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hoolstoptheheels

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I will absolutely take the other side of that bet. I won’t be here in 50


Years anyway, so you’ll have to deal with my executor.

Nothing in that statement HO quoted indicates that one day was more deadly than another. That one was more serious than another. Just that those dates now signify significant events in our history. Pear Harbor was not about how many Americans died that day. It’s about how many died in WWII. So unless you have more to that quote, I think you are arguing against a point nobody is making. It also has nothing to do with how many Americans were actually involved. It was 100s, if not 1000s, so I don’t know about handful. Doesn’t matter - read the 9/11 report - one of the amazing things is that entire thing was pulled off by well under 100 people - planning and execution. So what, that makes it less serious?

1/6 was the first time in our history that an American mob assaulted the Capitol to intimidate Congress into stopping its activities in confirming our peaceful transition of power. Like those other 2 dates, a distinct, important, unprecedented event on our history. That’s all Harris’s quote means.

I should qualify my 50 year bet - I make that bet assuming we can arrest the deterioration of our democracy currently underway. If not, then it might become to our national memory what the Chinese govt wants Tiananmen Square to become to theirs.
[Post edited by hoolstoptheheels at 01/06/2022 1:49PM]

(In response to this post by HAZER)

Posted: 01/06/2022 at 1:38PM



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