Quote (ofthevoid @ Sep 14 2025 07:10pm)

He really thinks country bumkins or suburbia that has to wake at 7am next day to slave away at their 9-5 is going to start rioting :rofl:

Quote (duffman316 @ Sep 14 2025 04:00pm)

We gonna pretend people would be civil if aoc got it?

Quote (Handcuffs @ 15 Sep 2025 09:16)

Can't remember the last time PaRD was this active.

Quote (Goomshill @ Sep 14 2025 08:12pm)

I mean the folks getting taxpayer subsidized sex change operations in portland would riot on wednesday just like they did on tuesday
If Obama got shot tomorrow, I expect a death toll in the hundreds to thousands

Quote (ofthevoid @ Sep 14 2025 08:17pm)

Misread duffs quote didn’t get right context.

In other news, the dildo of consequences rarely comes lubed. At this point there’s probably hundreds of these videos lol.

https://x.com/thepatriotoasis/status/1967292489791946870?s=46

Quote (Goomshill @ Sep 15 2025 11:35am)

Ripple effects of this story

Takeaway can be that a lone gunman murdered a prominent conservative
Takeaway can be that liberal radicals are losing jobs for celebrating his death
Takeaway can be that conservatives are organizing the witchhunting and firing of the above radicals
...
but the real takeaway from the latter part of the sequence is- the streak of militancy and violence is so deep in America right now that a significant percentage of liberals glorify violence against conservatives in general, with whatever distribution between true militants willing to kill and be killed, to snide commentators who will say they don't support violence "BUT", down to just the passive tolerance of mainstream democrats who don't themselves support or rationalize violence yet have made no attempt to exorcise its demons from their party.


when someone stabs Salman Rushdie or shoots up Charlie Hebdo, the ripples of political violence showed it only being supported among the islamists and only fringe leftists gave waffling statements about regulating speech instead of protecting it. We didn't see a whole swathe of the electorate post "Death to America" on social media. Charlie Kirk getting murdered feels a bit closer to the caning of sumner, and that's a bad omen

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In many ways, Sumner anticipated the violence directed at him — and that it could have positive political effects. Northern politicians knew that speaking against slavery could lead to physical harm. Sen. Henry Wilson of Massachusetts expected the 1856 congressional session to “be the most violent one in our history.” When Sumner presented a draft of his speech to a few friends, Sen. William H. Seward of New York begged him to temper the message out of concern for Sumner’s safety. And yet, Sumner persisted, believing that a brave speech and its possibly violent ramifications could jolt the antislavery movement into action.
There is a final lesson from the caning — one that senators who operate under the fear of violence today would do well to consider. To galvanize a public that had been asleep to democratic slippage, Sumner believed that politicians like him needed to be brave. If they had to risk their physical safety to speak their conscience, so be it. In his mind, these exhibitions of personal courage were necessary to show voters that their representatives were serious about resisting autocracy. He thought that courage, not concession, was the key to political success against antidemocratic threats. While stumping for Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election, Sumner quoted from the Irish novelist Jonathan Swift to articulate this piece of his political philosophy: “And know that to be brave,” Swift said, “is to be wise.”

Quote (Goomshill @ Sep 14 2025 08:35pm)

Ripple effects of this story

Takeaway can be that a lone gunman murdered a prominent conservative
Takeaway can be that liberal radicals are losing jobs for celebrating his death
Takeaway can be that conservatives are organizing the witchhunting and firing of the above radicals
...
but the real takeaway from the latter part of the sequence is- the streak of militancy and violence is so deep in America right now that a significant percentage of liberals glorify violence against conservatives in general, with whatever distribution between true militants willing to kill and be killed, to snide commentators who will say they don't support violence "BUT", down to just the passive tolerance of mainstream democrats who don't themselves support or rationalize violence yet have made no attempt to exorcise its demons from their party.


when someone stabs Salman Rushdie or shoots up Charlie Hebdo, the ripples of political violence showed it only being supported among the islamists and only fringe leftists gave waffling statements about regulating speech instead of protecting it. We didn't see a whole swathe of the electorate post "Death to America" on social media. Charlie Kirk getting murdered feels a bit closer to the caning of sumner, and that's a bad omen