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2021 Coup And The Aftermath

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    ElldrenElldren Is a woman dammit ceterum censeoRegistered User regular
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Dark_Side wrote: »
    Carpy wrote: »
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/10/proud-boys-far-right-givesendgo-christian-fundraising-site

    Far right groups have been raising large sums of money through anonymous donations on a Christian charity gofundme clone. The fundraising campaigns covered a range of goals from legal fees related to the insurrection to equipment for militia groups. Said site has suffered a data breach which exposed the identities of the anonymous donors.

    Note the article only calls out a subset of the total donations they've identified.
    Of Tarrio’s donors, none immediately responded to requests for comment except for Gerardo G Gonzalez, who anonymously donated $1,000 to Tarrio on 7 January.

    Public records show that Florida-based Gonzalez is a former pharmacist who owns at least six properties in Miami Beach and Homestead, Florida. His apartments, apartment buildings and an acreage lot have an assessed value in excess of $2.4m, and in prior decades has sold other properties worth millions more.

    In a telephone conversation, Gonzalez said that his support of the Proud Boys was motivated by his belief that “there is no systemic racism in this country”, and his opposition to “BLM and Antifa” who he said represented “the real extremism” in the United States. He also used derogatory terms for Latinos and Democrats.

    I love that the one guy they get a comment out of is a straight up racist troll. One wonders why he even selected to be anonymous on the website?

    Because his name is Gonzalez and he didn't want to be subjected to anti-Latino bigotry?

    Latinos are at the stage of "becoming white" which gets very confusing as you get American born-and-bred people of Latino extraction who are really prejudiced against immigrant Latinos. It's like what happened to the Irish.

    There's also the fact that "Latino" is a broad umbrella covering a number of ethnic groups which have a myriad of relationships with each other, not all of which are positive.

    Also it is explicitly not a racial category. There are white Latinos and black Latinos and native Latinos etc etc

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    CalicaCalica Registered User regular
    Elldren wrote: »
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Dark_Side wrote: »
    Carpy wrote: »
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/10/proud-boys-far-right-givesendgo-christian-fundraising-site

    Far right groups have been raising large sums of money through anonymous donations on a Christian charity gofundme clone. The fundraising campaigns covered a range of goals from legal fees related to the insurrection to equipment for militia groups. Said site has suffered a data breach which exposed the identities of the anonymous donors.

    Note the article only calls out a subset of the total donations they've identified.
    Of Tarrio’s donors, none immediately responded to requests for comment except for Gerardo G Gonzalez, who anonymously donated $1,000 to Tarrio on 7 January.

    Public records show that Florida-based Gonzalez is a former pharmacist who owns at least six properties in Miami Beach and Homestead, Florida. His apartments, apartment buildings and an acreage lot have an assessed value in excess of $2.4m, and in prior decades has sold other properties worth millions more.

    In a telephone conversation, Gonzalez said that his support of the Proud Boys was motivated by his belief that “there is no systemic racism in this country”, and his opposition to “BLM and Antifa” who he said represented “the real extremism” in the United States. He also used derogatory terms for Latinos and Democrats.

    I love that the one guy they get a comment out of is a straight up racist troll. One wonders why he even selected to be anonymous on the website?

    Because his name is Gonzalez and he didn't want to be subjected to anti-Latino bigotry?

    Latinos are at the stage of "becoming white" which gets very confusing as you get American born-and-bred people of Latino extraction who are really prejudiced against immigrant Latinos. It's like what happened to the Irish.

    There's also the fact that "Latino" is a broad umbrella covering a number of ethnic groups which have a myriad of relationships with each other, not all of which are positive.

    Also it is explicitly not a racial category. There are white Latinos and black Latinos and native Latinos etc etc

    Forgive my ignorance, but how does that make it not a racial category? People often have multiple ethnicities.

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    ElldrenElldren Is a woman dammit ceterum censeoRegistered User regular
    Calica wrote: »
    Elldren wrote: »
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Dark_Side wrote: »
    Carpy wrote: »
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/10/proud-boys-far-right-givesendgo-christian-fundraising-site

    Far right groups have been raising large sums of money through anonymous donations on a Christian charity gofundme clone. The fundraising campaigns covered a range of goals from legal fees related to the insurrection to equipment for militia groups. Said site has suffered a data breach which exposed the identities of the anonymous donors.

