Beer Belly Putsch AFTERMATH Thread

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  1. shootER

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    Apparently this isn't officer Sicknick but more work from *rump's fine people.
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    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    what? freezing the assets of terrorist organizers tying to subvert an election?

    pretty sure most of us are cool with that.

    what do YOU think?


    (Given how you tried so badly to load the question, you don't really need to answer. For all your bullshit about serving as a POG, it's obvious it was never from a sense of duty to uphold America)
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    Raoul the Red Shirt Professional bullseye

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    This isn't a morality decision on the part of the corporations. This is a "please-don't-boycott-us" decision.

    I can't think of a time when a corporation in recent history where a corporation voluntarily did the right thing even though it clearly would cause a hit to its profits, share price or other metrics of tangible worth.
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    Oh no!
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    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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  11. We Are Borg

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    :rotfl:

    Boo fucking hoo.

    I wouldn't be stupid enough to fly right now (it's a pandemic) but if I were in that lounge I would have laughed my ass off.

    The crying makes me happy.
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    you missed my point. For some reason you seem to miss my point more than a lot of other people - I need to brush up on my Canadian accent I guess.
    Anyway I have no problem with the private sector doing this. When government does this I have a problem. My point was some folks on here want government to intervene or run things in general because evil capitalist corporations just want to make a profit. That's my point.

    As for me not having a sense of duty to uphold America shove that right up your ass motherfucker. Did you fucking serve your country? Oh that's right your punk ass couldn't stop smoking weed long enough - color me surprised. Jenne, Anc, Shirogayne, Shooter, Lanzman, Marso, Volpone and other WF members are vets. Half hate my guts and never agree with me on anything and that's okay.
    They earned the right to question my duty to America because they fucking served. You didn't do shit - you have no skin in the game.
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    If Osama Bin Ladin couldn’t fly United after 9/11 neither should these fucks.
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    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    still better than turning on it though...

    In the real world there's the divide of those who shower before work and those who shower after.

    and for the record, it was the felony conviction/firearms ban that kept me out of the forces.
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    One comment I saw on that video was Stop the Squeal!

    :rofl:
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  16. Elwood

    Elwood I know what I'm about, son.

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    I know it goes without saying, but I want to say how flabbergasted I am about the people who are:

    1: Claiming that the people who attacked the Capitol building were anyone other than Trump supporters and,
    2: Comparing being deplatformed on social media to the Eastern European and Soviet purges.

    1: If you truly, in your heart of hearts, believe that, you are utterly, wholly, and perhaps irredeemably delusional. Be very, very grateful that breathing and heartbeat are autonomous, my friends.
    2: You're comparing being kicked off Twitter, et al, with you and your family being pulled out of bed in the middle of the night by secret police and simply being shot or, if you're lucky, hauled to the other side of the continent where you will be allowed to work yourself to death with no food? That's really what it's like in your mind? See #1.
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  17. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    Re: #1, I have one extended family member who honestly believes the attack on the Capitol was Antifa's doing, and won't shut up about it on my Facebook wall. I really don't want to engage with him (he's so far gone, what would be the point?), so I discovered I can just hide his comments so no one else can see them.

    The far right/fascist propaganda machine has been going for decades, but it seems like in the past 10 years, especially with the prominence of social media, it's been spreading like wildfire. How do you even bring someone back from that? :( I don't even know where to begin, or if it would even be worth it at this point.
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  19. shootER

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  20. oldfella1962

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    six of one half dozen of the other - your weeding smoking would have got you booted eventually anyway - well maybe not in your military.
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    First, I’ve never questioned your duty. I do believe you have been misled. Also believe your social network all believe the same and extraditing yourself from that mind think would be difficult for most people under those conditions.

    Second, you and I both know regardless of what the military says, drugs are rampant in the military - the stories I heard about American military during the 80s... including 4 or 5 guys shoved an XO in a locker and threw the locker out a second story window. Don’t remember what kind of drugs they were on.

    Third, for fucks sake, space Turkey is one of the easiest going guys on this board. Why are you arguing with him?
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    She's got more faith in Pence than I'll ever have.
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  23. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    being de-platformed on social media is not at all like a Soviet purge. Yes it sucks when a private company chooses to boot you, but that's life in the big city.
    But what part of "we reserve the right to refuse service" don't they understand? But here's the difference - when the government boots you off then we all have a problem.
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    I got one thing to say to the people lying about antifa storming the capitol - like I’ve told both my sons - if you’re going to have to lie about it later, you shouldn’t be doing it now.
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    1) I never said you questioned my service. Even if you did, you earned that right by serving in the US military - Spaceturkey has not earned that right. And my social network is all over
    the place politically. Even the vets here on wordforge have a variety of views.
    2) Yes drugs used to be rampant before they started drug testing the living dogshit out of us. I served as a UPL (Unit Prevention Leader) AKA drug & alcohol guy AKA dick watcher for a couple of years so I was one of the guys who catch the users. Now drug use is a fraction of what it used to be. So yes I've seen it ruin careers but everyone knows the risks - boo hoo to them.
    3) I wasn't initially arguing with Space turkey I was trying to agree with him about something. but then he said this:
    "For all your bullshit about serving as a POG, it's obvious it was never from a sense of duty to uphold America". :brood:

    Suffice it to say that's a chickenshit insult coming from a civilian. I'm just not having it. Somebody wants to bust on me not being infantry or special forces - Tererun thinks I cleaned toilets for some reason - that's cool. I earned my money doing aviation related things sometimes far forward of any grunts to protect us - no shame in my game there. But to be accused of not having a sense of duty from a fucking civilian? Give me a fucking break with that shit.
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  26. oldfella1962

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    I thought a lot of the rioters were ex or current military? :chris: Ya better have some contingency plans when it's time get the fuck out of Dodge! :lol:
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    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    more like Start the Squeal once those fuckers start getting investigated! :lol: I've stared down the business end of an FBI badge a time or two - it does build character is all I can say about that!
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    Wait. What?

    They were Republicans? :soma:

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  30. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    I'm shocked, I tell you - shocked!
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