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Soundwave said:

At least John McCain has the balls to call it what it is:

 

Now that's how a president should respond. My respect for that man keeps increasing, too bad he won't be with us for much longer.

 

Meanwhile Donald Dummkopf continues to be a complete disgrace.



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Robert_Downey_Jr. said:

well if you say you don't support them I don't understand why we have to state the obvious.  It's like when politicians make a big deal out of supporting the troops or loving america.  Like "ok you all do" I don't need to hear it 20 times it's just redundant and doesn't give me anything new. 

and besides even if he's doing what you say (which isn't how I'm reading it) they gotta vote for someone so you may as well take their votes and then ignore them

The term you are looking for is virtue signaling.



iron_megalith said:
monocle_layton said:

it's acceptable for these racist pieces of shit to kill others because they realize they're nothing more than retarded pussies. They don't have facts to support themselves, so they just go ahead and hurt others.

Seeing this happen in America is sickening. I hope the dude gets a life sentence for this. He could've killed many more people - thank god it wasn't more than one person. 

 

They talk about free speech, but at the end of the day at least the "super evil" SJW's won't kill you if you disagree with them : 

That's a convenient way of putting it. What makes you say they won't kill you when way back in the electorial campaigns one tried to light a person's hair during a debate?

I will admit I was unfair by what I said. However, there's still a difference between lighting someone's hair and going 40 mph into a large crowd. :/

 

Do I approve of either one? No, but the severity is still different in both scenarios. I dislike racists and ANTIFA, but what I hate more than these groups are violence.

xl-klaudkil said:
All this hate for nothing we are all humans :(

It's unfortunate. We have pure nazis and racists running around as we deal with a rather ugly mess. You never get anything good when you have a group of people who idolize Hitler.

o_O.Q said:
Mar1217 said:

Well, I'll just have to ask VGP then ;) The way she was portraying it let me guess that she was talking about the true definition of communism (or if you prefer, Marxism).

And historically speaking, true communism has never been accomplished on the scale of a country, that's why we call it historical communism. But on a local scale, it has been sucessful. 

 

and what is "true" communism?

True communism is textbook communism I suppose. It sounds good in theory, but unfortunately a government is needed to maintain it. Once you have a government, eventually corruption grows to make it stray away from 'true' communism



WolfpackN64 said:
Slimebeast said:
The left is gonna milk this to no end and take advantage of the fact that for once in a very long while it was a white nationalist guy who commited a deadly terrorist act.

So many people are already indirectly accusing everyone at the rally for being responsible for the death by this car attack, which is nasty and dishonest and extremely hypocritical.

Post about people being driver over by a car.

"the left is gonna milk this".

You know, there's a time and place for everything, but your post is extremely ill-placed. And just for the record, this wasn't a case of a largely peaceful protest with minor incidents. It's a mid-sized protest with a lot of incidents. There might have been some more moderate people amongst the protestors, but it's pretty clear a lot of them are basically a bunch of neo-nazis who have no qualms with throwing punches.

Just stop with your hypocrisy already.



monocle_layton said:
iron_megalith said:

That's a convenient way of putting it. What makes you say they won't kill you when way back in the electorial campaigns one tried to light a person's hair during a debate?

I will admit I was unfair by what I said. However, there's still a difference between lighting someone's hair and going 40 mph into a large crowd. :/

 

Do I approve of either one? No, but the severity is still different in both scenarios. I dislike racists and ANTIFA, but what I hate more than these groups are violence.

xl-klaudkil said:
All this hate for nothing we are all humans :(

It's unfortunate. We have pure nazis and racists running around as we deal with a rather ugly mess. You never get anything good when you have a group of people who idolize Hitler.

o_O.Q said:

 

and what is "true" communism?

True communism is textbook communism I suppose. It sounds good in theory, but unfortunately a government is needed to maintain it. Once you have a government, eventually corruption grows to make it stray away from 'true' communism

 well exactly... the so called "true" communism these people believe in is based on the idea that people at some point will all have the same aims and as a result government will no longer be needed and people will just automatically started working towards the same goal without the need for control

 

its to be frank a silly idea, people will always have different aims and agendas and as a result such a system is impossible meaning that the only way for communism to exst is through a two class system - rulers and ruled as we saw in the soviet union



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Hiku said:
Slimebeast said:

I want to bring another thing up. We don't know the details yet, but there's a chance this murderous attack won't be categorized as terror.

