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Anti-Trump Protests Intensify on Morning of Inauguration

polgara said:
Greetings, PoS. :2wave:

:thumbs: It's been two months and counting since people voted, and what have they accomplished so far? Every legal avenue has been tried to find a mistake - recounting votes in several States; attacking the Constitution that made the same rules for everyone to adhere to; trying to bribe electors to change their votes; and more, with the same result - Trump still won! They aren't going to change anything, so what are the demonstrations supposed to accomplish? My question is serious because I am truly puzzled!
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The demonstrations won't accomplish diddly squat. It's just whining for the sake of whining.
 
Gimmesometruth said:
That is a violation of forum rules. Pointless, the point was if they are an isolated thin-skinned group incapable of accepting outside POV's.
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report me then man, My position is that you are pretty ignorant (meaning uninformed) specifically on the topic of this particular subculture.

dunno what to tell you bro, you are.

"thin skinned"

there's more of that irony my man! :lol:


I just said that using a skinhead avatar is a clue, as is the alt-right use of "snowflake", as is the amnesia over right wing attacks on the Negro.....shall I go on? It is in plain sight.
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Negro is offensive, why are you insisting on using it?

So, an avatar, and the word "snowflake".... that's your evidence that I am a racist.

WOW..... you are melting down.......



That's pretty weak....


You mean, I'm biased against right-wingers? Sure....but I'm not ironically labeling groups that exhibit the same characteristics. Thats the point.
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I'm a libertarian, I was for gay marriage before your criminal witch of a candidate was. *shrug*
 
ReverendHellh0und said:
I don't recall that. I do recall a handfull of extremists that were used to claim everyone who said something not praising Obama was a racist. I do remember that.
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I'm not here to repair the gaps in your memory, it is an impossible task.


Note your lack of evidence. concession accepted
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See the above.





We have a popular vote in each state, which then is weighted to not give all the power to LA and NYC, so that all of the people are represented. Why is this so difficult for you?
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No, I understand it, hence the ability to recognize it is not democratic.


Common sense.

To what purpose would Idaho want to stay in the union if all representation was stripped away from it?
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Now you are redefining democracy as a stripping of representation, which is ironic in a defending of the EC were you accept that it is not democratic and is "weighted".

Have you ever read the writings of our founding fathers? You seem rather ignorant on the subject.
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They had some good ideas, and a lot of really bad ideas....and you have no special understanding.
 
polgara said:
Greetings, PoS. :2wave:

:thumbs: It's been two months and counting since people voted, and what have they accomplished so far? Every legal avenue has been tried to find a mistake - recounting votes in several States; attacking the Constitution that made the same rules for everyone to adhere to; trying to bribe electors to change their votes; and more, with the same result - Trump still won! They aren't going to change anything, so what are the demonstrations supposed to accomplish? My question is serious because I am truly puzzled!
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As long as they commit violent acts they will accomplish nothing. There is no greater way to be tuned out and be considered the problem then to show yourself as a violent punk.
 
haymarket said:
The goodness of people.
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:lamo

Have you even been paying attention to how the left behaved all last year or the recent protests of Trump? What makes you think the "goodness of people" will save the day?
 
haymarket said:
I expect the nationwide marches to be peaceful. Are you hoping for otherwise?
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I'm hoping for peace as always, but early signs aren't very hopeful about them being peaceful. Previous protests/riots leave me highly doubtful, as do the fact that we've already had multiple instances of violence. The protests have already gone violent, so your expectation of peaceful marches has already been proven to be wrong. It's kind of like standing in the rain all morning and at 12:00 expecting the rain to stop 3 hours ago.
 
ReverendHellh0und said:
report me then man
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if you continue, I will
My position is that you are pretty ignorant (meaning uninformed) specifically on the topic of this particular subculture.
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You haven't shown it. You haven't shown my understanding to be faulty. I was a punk, I saw the Clash, the Minutemen, Bad Brains, Sham69, Jodi Foster's Army...I am very familiar with those times, and the movements surrounding them.

dunno what to tell you bro, you are.

"thin skinned"

there's more of that irony my man! :lol:
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Again, unable to understand the meaning of your own epithet of "snowflake".





Negro is offensive, why are you insisting on using it?
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Are you shocked by the reflection of how the right-wing viewed the Negro? Give us some more feigned offense, I'll get the smelling salts.

So, an avatar, and the word "snowflake".... that's your evidence that I am a racist.
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No, there is more to it, and the amnesia continues.

WOW..... you are melting down.......That's pretty weak.... I'm a libertarian, I was for gay marriage before your criminal witch of a candidate was. *shrug*
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I've know gay racists...so what?
 
