Airbnb Blocks DC Reservations Around Inauguration (axios.com) 95
Airbnb said Wednesday it is canceling existing reservations and blocking new ones in the Washington, D.C., area during inauguration week as federal officials remain on alert for potential violence. Axios reports: Airbnb says the move is in response to requests from local, state and federal officials asking people not to travel to D.C. for President-elect Biden's inauguration. Guests whose reservations are canceled will receive refunds and Airbnb says it will reimburse hosts' lost earnings.
"We are aware of reports emerging yesterday afternoon regarding armed militias and known hate groups that are attempting to travel and disrupt the Inauguration," the company said in its announcement. Airbnb also said it has banned from its platform numerous individuals it has learned that are "either associated with known hate groups or otherwise involved in the criminal activity at the Capitol Building."
"We are aware of reports emerging yesterday afternoon regarding armed militias and known hate groups that are attempting to travel and disrupt the Inauguration," the company said in its announcement. Airbnb also said it has banned from its platform numerous individuals it has learned that are "either associated with known hate groups or otherwise involved in the criminal activity at the Capitol Building."
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Guests whose reservations are canceled will receive refunds and Airbnb says it will reimburse hosts' lost earnings.
I get not reading the article, but is it really too much to ask that you read the summary?
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... "let's fuck all our customers that were already planning on going to the inauguration with days left. Not only that, we'll fuck our renters, too. Too bad if our customers already had plane/train tickets."
I don't understand why Air BnB let this become their problem.
Re:Why not just say ... (Score:4, Insightful)
Because Corporate America wants to make it very, very clear to Republicans what they think of a party that supports a fucking coup. Coup is bad for business. First thing fascists do when they come to power is seize businesses folks who did not support them wholeheartedly, to give to their supporters. They have shit-canned book deals, killed speaking engagements, stopped donations, and basically done everything in their power to help the few sane republicans realize, they need to stop this.
Given the level of support corporate America has shown conservatives in the past, I hope this helps you all understand what a clear red line you've crossed here. It's all fun and games until someone threatens the billionaires revenue stream.
And to be frank, an attempted coup is everyone's problem.
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Because Corporate America wants to make it very, very clear to Republicans what they think of a party that supports a fucking coup. Coup is bad for business. First thing fascists do when they come to power is seize businesses folks who did not support them wholeheartedly, to give to their supporters. They have shit-canned book deals, killed speaking engagements, stopped donations, and basically done everything in their power to help the few sane republicans realize, they need to stop this.
Given the level of support corporate America has shown conservatives in the past, I hope this helps you all understand what a clear red line you've crossed here. It's all fun and games until someone threatens the billionaires revenue stream.
And to be frank, an attempted coup is everyone's problem.
Also, word is the backers that funded all the lodging and transportation for the 1/6 rally have, understandably, said "y'all're on your own" on this one for people who still think it's a good idea to head to DC this weekend.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug... [dailydot.com]
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/1... [cnbc.com]
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Because I am so sure the vast vast majority of people running airbnb rental properties in the widely left leaning Washington burbs are Republicans, and I am equally sure the vast majority of people wanting to attend Joe Bidens inauguration are Republicans - oh wait that is probably totally wrong.
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As long as it makes it more difficult for fascists to kill freedom loving Americans, I'm totally okay with it.
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I lived in the DC 'burbs for the last 37 years before retiring last year. Yes, it is majority Dem, but still 40+ percent Republican.
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A failed coup is still a coup. They brought gallows. They wanted to destroy the democratic process.
They even turned on their own party members.
Rioters were chanting "Hang Mike Pence!"
This is often the way with violent Coups toward authoritarian governments and even happens with violent change towards democratic government. I'll avoid Godwinning myself by leaving you to research the history of the SA and the Night of the Long Knives, but almost every violent revolution ends up with parts of the winning side killing off other parts of the winning side.
After the French revolution there was the Reign of Terror towards the end of which leaders of the revolution like Maximilien Robespierre [wikipedia.org] en
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Except there is clear and documented evidence, and people are going to jail for it in large numbers. Get outside your disinformation bubble and start reading some "radical lefty" news sources like Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and Business Insider, lol.
Rudy Giuliani called for "trial by combat" in the pre-coup rally. Trump and his spawn called for violence multiple times. The insurrectionists brought bombs, Molotov's, guns, knives, and those special zip tie handcuffs. The panic buttons in democratic offi
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You don't get to make up your own definition of words and expect everyone else to automatically accept them. If you want 'fascist' to mean something completely different than it has since the 1930s you have a lot of ground work to do before you're going to convince anyone else to follow your lead.
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b. A sudden appropriation of leadership or power; a takeover: a boardroom coup.
Yup, seems about right [thefreedictionary.com]. An attempted coup it was since Biden won both the popular vote and the Electoral College vote, and these terrorists were attempting to overthrow that victory.
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Yup, seems about right [thefreedictionary.com]. An attempted coup it was since Biden won both the popular vote and the Electoral College vote, and these terrorists were attempting to overthrow that victory.
