Unrest explodes across West as Biden sworn in; clashes with police, attack on Dem Party offices

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Perhaps now people will stop with the ridiculous notion that Antifa is aligned with democrats.

Also, why is this terrorism?

Violence intended to achieve a political goal, seems like terrorism.

Anyway, it's clearly criminal and I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.

(See, was that so hard?)
 
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Antifa doesn't exist and is just an idea meaning anti-fascist, so how can they be torching Portland? Joe Biden told us so and I explicitly remember being told that they don't exist on these forums. Interesting.
 
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Perhaps now people will stop with the ridiculous notion that Antifa is aligned with democrats.

Also, why is this terrorism?

Why, it's terrorism because they fit all the descriptions: they attacked Democratic Party offices and stated they were against Joe Biden---so clearly, they were white supremacists, terrorists, insurrectionists, seditionists, and probably mostly male and Christian.

Don't you watch the news? ^_^
 
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Violence intended to achieve a political goal, seems like terrorism.

Anyway, it's clearly criminal and I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.

(See, was that so hard?)
I think that characterizing vandalism as terrorism is grossly watering down the definition of terrorism. No lives were threatened. I can’t think of any instance in the past where vandalism was called terrorism either.
 
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Why, it's terrorism because they fit all the descriptions: they attacked Democratic Party offices and stated they were against Joe Biden---so clearly, they were white supremacists, terrorists, insurrectionists, seditionists, and probably mostly male and Christian.

Don't you watch the news? ^_^
Why you keep laughing is beyond me. None of this is fun and games.
 
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Why you keep laughing is beyond me. None of this is fun and games.

It's the only thing keeping me from crying.....or going out in the yard and howling at the sky like an abandoned wolf pup.
 
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Antifa doesn't exist and is just an idea meaning anti-fascist, so how can they be torching Portland? Joe Biden told us so and I explicitly remember being told that they don't exist on these forums. Interesting.

Not only that, but they are supposedly volunteers and disorganized, so that must mean that they obviously are incapable of doing any looting, arson, assaults on police and bystanders, etc. etc. :doh:
 
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I think that characterizing vandalism as terrorism is grossly watering down the definition of terrorism. No lives were threatened. I can’t think of any instance in the past where vandalism was called terrorism either.
Kristalnacht?
 
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I think that characterizing vandalism as terrorism is grossly watering down the definition of terrorism. No lives were threatened. I can’t think of any instance in the past where vandalism was called terrorism either.

What about all the cops lives that were threatened all summer all over the country? Death isn't the only threat you know. And what about all the cops that suffered at the courthouse in Portland this summer? They don't count as threatened?

Antifa leader threatens 'armed' action against Trump supporters

There's others I could post, but the language would not be allowed on this forum. ANIFA threatens to go rip Trump out of the Whitehouse.
 
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What about all the cops lives that were threatened all summer all over the country? Death isn't the only threat you know. And what about all the cops that suffered at the courthouse in Portland this summer? They don't count as threatened?

Antifa leader threatens 'armed' action against Trump supporters

There's others I could post, but the language would not be allowed on this forum. ANIFA threatens to go rip Trump out of the Whitehouse.
Hardly!

You really take a mob of people breaking into the capital chanting “hang Mike Pence” lightly. They were chanting about an intent to assassinate the Vice President!
 
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Hardly!

You really take a mob of people breaking into the capital chanting “hang Mike Pence” lightly. They were chanting about an intent to assassinate the Vice President!

Or they were engaging in political theater at the behest of whoever was paying them. (The Democratic National Committee, perhaps?)
 
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I don’t think the word terrorism even existed then? Nevertheless, Kristallnacht involved a lot more than vandalism.
Call it what you want. We lived through a chilling summer. Lots of fires and looting and destruction by peaceful protesters.
 
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Or they were engaging in political theater at the behest of whoever was paying them. (The Democratic National Committee, perhaps?)
You think proud boys, militia leaders, 3%ers and Q supporters were being paid by the DNC?
 
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You think proud boys, militia leaders, 3%ers and Q supporters were being paid by the DNC?

No. I think that the Trump demonstrators were infiltrated by "plants"---paid operatives of the Left to mix in with the crowd and cause mayhem and destruction. There are accounts of this being the case in D.C., and it's not like it hasn't been done before, plenty of times.
 
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No. I think that the Trump demonstrators were infiltrated by "plants"---paid operatives of the Left to mix in with the crowd and cause mayhem and destruction. There are accounts of this being the case in D.C., and it's not like it hasn't been done before, plenty of times.
There are zero accounts of that. It’s completely made up and it would be ludicrous to claim that the right wingers they’ve caught were somehow coerced into committing illegal acts.
 
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