    Note the article only calls out a subset of the total donations they've identified.
    Of Tarrio’s donors, none immediately responded to requests for comment except for Gerardo G Gonzalez, who anonymously donated $1,000 to Tarrio on 7 January.

    Public records show that Florida-based Gonzalez is a former pharmacist who owns at least six properties in Miami Beach and Homestead, Florida. His apartments, apartment buildings and an acreage lot have an assessed value in excess of $2.4m, and in prior decades has sold other properties worth millions more.

    In a telephone conversation, Gonzalez said that his support of the Proud Boys was motivated by his belief that “there is no systemic racism in this country”, and his opposition to “BLM and Antifa” who he said represented “the real extremism” in the United States. He also used derogatory terms for Latinos and Democrats.

    I love that the one guy they get a comment out of is a straight up racist troll. One wonders why he even selected to be anonymous on the website?

    Because his name is Gonzalez and he didn't want to be subjected to anti-Latino bigotry?

    Latinos are at the stage of "becoming white" which gets very confusing as you get American born-and-bred people of Latino extraction who are really prejudiced against immigrant Latinos. It's like what happened to the Irish.

    There's also the fact that "Latino" is a broad umbrella covering a number of ethnic groups which have a myriad of relationships with each other, not all of which are positive.

    Also it is explicitly not a racial category. There are white Latinos and black Latinos and native Latinos etc etc

    Forgive my ignorance, but how does that make it not a racial category? People often have multiple ethnicities.

    Ethnicity and race are legally distinct categories. At least in the US.

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    GoumindongGoumindong Registered User regular
    Calica wrote: »
    Elldren wrote: »
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Dark_Side wrote: »
    Carpy wrote: »
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/10/proud-boys-far-right-givesendgo-christian-fundraising-site

    Far right groups have been raising large sums of money through anonymous donations on a Christian charity gofundme clone. The fundraising campaigns covered a range of goals from legal fees related to the insurrection to equipment for militia groups. Said site has suffered a data breach which exposed the identities of the anonymous donors.

    Note the article only calls out a subset of the total donations they've identified.
    Of Tarrio’s donors, none immediately responded to requests for comment except for Gerardo G Gonzalez, who anonymously donated $1,000 to Tarrio on 7 January.

    Public records show that Florida-based Gonzalez is a former pharmacist who owns at least six properties in Miami Beach and Homestead, Florida. His apartments, apartment buildings and an acreage lot have an assessed value in excess of $2.4m, and in prior decades has sold other properties worth millions more.

    In a telephone conversation, Gonzalez said that his support of the Proud Boys was motivated by his belief that “there is no systemic racism in this country”, and his opposition to “BLM and Antifa” who he said represented “the real extremism” in the United States. He also used derogatory terms for Latinos and Democrats.

    I love that the one guy they get a comment out of is a straight up racist troll. One wonders why he even selected to be anonymous on the website?

    Because his name is Gonzalez and he didn't want to be subjected to anti-Latino bigotry?

    Latinos are at the stage of "becoming white" which gets very confusing as you get American born-and-bred people of Latino extraction who are really prejudiced against immigrant Latinos. It's like what happened to the Irish.

    There's also the fact that "Latino" is a broad umbrella covering a number of ethnic groups which have a myriad of relationships with each other, not all of which are positive.

    Also it is explicitly not a racial category. There are white Latinos and black Latinos and native Latinos etc etc

    Forgive my ignorance, but how does that make it not a racial category? People often have multiple ethnicities.

    Because it refers to people from the Latin speaking nations of South America but not a specific group of those people. Of which there are white Latinx (those from a primarily European background), and non-white(those from a primarily indigenous background or those from a primarily African background) It’s would be like saying “american” was a racial category.

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    ElldrenElldren Is a woman dammit ceterum censeoRegistered User regular
    As a practical example, Texas senator Ted Cruz, who is the whitest and voted with the insurrectionists on the 6th, is Latino.

