@dankmaximus Well the whole situation is largely provoked by biden being elected, so those arent separate things.

We had 4 years of democrats (or at least anti-republicans) burning down buildings, rioting, causing violence, being completely unwilling to engage in conversations, essentially following their politicial ideology like religious extremists. This seemed to be the vast majority of US democrats and liberals. Now dont get me wrong the right and the GOP can and often is absolutely absurd too and exhibits many of those properties. But its a smaller percentage and most of them are less aggressive about it.

After four years of that behavior they had the behavior reinforced by winning an election, this obviously added volatility on the right to be more likely to aggressively defend against that violence and perhaps initiate their own, but it also emboldened the left to the effectiveness of that violence.

Couple that with the mass arrests from the biden administration (not even just limited to the capitol hill incident. The complete exaggeration and continued dishonest of the media (in the form of propaganda at this point) and other patterns that it smells a hell of a lot like how things played out during the Reichstag fire and the events that followed in Nazi germany that the Nazis used to take power using fear and intimidation.

So my fear is that it will play out in a similar fashion

@zleap rather than to answer on your thread ill answer here since my answer is mostly the same... no as far as I know there are no significant protests planned, my concern is more the above.

@freemo @dankmaximus @zleap it'd be pretty cool if it did

@kino

If we dont consider the lives lost and all that we could probably use a good revolution over here to be honest... one that diminishes both sides.

@dankmaximus @zleap

@freemo @kino @dankmaximus yes you need a fresh start, so you 're saying the Democrats are just as bad as the republicans, sounds like the same as we have here in the UK, neither side is fit to govern really.

@zleap

The ideas from both sides are equally shit, so from a policy standpoint they are equally as bad yea.

From a "violence and intolerance" standpoint the republicans used to be worse but as of the last decade the democrats have slowly risen to the top and and I'd say over the past few years are the far more likely group to be fascist and violent.

@kino @dankmaximus

@freemo for all intents and purposes the democrats and the republicans are the same party. they share the same bedrock ideology and the actual differences between them are marginal and virtually inconsequential. @zleap @dankmaximus