Henrin said:
:lamo

Have you even been paying attention to how the left behaved all last year or the recent protests of Trump? What makes you think the "goodness of people" will save the day?
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As long as the right to free assembly is not abridged the protests will be peaceful. There will be a lot of them though, especially if Congress really goes through with Ryan's agenda to gut our social safety net that Trump promised not to touch.
 
haymarket said:
I expect the nationwide marches to be peaceful. Are you hoping for otherwise?
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I expect the majority of them to be peacefully. But there will inevitably be protests (like the ones in that article) that will turn violent.
 
Inauguration protests, police injured, 95 arrested as Donald Trump takes office - CNNPolitics.com

A pair of police officers were injured and 95 protesters arrested after they smashed windows, damaged cars and threw rocks at police near Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony on Friday in Washington, D.C.

Two DC police officers and one other person were taken to the hospital for undetermined injuries after run-ins with protesters, DC Fire Spokesman Vito Maggiolo told CNN. The injuries are non-life threatening.
After the swearing-in ceremony, demonstrators near 12th and K streets threw rocks and bottles at police, who were clad in riot gear and attempting to disperse the crowd. A large number of police were on scene and used smoke and flash-bang devices to try to scatter the protesters.
Acting DC Police Chief Peter Newsham told CNN that there were several hundred protestors who were confronting police, while he praised the thousands of other demonstrators who were acting in a peaceful fashion to get their point across.
Protesters "acting in a concerted effort engaged in acts of vandalism and several instances of destruction of property," the DC police said in an earlier statement. "More specifically, the group damaged vehicles, destroyed the property of multiple businesses, and ignited smaller isolated fires while armed with crowbars, hammers, and asps."
Police said there had been 95 arrests as of 2 p.m.
"Pepper spray and other control devices were used to control the criminal actors and protect persons and property," police said.
Earlier, a few blocks from the White House, building windows along the street were shattered, police cars and other vehicles damaged and newspaper stands toppled. One business owner told CNN there might have been as many as several hundred protesters who swept through the area, some dressed in black.
At one point, police used pepper spray as a group of protesters, many of them wearing masks, ran down 13th Street.
"I think Donald Trump is a fascist, and it's very easy for people, especially people who are in pain, to slip into fascism," said protester Lysander Reid-Powell, a 20-year-old student from New Mexico.
At one checkpoint, about 50 protesters sat down in the street in an attempt to block Trump supporters from entering a secure area to watch the swearing-in ceremony and speech. Not far away, a group of immigration backers staged a "pop up" protest near another check point.
"We're here to take a stand against the ideas that Trump spouted throughout the course of this campaign -- sexism, Islamophobia, his bigotry and nationalism," said protester Jed Holtz, from New York City.
In a series of coordinated demonstrations designed to cut off spectator access, protesters blocked or caused bottlenecks in front of at least a half dozen security checkpoints outside the National Mall in the hours ahead of the swearing in.
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Gimmesometruth said:
I know, yer suffering from amnesia over how the right reacted to the Negro occupying the White House over the last 8 years...like so many other of your ilk.
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The tea party didn't riot like the left is doing now nor did they squat on private property for days on end like the occupy wall street movement did. The worst the tea party did was beat up some left wing protesters that actually started the fight with them. The left has consistently been more violent than the right towards private citizens, police and private property owners for decades now. There is zero valid comparison to be made between the two.
 
Henrin said:
The tea party didn't riot like the left is doing now nor did they squat on private property for days on end like the occupy wall street movement did. The worst the tea party did was beat up some left wing protesters that actually started the fight with them. The left has consistently been more violent than the right towards private citizens, police and private property owners for decades now. There is zero valid comparison to be made between the two.
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Exactly. Who's thrown pies at invited speakers? ;)
 
Gimmesometruth said:
Right, because everyone knows that violent political protest is a brand new thing.

The inability to frame argument without any sort scope is pathetic.
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On the other hand, it is rather anti social and anti democratic to protest against the results of a perfectly legitimate and legal election.
 
Henrin said:
The tea party
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As if a bunch of baggers whining about taxes represented the extreme right wing.

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joG said:
On the other hand, it is rather anti social and anti democratic to protest against the results of a perfectly legitimate and legal election.
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The protests are not against the process.
 
nota bene said:
Exactly. Who's thrown pies at invited speakers? ;)
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Protesting is a fine part of democracy. Protesting against the results of a perfectly legal and legitimate election is not normal only enemies of the existing democratic system would do that. That's very gauche, you know.
 
joG said:
Protesting is a fine part of democracy. Protesting against the results of a perfectly legal and legitimate election is not normal only enemies of the existing democratic system would do that. That's very gauche, you know.
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"Gauche" is generous. Very.
 
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