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    zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    The Spanish got into quite a bit of shenanigans in north, south and Central America. And so there is a high degree of Granularity between the Hispanic subgroups determined by how Spain came into the area.

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    monikermoniker Registered User regular
    Elldren wrote: »
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Dark_Side wrote: »
    Carpy wrote: »
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/10/proud-boys-far-right-givesendgo-christian-fundraising-site

    Far right groups have been raising large sums of money through anonymous donations on a Christian charity gofundme clone. The fundraising campaigns covered a range of goals from legal fees related to the insurrection to equipment for militia groups. Said site has suffered a data breach which exposed the identities of the anonymous donors.

    Note the article only calls out a subset of the total donations they've identified.
    Of Tarrio’s donors, none immediately responded to requests for comment except for Gerardo G Gonzalez, who anonymously donated $1,000 to Tarrio on 7 January.

    Public records show that Florida-based Gonzalez is a former pharmacist who owns at least six properties in Miami Beach and Homestead, Florida. His apartments, apartment buildings and an acreage lot have an assessed value in excess of $2.4m, and in prior decades has sold other properties worth millions more.

    In a telephone conversation, Gonzalez said that his support of the Proud Boys was motivated by his belief that “there is no systemic racism in this country”, and his opposition to “BLM and Antifa” who he said represented “the real extremism” in the United States. He also used derogatory terms for Latinos and Democrats.

    I love that the one guy they get a comment out of is a straight up racist troll. One wonders why he even selected to be anonymous on the website?

    Because his name is Gonzalez and he didn't want to be subjected to anti-Latino bigotry?

    Latinos are at the stage of "becoming white" which gets very confusing as you get American born-and-bred people of Latino extraction who are really prejudiced against immigrant Latinos. It's like what happened to the Irish.

    There's also the fact that "Latino" is a broad umbrella covering a number of ethnic groups which have a myriad of relationships with each other, not all of which are positive.

    Also it is explicitly not a racial category. There are white Latinos and black Latinos and native Latinos etc etc

    Which is a relatively new development, and part of the effort to make Hispanic equivalent to Italian.

    Though white people are the umbrella demographic with the most political division and antagonism within itself.

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    shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    edited April 2021
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Dark_Side wrote: »
    Carpy wrote: »
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/10/proud-boys-far-right-givesendgo-christian-fundraising-site

    Far right groups have been raising large sums of money through anonymous donations on a Christian charity gofundme clone. The fundraising campaigns covered a range of goals from legal fees related to the insurrection to equipment for militia groups. Said site has suffered a data breach which exposed the identities of the anonymous donors.

    Note the article only calls out a subset of the total donations they've identified.
    Of Tarrio’s donors, none immediately responded to requests for comment except for Gerardo G Gonzalez, who anonymously donated $1,000 to Tarrio on 7 January.

    Public records show that Florida-based Gonzalez is a former pharmacist who owns at least six properties in Miami Beach and Homestead, Florida. His apartments, apartment buildings and an acreage lot have an assessed value in excess of $2.4m, and in prior decades has sold other properties worth millions more.

    In a telephone conversation, Gonzalez said that his support of the Proud Boys was motivated by his belief that “there is no systemic racism in this country”, and his opposition to “BLM and Antifa” who he said represented “the real extremism” in the United States. He also used derogatory terms for Latinos and Democrats.

    I love that the one guy they get a comment out of is a straight up racist troll. One wonders why he even selected to be anonymous on the website?

    Because his name is Gonzalez and he didn't want to be subjected to anti-Latino bigotry?

    Latinos are at the stage of "becoming white" which gets very confusing as you get American born-and-bred people of Latino extraction who are really prejudiced against immigrant Latinos. It's like what happened to the Irish.

    There's also the fact that "Latino" is a broad umbrella covering a number of ethnic groups which have a myriad of relationships with each other, not all of which are positive.

    I think a good way to look at this is that "white" as a term basically does the same kind of work. There's a lot of backgrounds of people we in north america think of as "white" that fucking hate each other or have historically fucking hated each other.

