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by Organized States » Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:48 am
by Bienenhalde » Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:48 am
by Major-Tom » Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:49 am
Thermodolia wrote:Major-Tom wrote:
Protests, yeah, we had protests over Kavanaugh as well. But large-scale riots? Well...come to think of it, maybe, we've gotten **better at rioting this past year, though the same types who protested over Kavanaugh (largely middle-aged women) don't seem to be the types to riot.
Ya but RBG was pretty damn beloved so you’ll have a lot more than just Middle Aged women rioting
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by Organized States » Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:51 am
Thermodolia wrote:Major-Tom wrote:
Protests, yeah, we had protests over Kavanaugh as well. But large-scale riots? Well...come to think of it, maybe, we've gotten **better at rioting this past year, though the same types who protested over Kavanaugh (largely middle-aged women) don't seem to be the types to riot.
Ya but RBG was pretty damn beloved so you’ll have a lot more than just Middle Aged women rioting
by Thermodolia » Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:53 am
by Washington Resistance Army » Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:53 am
Major-Tom wrote:Thermodolia wrote:Ya but RBG was pretty damn beloved so you’ll have a lot more than just Middle Aged women rioting
Time will tell. I think instances such as a police officer executing a black man in cold blood evoke a more visceral, immediate reaction in people than a contentious hearing in Congress, and that is definitely understandable. RBG was beloved, and I'm torn up about it, but all the political wonks out there who care deeply about this sort of stuff are also usually the people glued to Twitter, not to taking up action in the streets.
Organized States wrote:Thermodolia wrote:Ya but RBG was pretty damn beloved so you’ll have a lot more than just Middle Aged women rioting
Excuse me, what?
Only 33% of Americans could actually identify the women on the Supreme Court.
Far from being a beloved figure.
by Thermodolia » Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:55 am
Organized States wrote:Thermodolia wrote:Ya but RBG was pretty damn beloved so you’ll have a lot more than just Middle Aged women rioting
Excuse me, what?
Only 33% of Americans could actually identify the women on the Supreme Court.
Far from being a beloved figure.
by Organized States » Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:55 am
Washington Resistance Army wrote:Organized States wrote:Excuse me, what?
Only 33% of Americans could actually identify the women on the Supreme Court.
Far from being a beloved figure.
That's over 100,000,000 people tho
by Organized States » Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:56 am
Thermodolia wrote:Organized States wrote:Excuse me, what?
Only 33% of Americans could actually identify the women on the Supreme Court.
Far from being a beloved figure.
And she’s the most well known of that bunch. You can try and deny it but she was well known and beloved
by Major-Tom » Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:57 am
Washington Resistance Army wrote:Major-Tom wrote:
Time will tell. I think instances such as a police officer executing a black man in cold blood evoke a more visceral, immediate reaction in people than a contentious hearing in Congress, and that is definitely understandable. RBG was beloved, and I'm torn up about it, but all the political wonks out there who care deeply about this sort of stuff are also usually the people glued to Twitter, not to taking up action in the streets.
Maybe not, but those people hold power through other means and can motivate others to go take action.
Case in point: I've never personally gone to any boog rallies, but years and years ago I was among the first to adopt and begin spreading the subculture and nowadays it's entirely commonplace.
by Eukaryotic Cells » Sat Sep 19, 2020 10:16 am
Major-Tom wrote:I don't know what a boog is
by Shrillland » Sat Sep 19, 2020 10:17 am
by Washington Resistance Army » Sat Sep 19, 2020 10:17 am
Major-Tom wrote:Washington Resistance Army wrote:
Maybe not, but those people hold power through other means and can motivate others to go take action.
Case in point: I've never personally gone to any boog rallies, but years and years ago I was among the first to adopt and begin spreading the subculture and nowadays it's entirely commonplace.
I don't know what a boog is, and I''m not steadfast in my opinion here. I have a mixed track record of predicting the future to begin with, and given how insane these next few months are going to be, anything is on the table. I just tend to err more towards the cautious side in terms of imagining how weird things are going to get politically.
If there were massive protests over a new nominee, it would come from the power of social media, that's what drove a lot of these massive BLM protests last summer, especially Instagram and Facebook.
by Eukaryotic Cells » Sat Sep 19, 2020 10:22 am
Washington Resistance Army wrote:Eukaryotic Cells wrote:Stupid 4chan stuff. Cop killers, white supremacists and pedophiles can be counted among their ranks.
It primarily started on reddit. r/firearms and r/weekendgunnit were the main breeding places. /k/ and wider 4chan culture picked it up later.Major-Tom wrote:
I don't know what a boog is, and I''m not steadfast in my opinion here. I have a mixed track record of predicting the future to begin with, and given how insane these next few months are going to be, anything is on the table. I just tend to err more towards the cautious side in terms of imagining how weird things are going to get politically.
If there were massive protests over a new nominee, it would come from the power of social media, that's what drove a lot of these massive BLM protests last summer, especially Instagram and Facebook.
We're for sure agreed on that last point, and I've seen more than a few blue checkmarks on Twitter calling for riots already. Fun times are ahead no matter what.
by The Greater Ohio Valley » Sat Sep 19, 2020 10:38 am
Thermodolia wrote:Diopolis wrote:I don't expect a civil war. I expect whoever wins the shenanigan-fueled extralegal transition of power between november and january to establish a one party state and start a red/blue terror to deal with protracted civil unrest.
For a variety of reasons the republicans are more likely to actually succeed.
Like I said I don’t think a civil war is going to happen tomorrow or in the next year but we are on the road to one in the next 10 years
by Shrillland » Sat Sep 19, 2020 10:43 am
The Greater Ohio Valley wrote:Thermodolia wrote:Like I said I don’t think a civil war is going to happen tomorrow or in the next year but we are on the road to one in the next 10 years
Tbh I think that living in an Internet age has warped everyone’s perception to be hyper fixated on violence and unrest so that we perceive things to be worse than it actually is. We’ve been through times just as bad or worse than we have it now, during the Civil Rights and Vietnam-era we also had riots that brought cities to their knees in addition to incidents of police and national guard literally gunning people down, and if the internet had existed then people would be proclaiming “civil war in 5-10 years tops”. I think a lot of us need to take a deep breath and do some re-examining.
by The Black Forrest » Sat Sep 19, 2020 10:45 am
Organized States wrote:Thermodolia wrote:Ya but RBG was pretty damn beloved so you’ll have a lot more than just Middle Aged women rioting
Excuse me, what?
Only 33% of Americans could actually identify the women on the Supreme Court.
Far from being a beloved figure.
by Ifreann » Sat Sep 19, 2020 10:50 am
Bienenhalde wrote:Ifreann wrote:Tell me how they could have been stopped if they did it. Tell me how you make a Republican controlled Senate do anything they don't want to do. Obama couldn't make them give Merrick Garland a vote, what could Clinton have done?
Either the Senate would stop being Republican controlled, or else the Republicans would grudgely give up and allow a vote on Garland for fear of getting voted out of office by fed up constituents, if nothing else.
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