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coachg
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2022 9:34 am Post subject: |
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Exactly Mac. Here is a classic example.
isobars wrote: | * Don't forget that Biden rates our #1 threat as "domestic terrorists" and defines them as anyone who disagrees with the Democratic party line: Source: His own lips, on camera, to the media. |
Iso only hears what he wants to hear & ignores the rest. Biden didn’t define people who disagree with the Democratic party as “domestic terrorists”, he said that those who fail to honor fair election results or those who fail to condemn the people who tried to stop a peaceful transfer of power by storming the nation’s capital are anti-democratic; and they are. You know, people like Iso.
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swchandler
Joined: 08 Nov 1993 Posts: 10588
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2022 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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Regarding domestic terrorists, there are some telling numbers from a NYT article that indicate where that kind of violence is coming from. As we all know, it is coming from the right,, but for the details I've provided the article below.
"‘Numbers don’t lie’
Over the past decade, the Anti-Defamation League has counted about 450 U.S. murders committed by political extremists.
Of these 450 killings, right-wing extremists committed about 75 percent. Islamic extremists were responsible for about 20 percent, and left-wing extremists were responsible for 4 percent.
Nearly half of the murders were specifically tied to white supremacists:
As this data shows, the American political right has a violence problem that has no equivalent on the left. And the 10 victims in Buffalo this past weekend are now part of this toll. “Right-wing extremist violence is our biggest threat,” Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the ADL, has written. “The numbers don’t lie.”
The pattern extends to violence less severe than murder, like the Jan. 6 attack on Congress. It also extends to the language from some Republican politicians — including Donald Trump — and conservative media figures that treats violence as a legitimate form of political expression. A much larger number of Republican officials do not use this language but also do not denounce it or punish politicians who do use it; Kevin McCarthy, the top House Republican, is a leading example.
It’s important to emphasize that not all extremist violence comes from the right — and that the precise explanation for any one attack can be murky, involving a mixture of ideology, mental illness, gun access and more. In the immediate aftermath of an attack, people are sometimes too quick to claim a direct cause and effect. But it is also incorrect to pretend that right-wing violence and left-wing violence are equivalent problems.
Fears in Washington
If you talk to members of Congress and their aides these days — especially off the record — you will often hear them mention their fears of violence being committed against them.
Some Republican members of Congress have said that they were reluctant to vote for Trump’s impeachment or conviction partly because of the threats against other members who had already denounced him. House Republicans who voted for President Biden’s infrastructure bill also received threats. Democrats say their offices receive a spike in phone calls and online messages threatening violence after they are criticized on conservative social media or cable television shows.
People who oversee elections report similar problems. “One in six election officials have experienced threats because of their job,” the Brennan Center, a research group, reported this year. “Ranging from death threats that name officials’ young children to racist and gendered harassment, these attacks have forced election officials across the country to take steps like hiring personal security, fleeing their homes, and putting their children into counseling.”
There is often overlap between these violent threats and white supremacist beliefs. White supremacy tends to treat people of color as un-American or even less than fully human, views that can make violence seem justifiable. The suspect in the Buffalo massacre evidently posted an online manifesto that discussed replacement theory, a racial conspiracy theory that Tucker Carlson promotes on his Fox News show.
“History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse,” Representative Liz Cheney, one of the few Republicans who have repeatedly and consistently denounced violence and talk of violence from the right, wrote on Twitter yesterday. “The House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and antisemitism,” Cheney wrote, and called on Republican leaders to “renounce and reject these views and those who hold them.”
A few other Republicans, like Senator Mitt Romney, have taken a similar stance. But many other prominent Republicans have taken a more neutral stance or even embraced talk of violence.
Some have spoken openly about violence as a legitimate political tool — and not just Trump, who has done so frequently.
At the rally that preceded the Jan. 6 attack, Representative Mo Brooks suggested the crowd should “start taking down names and kicking ass.” Before she was elected to Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene supported the idea of executing Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats. Representative Paul Gosar once posted an animated video altered to depict himself killing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and swinging swords at Biden.
