, 08:10:12 PM »

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