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On 4/14/2024 11:42 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>> On Apr 9, 2024 at 6:15:20 PM PDT, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 4/9/24 12:46 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>> On Apr 9, 2024 at 6:53:43 AM PDT, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 4/6/24 2:37 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> 
>>>>>> . . .
> 
>>>>>> And you still haven't explained why Biden hasn't denounced any of them,
>>>>>> since he's decreed that denouncing political violence is the duty of
>>>>>> every president.
> 
> [Fred Phelps citing headline]
>>>>>> Fact check: Joe Biden has condemned Antifa, violent protests
> 
>>>> Wait, I thought Antifa didn't exist? Now you're claiming it does and that
>>>> Biden has condemned them?
> 
>>>> Wow. Baby steps, I guess.
> 
>>>> Or do they only exist to the extent you can win on Usenet today?
> 
>>> It exists as a concept, but not as an organization.
> 
>> LOL! So it was a concept that was trying to burn down the federal courthouse
>> every night in Portland during the 2020 Summer of Love, was it?
> 
> I'm so confused about Fred Phelps' position here. These large-scale
> protests that included violence, arson, and vandalism were organized
> through Twitter by people forwarding tweets. An "organization" is a body
> that organizes something. A protest was organized by those tweeting. The
> fact that they worked in concert is what made them an organization, even
> without being organized as a corporation, partnership, or unincorporated
> society with charters and bylaws and other organic documents. Working
> together by passing the word along is what made them an organization.
> 
> It exists as a means of organizing among those doing the organizing.
> This is actual, not conceptual. Working together toward a common purpose
> is all that's necessary to be an organization.

So, a lynch mob is an organization.  Start spreading the noose...