My spontaneous feeling is that this was a spontaneous act by a "lone disturbed young man with serious anger management issues" type of person.

For something to be labeled as terror in its real sense, you really need some other factors, like the act being planned beforehand, the purpose of the act being to spread a disproportionate fear into a more general group of people, and to advance some kind of ideological message or movement.

And I suspect this 20 year old disgusting guy doesn't fullfill anything of this criteria.

It was probably more that he has a background of having sympathized with alt-right politics for a while, while not being organized or socialized with anyone else. It's a person who has felt frustrated and angry for a long while, and in the last 24 hours he felt tense and on the edge, and something among the protestors triggered him emotionally just a few minutes before he decided to crash his car into the crowd.

Yeah, because organized alt-right meetings hosted by the very man who claims to have coined the phrase "alt right" do not errupt into "Hail Trump" "Hail victory" (Sieg Heil) nazi poses?



Of course these people were immediately asked to stop and escorted out of the building....
Just kidding.

They take advantage of gullible people who believe that they're only fighting for a just cause. That's how they frame it in the beginning. They're not going to get many members by promoting violence on Day 1. But they're either brainwashed into it, or they take advantage of the votes of the "peaceful" extreme right wings to grow their real agenda. That's their goal.

And now the closet Nazis are going to throw this driver under the buss in public and pretend that he's an "anomaly". But really, he's an exemplication of the ideal Nazi, a martyr for their cause. Alt-right promotes Nazi. Nazi promotes violence.

The former leader of your party for example was caught singing white supremasist songs, and one where they jokingly mocked the murder of Olof Palme. Why do you think these people are the ones who end up in charge? What do you think they really want to do with the support they get, when this is what they do behind closed doors? Anyone who sings along in a song like that is not a good person. And the agenda of the party is 100x more vicious than the one they present to the public.

Wait a second. The quote you bolded in my post, that's about this car driving terrorist. I'm just speculating that he didn't attend these types of rallies before the protests in Charlotsville. Do you have new information?

And your ridiculous claims that these alt-right leaders like Richard Spencer urge people to commit violence, it's not even worthy of a response.

"Anyone who sings along in a song like that is not a good person." lol, decides who? You? So you completely dismiss black humour?

It's funny that the left portrayes everyone on the right even at the individual level as "evil" persons, but when it comes to people their side committing violence, it's explained away as acts of frustration and discrimination. Hypcrisy.



coolbeans said:
Aura7541 said:
A rather despicable act and the right wing better denounce this extremism as much as the left wing needs to denounce ANTIFA's actions.

...when have they ever felt compelled to do that?  You can literally find some YouTube political videos discussing the justification of 'punching deh natzees' at your own leisure.  Hell, the disparity between MSM's handling of the GOP baseball field shooting and the Gifford's shooting doesn't really show me some honest left-wing willing to apologize, EDIT: or should I say anywhere near the level you're portraying it.

Good point. As far as I know, only New Jersey recognizes ANTIFA as a domestic terrorist organization.



ClassicGamingWizzz said:
Hiku said:

Yeah, because organized alt-right meetings hosted by the very man who claims to have coined the phrase "alt right" do not errupt into "Hail Trump" "Hail victory" (Sieg Heil) nazi poses?



Of course these people were immediately asked to stop and escorted out of the building....
Just kidding.

They take advantage of gullible people who believe that they're only fighting for a just cause. That's how they frame it in the beginning. They're not going to get many members by promoting violence on Day 1. But they're either brainwashed into it, or they take advantage of the votes of the "peaceful" extreme right wings to grow their real agenda. That's their goal.

And now the closet Nazis are going to throw this driver under the buss and pretend that he's an "anomaly". But really, he's an exemplication of the ideal Nazi, a martyr for their cause. Alt-right promotes Nazi. Nazi promotes violence.

The former leader of your party for example was caught singing white supremasist songs, and one where they jokingly mocked the murder of Olof Palme. Why do you think these people are the ones who end up in charge? What do you think they really want to do with the support they get, when this is what they do behind closed doors? Anyone who sings along in a song like that is not a good person. And the agenda of the party is 100x more vicious than the one they present to the public.

