Police State
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@Axtremus said in Police State:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/29/trump-administration-portland-protests-federal-agents?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1
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The Trump administration is to pull federal paramilitaries out of Portland starting on Thursday in a major reversal after weeks of escalating protests and violence.Oregon’s governor, Kate Brown, said she agreed to the pullout in talks with Vice-President Mike Pence.
Brown said state and city police officers will replace Department of Homeland Security agents in guarding the federal courthouse that has become the flashpoint for the protests.
— — — —State and city police were supposed to be protecting the courthouse anyway. The only reason federal agents were brought in in the first place was precisely because this stupid mayor refused to let them.
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@Larry said in Police State:
@Axtremus said in Police State:
@Jolly said in Police State:
The state has no say, when it comes to protecting federal property.
There goes the Tenth Amendment in Jollyworld.
Just find an excuse, any excuse, to protect any “federal property”, maybe “information/data” or “intellectual property”, not even “physical property”, that some federal agency declares belong to the federal government, and the federal agents can do anything anywhere to “protect” it, the state cannot do anything about it.
Sometimes it's hard to believe that you can be this stupid. A federal courthouse belongs to the federal government. End of story. There is no "we declare this or that to belong to the federal government". The 10th amendment doesn't have a damned thing to do with it. There is nothing new about it, and there is nothing new about federal agents protecting federal property.
You're so dumb it hurts to watch.
No, he's not stupid. But he has no common sense, is overly literal and I bet he sucks at long term interactions with people. He's probably great with computers.
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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@Jolly said in Police State:
But he has no common sense, is overly literal . . .
Ax has the mind of an examiner. He doesn't leap to conclusions that may appear warranted on the surface, but which are seductive and are often false coin. This can lead to questions, exploring different paths to get to the truth. Far from being stupid, he presents his questions with the reasonable expectation of getting answers. He's not afraid of marching to his own drum. Accusations of stupidity reflect more on the accuser than on Ax. His habit of mind can lead, yes, to accusations of being overly literal -- though it presents the question, overly literal compared to what?
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You're not all that bright either, and you're more interested in getting a dig in at me than anything else.
My brother is a computer programmer. He can run circles around Ax when it comes to computers. In fact, he has spent the last 20 years writing top secret programming that runs our nuclear weapons. He has some difficulty with his social skills - but the man has common sense, and would agree with me that Ax's problem isn't that he's a computer guy so he's literal, it's because his brain doesn't work right.
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@Mik said in Police State:
@Horace said in Police State:
You were telling him that by talking about those things, he betrayed a soul in need of refreshing. You were shaming him for talking about whatever it is that you would prefer people not talk about.
No, just no. She was just being compassionate. We still have room for that here, do we not?
"Your post makes me think you need to take a walk" is not compassion, it is an ad hominem.
Education is extremely important.
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@Horace said in Police State:
Your post makes me think you need to take a walk" is not compassion, it is an ad hominem.
Except that isn't what I said.
Mik's -- thank you, Mik -- interpretation comes much closer to my intention. You're free to believe what you'd like about me, but in this case, you are mistaken.
This issue is not important. Let's let it lie.
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
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@Catseye3 said in Police State:
@Horace said in Police State:
Your post makes me think you need to take a walk" is not compassion, it is an ad hominem.
Except that isn't what I said.
You said
"Loki. Turn off the TV and take a walk. Pick a nice route with nice trees and a pretty sky and other nice things to look at.
You need dis."
And then you claimed you didn't tell him to talk a walk. Nice. Let's please try to maintain a basic level of honesty here. Honesty is an important part of compassion, and some very important people are reading this.
Mik's -- thank you, Mik -- interpretation comes much closer to my intention. You're free to believe what you'd like about me, but in this case, you are mistaken.
This issue is not important. Let's let it lie.
It is not up to us to decide what is or is not important. There are important people watching. It is for them to decide.
Education is extremely important.
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@Horace said in Police State:
"Loki. Turn off the TV and take a walk. Pick a nice route with nice trees and a pretty sky and other nice things to look at.
You need dis."
And then you claimed you didn't tell him to talk a walk. Nice.Oh, fuck you, Horace. Show me how "Your post makes me think you need to take a walk" (in quotes, suggesting it was a direct quote from me) in any way resembles "Loki. Turn off the TV," etc.
Apparently you require things to be clarified to an exquisitely painful degree, so here goes. YES, I told him to take a walk, although the context made it more of a suggestion than some kind of order, meaning that I felt he would benefit from a break. For someone who so obviously prides himself on his vast intelligence, I'd think you'd have picked up on that.
