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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#258576: Oct 24th 2018 at 9:50:05 AM

CNN just broke that former AG Eric Holder had a device mailed to him. Though that may be the same one as the first Florida case.

That puts us at, what, six or seven targets now?

Edited by sgamer82 on Oct 24th 2018 at 10:50:59 AM

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#258577: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:02:41 AM

Maybe that's why republicans are so effective at voting campaigns.

It's exactly why Republicans are so effective at voting campaigns. Their transparent fear-mongering works. That's why they do it. By presenting every election to their voterbase as "Only YOU and YOUR VOTE stands between America and COMPLETE SATANIC LIBERAL ANARCHY," they terrify their voterbase into turning out.

Democrats have the opposite problem. It's similar to the Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires problem with the middle-class: Democratic voters are a Temporarily Embarrassed Majority Party. They approach the progress of liberal values as a sure thing, something that is guaranteed to take place by the narrative course of the world.

The good guys will win, the Nazis will be taken down, it will all work out in the end. So why bother voting? A lot of people with liberal views are in their 20's, fresh out of school and still living in the emotional bubble that says that someone's looking out for them. They don't grasp the personal responsibility that is the right to vote. They don't have the life experience to grow into their adulthood yet.

This attitude that vaguely-defined authority figures will just take care of everything is ultimately reinforced whenever there are news articles and discussions talking about an upcoming Democratic win as if it's already set in stone. It just reinforces the idea that their vote isn't needed, that it doesn't matter, that they have more important things to do than participate in democracy.

It says to them that democracy doesn't need them. That they can do more good waving a sign on a college campus than filling out a ballot.

It's like...I can't remember what it's called, but there's a phenomenon wherein a person who sees someone being mugged is more likely to call the police if there are fewer people with them. When more people also witness the event, it's easier to decide that someone else is taking care of it and there's no reason for you to get involved.

The Democratic turnout problem is the political equivalent of that. Young voters see the Republicans mugging America, and they also see everyone else around them getting upset about it. So they deduce that someone else will surely vote the Republicans out.

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#258578: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:04:56 AM

[up]The Bystander Effect?

Those sell-by-dates won't stop me because I can't read!
Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#258579: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:05:13 AM

It might sound odd but I am kind of relieved. It was only a matter of time before someone would be pushed up enough by all the poisonous rhetoric to actually act on it. That nobody died so far is a better outcome than I hoped for, and there is a sliver of hope that this might serve as a wake-up call for some.

Edited by Swanpride on Oct 24th 2018 at 10:05:29 AM

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#258580: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:07:02 AM

[up]I honestly am not sure that wake up call will happen unless someone does die, to tell the truth.

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#258581: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:15:42 AM

People love being in their bubbles, of going through their daily routine of waking up, going to work, coming home, scroll social media liking cat pics and funny videos, paying bills, and spending time with their family to do it all over again, not thinking about the world around them

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#258582: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:16:20 AM

If nobody dies, then it's only a matter of time before the Republicans start crying "FALSE FLAG FALSE FLAG" and blaming the Democrats for bombing themselves.

If somebody does die, then it's only a matter of time before the Republicans start crying "FALSE FLAG FALSE FLAG" and blaming the Democrats for bombing themselves. While also writing elaborate conspiracy theories about how the person who died was killed because he was going to reveal the secret Democrat conspiracy. And also he's not really dead and is totally working with the Obamaluminati to undermine Trump from within the White House.

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#258583: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:19:33 AM

@Forth Spartan: For all we know, 538 still hasn't included early voting in their data yet.

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#258584: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:20:37 AM

After the right wing crackheads claimed that Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax, the kinds were alive, the parents were all actors and this was all a conspiracy to take away the 2th A.

You can expect them to go lower and lower.

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#258585: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:21:14 AM

[up][up][up] And I'd also bet that some of these theories will also mention either Aliens, "Q" or both.

Edited by MorningStar1337 on Oct 24th 2018 at 10:21:36 AM

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#258586: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:23:09 AM

[up][up][up][up]Either that or they blame antifa. Because they blame antifa for just about everything.

Never underestimate how batshit conspiracy theorists get. It's how we still have moon landing deniers and flat earthers and...I could go on and on.

Edited by M84 on Oct 25th 2018 at 1:24:13 AM

Disgusted, but not surprised
NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#258587: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:40:41 AM

So the package that was sent to the San Diego newspaper building was full of children books, chips, and a football

So at least this one was alright. Feel bad to whoever sent that package though.

As for the President? Well Mike Pence gave a fairly long tweet condemning these bomb threats. And all Trump did was piggyback off that by saying "I agree wholeheartedly"

Fuck him

Edited by NoName999 on Oct 24th 2018 at 10:42:58 AM

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#258588: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:41:51 AM

At least the worst thing they're apparently guilty of is bad timing.

Edited by sgamer82 on Oct 24th 2018 at 11:42:02 AM

Friendperson Since: May, 2018
#258589: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:42:36 AM

The Qanon thing always absolutely baffled me. How did people get anything of notice from those gibberish posts?

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#258590: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:42:37 AM

So we’re up to, what, eight “suspicious packages” and confirmed explosive devices? Soros, Clinton, Obama, CNN, the one that got retuned to Florida, the one in California, New York governor, and congressional mail room in Maryland?

[up][up][up] Okay, seven.

Edited by Bur on Oct 24th 2018 at 12:43:14 PM

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#258591: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:42:55 AM

Saw a report saying that the bomb sent to Holder had a wrong address so it was sent to DWS since it had her office as the return address.

"Many, if not all, of the packages contained the return address of Wasserman Schultz's office."

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#258592: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:44:03 AM

An interesting article about classism in elections.

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#258593: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:45:33 AM

It occurs to me, have any of these packages been confirmed to actually be dangerous?

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#258594: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:48:00 AM

Now a package apparently was sent to Maxine Waters, according to reporters from ABC on Twitter

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NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#258595: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:52:56 AM

Congresswoman Maxine Waters got a suspicious package

It's kind of strange that Nancy Pelosi, of all people, didn't get one yet. Not that I'm complaining.

Edited by NoName999 on Oct 24th 2018 at 10:54:42 AM

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#258596: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:55:13 AM

I assume any packages sent to former presidents are never actually received by them due to fear of what someone might send them

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#258597: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:58:02 AM

All former Presidents get lifetime Secret Service protection; mail screening is one of the basic security measures they use.

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Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#258598: Oct 24th 2018 at 11:03:50 AM

You know, it is high time that someone makes a list out of all the right wing terrorist attacks which happened in the last years. It might be an eye opener to see them all at once. And the dead toll attached to them.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#258599: Oct 24th 2018 at 11:06:18 AM

In an odd way to take the edge off, this is making my want to listen to The Last Podcast on the Left two parter on the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski

Edited by sgamer82 on Oct 24th 2018 at 12:08:21 PM

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#258600: Oct 24th 2018 at 11:10:39 AM

[up][up]Might be difficult, especially if you account for Sovereign Citizen style incidents (which aren't always politically motivated, but result in radicals who think they don't have to obey the law escalating situations way past the point of reason).

Edited by Rationalinsanity on Oct 24th 2018 at 3:10:48 PM

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