I’m sorry, but can you reread my comment past the first sentence? I’m saying they were not there to destroy the whole place wholesale, they were there, so the bomb attack could be spun into whatever they wanted afterwards.
Like the Reichstag fire that did not actually burn the whole Reichstag either, just one room.
It’s common knowledge at this point that explosives were planted, here is the wiki link for the sources. Of course, the point was not the demolition of the building complex, but the staging of an attack.
In 1933, one chamber of the Reichstag was set on fire, which ended in the mass arrests of communist opposition members, and the solidifying of Hitler’s power in Germany.
Is it a stretch that bombs planted at the RNC building of all places would have served a similarly good excuse to arrest Trump’s political enemies? Just replace the communists with “antifa”.
You mean eat the fines at best, not suspend business.
At best. Most likely they will get bogged down in court before a Trump judge rules the regulation unconstitutional.
More Ukrainians don’t speak Russian proportionally than Canadians not speaking English.
All of our institutions are ceremonial. If everything went to plan there, and they only did not due to sheer incompetence, they would have blown up the capitol building and would have massacred congress people.
Lenin didn’t coup the Tsars, he couped the fledgling Russian Republic. The Tsar has been in prison for more than six months by then.
Nevertheless, the point still stands, a small amount of people can successfully overturn a government. If you need a more recent example, Jan 6th almost succeeded. Imagine if they were just as organized as Lenin’s people.
Not saying it would be a good thing.
Lenin’s coup needed 40k people. The Russian Republic had a population of 161 million people.
On a happier note, a single university protest against Stalin’s imperialism spiralled into events that briefly established an independent democratic socialist Hungary free from Soviet-Russian domination.
The question, if it gets to societal collapse and revolutions, is not “how many people can Trump get to vote for him”, but “what military strength can he get to Washington on short notice”. And it doesn’t matter “who has the guns”. It’s the US. Everyone can get guns at a moment’s notice.
We really need to get someone to edit down Marx’s writings into TikTok brainrot format.
Just… why?
What is the reasoning? Is there any?
Financial institutions own most of everything in existence at this point, but Bitcoin specifically I’m sure they own enough for some nice pump and dumps.
It’s not like it will be on their official books.
I mean they already do own most of it, and crypto proponents specifically like it because it is unregulated.
Wouldn’t be crypto if the Fed would have a say in its value.
JS is system agnostic, doesn’t require compilation or multiple dependency binaries, as opposed to say Python.
Can you expand on that? How does JS have less requirements than Python?
Then the price would just be the result of supply and demand.
Since financial institutions will still own most of it, it will still be the same, except instead of the central bank doing it publicly, random hedge funds will be pumping and dumping randomly, and we can all go “the market works in mysterious ways”.
Wasn’t there a news piece about an eyedrop from India that killed a few people and made others go blind because of some bacterial infection?
Depends, which of them sells oil in dollars?
I guess they are trying to play him. There were articles about it a while ago that the idea is that as long as he gets to pretend he won great deals and everyone respects him, he doesn’t care how the actual important issues may go.
So if the EU gives an inch on some unimportant bullshit, and the press blows it up as something that was super painful for us, but Trump was just so good a negotiator that we had to do it, we may get to get him to even betray Putin.
Fingers crossed, at least.
The alternative is completely alienating the US just because their leader is stupid beyond measure. Wouldn’t be the right choice, even though I hate his guts as much as the next sane person.
You see, the word pogrom has been copyrighted by the Israeli state.
So when the Maccabi football hooligans were retaliated against by people defending their home from them in Amsterdam, that was a pogrom. This was “Israel defending themselves”.
/s if it was not obvious.
Are we arguing degrees of destruction, or whether Jan 6th was dangerous at all? Why are we arguing in the first place?
All I’m saying is that it could have been much, much worse, and the last semblances of American democracy was on the line, is still on the line.