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    What are the chances of the left causing significant property damage and violence at the Inauguration? For instance from my small state there are 80 buses of radicals, mostly feminists, going down to DC. And they certainly are not going to celebrate the new administration. It could be potentially be bad.
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    50 / 50.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Leonhard View Post
      50 / 50.
      I think it is more than likely...
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      • #4
        Originally posted by seer View Post
        What are the chances of the left causing significant property damage and violence at the Inauguration? For instance from my small state there are 80 buses of radicals, mostly feminists, going down to DC. And they certainly are not going to celebrate the new administration. It could be potentially be bad.
        Are they going for the Inauguration, or the Snowflake march the day after? I wouldn't be too surprised to see some violence, but access to the inauguration is pretty strictly controlled (so much so that my workplace, which is on the edge of the red zone, made it a vacation day).
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        • #5
          Originally posted by seer View Post
          What are the chances of the left causing significant property damage and violence at the Inauguration? For instance from my small state there are 80 buses of radicals, mostly feminists, going down to DC. And they certainly are not going to celebrate the new administration. It could be potentially be bad.
          I think it really reveals the soul of the left.
          The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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          • #6
            Of course, conservative activist/fraudster James O'Keefe has already been caught on video trying to bribe liberals to riot at Trump's inauguration. So if there is violence it will be hard to know whether it's violence conservatives have paid for to try and 'prove' their narrative that liberals are violent, or whether it's actual sincere opposition to Trump.
            "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
            "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
            "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Starlight View Post
              Of course, conservative activist/fraudster James O'Keefe has already been caught on video trying to bribe liberals to riot at Trump's inauguration. So if there is violence it will be hard to know whether it's violence conservatives have paid for to try and 'prove' their narrative that liberals are violent, or whether it's actual sincere opposition to Trump.
              Conservatives don't have to prove anything because we've already seen the violence in spades. That ship has sailed. Also, liberals like Michael Moore have already declared inauguration disruption, so, again, no one has to "prove" anything. Liberals already incriminated themselves, so to speak. About the video, I'm skeptical of it. First of all, who knows if it was even edited out of context, and secondly, it makes no sense for someone to have to actually pay someone to stage disruption when this has already been announced by liberals that they plan the disruption.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                I think it really reveals the soul of the left.
                I am not sure what you mean by this. What do you see it as revealing?

                My personal view would be that people always have the right of protest against the government. That is a fundamental human right and something that should always be respected and fully tolerated so long as it is non-violent. If they choose to use violence, then the government has every right to respond appropriately and proportionately, but has strong obligation to its citizenry to not respond with disproportionate force and to allow the protesters to be heard.

                I think history shows that the use of violence by protest movements ultimately makes them much less successful than a commitment to non-violence, because what is really the goal in such movements is to win the hearts and minds of the majority of the citizenry and the use of violence has a strong negative effect as to how citizens view the movements.

                I think the incoming Trump administration in total has crossed the line into utterly unacceptable and think that US citizens en masse should refuse to recognize the incoming administration, boycott it, and protest it, and think countries around the world should refuse to recognize it and threaten sanctions. It appears it will be the worst administration in US history, and so I think if violence is ever justifiable in protest then it would be justifiable now.

                But, apart from my strong commitment to the validity of anti-government protests and the ("first amendment") right of citizens to express anti-government opinions, I don't see anything much of that as coming from any deeply held leftist principles on my part. It's more just me thinking "hmmm, well there are pros and cons, etc". It's not any deep "revealing the soul of the left". There are plenty of people on the left who think that people have an obligation to "respect the outcome of the democratic process" etc (e.g. as Hillary has been quoted here extensively as saying), and hence not even say "boo" in challenge to Trump. I would be more on that side if I thought for a second that the US had a respectable democratic process, and if it weren't the case that it had massive gerrymandering to favor the Republicans, massive voter suppression to favor the Republicans, an absurd electoral college system to favor the Republicans, and if Clinton (as much as I hate her) hadn't actually won the popular vote, etc.
                Last edited by Starlight; 01-15-2017, 06:23 PM.
                "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Dimbulb View Post
                  Of course, conservative activist/fraudster James O'Keefe has already been caught on video trying to bribe liberals to riot at Trump's inauguration. So if there is violence it will be hard to know whether it's violence conservatives have paid for to try and 'prove' their narrative that liberals are violent, or whether it's actual sincere opposition to Trump.
                  And BoingBoing.net is a reputable source of information, is it?

                  Check out some of their other hard-hitting stories like how to make a TRON pie that glows in UV light!

                  http://boingboing.net/2017/01/09/glo...postthumbnails

                  Or how dogs "won" the internet over cats at the same time Trump announced his presidency!

                  http://boingboing.net/2017/01/13/fac...n-the-int.html
                  Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                  But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                  Than a fool in the eyes of God


                  From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                    And BoingBoing.net is a reputable source of information, is it?

                    Check out some of their other hard-hitting stories like how to make a TRON pie that glows in UV light!

                    http://boingboing.net/2017/01/09/glo...postthumbnails

                    Or how dogs "won" the internet over cats at the same time Trump announced his presidency!

                    http://boingboing.net/2017/01/13/fac...n-the-int.html
                    Sorry troll, poisoning the well doesn't save you from the fact that your conservative fraudster buddies were caught on tape trying to bribe liberals to do inauguration day violence. The story was reported by other outlets and the video exists.
                    "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                    "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                    "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                    • #11
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                      Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                      But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                      Than a fool in the eyes of God


                      From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
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                        Or, y'know, just possibly, there's more than one person on the left? Some take the view shown in the left pane and some take the view shown in the right pane. Sorry if you can't cope with the mental load of processing the idea that different people hold different views.
                        "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                        "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                        "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Dimbulb View Post
                          The story was reported by other outlets and the video exists.
                          Yet you chose to link us to BoingBoing.net.

                          But without more context, we really don't know the point of the video. Was he really trying to encourage lefties to protest (to what end?), or was how showing how certain groups were willing to accept payment to pose as a "grassroots protest", which would then cast doubt on all similar protests?

                          Then there's the fact that celebrities like Michael Moore and Joss Whedon have been calling for protests, and there are already a number of groups online trying to coordinate inauguration day protests, such as:

                          http://www.disruptj20.org/
                          https://www.facebook.com/events/1224315147611443/

                          A number of violent protests have already occurred across the country, both before and after the election, not to mention Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, and so on, I don't think it's hard at all to know that liberals are inherently violent when they don't get their way.
                          Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                          But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                          Than a fool in the eyes of God


                          From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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                          • #14
                            Scotland's Sunday Herald has it right with regard to Trump's Inauguration day:

                            Last edited by Starlight; 01-15-2017, 07:02 PM.
                            "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                            "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                            "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                              Yet you chose to link us to BoingBoing.net.
                              Dude you link to Breitbart. BoingBoing could generate its stories with a magic 8 ball and still be more accurate than Breitbart.
                              "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                              "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                              "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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