January 6th Commission investigating coup attempt.
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“When one of the world’s leading scholars of civil war tells us that the United States stands at the brink of violent conflict, we should pay attention.”—Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of How Democracies Die
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter
https://www.amazon.com/How-Civil-Wars-Start-Stop/dp/0593137787/
chapter 1: The Danger of Anocracy 3
chapter 2: The Rise of Factions 28
chapter 3: The Dark Consequences of Losing Status 58
chapter 4: When Hope Dies 78
chapter 5: The Accelerant 102
chapter 6: How Close Are We? 129
chapter 7: What a War Would Look Like 161
chapter 8: Preventing a Civil War 194
From Chapter 1:
U.S. soldiers found the fearsome dictator hiding in an eight-foot-deep hole near his hometown of Tikrit. He looked dirty and dazed. With Americans in charge, most Iraqis believed that their country would be reborn and that they would experience the freedom and opportunities available in Western countries. Families dreamed of experiencing true democracy. The military, and perhaps the judiciary, would be reformed. Corruption would end. Wealth, including oil profits, would be distributed more equally. Noor and her family were excited for independent newspapers and satellite TV. “We thought we would breathe freedom, we would become like Europe,” said Najm al-Jabouri, a former general in Saddams army. They were wrong.
When Saddam Hussein was captured, researchers who study democratization didn’t celebrate. We knew that democratization, especially rapid democratization in a deeply divided country, could be highly destabilizing. In fact, the more radical and rapid the change, the more destabilizing it was likely to be. The United States and the United Kingdom thought they were delivering freedom to a welcoming population. Instead, they were about to deliver the perfect conditions for civil war.
Iraq was a country plagued by political rivalries, both ethnic and religious. The Kurds, a large ethnic minority in the north, had long fought Saddam for autonomy; they wanted to be left alone to rule themselves. The Shia, who made up more than 60 percent of Iraq’s population, resented being ruled by Saddam Hussein, a Sunni, and his mostly Sunni Baath Party. Over decades, Saddam had been able to consolidate power for his minority group by stacking government positions with Sunnis.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The news will always scare Trump voters into insanity.
I'm not the one who's submitted to an untested jab 3 times and still going around wearing my mask everywhere.
Check yourself, boy.
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Roger Stone throws Steve Bannon under the bus with accusation he directed Capitol "breach"
According to a report from the Daily Beast's Zachary Petrizzo, former Donald Trump associate Roger Stone took to his Telegram account on Sunday morning to blame former White House adviser Steve Bannon of ordering the attack on the Capitol building on Jan 6th, reminiscent of the way he used to do "crazy things" in order to "curry favor" with the former president.
Writing that Stone appeared to be throwing Bannon "under the bus," Petrizzo reported the conservative gadfly wrote, "It is highly likely that [Steve] Bannon really gave the order to breach the capital [sic] and maneuvered patriots into dangerous positions."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/roger-stone-throws-steve-banno
n-under-the-bus-with-accusation-he-directed-capitol-breach/ar-AARYO8n?ocid=msedgntp
Let's see where this goes. The balls in Bannons' court.
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Quote:You are claiming being brave equals being unvaccinated. You are insane, 6ix.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
The news will always scare Trump voters into insanity.
I'm not the one who's submitted to an untested jab 3 times and still going around wearing my mask everywhere.
Check yourself, boy.
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
And you are scared of vaccination. You have said you're scared of what an "untested" vax might do to you in five years.
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The Walls Are Closing In On Donald Trump
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Quote:This is more like an African elephant hunt. Trump is the elephant, the hunters are lawyers, but these lawyers don't have guns. All they have are them making the sound of guns going Bang! Bang! The elephant is becoming enraged and maybe will trample the lawyers. But the lawyers are not dangerous to the elephant until the lawyers borrow an elephant gun from the Dept of Justice, carefully aim and fire at the elephant. Even the elephant knows these lawyers are unarmed.
Originally posted by THG:
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The Walls Are Closing In On Donald Trump
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You are claiming being brave equals being unvaccinated.
No. I'm claiming that not getting this particular untested vaccination because you were terrorized into getting it is the low bar for having a functioning brain. Bravery has nothing to do with it.
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You are insane, 6ix.
You are not qualified to make such a statement, idiot.
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And you are scared of vaccination. You have said you're scared of what an "untested" vax might do to you in five years.
Apprehension and distrust are not signs of fear and would only be conflated by low-IQ ideologues, such as yourself.
I don't fear our government. I just don't trust our government. I don't trust the pharmaceutical companies. I don't trust our Media or our "experts" who have been bought and paid for by the pharmaceutical companies.
I have nothing to fear. I did not get the jab, and I won't be forced into getting the jab.
We'll see what happens to you now that you have.
Good luck, guinea pig.
Keep us posted.
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Quote:6ix, if you weren't crazy you could see you are full of bullshit. But then again, if you weren't crazy you'd see Trump is made of bullshit.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Good luck, guinea pig.
Keep us posted.
Bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They quietly change the rules governing their end of the conversation so that claims about truth and falsity are irrelevant.
On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt, Princeton University
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern, or attracted much sustained inquiry. In consequence, we have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves. And we lack a conscientiously developed appreciation of what it means to us. In other words, we have no theory. I propose to begin the development of a theoretical understanding of bullshit, mainly by providing some tentative and exploratory philosophical analysis.
More at http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_bullshit.p
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Quote:This is more like an African elephant hunt. Trump is the elephant, the hunters are lawyers, but these lawyers don't have guns. All they have are them making the sound of guns going Bang! Bang! The elephant is becoming enraged and maybe will trample the lawyers. But the lawyers are not dangerous to the elephant until the lawyers borrow an elephant gun from the Dept of Justice, carefully aim and fire at the elephant. Even the elephant knows these lawyers are unarmed.
Originally posted by second:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
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The Walls Are Closing In On Donald Trump
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Wrong...
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