Rick Perry, a former Texas governor, once called the Federal Reserve “treasonous” and talked about treating its chairman “pretty ugly.” During Greg Gianforte’s campaign for Montana’s House seat, he went so far as to assault a reporter who asked him a question he didn’t like; Gianforte won and has since become Montana’s governor.
These Republicans have received no meaningful sanction from their party. McCarthy, the Republican leader in the House, has been especially solicitous of Brooks and other members who use violent imagery.
This Republican comfort with violence is new. Republican leaders from past decades, like Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole, Howard Baker and the Bushes, did not evoke violence.
“In a stable democracy,” Steven Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist, told me, “politicians unambiguously reject violence and unambiguously expel from their ranks antidemocratic forces.”"
Unfortunately, there is a graph in the article that didn't print out, but fortunately, the basic numbers are repeated elsewhere in the text. |
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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 17775 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2022 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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Chandler. I guarantee you that Isobars will not read this article. According to him, all violence started with Black Lives Matter.
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swchandler
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2022 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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Quite honestly, I don't expect isobars to ever change his mind. He's way too deep into right wing nonsense to see the facts. The road to the truth is something that he will never find. Even if he was to unwittingly stumble upon it, he would be unwilling to accept and embrace it publicly. |
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SAS
Joined: 18 Feb 1997 Posts: 177 Location: planet earth
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Posted: Sat May 21, 2022 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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swchandler wrote: | Quite honestly, I don't expect isobars to ever change his mind. He's way too deep into right wing nonsense to see the facts. The road to the truth is something that he will never find. Even if he was to unwittingly stumble upon it, he would be unwilling to accept and embrace it publicly. |
You are so right. Several days ago in the thread titled “Inflation and immigration” I called him out his posting claiming that lots of infant formula is going to migrants at the border. I posted my research on the subject and invited him to prove me wrong. Instead, he just ignored me and posted nothing. He is too weak to ever admit he was wrong. He claims he never lies but he regularly posts things that he may believe are true but are still just lies. |
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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 17775 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2022 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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Because there is already a thread, despite the efforts of shills to hijack everything. And because gybe is wrong, yet again. From the Seattle Times:
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What we're talking about
Guard swelters in the heat
Britain today shattered a heat record that dates back at least 363 years and possibly all the way to the middle Holocene era, some 6,000 years ago. Temperatures are still rising on a continent that wasn't built to withstand this. One London business is offering relief — for redheads only.
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Fires everywhere. Oh, look over there. Joe Biden is mean to me. |
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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 17775 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2022 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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For the greedy, there is never enough. Cheap leases of public lands that have values for purposes other than mineral development has been the stock and trade of pig oil for decades. Here's the result:
Quote: | More land across the nation is available for oil and gas leasing than for development of renewables such as solar, wind and geothermal, according to a new report from the Center for American Progress. Western states, where more public land is available, often prioritize oil and gas leasing as a default, even though some areas are more suited for renewables development, the report said. (Bloomberg) |
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coboardhead
Joined: 26 Oct 2009 Posts: 4303
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2022 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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I'm having a hard time with the idea that the policies of a President who has been in office for two years can have such a large impact on how the EU sources their energy.
Should we be selling our "cleaner" hydrocarbons fuels to the EU, Mrgybe? Or, maybe the Russian energy that the Germans have been consuming is somehow much cleaner than that produced in the MidEast?
I moved this post to the actual thread on climate change. The conservatives on this forum largely ignore any conversation regarding gun control anyway or just return to talking points. |
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coboardhead
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2022 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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While we are discussing GW and what to do about it....
I am trying to look at purchasing an EV. Really, only for the fact that I can run it off of a high percentage of solar electricity between my two houses. In fact, I have excess capacity at my office/residence down valley and I could commute almost carbon free.
BUT. I cannot find an EV and I need to have one by the end of the year to use as a business auto. Some are running $10K over sticker if I can find one at all. I finally have about given up. My friend is trying to re-do his HVAC system with one that will use half the energy and cannot find anyone to install it. Another project I am designing we cannot get solar panels before we need them before winter.
I listen to the "green" proponents talk and talk and talk. But, without products on the market, there is not a lot many of us can do right now except to conserve energy. |
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boggsman1
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2022 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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A model Y will take about 6 months, CB. |
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