Do not again presume to call me a liar.
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@Catseye3 said in Police State:
@Horace said in Police State:
"Loki. Turn off the TV and take a walk. Pick a nice route with nice trees and a pretty sky and other nice things to look at.
You need dis."
And then you claimed you didn't tell him to talk a walk. Nice.Oh, fuck you, Horace. Show me how "Your post makes me think you need to take a walk" (in quotes, suggesting it was a direct quote from me) in any way resembles "Loki. Turn off the TV," etc.
Apparently you require things to be clarified to an exquisitely painful degree, so here goes. YES, I told him to take a walk, although the context made it more of a suggestion than some kind of order, meaning that I felt he would benefit from a break. For someone who so obviously prides himself on his vast intelligence, I'd think you'd have picked up on that.
Do not again presume to call me a liar.
I'll call you one if you plan on holding onto your "I did not say 'take a walk " after literally telling someone word for word to " turn off the TV and take a walk".
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@Larry said in Police State:
@Catseye3 said in Police State:
@Horace said in Police State:
"Loki. Turn off the TV and take a walk. Pick a nice route with nice trees and a pretty sky and other nice things to look at.
You need dis."
And then you claimed you didn't tell him to talk a walk. Nice.Oh, fuck you, Horace. Show me how "Your post makes me think you need to take a walk" (in quotes, suggesting it was a direct quote from me) in any way resembles "Loki. Turn off the TV," etc.
Apparently you require things to be clarified to an exquisitely painful degree, so here goes. YES, I told him to take a walk, although the context made it more of a suggestion than some kind of order, meaning that I felt he would benefit from a break. For someone who so obviously prides himself on his vast intelligence, I'd think you'd have picked up on that.
Do not again presume to call me a liar.
I'll call you one if you plan on holding onto your "I did not say 'take a walk " after literally telling someone word for word to " turn off the TV and take a walk".
My favorite part is where she cropped her quote. This is her gem of a sentence, after adding those cropped words:
Show me how "Your post makes me think you need to take a walk" (in quotes, suggesting it was a direct quote from me) in any way resembles "Loki. Turn off the TV and take a walk," etc.
There is power in crazy. It is to be respected and given wide berth.
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Let it go, guys
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Yeah, Phibes. Rainman is right, you should give your relentless attacks a rest. This forum is for measured, mature discussion of the issues - not your personal stomping grounds.
Rainman, thanks for your support. In the absence of support from Ax, who tends to withhold judgment in these scuffles, it is nice to hear from those who care about the little people.
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Ok... this was an exercise in how someone can say something, and someone else can take it out of context, then give it a new meaning that has nothing to do with the original intent. That's how I looked at it, and I'm sure Horace saw it too.
This is exactly how Trump bashers come up with 99.9% of the shit they throw at Trump. Now Cats knows what it feels like to have ones words taken out of context and then getting smeared with the new meaning, and how Trump supporters feel when they see it being done.
This same shit gets done almost daily here to Trump, and I am certain it's not because those doing it aren't smart enough to know better. So let's examine it:
Cats told someone (paraphrasing) they needed to get off the internet, take a walk". It was quite obvious that her intention was to convey a concern that the person needed to de- stress a bit, and "take a walk" was meant as a suggestion as to how he might relax a bit. That intent was obvious. BUT - she DID say "take a walk", and it's not for sure that Horace restated it with a new and negative meaning. What IS for sure is that Cats thought he did, and instead of clarifying her intent, she jumped Horace's ass. His natural reaction was to bite back.
This is how you Trump bashers do every time you say something about Trump or one of his supporters. An example: just today one of you Trump bashers took Gohmert's comment about how touching his mask might be how he caught the virus. You twisted his words to make it appear that he was, as you think of us, another knuckle dragging Trump supporter who thinks masks don't work. And the thing is, the person who did it is far too intelligent to even believe that. The person KNEW better. He knew that what the man said was that he might have gotten the virus on his hands and then transferred it to his mask because he had had to remove the mask several times. A perfectly logical, perfectly innocent comment twisted around for the purpose of taking a shit on the man, on Trump, and on everyone who supports Trump.
You TDS sufferers are past being ridiculous with this shit, and this incident shows you what it's like to have it done to you.
Now - somebody make me a damn sammich.
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Silly me, I thought you two were just being assholes.
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Good post, Larry. You gave a great assessment.
That's why I come here. I don't agree with everyone, which is why everyone comes here. Great place to hear different perspectives, and occasionally to discuss those perspectives.
The fights go nowhere, ever.
