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Re:Just received an extraordinary email from Expensify CEO by flipgimble on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:24AM (#24868698)
If you actually read the email there is no “or else” or any other implied threat in there. So it’s rather disingenuous to add the implication when you simply don’t agree that the current political regime of Trumpism is steadily devolving the US into theocratic totalitarianism and a possible civil war. Given a plot to kidnap a Governor and a refusal to agree to a peaceful transfer of power, one must be in deep denial to not see the justification for this warning.
Re:Just received an extraordinary email from Expensify CEO by ceilingcorner on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:25AM (#24868710)
This comment is really bizarre and I’m not sure how to respond. I’ll just point out that the plot to kidnap the governor had more ties to the anarchist left than to Trump.
Re:Just received an extraordinary email from Expensify CEO by dsr_ on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:27AM (#24868726)
Cite your sources, please.
Re:Just received an extraordinary email from Expensify CEO by ceilingcorner on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:30AM (#24868745)
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/21/viral-imag...

A video clip shows another suspect, Brandon Caserta, standing in front of an anarchist flag saying Trump is a "tyrant.”

The right wing media seems to want to associate the actions with the Left or BLM, which seems like a reach. But I don’t see how someone calling Trump a tyrant can possibly be associated with Trump himself.

Re:Just received an extraordinary email from Expensify CEO by projektfu on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:17AM (#24869747)
From your source:

Boogaloo movement more likely, experts say

Cooter, who recently dug into this issue on Twitter, told us she’s seen "zero evidence that (the suspects) are antifa."

She speculated that some people are conflating anarchy and antifa to try to divert attention away from the suspects’ militia connections.

Re:Just received an extraordinary email from Expensify CEO by dsr_ on Friday October 23, 2020 @09:00AM (#24868991)
You are citing a source in support of this statement:

"I’ll just point out that the plot to kidnap the governor had more ties to the anarchist left than to Trump."

and your source does not back that up, and now you are saying "seems like a reach" about the subject of your own statement.

Re:Just received an extraordinary email from Expensify CEO by ceilingcorner on Friday October 23, 2020 @09:02AM (#24869010)
- One member of the group attended a BLM rally.

- Anarchism is traditionally associated with the left (broadly, that is, not the Democratic (big D) left) and one of the members called Trump a tyrant with an anarchist flag in the background.

Trump can't simultaneously be an anarchist and a tyrant. That makes no sense.

I also remind you that I merely said "there is more evidence" than "it is directly connected."

Re:Just received an extraordinary email from Expensify CEO by thechao on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:47AM (#24868875)
The Wolverine Watchmen are a far right militia group; they are anti-govt anarchists. Their dog whistles are the Confederacy, Original-13, etc.; members are known to parrot QAnon.
Re:Just received an extraordinary email from Expensify CEO by ceilingcorner on Friday October 23, 2020 @09:00AM (#24868987)
Still unclear to me how that makes them associated with Trump, especially when one of their members explicitly says Trump is a tyrant.

Imagine a far left group did the same thing and also called Obama a tyrant. Is Obama responsible for them? I don't think so.

Re:Just received an extraordinary email from Expensify CEO by thechao on Friday October 23, 2020 @09:53AM (#24869488)
I never said anything about Trump.
Re:Just received an extraordinary email from Expensify CEO by Kbelicius on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:37AM (#24868791)
The plot to kidnap the governor was made by people that are associated with the far right. How in the world is that closer to anarchist left than to Trump?
Re:Just received an extraordinary email from Expensify CEO by flipgimble on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:51AM (#24868909)
Just want to point out the diversion tactics used here. This response throws a tangential, obscure point, while avoiding addressing the central topic that Trump incites and encourages violence from his podium, (“lock her up”, standby to white supremacists etc etc) thereby destabilizing the country where businesses could thrive.
Re:Just received an extraordinary email from Expensify CEO by ceilingcorner on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:58AM (#24868969)
What?

The comment I replied to is suggesting Trump is a theocratic authoritarian. We had this same rhetoric four years ago. It's clearly absurd.

I don't like Trump, didn't vote for him, and won't be voting for him, but this constant over-reactive nonsense is really unhelpful. Biden is a weak candidate, perhaps the weakest in decades. Everyone that doesn't vote for him isn't some kind of right wing lunatic fringe figure intent on destroying democracy.