US politics general thread

[rietrot]

Oh, you must not have been following the James Gunn/Sam Seder/Will Sommer things then... Mike Cernovich has been leading the charge on weaponising social media to suit the alt-reich for ages now.

No. I know nothing about that. The alt-right are quite libertarian so it isn't in their nature to censor people, they even tolerate Nazis.

 

[greg0205]

No. I know nothing about that. The alt-right are quite libertarian so it isn't in their nature to censor people, they even tolerate Nazis.

Nope, they're nazis. "Alt-right" is gaming the Overton Window to move nazism from unthinkable to radical.

Anyway, here's Pizzagate Mike getting folk fired for ten year old social media posts. Trigger warning, its from HuffPo

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-cernovich-james-gunn-fired_us_5b5265cce4b0fd5c73c570ac

 

[rietrot]

Nope, they're nazis. "Alt-right" is gaming the Overton Window to move nazism from unthinkable to radical.

Anyway, here's Pizzagate Mike getting folk fired for ten year old social media posts. Trigger warning, its from HuffPo

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-cernovich-james-gunn-fired_us_5b5265cce4b0fd5c73c570ac

So they're already competing. Good lol.
You know when you play identity politics tge Nazis will win right?


I wonder why the actors were all protesting to have the Gaurdians of galaxy guy returned to his job. Now I get it he is on the right team so he can say the wrong stuff. Same as NY times editor women.

 

[greg0205]

So they're already competing. Good lol.
You know when you play identity politics tge Nazis will win right?

So you're saying nazis play identity politics. Hmmm... Interesting deviation from the liberal identity politics line y'all have held for so long.

Also, no they won't. Exibit A, the Unite the Right rally yesterday where fewer folk turned up for the nazis than you'll see in the queue ahead of you the next time you go to McDonalds.

 

[rietrot]

So you're saying nazis play identity politics. Hmmm... Interesting deviation from the liberal identity politics line y'all have held for so long.

Also, no they won't. Exibit A, the Unite the Right rally yesterday where fewer folk turned up for the nazis than you'll see in the queue ahead of you the next time you go to McDonalds.

Nobody has ever claimed that nazism isn't identity politics the same as the left does it.

Don't get ahead of yourself. The Nazis will show up when it counts. This weekend didn't count for anything.

 

[greg0205]

Nobody has ever claimed that nazism isn't identity politics the same as the left does it.

Don't get ahead of yourself. The Nazis will show up when it counts. This weekend didn't count for anything.

Interesting.

You know rietrot, I say things like, "they'll show up when it counts" about the Springboks, the Lions, Liverpool and such. Its a reverence I have as a fan.

You just used it about nazis.

 

[rietrot]

Interesting.

You know rietrot, I say things like, "they'll show up when it counts" about the Springboks, the Lions, Liverpool and such. Its a reverence I have as a fan.

You just used it about nazis.

I would prefer if society don't degenerate to that level of tribalism, but if it should I'm not confused about the fact that I'm a white male and will be on that side.

 

[greg0205]

I would prefer if society don't degenerate to that level of tribalism, but if it should I'm not confused about the fact that I'm a white male and will be on that side.

I'm sure white women will be devastated by this loss.

 

[cerebus]

I'm not confused about the fact that I'm a white male and will be on that side.

:wtf: I mean none of us have ever really doubted that you were a racist at heart, but what did your mother do to you?

 

[Unhappy438]

I would prefer if society don't degenerate to that level of tribalism, but if it should I'm not confused about the fact that I'm a white male and will be on that side.

Wait, you're a male

 

[rietrot]

I'm sure white women will be devastated by this loss.

Another mistake the lefties make. They don't realise all the women aren't on their side.

 

[greg0205]

Another mistake the lefties make. They don't realise all the women aren't on their side.

Luckily the Penny Sparrow and Vicki Momberg pool isn't deep.

 

[greg0205]

Psst... Trump stans... Your smartest-man-in-the-room-3D-chess-master has trouble with...

Clocks

Several times in the first year of his administration, President Donald Trump wanted to call Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the middle of the afternoon. But there was a problem. Midafternoon in Washington is the middle of the night in Tokyo — when Abe would be fast asleep.

Trump’s aides had to explain the issue, which one diplomatic source said came up on “a constant basis,” but it wasn’t easy.