With what? Their bare hands and some pepper spray? Seriously, I denounce all the violence that occurred, but to call this a coup is laughable hyperbole. Aside from one Capital Police officer who was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher, all the fatalities where the idiots who tried to get in. You can't claim a coup attempt because someone used a fire extinguisher.
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Give the hyperbole a rest, will you? I would hardly call a bunch of rubes trespassing into the legislature a "coup." Who was going to be the self-appointed Senate leader? Buffalo Guy? A coup, a real coup, is almost always done by the higher levels of a nation's government or business [wikipedia.org], not by the plebes. Study some history, such as the attempted 1991 Soviet coup [britannica.com] or 20th century Argentina [wikipedia.org] before talking out your nether orifice.
If anybody is trying to pull off a coup, it's the Democrats given that they've trie
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No, you're thinking of what your side did to Obama. Merrick Garland remembers. You cheat, we don't, that's just the facts.
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While what McConnel did was wrong, Garland was never going to win the Senate vote anyway.
You cheat, we don't, that's just the facts.
Now you're just being ignorant.
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Garland was a top pick by both sides. Back in the days when Republicans were not pure evil, they lauded him. So why do you think he was never going to win the nomination? For god's sake, it's supposed to be pro-forma.
As for cheating, yes, I count purging the voter rolls as cheating. Here, LMGTFY: https://www.google.com/search?... [google.com]
See, that's proven, unlike your side's baseless allegations, which keep getting thrown out of court. Point me to ONE proven case of voter fraud that is in the 100,00+ range, like t
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I didn't say he wasn't qualified. But, all indications were that they were not going to give him the thumbs up. Mother Jones even had a list of those who said they wouldn't vote for him even before there was a hearing.
Listen, I'm willing to discuss any issue you please, but not if you want to blame everyone who didn't vote D, and claim I'm siding with evil. Trump was the first R nominee that I didn't vote for in over 40 years of voting (and I just voted for the D governor of my state). I'll be happy to
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Democrats and Republicans both support corporatism and the military industrial complex. Both use wedge issues to rally their base, (abortion, guns, and identity politics) while ignoring their own bases policy preferences whenever those preferences butt up against the demands of the donor class. Medicare for All is fairly universally popular with voters. Lowering taxes on the rich is not. Guess which policy position gets bipartisan support?
The difference is that Democrats kneecap their left wing while Republ
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What weapons, some pepper spray? The only non-rioter killed was a Capital Policeman who was hit with a fire extinguisher. Still not a coup attempt, thanks for playing.
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I would hardly call a bunch of rubes trespassing into the legislature a "coup".
Would you prefer "rebellion"?
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Probably because they don't want to be in any way responsible for further acts of sedition.
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... "let's fuck all our customers that were already planning on going to the inauguration with days left.
We literally have 20k armed National Guard troops walking around DC right now, not just at government sites but on street corners. Now probably ain't the best time to go sight seeing in DC.
For the record, we didn't have DC locked down like this after 9/11.
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What makes that comment all the more interesting is the whining we're hearing from Republicans in the House. Now that they have to go through metal detectors they're suddenly concerned about being treated like criminals, yet have no problem treating everyone in the country like criminals when they want to fly via metal detectors, scanners, pat downs, etc. Because, you know, one event changes everything and we need to protect everyone a
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Who's whining...names please.
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Okay then, thank you. +1 Informative
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Nor would it have made sense to do so then. There weren't thousands of armed people to be fought off then, nor did it seem likely that there would be. Troops aren't going to be great at identifying the suicide bomber in a crowd. But there is a possibility that 20,000 troops can be used in the next couple of days to either discourage or repel thousands of armed idiots.
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He got the most votes of anyone in American history.
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Or more Democrats listen to doctors, scientists, and other experts... and avoid traveling and gathering in the middle of a fucking pandemic.
I'm sorry, but if you can't grasp the most basic and obvious cause-effect relationship at play, you're either very stupid or drowning yourself in the Koolaid.
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Any excuse for low turn out at the Biden inauguration.
Ah ha! The 4D chess finally makes sense! This whole thing was an attempt by Trump to ensure that Biden's inauguration crowd is smaller than his!
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I would think winning an election with over 81 million votes would mean there is a good degree of popular support.
Inauguration size says about nothing about the president. We had an issue because Trump Just lied saying his Inauguration was the biggest with it was objectively not, then having "Alternative Facts" as a response. Also if it is raining snowing, or very cold, in January in DC, that can effect the numbers.
Being the fact that Biden is saying, that you probably should stay away from the Inaugura
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You would think wrong. Nobody with a clue voted FOR Biden. They voted for "not Trump".
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It doesn't matter whether they voted for Biden or against Trump. 80 million did, which is more than Trump got. Biden won. Get over it.
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That's been the only choice in every presidential election since 1984.
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Well Trump won in 2016, because they voted "Not Clinton"
They are very few presidents who the people are really excited to see in office. Normally the candidate that we really like will not get past the primaries.