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    ElJeffeElJeffe Moderator, ClubPA mod
    While the distinction between race and ethnicity is confusing and arcane and also interesting, this is not the place to discuss it.

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    Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    edited April 2021
    EDIT: removed per mod note.

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    AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    Turns out that when you literally make flight plans, no matter how inept, the government has an easy time arguing that you are a flight risk:
    Judge Emmet Sullivan said Jeffrey Sabol was too dangerous to release due to the flight risk and because he might continue his fight against "perceived tyranny" once he is out of jail.

    "He stripped a vulnerable police officer of his police baton," Sullivan wrote in a 64-page ruling. "He then used that stolen police baton to force another officer away from his post and into a mob of rioters who proceeded to viciously attack him, leaving him bleeding from the head."

    Sabol was indicted alongside four others who allegedly assaulted the officers, including one who was beaten while being dragged face-down into the crowd. He hasn't yet entered a plea.

    Sabol took drastic steps after the January 6 insurrection because he "reached a mental breaking point," according to court filings. He traveled from his native Colorado to Boston and booked a flight to Switzerland, where he believed he would be protected from extradition, according to court filings. But he abandoned that plan after seeing law enforcement officers at the airport.
    Instead, he rented a car and drove south. He later told investigators that while he was driving he threw his cell phone over a bridge near Boston because he thought he was being tracked.

    Motorists spotted his car driving erratically and police pulled him over in Clarkstown, New York, where they found him "covered in blood" from severe cuts on his arm and thighs, according to court filings. He said, according to court documents, "I am wanted by the FBI" because "I was fighting tyranny in the DC Capitol," and notified the officers that "my wounds are self-inflicted and "I am done fighting."

    He was taken into custody in mid-January and has been in jail ever since.

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    MarathonMarathon Registered User regular
    Nice to see the “party of personal responsibility” booking flights to countries where they can hope to be immune from extradition.

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    ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    The self inflicted wounds though.. that is a deeply troubled person.

    I don't like the person or what they did, but I really hope they get some help.

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    HefflingHeffling No Pic EverRegistered User regular
    Are we sure they are self inflicted?

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    RichyRichy Registered User regular
    Also, a few seconds of google finds that Switzerland has had an extradition treaty in place with the US for 120 years, and a simplified and expedited extradition process in place for 30 years.

    Well thought-out plan, that one.

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    TaramoorTaramoor Storyteller Registered User regular
    edited April 2021
    Also, a few seconds of google finds that Switzerland has had an extradition treaty in place with the US for 120 years, and a simplified and expedited extradition process in place for 30 years.

    Well thought-out plan, that one.

    But they're neutral! I saw it on tv!

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    AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    Richy wrote: »
    Also, a few seconds of google finds that Switzerland has had an extradition treaty in place with the US for 120 years, and a simplified and expedited extradition process in place for 30 years.

    Well thought-out plan, that one.

    Again, "no matter how inept".

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    GaddezGaddez Registered User regular
    Richy wrote: »
    Also, a few seconds of google finds that Switzerland has had an extradition treaty in place with the US for 120 years, and a simplified and expedited extradition process in place for 30 years.

    Well thought-out plan, that one.

    Even if they didn't I doubt that switzerland would be especially eager to say no to the US state department.

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    Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    Gaddez wrote: »
    Richy wrote: »
    Also, a few seconds of google finds that Switzerland has had an extradition treaty in place with the US for 120 years, and a simplified and expedited extradition process in place for 30 years.

    Well thought-out plan, that one.

    Even if they didn't I doubt that switzerland would be especially eager to say no to the US state department.

    Many countries that do not have extradition treaties may still cooperate with extradition requests.

    Also, too, if the US is a tyrannical country, what stops them from sending people to just snatch your ass anyway?

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    CelestialBadgerCelestialBadger Registered User regular
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    The self inflicted wounds though.. that is a deeply troubled person.

    I don't like the person or what they did, but I really hope they get some help.

    Yes, this sounds like a person with severe mental illness. The right-wing paranoia-sphere abuses and exploits such people.

