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    The Threat to Democracy from Trump Loyalists

    I guess we will just disagree. 'Fascism' unfortunately is a term that is very confused in public discourse because defining it has become a...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Sep 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    [AP] Conservative activist Charlie Kirk dies after being shot at Utah college event

    Just Copilot. I maybe should have added a disclaimer that AI might by hallucinating about some or all of it.
    Post by: JuanValdez, Sep 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    [AP] Conservative activist Charlie Kirk dies after being shot at Utah college event

    The tinman thread has a lot more traffic than this one, and I imagine we have 2 threads because people with tinman on ignore don't see there is...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Sep 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    [AP] Conservative activist Charlie Kirk dies after being shot at Utah college event

    Why Officials Should Reserve Judgment in Criminal Cases | Cato Institute Since Trump came into office, this has gotten far more common as far as...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Sep 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    When Did You Start Communicating Via The Interwebs

    I knew a couple of adults when I was a teen in the ealy 90s who participated in usenet groups, but I never did. College gave me an email address...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Sep 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM in forum: BBS Hangout
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    The Threat to Democracy from Trump Loyalists

    He is right a deranged person might take the fascism accusation to its logical conclusion and commit a crime. But you don't refrain from calling a...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Sep 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Please Read: The American dream is ending in a psychotic breakdown

    I can appreciate the call for civility. I haven't really felt it this time round because I now have so many people on ignore, and less curiosity...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Sep 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Texas graffiti case test first amendment with felony hate crime

    Per the article, he was found guilty for misdemeanor vandalism. That seems right. Or if it was a post-it note stuck to their computer monitor...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Sep 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    [AP] Conservative activist Charlie Kirk dies after being shot at Utah college event

    I think it is far too premature to have conclusions about what this kid's politics or motivations were. So what, he grew up in a conservative...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Sep 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Texas graffiti case test first amendment with felony hate crime

    Jury finds that it is not a hate crime: Jury finds Tarrant County activist guilty of vandalizing church, but not of anti-Israel hate crime | Fort...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Sep 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    [AP] Conservative activist Charlie Kirk dies after being shot at Utah college event

    Actually, that upset me. Not specific to political violence or whatever, but if one of my kids did something horrific and was potentially facing...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Sep 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    [Salon] Ronald Reagan’s shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness

    Off-topic, but I think I remember a time when I considered you to be one of the conservative posters of the forum. Which at the time wasn't a bad...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Sep 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    It appears that Brazil has gone full totalitarian

    I'm jelly that Brazil has a better democracy than us.
    Post by: JuanValdez, Sep 12, 2025 at 9:21 AM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    It appears that Brazil has gone full totalitarian

    Bolsonaro convicted!
    Post by: JuanValdez, Sep 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    [Salon] Ronald Reagan’s shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness

    Soviet communism was already in a significant malaise for many many years, so the Politburo tapped this high-energy reformer guy, Gorbachev, as...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Sep 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion