And let this thread go with it.

Good. Having watched more video of the insurrectionists, it's clear they have been mentally poisoned. More gullible and desperate for the most part with some truly mendacious ring-leaders thrown in.

:up:

Ah yeah, I remember him now. Could be. Although email and IP are different.

Don't remember that guy. Was that the username?

OK. Adjusted to:

d) Starting an original topic, i.e. a similar discussion is not already active (and not a copypasta from elsewhere on the internet. Plagiarists will be banned). — Baden

I hear there's plagiarism bots which University professors use. — Metaphysician Undercover

I used to teach at university and, yes, we have our means. :naughty:

Yes, obviously you can quote. But you cannot plagiarise numerous OPs in their entirety from (as we've discovered now) more than one author, as Rafaella did. The distinction should be very clear.

(Another theory we have now is that she was one of those other authors and "Rafaella" was the fake identity. If so, hoist by his/her own petard. You cannot copypasta, even your own stuff, if it's already posted elsewhere. But for that, if we were aware, you would just get a warning.)

Copypasta plagiarism.

Banned @Rafaella Leon for copypasta plagiarism.

Copypasta plagiarism.

Copypasta plagiarism: https://olavodecarvalho.com/2020/06/22/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-socialist/

If here different ideas aren't tolerated, then where then? — ssu

Some ideas shouldn't be tolerated. Fascism is one. Tolerating it leads to, well, you've seen what just happened.

And don't forget when Giuliani told the rioters to engage in "trial by combat" against lawmakers, he meant "hand out candies". Just a big misunderstanding, really.

I meant I'm not American, so they're not my fellow citizens.

In general, fine, but it's a kind of milquetoast response. Needs more. (They've been told the truth since the election results in November. Made no difference.)

They're not my fellow citizens.

The context is verbal defence, lies, rhetoric etc,

demonstrably untrue claims about voter fraud and a stolen election. That rhetoric alone should be impeachable. — Xtrix

so I'm talking about verbal force in response.

:up: Defence of Trump is just a continuation of the fascist propaganda that led us to this. Response should be full force.

Yes, nothing to see here. Just another House Republican terrorist.


Btw, what level of a fucking mind votes for this piece of human garbage?

So, back to lunatics then? Anyway, hard for me to get my head around how deep this type of stuff goes.

but I don't think the distinction between the two types is lunatic and normal. — Hanover

I wouldn't quite put it that way. But there's little to distinguish Trump Republicanism from neo-fascist European movements like the National Front except maybe the latter are, if anything, a bit more subtle with their tactics. Same overall playbook.

Finally found someone lucid around here — Rafaella Leon

Evidence?

There's not much meaning to "Republican" any more. Two very different wings that should not be sharing the same name: Fascists and regular conservatives.

Rafaella is a [1] beautiful & [2] intelligent [3] woman — BitconnectCarlos

Three questionable assertions there. Evidence?

Why aren't they twerking???

:lol:

Poor NOS and Brett suddenly realising they weren't supposed to support the terrorism. *Confused face*. *Pretend we never said that*.

You only need a conviction and 7,999,999 more of the same and Trump was right, he won! The conspiracy was widespread voter fraud of an unprecedented scale and that has been thoroughly debunked. Besides:



So, Biden won by an even bigger landslide. :party:

:lol: Trump throws his fellow MAGA terrorists under a bus after he gets impeached. "I don't know those guys..."

Rat trying to leave his own sinking ship.

See above. Don't have the exact quote. But that's pretty close.

Like the rest of the Trumpers, @Brett ran out of arguments. That was all he had left.

Terrorist-in-chief banned from YouTube for at least next seven days. :clap:

I was about to say @Michael does it all and the rest of us kind of just watch in awe. But he saved me the trouble.

It doesn't matter whether they're racist or not, it's not the same class of word. You can simply be wrong about someone being racist. Calling someone a "nigger" is not a matter of being right or wrong. It's a pure insult. Do you get the distinction yet?

Nothing to do with Banno. Read and comply, please.

Shit. Take care, fella.

Oh boy, more straight up insults. I am forced to ask whether you think you, as a moderator capable of banning people from the forum, should be insulting people, creating personal antagonisms? I am not willing to respond to your repeated insults in kind, because I'll get banned. So please desist, or grant me license to speak freely. — counterpunch

You'll be banned anyway if you don't stop talking nonsense.

Oh FFS, "racist" is not a pejorative term against racists — Kenosha Kid

Exactly, simply because something has a negative connotation doesn't make it a pejorative. You can have adjectives that are both pejoratives and negatively connote and that are not pejoratives yet still negatively connote. Calling a person a "rat" is a pejorative, calling a rat a "rat" isn't, it's neutrally descriptive. Calling a black person a "nigger" is a pejorative, calling a racist, a "racist" is neutrally descriptive. Easy way to know is if the language is publically acceptable: can you read it in respectable newspapers, and hear it spoken by your elected leaders without objection. In the case of "racist", the answer is, obviously, yes. In the case of "nigger", the answer is, obviously, no. Of course, the right just adores to obfuscate and equivocate concerning language. It's often their only door to justification for their opinions.