Seth Meyers: Beto Announces 2020 Bid and Trump Attacks His Hand Gestures
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Seth takes a closer look at Beto O’Rourke jumping in the 2020 race and President Trump immediately attacking him.
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Update from last threads breaking news of Alt-Right Terrorism:
#BREAKING: Police in Christchurch, New Zealand says one person in custody as investigation into mass shooting at mosque and surrounding streets continues.
— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) March 15, 2019
‘No one in NZ must go to a mosque under any circumstances,’ says police commissioner
Police commissioner Mike Bush has warned: “No one in the country must go to a mosque under any circumstances.”
It appears the bastard is Australian. New Zealand is our closest ally and friend, and this will be a dark day in Australia as well.
re: #2 ozharas
‘No one in NZ must go to a mosque under any circumstances,’ says police commissioner
Police commissioner Mike Bush has warned: “No one in the country must go to a mosque under any circumstances.”
It appears the bastard is Australian. New Zealand is our closest ally and friend, and this will be a dark day in Australia as well.
Could also be a mythomaniac, claiming whatever heritage that seems sexy at the time.
re: #3 Teukka
Could also be a mythomaniac, claiming whatever heritage that seems sexy at the time.
I mean, it is not unheard of this kind of people having all sort of fantasies, such as being member of a “New PCCTS”, like Fjotolf Hansen (a.k.a. Andrew Berwick, a.k.a. Anders Behring Breivik).
Shooter used semi-automatic rifles with high capacity magazines. Aren’t those difficult to acquire in that part of the world?
Hey Republicans who didn’t vote for the resolution condemning hatred, fuck you very much.
Your endorsement of him was a mistake in 2014. I guess bravo on the mea culpa, but y’all were wrong from the get go.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) March 15, 2019
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re: #5 teleskiguy
Shooter used semi-automatic rifles with high capacity magazines. Aren’t those difficult to acquire in that part of the world?
Difficult, but not impossible.
As I recall, Breivik travelled to Czech Republic in an attempt to acquire weaponry for his attack. The local organized crime groups dismissed him, figuring (correctly, it turned out) that he had some malicious reasons behind him (that’s what was reported in the Czech media after the attack); one member of a Czech organized crime gang was said to have told the police something to the effect that they figured “something wasn’t right with this guy (Breivik)”.
It’s been speculated that Breivik probably let slip what he was planning to do and the local organized crime groups didn’t want to end up connected to a massacre as of course, that brings the heat down on them.
re: #9 Dr Lizardo
Difficult, but not impossible.
As I recall, Breivik travelled to Czech Republic in an attempt to acquire weaponry for his attack. The local organized crime groups dismissed him, figuring (correctly, it turned out) that he had some malicious reasons behind him (that’s what was reported in the Czech media after the attack); one member of a Czech organized crime gang was said to have told the police something to the effect that they figured “something wasn’t right with this guy (Breivik)”.
It’s been speculated that Breivik probably let slip what he was planning to do and the local organized crime groups didn’t want to end up connected to a massacre as of course, that brings the heat down on them.
And there is an ugly specter lurking. There have been some sources saying that Breivik attended an rightoid training camp in Byelorussia or the Russian Federation. And there is some organization which to this day hold such training camps in the area.
How many more tragedies like #Christchurch do we need before we recognize this is the inevitable consequence of Islamphobia, racism, race - baiting, fearmongering & demonising refugees & immigrants by politicians & Murdoch media. This is the human cost, we must learn from it.
— Kon Karapanagiotidis (@Kon__K) March 15, 2019
Shaun King and all…
BREAKING: The New Zealand Mosque shooter says in his manifesto that he admires Donald Trump because Trump is “a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose.”
— Shaun King (@shaunking) March 15, 2019
re: #14 MsJ
Shaun King and all…
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Which means Trump will offer lukewarm condemnation if any at all.
re: #7 teleskiguy
I assume the Post is the local paper with a conservative editorial board?
On another note… I find it interesting that endorsements of Republicans still include a bit about “ideas”. I think the conservative movement is at the same place the liberal movement was in the mid to lates 70s - wholly without ideas to face the challenges of the moment (and instead offering mostly the same solutions that they had for decades). The progressive/liberal movement seems to have ideas and policies to face the challenges of today. The conservative movement hasn’t had a new idea in a solid 15 years.
re: #17 KGxvi
I assume the Post is the local paper with a conservative editorial board?
