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New Jan 6th video of them constructing the hangman's gallows.

Mock Turtle

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
I wouldn't necessarily come down on either side as to this being real or a metaphor, but doing such things is just rather dangerous and prone to inciting others to actions - as to which who knows? So, much like not bringing guns to demonstrations - where deaths might then occur - just don't do this kind of thing. Or else it might tend to get misinterpreted - but then that is so often the Trumpy approach. That is, he just shouts his mouth off without thinking too much, if at all.
 
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Twilight Hue

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
fantome profane said:
It never ceased to amaze how people can see something with their own eyes and deny it is real.

If someone walks in with a gun shouting they want to shoot people, is that just a metaphor?
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Maybe you should study what a real gallows is rather than pretend this prop up is the real deal.
 
ImmortalFlame

ImmortalFlame

Woke gremlin
I'm reminded of a great scene in the excellent terrorist satire movie Three Lions, in which one of the characters (an Islamic radical) crashes a public constituency meeting to accuse the panel of politicians - and those in attendance - of being racist, then shows he's wearing bombs strapped to his waist. He activates them, only to reveal they were nothing but a bunch of party streamers attached to his body, and as everyone in the hall starts to realise it and begins shouting and jeering at him, he berates the crowd, saying: "Oh, what? Just because I'm a Muslim you thought it was real?"

This is the intellectual level some people are operating on with regards to this, only without a hint of any actual satire, introspection or irony.

And also, it's about a real, actual gallows.
 
ImmortalFlame

ImmortalFlame

Woke gremlin
Twilight Hue said:
Maybe you should study what a real gallows is rather than pretend this prop up is the real deal.
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I don't know what to be more troubled by. The idea that you'd see a gallows erected on Capitol Hill by people chanting to hang politicians and your first thought is "Pfft, that gallows is clearly not stable enough to actually hang someone"; or, the implication that you seem to have intricate personal knowledge of how to build an effective gallows.

Either way, very troubling.
 
Balthazzar

Balthazzar

N. Germanic Descent
Modernized politics gone dark ages. I drew the hanged man in a tarot reading back in the 90's. He was upside down.
 
Secret Chief

Secret Chief

Vetted Member
Mock Turtle said:
I wouldn't necessarily come down on either side as to this being real or a metaphor, but doing such things is just rather dangerous and prone to inciting others to actions - as to which who knows? So, much like not bringing guns to demonstrations - where deaths might then occur - just don't do this kind of thing. Or else it might tend to get misinterpreted - but then that is so often the Trumpy approach.
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Guns are also metaphors.
 
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F1fan

Veteran Member
Callisto said:
Republicans did far, far worse. They armed themselves with guns, tasers, pepper spray and spears, built a gallows and stormed the Capitol, literally out for blood and chanting death to the outgoing vice president. Disgraceful savagery.
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But they were upset that the election was stolen (because Trump lied about it). Some of the 1265 charged, arrested, and convicted claimed they were following Trump's orders.

And Trump is calling these criminals "hostages" as if the USA is some sort of dictatorship that lacks law and order. Yet the MAGAs ignore that Trump said he would use the DOJ to get back at anyone who criticized him and prosecuted him, thus doing what he claims the current administration is doing illegally (which it isn't).
 
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F1fan

Veteran Member
Mock Turtle said:
I wouldn't necessarily come down on either side as to this being real or a metaphor, but doing such things is just rather dangerous and prone to inciting others to actions - as to which who knows? So, much like not bringing guns to demonstrations - where deaths might then occur - just don't do this kind of thing. Or else it might tend to get misinterpreted - but then that is so often the Trumpy approach.
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Good point. How many of the overly emotional rioters saw that noose and believed it was to be used to kill members of the government?
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Twilight Hue said:
Yep. And WOW! Just like the Democrats, and their guillotine positioned outside the Whitehouse.

www.newsweek.com

Protesters Put Life-Size Trump Doll in Guillotine Outside White House

In protests following the Republican National Convention's closing night at the White House, some protesters made an effigy of the president for a dramatic demonstration.
www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com

Ahem. .. to echo the alarmist Op quote by @fantome profane ....


"Do not listen to anyone who tells you this was not real. Do not listen to anyone who tells you this can't happen again. And do not forget this happened".

The guillotine is real!
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Real?
It must be tested.
Do you know the story from the French revolution
of the the priest, the drunkard, the engineer, & the guillotine?

An Engineer and the Guillotine Joke

An Engineer and the Guillotine Joke: They were leading a priest, a drunkard and an engineer to the guillotine. Theyasked the priest if he wanted to face up or down when he met his fate.... the joke is just one of many funny jokes on Joke Buddha!
www.jokebuddha.com
 
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