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Post by shadowgovt »

SilasX wrote: post #125
cronix wrote: post #122

Tens of millions of dollars were raised for "bail funds" across the country to bail out people arrested at the riots over the summer. Once the groups paid the bail on behalf of someone, the money was returned to the person bailed out not the group that paid it. The district attorney in Portland, Oregon, and other DA's in larger cities, was not prosecuting the majority of people arrested, except for the most egregious…

Doesn't the IRS sort of dislike when you don't declare that as income?

[dropped; incorrect assertion]

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Post by jarjoura »

chrisco255 wrote: post #116

This article uses loaded language to make a defamation claim against Nick Fuentes. Nick Fuentes is still on Twitter, and pinned to the top of his page is photo evidence that shows the person they are asserting was in the Capitol is not him. He was wearing a suit. The photo of him at the steps of the Capitol is not incriminating in any way. He was protesting along with 250K+ other conservatives in Washington DC. It's…

Pretty sure if he made it to the steps, he would have crossed through a police barricade. That means he was protesting on restricted grounds w/o lawful authority and plenty of others have been arrested for that same violation. Not sure why he wouldn't be liable for the same.

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Post by nostromo »

ASalazarMX wrote: post #78
LatteLazy wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For those who don't know this reference... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words

It's disgusting how such primitive people can still exist in our modern world. Yes, we have many people doing horrible things all over the world, but people being vile because their ancestors had less sun than others is a special kind of pointless stupidity.

I present to you the words of Kristen Clarke, Biden’s future head of the DoJ’s Civil Rights division:

“Melanin endows blacks with greater mental, physical, and spiritual abilities — something which cannot be measured by Eurocentric standards.”

This is just one quote from her letter, which goes on at length about black superiority.

I think the problem we have right now is we have two sets of standards. People that have been reintroducing racist concepts into government, academia and the media shouldn’t be surprised when there is a similarly racist backlash.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1994/11/4/clarke-should-r...

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Post by rayiner »

madamelic wrote: post #123
coldtea wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, "business as usual" has led working class (and middle class) america to wage stagnation, increasingly worse jobs, de-industrialization, decline of small towns, meth/heroin rise, and such, plus wars mainly using poor rural people as fodder, and other such niceties. Plus coastal elites (including non-elites who still identify as hollier-than the plebs in the fly-over country) sneering at them. The glorious march…

None of this is Democrats or liberal's fault. Their party has been yelling about getting off fossil fuels for the last 20 years. Obama encouraged organizations that were re-training coal miners and others in dead industries to join the digital workforce. It's the alt-right who have been promising to go back to 'normal' and that coal is the future. The economics aren't there, fossil fuels is a dying industry. Even if…

Nobody brought up coal this election cycle. The complaint about Biden was his perceived promise to ban fracking.

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Post by spoonjim »

anigbrowl wrote: post #81
rchaud wrote: post #36

One thing wasn't highlighted in the alleged suicide note was the line 'we must secure the existence of our people and a future for our children'. That language should be a pretty clear indicator of where this person's politics lie, even without the 'fall of western civilization' rhetoric earlier. They always seem to use the same exact verbiage.

Also, the bit about 'the industrial revolution and its consequences that have been a disaster for the human race' slightly paraphrases the opening of Ted Kaczynski's manifesto Industrial Society and its Future , which is quite popular with accelerationists and eco-fascists due to his relative success as the 'Unabomber'.

Industrial Society and its Future is a great piece of analysis and writing marred by its psychopathic author. Although, I agree with the author that his terrorism helped get the essay read more widely, and that sickens me, because of course I wouldn't have read it if he hadn't murdered those people.

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Post by [deleted] »

madamelic wrote: post #123
coldtea wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, "business as usual" has led working class (and middle class) america to wage stagnation, increasingly worse jobs, de-industrialization, decline of small towns, meth/heroin rise, and such, plus wars mainly using poor rural people as fodder, and other such niceties. Plus coastal elites (including non-elites who still identify as hollier-than the plebs in the fly-over country) sneering at them. The glorious march…

None of this is Democrats or liberal's fault. Their party has been yelling about getting off fossil fuels for the last 20 years. Obama encouraged organizations that were re-training coal miners and others in dead industries to join the digital workforce. It's the alt-right who have been promising to go back to 'normal' and that coal is the future. The economics aren't there, fossil fuels is a dying industry. Even if…

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Post by Triv888 »

Klonoar wrote: post #12

The other day, I tweeted out my tin-foil-hat theory that the recent BTC runup was partly due to alt-right interests, expecting the events on the 6th to go very differently. This kind of makes me wonder even harder.

So is Theter trying to overthrow the Government?

Re: U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor

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Post by dylanh »

shadowgovt wrote: post #131
SilasX wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't the IRS sort of dislike when you don't declare that as income?

[dropped; incorrect assertion]

Citation for this? The opposite seems to be the case based on reporting from Propublica among others:

https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-sorry-but-its-just-ea...

Re: U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor

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Post by jpsalm »

parliament32 wrote: post #114
joejerryronnie wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe it’s the same group of people artificially (but maybe not deliberately) inflating both BTC and Tesla

How can you consider a crypto (or other commodity) to be "artificially" inflated? It's not backed by anything; it's worth precisely what people are willing to pay for it, with no strings attached.

Well, if people are paying for it with Tether and it turns out Tether is backed by loans or other cryptocurrencies then it would be by definition artificially inflated.
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