On another note… I find it interesting that endorsements of Republicans still include a bit about “ideas”. I think the conservative movement is at the same place the liberal movement was in the mid to lates 70s - wholly without ideas to face the challenges of the moment (and instead offering mostly the same solutions that they had for decades). The progressive/liberal movement seems to have ideas and policies to face the challenges of today. The conservative movement hasn’t had a new idea in a solid 15 years.
To me anyhow, the conservative movement refuses to acknowledge that we live in the 21st century. That at the core is heart of their problems.
re: #14 MsJ
He may not be racist but the racists seem to think Trump is on his side
re: #17 KGxvi
The Denver Post actually has a very center-left editorial board, the Gardner endorsement was perplexing for many. They lost many subscriptions in those days, especially in the Denver area.
re: #20 KGxvi
He may not be racist but the racists seem to think Trump is on his side
It’s quite telling.
re: #19 HappyWarrior
To me anyhow, the conservative movement refuses to acknowledge that we live in the 21st century. That at the core is heart of their problems.
It’s basically this: on domestic issues, it’s still 1978; on foreign policy it’s still September 12, 2001
re: #10 Teukka
And there is an ugly specter lurking. There have been some sources saying that Breivik attended an rightoid training camp in Byelorussia or the Russian Federation. And there is some organization which to this day hold such training camps in the area.
It’s been reported here that Czech extremists have attended such “training camps” in the Russian-occupied Donbas region of Ukraine.
re: #19 HappyWarrior
To me anyhow, the conservative movement refuses to acknowledge that we live in the 21st century. That at the core is heart of their problems.
Not surprising: the movement never really adjusted to living in the 20th Century, either. And they haven’t done much catching up…
re: #21 teleskiguy
The Denver Post actually has a very center-left editorial board, the Gardner endorsement was perplexing for many. They lost many subscriptions in those days, especially in the Denver area.
Who’s the likely nominee against Gardner since Hickenlooper is running for potus.
re: #11 teleskiguy
How many more tragedies like #Christchurch do we need before we recognize this is the inevitable consequence of Islamphobia, racism, race - baiting, fearmongering & demonising refugees & immigrants by politicians & Murdoch media. This is the human cost, we must learn from it.
Murdoch infects everything he touches; but this evil existed before Murdoch. After all, Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and the WSJ editorial page were at work before Murdoch became a major player here.
re: #14 MsJ
Shaun King and all…
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Confirmed with reading the alt-right terrorists* manifesto. Legit.
re: #15 HappyWarrior
Which means Trump will offer lukewarm condemnation if any at all.
re: #16 MsJ
If that.
10 fucking 4. :’(
*: Refer to him as “alt-right terrorist”, what he did as “alt-right terrorism”.
re: #25 Jay C
Not surprising: the movement never really adjusted to living in the 20th Century, either. And they haven’t done much catching up…
Yeah. I mean I get that respect for some traditions isn’t bad but conservatives right now think it’s still 1950 and every left winger is a commie. But to be blunt, they’ve gotten worse. There’s no excuse for their party being more socially right wing than Ford and Goldwater were into their 90’s.
re: #26 HappyWarrior
Who’s the likely nominee against Gardner since Hickenlooper is running for potus.
Eight candidates have declared a candidacy so far, with 11 others thinking about it. Get back to me next fall.
re: #27 Hecuba’s daughter
Murdoch infects everything he touches; but this evil existed before Murdoch. After all, Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and the WSJ editorial page were at work before Murdoch became a major player here.
Uh Murdoch is Australian. He would definitely have impacted NZ wingnuts earlier than Coulter, Limbaugh, & the WSJ ed board.
re: #30 teleskiguy
Eight candidates have declared a candidacy so far, with 11 others thinking about it. Get back to me next fall.
Oh wow.
There’s no way in hell I would watch any of that video. To me, that’s doing precisely what the terrorists want.
The violence just never stops.
re: #31 HappyWarrior
Uh Murdoch is Australian. He would definitely have impacted NZ wingnuts earlier than Coulter, Limbaugh, & the WSJ ed board.
Good point! — he was poisoning Australia before he came here. I was thinking too much in a US centric point of view.
re: #32 HappyWarrior
Oh wow.
Democrats have a deep bench this next cycle, including down-ballot, my dude.
I made my point on the previous thread. What happened in NZ has direct relevance to the gun control debate in this country.
We are, as a nation, are fundamentally insane in how we relate to firearms in our society. Back in the day, we had shotguns and rifles to shoot food.
Now, we accept a weapon that was used to kill innocent worshippers in a mosque in New Zealand as normal. And a Temple in Pittsburgh.
I’m off to bed. This must stop.
