The extremes wont happen. End of.
I think what Geth is getting at is what I often think about as being “death bed thoughts”. One day you’re gonna be old and sick af and you might start taking stock of your life. This particular phase of western populism might (hopefully) be over, but we’ll all look back on it as history and I dare say you won’t have the same appetite for meme magic and Internet melts. It’s real life, not a movie. Do you really want to be looking back on your life knowing you were barracking for the bad guy? Like, I’m sure you’ll cope, but you’ve got a choice.
You seem to have this idea that 'nothing that happens in the us will effect me'
The Civil War wouldn't really be over a lost election, but over the erosion of human rights which many predict will follow.
Extreme or not, these will effect your life, probably indirectly, but effect nonetheless
Would love to know the rationale for peaceful protesting contributing somewhat to civil war.
I don’t think it’ll be the end of our alliance with them. But it’ll be hard to get behind his ideologies with a government that is trying to move forward, progressively. Basically it’ll be flag waving racists like Pauline Hanson etc that’ll give voice to the right wing dross and give the extra bit of bite to your extreme types. It’ll give sky news a bigger platform to launch right wing propaganda here.
Who? The people that don’t want a repeat of the 6th January? Democratic or anti trump protesters aren’t contributing to danger per say, they don’t want what trump brings which is danger and insurrection.
Five people lost their lost their lives on January 6, 2021 when citizens stormed the US Capitol while electoral college votes were being counted.
Huh? The lefties Google Gemini literally re-wrote history to put black people in it to replace white people
I'm talking today. Not history, in the current day.
observer.com
newrepublic.com
Yet the abortion thing had a popular incumbent governor in Youngkin, who campaigned on abortion bans in Virginia, lost the general assembly to the democrats.
I think the most extreme of all is banning the bible from school libraries but they have done that for many many years nowI'm talking today. Not history, in the current day.
Tennessee pastor leads burning of Harry Potter and Twilight novels
The livestreamed event drew large crowds, who cheered as books deemed ‘demonic’ by pastor Greg Locke went up in flameswww.theguardian.com
Book Banning Is Increasing Across the United States, a Book Burning in Tennessee
Texas librarians are quitting and authors are lamenting amidst a heightened atmosphere that’s seeing books being burned and banned.
Behind the far-right book burning campaign in the US
Christian fundamentalists and anti-gay bigots, allied with the Republican Party, are attacking school libraries and librarians.www.wsws.org
Florida's book banning regime is so extreme even dictionaries and encyclopedias are being banned.
And to eliminate any doubt:
MAGA Republican Pledges “End of Democracy” to Rabid Cheers at CPAC
Republicans at CPAC 2024 are openly vowing to take down democracy.
mediabiasfactcheck.com
Breitbart
mediabiasfactcheck.com
You do realise the New Republic is about as reputable as Breitbart right?
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Breitbart
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Sigh.
... with these sources in support:
I'm talking today. Not history, in the current day.
Tennessee pastor leads burning of Harry Potter and Twilight novels
The livestreamed event drew large crowds, who cheered as books deemed ‘demonic’ by pastor Greg Locke went up in flames
Book Banning Is Increasing Across the United States, a Book Burning in Tennessee
Texas librarians are quitting and authors are lamenting amidst a heightened atmosphere that’s seeing books being burned and banned.
Behind the far-right book burning campaign in the US
Christian fundamentalists and anti-gay bigots, allied with the Republican Party, are attacking school libraries and librarians.www.wsws.org
Florida's book banning regime is so extreme even dictionaries and encyclopedias are being banned.
You then proceeded not to argue with the variety of sources quoted, but to dispute a single source and equate a website that sources its information and has a clean factcheck record to Breitbart, which has neither of those things. You then proceed to shift the goalposts even further, claiming that factchecking websites are left wing (not incorrect, just left wing) and so are search algorithms.And to eliminate any doubt:
MAGA Republican Pledges “End of Democracy” to Rabid Cheers at CPAC
Republicans at CPAC 2024 are openly vowing to take down democracy.
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The argument posted by Mofra above was thus:
... with these sources in support:
You then proceeded not to argue with the variety of sources quoted, but to dispute a single source and equate a website that sources its information and has a clean factcheck record to Breitbart, which has neither of those things. You then proceed to shift the goalposts even further, claiming that factchecking websites are left wing (not incorrect, just left wing) and so are search algorithms.
You're throwing claims out there like wildfire. Might I suggest another gander at the rules of the SRP before continuing?
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The point is, one of these sites is not like the other.
I've referred you to the rules. You're welcome to read them yourself.
