The criminalization of political opinion

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_Themis
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Re: The criminalization of political opinion

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ajax18 wrote:
Thu Oct 15, 2020 5:39 pm
If anything it's the "scientists," who imposed and continue to call for more lockdowns that owe the citizens of every country a good explanation on why they said they knew stuff that they really did not.
You should provide sources for these accusations, but since everyone here knows you are just repeating bs you find on places like britfart, no one expects you will.
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_Some Schmo
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Re: The criminalization of political opinion

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Gadianton wrote:
Thu Oct 15, 2020 10:14 pm
While on the other hand, he's not worried at all about the threat to democracy over the President publicly calling for imprisoning his political rival, who has an above zero chance of realizing such a scenario with the DOJ as his Twitter friends, and who actually does hold the opinion, and actually does voice such opinions.
The GOP strategy has been for some time now predicting corruption on the part of Democrats that they plan to execute themselves, or accusing Democrats of corruption in which the GOP is already engaged. As has been said many times before, they complain about how bad government is, and then prove it themselves, because they suck. They aren't concerned with corruption; they're concerned with making Democrats appear corrupt, because they suspect moral people might object to it (that's what they've heard, anyway).

And they can get away with it, because idiots, hypocrites and liars (their base) are all on board.
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Re: The criminalization of political opinion

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The billionaire donors give to both sides so that laws are fashioned to screw the many in favor of the billionaire donors. We have an almost $Trillion military budget that democrats and republicans alike gladly pass almost unanimously, even though Trump was supposedly the second coming of Aldolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin. They gladly support these bloated and unnecessary budgets because the billionaires, our beloved politicians' true constituency, benefit. The rest is a side show.
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Re: The criminalization of political opinion

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Dr Exiled wrote:
Fri Oct 16, 2020 3:22 pm
The billionaire donors give to both sides so that laws are fashioned to screw the many in favor of the billionaire donors. We have an almost $Trillion military budget that democrats and republicans alike gladly pass almost unanimously, even though Trump was supposedly the second coming of Aldolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin. They gladly support these bloated and unnecessary budgets because the billionaires, our beloved politicians' true constituency, benefit. The rest is a side show.
Hmm..
The Department of Defense is our Nation's largest employer:
1.4 million active duty personnel
1.1 million reservists
861,000 civilians
450,000 employees stationed overseas in 163 countries.
3 million Americans receive income from DoD.
1.1 million people serving in the National Guard and Reserve forces
2 million veterans and their families receive income from their past service.

DoD is also the nation's largest healthcare provider, serving 9.5 million military members, retirees, and their families.
and let us not forget -
+/- 47 defense contractor companies
+/- 15 private military contractors
which are about 800,000 employees or roughly 10% of our country's manufacturing industry.
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so yeah - "bloated and unnecessary"
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