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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Monday January 04 2021, @02:52PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 04 2021, @02:52PM (#1094482) Journal

    Or maybe after Jan 20th.

    While fascism is at our very doorstep, I'll hold my breath until we see whether it comes in over the threshold before I decide if 2021 is going to be better or much worse than 2020.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Monday January 11 2021, @03:31PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 11 2021, @03:31PM (#1098325) Journal

    Now that it's after Jan 6th, I think the start of 2021 is far worse than 2020 or any of the last four years of Trump ever was.

    Mobs of violent rioters invading the capitol building. Murdering a capitol police officer. Stealing, damaging and desecrating. Online mobs making violent threats against the government and specific officials.

    And why?

    Because they don't like the outcome of a democratically held election!

    I thought that Democracy was that the people voted, and then that was the outcome. They seemed to like how it worked four years ago. Plenty of people were disappointed with the outcome four years ago, but did not go trying to overthrow the government in a murderous rampage.

    It is about time that major social media platforms realized the damage they are allowing to happen by their inaction and begin taking some action to police their content.

    I eagerly await following the litigation of Dominion Voting Systems vs Sidney Powell [courtlistener.com] for $1.3 Billion. Hopefully the successful outcome of this litigation is then used as evidence in other litigation by Dominion against other so-called "news" outlets that brazenly repeated these baseless lies. This partially addresses all of the false claims without a shred of evidence that the election was stolen. Even Republicans said this was the most secure election in history. It certainly was the most scrutinized. Republican judges, including some appointed by Trump, and Republican legislators and other officials have maintained that no major irregularities have occurred in this election. Every election has some minor irregularities, and it is good for those to come to light to help future elections.

    If these fascists don't like the outcome of Democracy, they they should go back to where they came from and leave our country alone.

    It was not the intent of our founding fathers for traitors to overthrow the government because they didn't like the outcome of democracy. They gave us the power of the ballot to vote. If you don't win, then maybe your actual message or candidate is the real crux of your problem. Voting is the mechanism they gave us to control our government.

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