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  1. 37 minutes ago, Poe It Up said:

    Your example would be more forceful if Rogan were failing, but he’s wildly popular, surprisingly so. Most likely what you’re seeing with regards to capitalism is the dark side; the bitterness that comes with seeing others succeed.

    I remember when Jimmy the Greek was fired and I said "damn, look at all those bitter, jealous people."

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  2. 36 minutes ago, workswithseed said:

    You can draw equivalency. I can draw equivalency with the shooting in Dallas. The billions in damages, and 23 lives killed by the BLM riots, and the grifting by BLM here, if I get to see pictures like this. 

     

    I get it, you gotta spin it so that your side looks good. Hey, do you happen to work for CNN?

    Accusing someone of spinning things to make one's side look good, while in the same post grossly spinning things to make the other side look bad is a pretty embarrassing look.

     

  3. 54 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    And hard as hell to get the go-ahead for.  

    Unfortunately, they're not:

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-war-on-drugs-gave-rise-to-no-knock-warrants-breonna-taylors-death-could-end-them

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    Data collected by Kraska shows that municipal police and sheriffs’ departments used no-knock or quick-knock warrants about 1,500 times in the early 1980s, but that number rose to about 40,000 times per year by 2000, he said. In 2010, Kraska estimated 60,000-70,000 no-knock or quick-knock raids were conducted by local police annually. The majority of those raids were looking for marijuana, he added.

     

  4. Redding, CA:

    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-02-04/extremists-take-over-shasta-county-northern-california-next

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    But the recent recall election in Shasta County that pitted a Republican ex-police chief against a far-right faction backed by a local militia is different. It’s a wake-up call ahead of the 2022 midterms that elections can go very wrong, even in liberal California.

     

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    Meetings turned into carnivals, not the fun kind, with speakers threatening violence, and someone got the idea to recall three supervisors who were deemed too liberal and scientific in their approach to the pandemic.

    The Cottonwood militia, an armed group of men who describe themselves as civic leaders and helpers of local law enforcement (though law enforcement has said they are not affiliated), threw their might into the effort. A film producer, best known for religious music videos, decided to make a glossy documentary full of slow-motion horseback riding about it, hopeful a successful recall would provide a blueprint for other communities to do the same.

     

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    The money put the recall in overdrive, with ads bombarding voters on radio and television. Doni Chamberlain, a local journalist, said regular Shasta residents were pulled into the rhetoric, and became “dupid.” That’s a mash-up of duped and stupid.

    “It’s that thing,” said Chamberlain. “If you say something long enough and often enough, people will believe it.”

    The election was held Tuesday, and while some ballots are still out, it is almost certain Moty will be recalled, leaving Shasta County likely to have leadership that is beholden to the militia and their far-right compatriots. For months, militia members have been clear about what that looks like.

    “We have to make politicians scared again,” Carlos Zapata, a bar owner and militia member, told my colleague Hailey Branson-Potts, as the militia was heating up its tactics. “If politicians do not fear the people they govern, that relationship is broken.”

    It isn’t just politicians who are cowed. Regular citizens are, too. People came up to Moty and said they supported him, “but they didn’t want to have their name out there because they are afraid,” he said.

     

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    The official in charge of elections was recently “served” with papers accusing her of treason, and threatening a death sentence. Nathan Pinkney, a recall opponent who created a fictional social media character named Buford White to mock Zapata, was attacked by Zapata and two friends, in an altercation where a witness said the N-word was used. Zapata was found guilty of disturbing the peace by fighting and sentenced to community service, probation and an anger management class.

     

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    Moty, who spent three decades in law enforcement including six as chief of the Redding Police Department, has been threatened, accused of being a pedophile, of taking bribes, of colluding with voting machine maker Dominion Voting Systems to defraud the election, being against the 2nd Amendment (a big insult in these parts) and more, he told me Wednesday.

    His wife, Tracy, whose family has lived in Redding for four generations, was so stressed, talking about the recall campaign made her cry, and she decided to go sit in her car rather than relive the details in an interview. The couple are thinking about moving, because Redding has changed in ways that don’t feel right to them. Tracy said she doesn’t feel safe.

     

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