Hail Hitler , hail trump was what slimebeast said when trump won elections, and got banned for it.

You're distorting facts a bit. Whether you do it on purpose or by accident I do not know.

I said "Heil, mein Führer", and while I can see that someone thinks it's tasteless, and a really sensitive person might truly take offense, anyone grounded in reality understands that it was a joke.

Besides, I don't see Trump as a good leader. I've always clearly pointed out that he is a very flawed person, and yet a symbol for a movement that is rising up against political correctness because we don't have anything better at the moment in American big politics. And electing Trump, even if he's a joke character, was necessary to achieve some kind of change.



Mar1217 said:
Tulipanzo said:
Seeing a lot of "both sides" here, and would just like to remind everyone that depicting fascist resistance as a bunch of violent criminals is ACTUAL fascist propaganda.

There is absolutely no moral equivalent between fascists and the resistance, because the latter is a direct result of the violence of the former.
If after th, I would be these events you rush to condemn anti-fascist as "just as bad", pardon me if I question your motives.
It seems to me clear which group you'd have been in at Charlottesville.

After all that has been said and done, I think you missed the point people in this position we're trying to make. Nobody will support their obscene behaviours(viloence and hatred). Doesn't matter if you're Antifa or Nazis. I'll condemned both for their acts, not their ideology just because I simply disagree on their morality.

Discussion should have been the way to go, but once again people are not willing to make the effort to discuss each other beliefs  to maybe strike a cognitive dissonance into their minds which can result in a questionning of their own beliefs or simply a better mutual understanding of each other.

But hey, it's so easy to pull the trigger instead ...

These people showed up armed, and drove a car into a crowd of people.

Since it seems very hard for you to understand, let me spell it out for you: fascists aren't interested in having a discussion, they want power.

Give them a place at the table and they will shoot you dead.

 

How do I know? Because that's how they've taken over my country in the past.

When given a place in government, they took over and proceded to cleanse all dissenting.

Fascism isn't interested, by design, in civility, but only in getting power and silencing dissent.

 

Fascist resistance isn't only necessary, it's a moral imperative. 

I want to stress it: this has already happened.

 

I've seen the places where the partisan resistance have been shot as criminals.

I've studied the voices of dissent, shot as criminals.

I've been told of common townsfolk, shot as criminals.

 

There is no middle ground.

You either condemn fascism or you are facilitating it happening.

To you, and again to anyone equiparating fascist violence to resistance to fascism:

You are ignorant of history, you are ignorant of the suffering of millions. You are fascist symphatizers.



Tulipanzo said:
Mar1217 said:

After all that has been said and done, I think you missed the point people in this position we're trying to make. Nobody will support their obscene behaviours(viloence and hatred). Doesn't matter if you're Antifa or Nazis. I'll condemned both for their acts, not their ideology just because I simply disagree on their morality.

Discussion should have been the way to go, but once again people are not willing to make the effort to discuss each other beliefs  to maybe strike a cognitive dissonance into their minds which can result in a questionning of their own beliefs or simply a better mutual understanding of each other.

But hey, it's so easy to pull the trigger instead ...

These people showed up armed, and drove a car into a crowd of people.

Since it seems very hard for you to understand, let me spell it out for you: fascists aren't interested in having a discussion, they want power.

Give them a place at the table and they will shoot you dead.

 

How do I know? Because that's how they've taken over my country in the past.

When given a place in government, they took over and proceded to cleanse all dissenting.

Fascism isn't interested, by design, in civility, but only in getting power and silencing dissent.

 

Fascist resistance isn't only necessary, it's a moral imperative. 

I want to stress it: this has already happened.

 

I've seen the places where the partisan resistance have been shot as criminals.

I've studied the voices of dissent, shot as criminals.

I've been told of common townsfolk, shot as criminals.

 

There is no middle ground.

You either condemn fascism or you are facilitating it happening.

To you, and again to anyone equiparating fascist violence to resistance to fascism:

You are ignorant of history, you are ignorant of the suffering of millions. You are fascist symphatizers.

and what happens when both sides are engaged in fascist violence?

 

i'd also add that you can't get more ignorant of history when you state that you want to tear down the current system and put communism in place while stating you are against fascism