Fascism has been awakened, and doesn't want to go back to sleep

Discussion in 'Political Opinions & Beliefs' started by Balto, Jul 18, 2019.

  1. Spim

    Spim Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It seems that way sometimes, as i've stated many times before, i'm not dismissing racism, I know it exists, but for the past few years and especially the past few months the parade of "examples" that the media and the left have brought out has been a parade of failures for the most part, just awful and embarrassing. Smollett, the churches, the vandalism, the hoax stories, evidences of real actual racism seem to be so few and far between that people should be praised for the progress!

    Time and time again they start the narrative about one scenario or another like "shot in his own back yard" then after the message sets in then they toss out the Real Story and its like 'well dam, that explains it" Its frustrating to the max and my biggest complaint is that it takes away from the real issues. What we end up is people getting the attitude that the fake and BS media ***** storms outnumber the real cases of racism and we begin to dismiss everything.

    The whole nike store thing is a good example, I mean seriously, show your receipt and move on, why the fk do people have to make a big fuss about stuff? Don't like the speaker, just don't attend the speech, don't like the tweets, don't follow X on twitter, hate the charlottesville guys, don't attend the rally, Why is it necessary to get all friggen vigilante?

    I do find it comical that the two biggest corporate media ***** storms have lately been starbux and nike, the left at times seems to literally be eating their own, its so bizarre.

    I've pretty much given up on nike, dicks sporting goods, starbux, levi's jeans, no protest no signs, no social media, I just stopped buying their stuff.
     
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  2. TomFitz

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    After reading your post, I’m quite sure you were much more comfortable in the town that Jerry Falwell dominated than you were in a blue dot like Charlottesville.

    It is amazing to watch Trumpsters try and pretend that “Charlottesville” wasn’t about “white nationalism” (racism in whiteface), when just a few months ago they were trying to defend white supremacists by pretending that they were merely “nationalist” (albeit with flags of a non existant country).
     
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    No, there was no reason to incite riots over a statue.

    So, why did the white supremacists descend on Charlottesville with that purpose in mind?

    Most of them, including the one who drove his car into a crowd, had to look at a map to find out where Charlottesville is.
     
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    I'm Jewish. I turned away Jerry's army of door knockers quite often.

    I was very comfortable in Charlottesville for the numerous years I spent there. Charlottesville was never a blue dot. We didn't protest the war until the Kent State massacre. We didn't have snowflakes complaining that Jefferson was looking down from Monticello at HIS University. The radicals in city hall decided not to honor the man responsible for them even having a city hall. Without UVA, Charlottesville would be a field and a barn to house their Angus herd.
     
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    They went to protest an incitement, the destruction of a historical monument. You don't have to be a white supremacist to disagree with tearing down an historical artifact. Ask the history student who went to protest the unnecessary incitement and was targeted for being there. Anifa Democrats went downtown for a fight and without a permit..
     
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    Charlottesville is yet another blue dot. Virginia was home to the confederacy and now is Democrat-controlled. Time is not on your side.
     
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    BTW. Do you own a mirror? Did you notice how prone you are to stereotyping? How would you classify your narrow mindedness? A nuclear engineer in the home of Babcock & Wilcox's nuclear division must be a Baptist because Jerry Falwell's church is there.
     
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    Democrat then, Democrat now. Little has changed. I take that back. My first year the catalog showed 9000 male students and 1 female student. There were women's schools 60 miles in every direction. Now, no doubt there are alot of urinals growing flowers.
     
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    Lefties can dish it out but they cant take it
     
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    Yeah, Hillary did rob Bernie hard, and everyone kept pretty quiet about it.

    And where is Bernie these days?

    Labor fight roils Bernie Sanders campaign, as workers demand the $15 hourly pay the candidate has proposed for employees nationwide.

    Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.
     
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    carlosofcali Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Democrats evolved, have you? Every election becomes another disappointment, huh?
     
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    I guess we are all in agreement with this post. That is as it should be. It is difficult to argue with reality.

     
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    Well, you say "racial undertones", but what it looks like is just that you have chosen to interpret it that way. Undertones means YOU are reading something into it.
    You even admit that if this were white people, you wouldn't really care, because that isn't racist. Therefore, you already know there is a non racist context which is possible. You have chosen to make their non white status the most important factor, when nothing really indicated to do so.

