Both. He rose to power because the GOP has been pushing these kind of views for a while. But his election also galvanized these people into action.
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Both. He rose to power because the GOP has been pushing these kind of views for a while. But his election also galvanized these people into action.
He gave a voice to people who should be kept silent. There is no peaceful way to be publicly push hate.
Charlottesville mayor on Trump: 'Look at the campaign he ran'
In the last year Trump has thrown more direct insults and harsh words at:
- Barack Obama
- his own attorney general
- the Khan family
- Bloomingdales
- Mitch McConnell
- Paul Ryan
... than he's said about this NAZI 'Unite the Right' march which caused an entire state to declare a state of emergency. He supports the Nazis and their movement, it is his base. He would be no where and nothing in politics without them.
To take your country back from minorities does not express an opinion, it's a call to violence against those minorities.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
According to commenters on Fox he was a liberal antifa cuck who was flown in by Soros himself but then the MSM/LSM tried to cover it up by pinning it on Fields. The police and the governor are in on it, they set it up so there would be violence that they could blame on the defenders of the race. Opinion is divided on the matter of the victim, with a fairly even split between mild regret combined with victim blaming (she shouldn't have been there looking for trouble) and outright glee (fuck that Bernie Sanders supporter, good riddance, not even human really, was she). The American right, sowing and reaping like a boss.
Her name was Heather Heyer. Let her name be remembered and his forgotten.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
I won't mention names, but several college Republicans, including a chapter president, have been outed for taking part in the protest.
That dox post from earlier has exploded on Twitter and Facebook.
Meanwhile the hate and Trump subreddits zeroed in on the wrong guy as the driver. Caused him a good bit of grief.
Nobody should be "kept silent". Those who push hate will do so one way or another, we should be able to tackle them peacefully.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
Source or is this your attempt at black humour?Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
I'm sorry, I can't compile a list of url:s to the hundreds of comments I've read today. Unfortunately, it's not black humor.
I'm guessing Rand is believing you to be saying that paid Fox commenters are making these claims, not people in the comments section on Fox's website.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
It's possible. Some of the paid commenters have busied themselves with embarrassing whataboutism and false equivalence, and others with outright comedy:Quote:
Originally Posted by Enoch the Red
https://i.imgur.com/kKB5DFs.jpg
Absolutely yes. Commentators on a website are wide open to trolls.Quote:
Originally Posted by Enoch the Red
Twitter Link
Where we are as a country.
Who said they were trolls?Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
Looking through the guys tweets he has no understanding of the 2nd amendment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
You think it's ok for the police to refrain from stopping illegal actions because the criminals are armed?
Hell no.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
And here the police is implying they didn't step in to break this up earlier because the protesters were heavily armed...
No the governor a DNC operative is saying that. A DNC operative who has led the fight against the 2nd amendment is saying that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
The tiki terrorists have officially been denounced by the tiki people.
How much of a low life do you have to be that the fucking tiki brand has to speak up. :haha:
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This limp dick little fucker isn't happy that his photograph made it outside his little hate march. He wants to now claim that he isn't an angry racist. Just a nazi who wants to ensure that those with a white European heritage are able to preserve what they have. No remarks concerning the fact that such a stance just so happens to mean the suppression of other races.
He has been denounced by both his university and his senator.
I dunno, he has also been described as an angry Rattata, I found that pretty compelling.
Politicians get photographed with people they don't know all the time. I am more pleased that the Senator has denounced the Nazi with very unambiguous language than I am concerned he was once photographed with him. :up:
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Now if only the President of the United States of America could do the same :rolleyes: :down: :mad:.
Remarkable how twenty years ago Republicans were concerned that a blowjob in the oval office "demeaned the office of the President". But a man literally unable to criticise Nazi's after they killed somebody on American soil sharing the same office as Lincoln and FDR doesn't demean it?
Yes, John Wayne Gacy was in a picture with the first lady after all. I doubt she supported his methods :pQuote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
He swore an oath to defend the United States of America and it's Constitution. His "code of conduct" didn't stop him from breaking that oath and leading a bloody war against the United States. Fuck his code of conduct and fuck him for choosing Virginia over the nation and the constitution he swore to defend. And fuck that statue - no US military officer who betrayed the nation the way he did should be honored like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy
To be clear noone has suggested the senator has done anything wrong. This tweet was simply the one used in the news articles, likely cause its the first or more popular ID. I specifically said the senator denounced the person to preemp a lewk like reply.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
https://www.propublica.org/article/p...harlottesvilleQuote:
Originally Posted by Lewkowski
The murdering nazi was denied bail and has to wait for a public defender. Sounds like the judge wants him to rot and if the asshole is doesn't like he'll have to spend the rest of daddy's money to fight it.
Considering how much video evidence we have. I'm ok with this.
I know you did I wasn't criticising you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
A lot of people in replies to that Tweet are calling for him to go due to the photo but I knew already from your text that you weren't one of them.
The one person I'm happy to criticise is Trump. The Senators response is far more appropriate than that of Mr President.
http://www.businessinsider.com/hahah...lence-2017-8-2Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
:o
Wait a minute, I almost feel like I know this person.
The terrorist's mother previously reported him for physically assaulting her.
They are legion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
Sack him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
http://www.salon.com/2017/08/14/a-ri...ilding-report/
Good thing one of Trump's first action was to stop funding efforts to tackle far right extremism.
As an officer in the US Army and he resigned his commission first. There is nothing in the oath of service that it was 'in perpetuity", it only governed his conduct while he served. Furthermore, his actions DID uphold the Constitution. The Union's did not. The Constitution is moot on the topic of secession directly but quite frankly any honest reading (particularly if one is the least bit interested in original intent which certainly was the mode at the time) would have found it under the 10th amendment. You know, the one explicitly reserving all rights not otherwise mentioned as being held by the people or the individual states?Quote:
Originally Posted by EyeKhan
Meanwhile you don't say boo about, say, a head on a mountain dedicated to a demogogue, unrepentant slaveholder, slave-rapist, coward, etc. A man who would absolutely stood behind his native Virginia as well if he'd still been alive. Jefferson held that the Tree of Liberty must be kept watered with blood and would have seen the Civil War as a reminder to an overreaching central government that they should not be trammeling on the freedom of all those men who were created equal which manifestly did not include the black man. All (with the exception of the coward part) which can be said about every one of the Virginian founding fathers who have statues, towns, monuments, parks, etc. commemorating and honoring them.
You, Loki, and any of the board's other totally history-ignorant morons can climb off your self-righteous "socially progressive" high horses and go fuck yourselves.
We live in the US, not the Confederacy. Jefferson was one of the founding fathers. Whether he would or wouldn't join a rebellion is irrelevant because he did not. Lee was a leader of rebels whose rebellion cost hundreds of thousands of lives. So cry me a river about loyalty to Virginia.
So Jefferson was never involved in a rebellion?
The man who was the principle author of the declaration of independence never took part in rebellion?
Fascinating reading of history that. Mine was that Jefferson won his rebellion: that is the only difference.