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    ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    Richy wrote: »
    Also, a few seconds of google finds that Switzerland has had an extradition treaty in place with the US for 120 years, and a simplified and expedited extradition process in place for 30 years.

    Well thought-out plan, that one.

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    zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    Gaddez wrote: »
    Richy wrote: »
    Also, a few seconds of google finds that Switzerland has had an extradition treaty in place with the US for 120 years, and a simplified and expedited extradition process in place for 30 years.

    Well thought-out plan, that one.

    Even if they didn't I doubt that switzerland would be especially eager to say no to the US state department.

    Many countries that do not have extradition treaties may still cooperate with extradition requests.

    Also, too, if the US is a tyrannical country, what stops them from sending people to just snatch your ass anyway?
    It's real hard to do. It's easier in areas that are in conflict (Afghanistan, Iraq Syria) but in a stable country, it's substantially more difficult to snatch them and get them out of the country.

    Heck in Mexico, every now and then a bounty hunter gets arrested for being an idiot trying to pick up a bond jumper.

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    Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    zepherin wrote: »
    Gaddez wrote: »
    Richy wrote: »
    Also, a few seconds of google finds that Switzerland has had an extradition treaty in place with the US for 120 years, and a simplified and expedited extradition process in place for 30 years.

    Well thought-out plan, that one.

    Even if they didn't I doubt that switzerland would be especially eager to say no to the US state department.

    Many countries that do not have extradition treaties may still cooperate with extradition requests.

    Also, too, if the US is a tyrannical country, what stops them from sending people to just snatch your ass anyway?
    It's real hard to do. It's easier in areas that are in conflict (Afghanistan, Iraq Syria) but in a stable country, it's substantially more difficult to snatch them and get them out of the country.

    Heck in Mexico, every now and then a bounty hunter gets arrested for being an idiot trying to pick up a bond jumper.

    Not the point.

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    ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    Yeah. Maybe he's in distress and in dire need of professional help, or maybe it's more "I totes did not get into a brawl with capital police, definitely not injuries sustained in that melee".

    Could go either way, I'll be interested to see what evidence is presented in that regard.

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    FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Forar wrote: »
    Yeah. Maybe he's in distress and in dire need of professional help, or maybe it's more "I totes did not get into a brawl with capital police, definitely not injuries sustained in that melee".

    Could go either way, I'll be interested to see what evidence is presented in that regard.

    Presumably, someone would have noticed if he were covered in blood at the airport, though.

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    monikermoniker Registered User regular
    Heffling wrote: »
    Are we sure they are self inflicted?

    Wouldn't be the first time Cops took a rough ride back to the precinct after someone fell down a flight of stairs. It would be unusual for a white suspect, though.

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    FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    moniker wrote: »
    Heffling wrote: »
    Are we sure they are self inflicted?

    Wouldn't be the first time Cops took a rough ride back to the precinct after someone fell down a flight of stairs. It would be unusual for a white suspect, though.

    Usually that's bruises and contusions, not cuts.

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    GaddezGaddez Registered User regular
    Also I'm just going to point out how ridiculous it is for Jan 6th loons to flee to another country; Any cash or assets that they don't have on them will be frozen by the government, Theirs a good chance they won't be fluent enough to function as part of this other country's society and a lot of the rights and priveledges that they enjoy aren't likely to exist over there.

    Also They'd be aghast at either the living conditions if they're fleeing to a 3rd world state or just how happy the people are roiling in socialism.

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    ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    Some of the more dedicated fascists have tried fleeing to Serbia and Ukraine. One of the founders of RAM (a neo-nazi MMA group that was present in Charlottesville) was in Serbia for a while but I think he finally got extradited.

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    HydropoloHydropolo Registered User regular
    Gaddez wrote: »
    Also I'm just going to point out how ridiculous it is for Jan 6th loons to flee to another country; Any cash or assets that they don't have on them will be frozen by the government, Theirs a good chance they won't be fluent enough to function as part of this other country's society and a lot of the rights and priveledges that they enjoy aren't likely to exist over there.

    Also They'd be aghast at either the living conditions if they're fleeing to a 3rd world state or just how happy the people are roiling in socialism.