    Just consider this: You are saying to ignore the complaining and look at the race and national origin. However, if you DO look at the complaining, you will find these women often complaining about MY race and national origin. Why is it OK for them to constantly bad mouth white men and the US, but I am expected to extend absolute cultural sensitivity at all times to the person insulting me? Why would I? You don't see hypocrisy for these people to whine about a lack of sensitivity? And really, if you think this country is a racist, sexist, white supremacist country, then you should go. Visit the world and learn how silly you sound.
     
  14. Balto

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    I'm sure lefties wouldn't like to see Washington begin to show fascist tendencies either, but its where we are in our country.
     
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    Regardless of political affiliation, you can draw the racial connection between a person of color and telling them to go back to their own country. It's no different than trying to say Obama wasn't born here. A racial connection was drawn in birtherism, this is no different. These women are still part of a minority. I feel its fitting to say this again. There is no law saying you have to be white, speak English, and be Christian to be a part of this country. This land wasn't that in the first place anyway.

    I'm a white man, and I can tell you what gives white men bad reps is events like Charlottesville, when you see a bunch of white men chanting to send Omar back to her country, trying to establish white supremacy. So its not as if their criticisms go without a cause.
     
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    Throughout his entire Presidency, Trump has wanted it both ways. He thinks he is being clever. He thinks he's bulletproof because he has all the bases covered.

    Actually, he makes himself look foolish and confused. Combined with his penchant for changing his mind in an instant, Trump seems unable to commit to anything. Even if that means attacking his own fans. "I was not happy with it. I disagree with it," Trump said at the White House a day after his Wednesday rally, attacking those who attended the rally.

    In a tweet today, once again he took both sides.

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    Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump



    As you can see, I did nothing to lead people on, nor was I particularly happy with their chant. Just a very big and patriotic crowd. They love the USA! https://twitter.com/kthopkins/status/1151738558501330945 …

    So, first he says he was not happy with his adoring admirers. Then he defends them by saying they are patriotic.

    "I did nothing to lead people on," Trump lied.

    “They don’t love our country,” he said. “I think, in some cases, they hate our country. You know what? If they don’t love it, tell them to leave it.”

    After Trump reeled off several controversial comments made by Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, including accusations in which he depicted her as sympathetic to Al Qaeda, his adoring admirers began to chant “Send her back.”

    Are these the words of a man of good mental health?
     
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    Omar is an anti-Semitic Fascist and extremely anti-American. Her district leads the nation in terrorist recruitment. The only fascism we are seeing is coming from Democrats and far left groups like ANTIFA that continue to incite violence.
     
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    Trump ridicules everyone ... all 15 Republicans in the primary, Pocahontas, Joe Biden, etc. He’s not racist for calling out the squad for their socialism and anti-Semitic views.
     
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    If individuals do not wish to be told to go back to their own country, then perhaps they should not conduct themselves in a manner that suggests they hate every aspect of the united states, or that they are more concerned with the well being of other countries of which they do not hold political office.

    Individuals being of a minority status does not mean they are exempt from criticism of the beliefs and positions they hold. Such is not how freedom of speech works. If they are free to demonstrate a seething, all-consuming hatred of the united states, the people they address are equally free to tell them to leave.
     
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    It is not racist
     
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    That's right. He is a racist because he told four women of color to go back where they came from.

    Perhaps you are from Texas, and you didn't know that has been a racial slur directed at black people for over 150 years.

    Trump knew that. It is why he said it and why he smiled in approval when his adoring admirers chanted "send her back" immediately after Trump lied about Omar.
     
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    Keep saying that. Eventually you might begin to believe it yourself.

    Right now, in view of events, the sentence sounds pretty stupid.
     
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    It is factual and you know that

    Recent events do not dispute fact

    Deal with it

    You are absolutely proven wrong

    Every statement that the tweet was racist is a proven outright lie
     
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    It is. It has racial undertones connected to it once you connect the dicta.
     
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    Calling politicians out that are in Israel’s interests is not being Anti-Semitic, or Anti-Jewish in general.
     

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