2020 Election MEGAthread

[BarnabusCollins]

"Judge strikes down 'arbitrary and capricious' USDA rule ending food stamps for 700,000 unemployed"

"Meet the Navy's new 13 Billion Dollar Aircraft Carrier"

"Terrified at her torment, they will stand far off and cry: ''Woe! Woe to you, great city, you mighty city of Babylon! In one hour your doom has come!'"

[Jibartik]

"Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?" Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

Edit: it's apparent the bible is not talking about libtards here.

[BlackBellamy]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tAmpQqW_s8

"At four-thirty, the Lord said to me - I am going to give your President a Second Wind!"

<Cheers/Yelling.>

"This has Three Meanings. Three Meanings!"

"A Win! That you will be President again!"

<Cheers/Yelling.>

"Long speech about the Lord giving our President a Second Wind!"

etc

[Jibartik]

The question is whether you believe being neighborly is authoritarian, just because one political party says it is a metaphor for it.

[BlackBellamy]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The question is whether you believe being neighborly is authoritarian, just because one political party says it is a metaphor for it.

Being neighborly implies an element of choice though, and also I think some self-sacrifice. Like you choose to take the time to rake your elderly neighbor's leaves when you could be leveling your Troll. I think that's an important distinction - if I am being compelled to perform an action through the threat of fines or imprisonment, my resulting actions can't really be characterized as neighborly.

I wear my mask outside not because I think it's effective or because I'm legally mandated, it's because I know my elderly neighbors are terrified and I don't want to scare them - I'm being neighborly because I make that conscious decision every time I go out. It's not their fault they're scared and it's only a little inconvenience.

If the government threatened me with jail for not wearing one, I would grow to resent my neighbors. Eventually I would cough on their doorknobs some dark morning. No one wants that, with the Ring cameras everywhere.

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by BlackBellamy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Being neighborly implies an element of choice though, and also I think some self-sacrifice. Like you choose to take the time to rake your elderly neighbor's leaves when you could be leveling your Troll. I think that's an important distinction - if I am being compelled to perform an action through the threat of fines or imprisonment, my resulting actions can't really be characterized as neighborly.

I wear my mask outside not because I think it's effective or because I'm legally mandated, it's because I know my elderly neighbors are terrified and I don't want to scare them - I'm being neighborly because I make that conscious decision every time I go out. It's not their fault they're scared and it's only a little inconvenience.

If the government threatened me with jail for not wearing one, I would grow to resent my neighbors. Eventually I would cough on their doorknobs some dark morning. No one wants that, with the Ring cameras everywhere.

Yeah, I mean we agree on every point then, except, that what we did was jump to threatening you with jail for not wearing a mask.

I promise the only people that are pushing that argument are the ones that are trying to convince you that it's true.

Everyone fined/arrested (except for use of excessive force that is exactly the argument against police use of excessive force that Kyle Rittenhouse is so against) was fined/arrested because they were resisting the law, not because they weren't wearing a mask.

So I think it's fair to say that you cant support cops and be anti masks, anymore than you'd argue you can support cops and BLM.

And for that matter, if you would cough on a doorknob because someone asks you to wear a mask, how can you not understand why people are rioting over BLM anyway? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Danth]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah, I mean we agree on every point then, except, that what we did was jump to threatening you with jail for not wearing a mask.

I promise the only people that are pushing that argument are the ones that are trying to convince you that it's true.

On this you are thoroughly mistaken. I've been threatened with arrest for refusing to wear a mask several times, now. I will not wear one under any circumstances--Uncle Sam can go stuff himself. So far the police who've been called on me have stopped with threats because most of them don't particularly want to be the mask police. Most of them think it's BS too (and in most cases, amusingly enough, aren't wearing 'em themselves). That'll change as soon as the wrong cop (or one having a bad day) happens to be called out. I expect I might spend a night or two in the clink before this is over with. It is a citizen's duty to resist tyranny. Silently "protesting" from the comfort of your own home, risk-free, is not enough, and won't accomplish anything. On this, at least, BLM has the right idea: If you want change, you have to be willing to go out there and put your butt on the line.

Agree with my actions or not, but the threats of arrest are very much real.

Danth

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by Danth [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

On this you are thoroughly mistaken. I've been threatened with arrest for refusing to wear a mask several times, now. I will not wear one under any circumstances--Uncle Sam can go stuff himself. So far the police who've been called on me have stopped with threats because most of them don't particularly want to be the mask police. Most of them think it's BS too (and in most cases, amusingly enough, aren't wearing 'em themselves). That'll change as soon as the wrong cop (or one having a bad day) happens to be called out. I expect I might spend a night or two in the clink before this is over with. It is a citizen's duty to resist tyranny. Silently "protesting" from the comfort of your own home, risk-free, is not enough, and won't accomplish anything. On this, at least, BLM has the right idea: If you want change, you have to be willing to go out there and put your butt on the line.

Agree with my actions or not, but the threats of arrest are very much real.

Danth

Who threatened to arrest you danth? You are the most mild mannered person around here. I cant imagine you got threatened to be arrested.

Are you telling me that you went into establishments, and had the police called on you by the owners of those establishments? Because they could have done that for any reason they wanted to. If the police came, under any circumstances because they asked you to leave the premises, you'd be threatened with an arrest. (obviously if it was discrimination its different but you not believing in the law is not discrimination, its you not agreeing with the law)

If the police were called because you were not wearing a mask and were asked to by the owner of the establishment you were occupying, and you were threatened to be arrested, could it be because you were asked to leave and you did not and were therefore trespassing? (you dont have to explain to me how the police probably treated you like shit and used excessive force when dealing with you though) (but that has zilch to do with masks.) (In fact masks have zilch to do with tyranny, but the excessive force however does! lol )

You know the old saying, dont let perfet be the enemy of good? Like resisting tyranny is one thing but resisting it like this? that's totally different. It's harming yourself and your community, because you are taking things a little bit too overboard. Anti mask is just the like, stay at home version of rioting during protests.

Like going to jail over masks? Bruh, how about my taxes? If youre going to jail, go to jail over taxes, but masks?? Come on. You start fighting this hard to reduce my taxes by 70-90% and Ill go to the clink with you.

[BarnabusCollins]

That great city is Washington, D.C.

Youuuu gots to goooooo, to that lonesome valley mmmmmmmmmm

[Jibartik]

I dont follow.