Why is that? Well we all have a very precise sets of needs and wants. But what You may need and feel that you want the government to do or not do, is often very different than what someone else does, even if they subscribe to the same party.
Biden is a middle of the road guy. Which I feel is the Pre
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Yep. I am a 10 minute walk away from DC, I'm a Biden supporter, and I'm not going anywhere near there due to COVID.
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Yep. I am a 10 minute walk away from DC, I'm a Biden supporter, and I'm not going anywhere near there due to COVID.
Hell, I live in one of the contested states and I was tempted to take my wife into the city for her birthday this weekend, but her birthday in on Sunday the 17th. Not going anywhere near downtown that day.
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The tears you and the rest of your traitorous kind are displaying, including over the utter failure for the stupid China accusations to gain any traction, is hilarious. Cry more.
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Christ, you guys never give up. There was no steal; Biden beat Trump by 7,000,000+ votes, won the electoral college. And any restrictions now are directly because of the insurrectionists who tried to seize Congress last week. But just keep playing the "oh poor us". All you've done, oh brave AC, is mark yourself among the seditionists.
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Take your gaslighting somewhere else, you cheated AND STILL LOST.
No conspiracy theory needed to explain why a Amoral, Corrupt, Lying, Criminal, lost an election that he was already CAUGHT CHEATING IN.
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No steal.
None.
Go back to your hole.
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I agree there was no steal. But I also agree there was no attempted coup.
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right exactly that is what I am saying you little snot. Not everyone should vote. Voting should be hard. Voting should be available to all but reserved for those willing to invest a little in the process. Having every nitwit cast a ballot like its American Idol or something isnt actually good for democracy in terms of our decision making.
And yes when the refs change the rules of play after the game has started - that is cheating, that is theft in every other context normal people would see it that way. Wh
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Wow, so we're stuck with an incoming administration barely adequate to fix the problems the outgoing one created and you intend to make it even more likely that we'll stay on the current downward spiral? I've lived in Third World countries, you won't like it here when we reach that level.
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La La land isn't just a musical starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling.
You've been lied to. Time to regurgitate whatever pill you swallowed and face reality.
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As a life long conservative, let me just say this. You can't point to any single state where anything would have changed the result. Yes, even those questionable rules changes would not have changed the outcome, though we should follow up and get those anomalies corrected so they don't reoccur. If you really don't understand that Trump lost the EC, and it was his own damn fault, you've been blinded by some extreme right echo chamber, and not paying attention.
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There is absolutely no evidence to suggest the rule changes did not impact the outcome. Got had facts on what part of the mail in vs in person ballot Trump got? No right you don;t.
You're a dope. Falling for the their BS
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Please point to the evidence, or admit that you don't have it, and have been duped.
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There was a steal. Polls have clearly shown that a significant portion of Democrats would not have voted for Biden (or at all) if they had known about what the ongoing investigations into the Biden families business dealings.
There is more than one way to steal an election, and we've see the propaganda going full swing.
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No, they won't give up, because their Lord and Savior Trump told them not to. They will go to their graves 50 years from now still demanding that Trump be dug up and re-instated before it's too late!
Basically, never argue with an idiot, it's a waste of your time and it only annoys the idiot. (yes, I know I need follow that rule as well)
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It is hard to come up with the words to describe how monumentally stupid you are. Biden is not President. Biden hasn't done any of this. Everyone else has, because they're offended at stupid traitors.
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Americans are being rounded up for sedition.
FTFY.
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Trump would call you "very fine people"? He almost did, he just said he loved them and they were very special.
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And guess what? It is all happening under Trump's watch. HE triggered this, not Biden.
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Americans are not rounded up for "wrongthink", they are rounded up for trespassing and sedition after violently breaking into Capitol Hill and openly threatening to kill politicians. Death threats has never been protected speech. The funny thing is, because of their opposition to wearing masks, they can all be easily identified.
As for businesses deciding not to do business with people they don't like, this has been a true republican cause for some time. When businesses didn't want to serve customers they di
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Nobody here wants the traitors in town. And they're closing streets around the White House.
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Oh God, don't bring Randy Quaid insanity into this!
Tragedy averted (Score:2)
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Nah. Who am I kidding? Donald doesn't want that riff-raff in one of his hotels.
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classic PRIMING (Score:1)
sounds like priming...
they've been talking about these threats to Biden's inauguration since at least September. First it was that they don't have enough support for people to show up and it'll be a MAGA rally, now its under attack and they need 20:1 troops to attendees. yet... not one person can find evidence of a group organizing?
but they must be, because everyone said so?
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Have you been living in a bubble? They've been planning to attack the inauguration since it became clear that their attempts to keep people from voting weren't working, and they've been doing it out in the open. There were discussions on Facebook, Twitter, Parler, the Daily Stormer, 4Chan, 8Chan, conservative media comment pages, pretty much anywhere they can get other idiots to listen to them. They've been talking about their fearful leader's plan to expose the Satanic pedophile cannibals of the ruling
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OK then..
Can you point me to a link? Because my search is revealing nothing other than a few loons. I'm especially interested in the. Gov pages calling for an attack