“He wasn’t great with recognizing that the leader of a country might be 80 or 85 years old and isn’t going to be awake or in the right place at 10:30 or 11 p.m. their time,” said a former Trump NSC official. “When he wants to call someone, he wants to call someone. He’s more impulsive that way. He doesn’t think about what time it is or who it is,” added a person close to Trump.

In the case of Abe and others, Trump’s NSC staffers would advise him, for instance, that “the time is messed up, it’s 1 o’clock in the morning” and promise to put the call on his calendar for a more diplomatically appropriate time. Former national security adviser H.R. McMaster would assure him: “We can try to set it up.”

and maps...

In one case, Trump, while studying a briefer’s map of South Asia ahead of a 2017 meeting with India’s prime minister, mispronounced Nepal as “nipple” and laughingly referred to Bhutan as “button,” according to two sources with knowledge of the meeting.../


/... Trump’s apparent ignorance about world affairs, geography and leaders has also repeatedly emerged in internal staff meetings. Ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s June 2017 White House visit, Trump asked his national security aides whether Modi would be bringing along his wife. Staffers explained that Modi has long been estranged from his wife. “Ah, I think I can set him up with somebody,” Trump joked, according to two people briefed on the meeting. It was in that same meeting that Trump appeared confused by Nepal and Bhutan, which lie sandwiched between India and China.

“He didn’t know what those were. He thought it was all part of India,” said one person familiar with the meeting. “He was like, ‘What is this stuff in between and these other countries?’”

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/13/trump-world-knowledge-diplomatic-774801

 

[RanzB]

"Hitler was right" poltiician wins Missouri primary. Anyone wanna guess which party he's running for?

 

[The_Assimilator]

"Hitler was right" poltiician wins Missouri primary. Anyone wanna guess which party he's running for?

F**k, I cannot BEGIN to guess.

 

[Techne]

Mmm, Nazi Republicans or Socialist Democrats...
Both authoritarian crazy crackpots.
Socialism: responsible for 10s of millions of dead people, mostly white Christians.
Nazis: responsible millions of deaths, mostly Jews.
Damn, Americans are screwed.

One thing is certain, the Nazis are just as screwed in the head as the socialists.

 

[buka001]

Mmm, Nazi Republicans or Socialist Democrats...
Both authoritarian crazy crackpots.
Socialism: responsible for 10s of millions of dead people, mostly white Christians.
Nazis: responsible millions of deaths, mostly Jews.
Damn, Americans are screwed.

One thing is certain, the Nazis are just as screwed in the head as the socialists.

And lets not forget the death toll from Capitalism.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

No, you just have your head in the sand with the other SJW like that NYT bimbo spouting nonsense like "racism is power+prejudice".

No, you just have your head in the sand with the other right-wing SJWs spouting nonsense like "only racism against white people exists".

"All forms" is the genuine liberal position.

Yes, in a vacuum, that would be correct. And it is a good position.

But this isn't a vacuum, and there's history and context involved, which you know.

Its not why he was de-platformed, everyone with a brain knows that, the guy is extremely controversial. It is what he was de-platformed for. They have been OK with the stuff he has been posting for years. Why now?

Probably because he incited harassment of Sandy Hook victim's parents, including people who can't even visit their children's graves, and other people who've had to move house twice. Or the guy who took a gun into a pizza restaurant and menaced patrons...

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An SS tattoo, is not a Nazi symbol?

Your article is about someone completely different, sporting a completely different tattoo? Relevance?

Feel free to address the actual SS tattoo in question, then maybe we can have an intelligent discussion on the topic. Until then keep trying I guess?

Alan has a habit of "missing" a lot of the obvious racism and bigotry that goes around in MAGA-land.

Judging by some of your posts you've bought those supplements too late.

Or he's been taking them for a long time...

 

[OrbitalDawn]

President Trump pledged to protect service members and vets.

At the behest of the bankers, Trump's consumer chief, Mick Mulvaney, is quietly halting oversight of predatory lenders who prey on soldiers and their families, per internal docs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/us/politics/mulvaney-military-lending.html

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Techne]

And lets not forget the death toll from Capitalism.

The monetary system is probably biggest killer. A toxic combination of usury, central banks and big government whether it is capitalistic or socialist or whatever.