pqhwan

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by pqhwan 6y ago
Funny, I’m pretty sure it just did, as it has for the last 4 years of abject defeats the judiciary has been handing out to Trump. Good luck with your lynching fantasies, sounds like you’ll need it to get through the next 4 years.
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by pqhwan 6y ago
> first of all, plenty of democrats own guns. I’m aware of that, I was just going along with gp’s fantasies.
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by pqhwan 6y ago
> I never compared jumping off cliffs and breaking into Congress. You’re not a child, I think, so I can’t scare you with made up stories about what happens when you lie. But seriously, it’s not good for you, or those around you.
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by pqhwan 6y ago
> So now your position is that it’s okay to occupy a capitol building as long as you don’t break windows, break into representatives offices, and/or some small percentage of them have weapons on them? No, but it’s the bare essential
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by pqhwan 6y ago
> your argument that we ought to condemn the actions of the trump supporters because the rest of society has done so is not a rational argument. I’m not arguing that at all, I’m just telling you what the rest of the society is doing; th
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by pqhwan 6y ago
> Why not pay attention to the hundreds of thousands of Americans who came to DC to protest but had nothing to do with the storming of the capitol? Because they didn’t break into congress? There’s a special type of attention you deserve
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by pqhwan 6y ago
That actually is a pretty good argument. I have indeed been playing fast and loose with the terminology; yes, it wasn’t a military coup, but it is still an unprecedented attack on the federal government, a riot.
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by pqhwan 6y ago
That argument is as valid as arguing that jumping off cliffs for no reason and admitting that breaking into congress is bad are equivalent.
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by pqhwan 6y ago
Clearly not. But it’s a clear example of where the rest of this society is drawing the line.
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by pqhwan 6y ago
> when the women’s March protestors stormed the capitol. What the heck are you talking about?
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by pqhwan 6y ago
> I find it odd that no one on the Democratic side is stopping to think what a civil war in which one side has disarmed themselves because they think weapons are evil and the other already is ideologically aligned with most of the police
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by pqhwan 6y ago
Btw even Matt Gaetz can’t defend that one, which is why you see him hallucinating under command on national television about them being antifa.
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by pqhwan 6y ago
It’s possible you’re underestimating the sheer practical and symbolic significance of the building they broke into (and the people who work there). Which, actually, is kind of the whole problem. Can you provide an example of an evidence tha
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by pqhwan 6y ago
...breaking and entering into congress?
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by pqhwan 6y ago
Now you’re just helplessly denying. I just want to remind you that you’re free to change your opinion, no one will think less of you if you do. I’ve done it before, it can be pretty exciting to turn your world around and re-evaluate things
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by pqhwan 6y ago
Are you stating that as an unrelated hypothetical, or are you claiming that Trump forced Twitter to censor himself?
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by pqhwan 6y ago
Yes, the definition of tolerance in a society is often a function of its existing social consensus. So if your social consensus is flawed, tolerance of it is also flawed. But when the consensus in question is something like “you shouldn’t m
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by pqhwan 6y ago
Despite the often exaggerated claims of singular victimhood, I actually do realize that the current right-wing rage does come from real suffering, and sympathize to an extent. What makes me wonder is that extent to which this rage is direct
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by pqhwan 6y ago
> “If there is ever armed conflict between urban areas vs everyone else, "everyone else" in the U.S. will win overwhelmingly.” I remember back in third grade when kids would argue about how their dad would beat the others’. As
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by pqhwan 6y ago
That’s an interesting take, but I was making a different point. Corporations will always do what’s necessary to thrive, and what they need to thrive is largely a function of what society demands. If the corporations are taking down their na
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by pqhwan 6y ago
No, it’s a comment on your suggestion that the police let the insurrectionists in deliberately; I’m saying it’s wrong.
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by pqhwan 6y ago
It became unnecessary for survival.
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by pqhwan 6y ago
> Either Capitol Police were terribly incompetent at protecting one of the most secure buildings in the US, or they let this happen. So that must be what all the pictures of wall-climbing and drawn glocks are all about. </s>
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by pqhwan 6y ago
So we should vote for leaders that “the media” hates and scrutinizes? That is a sad, cynical view of the world. Also, you realize that the media in the US includes outlets on both sides , right? As in, every leader pretty much fits both ch
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by pqhwan 6y ago
> You point this out as if it is some moral failing on the right. It’s not a comment on conservative politics as a whole, it’s a reflection on my own past immaturity, and how I recognize it in others when I see it. And I’ve had 4 years t
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by pqhwan 6y ago
The comment is talking about how the gp has their priorities wrong. Separation policy, etc are actual problems, and more important than “my neighbors don’t love this country like I do: they don’t admit to being inspired by its founding myth
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by pqhwan 6y ago
Growing up in a country where I was in the ethnic majority, I went through a period of right-wing political bent as a teenager. Then I came to the US, where I found myself in the minority and leaning left. So I feel that I have some persona
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by pqhwan 6y ago
If your conscience hasn’t been forcing you to face the fact that you thought “my kids can’t go to yale, and I blame minorities” was a badge of victimhood you can hold up against slavery and segregation... fellow human, you’ve got some recko
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by pqhwan 6y ago
Maybe the crime and poverty are direct results of centuries of racist oppressions. Slavery, segregation, denial of voting rights, economic opportunities... and maybe, the solution to racism isn’t more racism? How do you think we got here? A
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by pqhwan 6y ago
I haven’t seen what you’ve seen, so I’m not going to deny your experience/impression, but my opinion is that the only case where the races of those involved in a crime matter are when the crime is racially motivated. And that’s the sta

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