    You are assuming people honestly looking at their situation from people who are into Q.

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    CelestialBadgerCelestialBadger Registered User regular
    Gaddez wrote: »
    Also I'm just going to point out how ridiculous it is for Jan 6th loons to flee to another country; Any cash or assets that they don't have on them will be frozen by the government, Theirs a good chance they won't be fluent enough to function as part of this other country's society and a lot of the rights and priveledges that they enjoy aren't likely to exist over there.

    Also They'd be aghast at either the living conditions if they're fleeing to a 3rd world state or just how happy the people are roiling in socialism.

    Immigration laws also exist.

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    GaddezGaddez Registered User regular
    Gaddez wrote: »
    Also I'm just going to point out how ridiculous it is for Jan 6th loons to flee to another country; Any cash or assets that they don't have on them will be frozen by the government, Theirs a good chance they won't be fluent enough to function as part of this other country's society and a lot of the rights and priveledges that they enjoy aren't likely to exist over there.

    Also They'd be aghast at either the living conditions if they're fleeing to a 3rd world state or just how happy the people are roiling in socialism.

    Immigration laws also exist.

    And now I'm imagining them sitting in a refugee camp trying to explain how legitimate their political persecution is while the Syrians are too dumbstruck by him to say anything.

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    Mild ConfusionMild Confusion Smash All Things Registered User regular
    Gaddez wrote: »
    Gaddez wrote: »
    Also I'm just going to point out how ridiculous it is for Jan 6th loons to flee to another country; Any cash or assets that they don't have on them will be frozen by the government, Theirs a good chance they won't be fluent enough to function as part of this other country's society and a lot of the rights and priveledges that they enjoy aren't likely to exist over there.

    Also They'd be aghast at either the living conditions if they're fleeing to a 3rd world state or just how happy the people are roiling in socialism.

    Immigration laws also exist.

    And now I'm imagining them sitting in a refugee camp trying to explain how legitimate their political persecution is while the Syrians are too dumbstruck by him to say anything.

    I hear that “I demand to speak to the manager,” goes a long way in Syria.

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    ToxTox I kill threads he/himRegistered User regular
    Taramoor wrote: »
    Also, a few seconds of google finds that Switzerland has had an extradition treaty in place with the US for 120 years, and a simplified and expedited extradition process in place for 30 years.

    Well thought-out plan, that one.

    But they're neutral! I saw it on tv!

    I'm not shocked that a Nazi would assume Swiss Neutrality.

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    MorganVMorganV Registered User regular
    Ben Collins is a reporter at NBCNews

    The use of "hypothetical" on the message image, looks like it'd have the legal strength of Michael Scott's "bankruptcy". Or the anti-EULA posts that went around Facebook a couple years back.

    It's not hypothetical because you say it. It's only hypothetical if you mean it to be hypothetical. That poster clearly doesn't mean it to be.

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    zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    So, the only reason that members of congress are still alive, is everyone is a bunch of idiots.

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    FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    zepherin wrote: »
    So, the only reason that members of congress are still alive, is everyone is a bunch of idiots.

    Well, they also didn't actually have the numbers for that.

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    ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    Oh, that's nothing. During my tenure on that shithole site, they are absolutely drowning in transparent euphemisms and similar bullshit.

    Spoiler for recreations of their sort of vile bullshit.
    "Can't wait to collect some scalps. In Minecraft."

    They use cutesy language like that all the time. Talking about all the guns they have, or.. had, until they all fell off a boat during a fishing trip (I'm not even sure why they felt the need to do this, but it was a regular running gag), or intended to do violence... hypothetically/"In Minecraft" (because *nobody* is going to break that code).

    It was particularly funny when members within the very community would call it out or be confused by it. Not exactly the Da Vinci Code here, guys. Or even better, when one would seem to be legit clueless and have it explained in detail... if you're really so concerned about the FBI and other law enforcement agencies being present (you know, not just as fellow members, but in an official capacity) maybe explaining your cutesy euphemisms is kind of counterproductive.

    But close as they came to possibly harming members of congress, as a collective I wouldn't say those forums were brimming with an abundance of intellect or savvy.

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