I’m old enough to remember pro choice Republicans. Now you’ve got Republicans who oppose all legal choice. You had Republicans who saw that Planned Parenthood had a place in society. Now you have these guys who think PP is Dr. Mengele and even though I doubt Trump cares who fucks who really unlike Mother’s husband, his cabinet is full of people who want to make LGBT people the “other.” And climate change.
re: #20 KGxvi
He may not be racist but the racists seem to think Trump is on his side
Trump is undoubtedly racist and has been so from the 70s when he refused to rent to people of color.
re: #35 Hecuba’s daughter
Good point! — he was poisoning Australia before he came here. I was thinking too much in a US centric point of view.
He bought his first NZ newspaper in 1964
re: #35 Hecuba’s daughter
Good point! — he was poisoning Australia before he came here. I was thinking too much in a US centric point of view.
And remember Murdoch formed Fox in the Clinton years. Coulter was around before then but she didn’t really become a household name until W was President and if memory serves, the WSJ Ed board began going hard right when Rupert bought em. True about Rush tho.
America’s shitheads will always be shitheads:
To be clear:
We played the “Candace is Hitler” game.
We played the “Candace is anti-rape victims” game.
If the media attempts this “Candace inspired a mosque shooting in New Zealand” bit—they better all lawyer the f*ck up.
I will go full Covington Catholic lawsuit.
Try me.— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) March 15, 2019
re: #40 Patricia Kayden
Trump is undoubtedly racist and has been so from the 70s when he refused to rent to people of color.
It’s the Andrew Gillum line. :)
re: #38 HappyWarrior
I’m old enough to remember pro choice Republicans. Now you’ve got Republicans who oppose all legal choice. You had Republicans who saw that Planned Parenthood had a place in society. Now you have these guys who think PP is Dr. Mengele and even though I doubt Trump cares who fucks who really unlike Mother’s husband, his cabinet is full of people who want to make LGBT people the “other.” And climate change.
I’m trying to think of who the last high profile prochoice Republican was. Arnold in California? And Christie Todd Whitman? Is there anyone else?
re: #43 freetoken
She really thinks that the Covington creep will win his nonsensical lawsuits? Lol
re: #43 freetoken
America’s shitheads will always be shitheads:
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No one is blaming you but you sure as shit deserved that Nazi line considering you literally said that Hitler was fine until he invaded Poland and totally ignored other things that the Nazis did before they invaded Poland like opening Dachau, the Night of Long Knives, and Kristallnacht among other things. Please Candece, for your sake, find a new fucking line of work, your opinions are shit. You’re nothing but an opportunist hack just like your pal Charlie Kirk and the other misfit children at Turning Points USA who can’t find honest work so they become the little right wing propagandists of our generation.
re: #45 KGxvi
I’m trying to think of who the last high profile prochoice Republican was. Arnold in California? And Christie Todd Whitman? Is there anyone else?
Rudy.
re: #43 freetoken
re: #46 Patricia Kayden
She really thinks that the Covington creep will win his nonsensical lawsuits? Lol
She really has no idea how the law works which is why she hangs out with Charlie Kirk who knows even less.
I think the suspect they have could be him. Just like Anders, he wanted to be taken alive for the show trial. Then he can inspire more to act.
re: #45 KGxvi
I’m trying to think of who the last high profile prochoice Republican was. Arnold in California? And Christie Todd Whitman? Is there anyone else?
It depends on whether you think of Bloomberg as Republican or “Republican”.
re: #50 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
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Now if Candece instead of being a raging right wing hack could actually look at herself and wonder why she would have inspired someone to do this, she could see why her name will be brought up but nah she’s too full of herself. Got news for you Candece, your right wing friends will abandon you and you will be begging anyone to listen to you. The same thing will happen with Charlie and it will even happen to Ben Shapiro when his act isn’t helping your paymasters anymore.
re: #50 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
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Posted on her thread. Let’s see how long before I get a block…
re: #52 KGxvi
Did Rudy stay pro-choice when he ran for president in 2012?
I’m not sure since his campaign really never took off. I think he tried to moderate on it.
re: #43 freetoken
Claims he “will be forgotten quickly”, associated with “nationalist” groups and is a fan of “Candace Owens” pic.twitter.com/PbpjtKZ9wc
— Steven Asarch (@IAmAsarch) March 15, 2019
re: #57 HappyWarrior
I’m not sure since his campaign really never took off. I think he tried to moderate on it.
Yeah, I’m guessing he did the “personally I’m pro life but on policy blah blah blah” thing
You know, these acts of mass violence keep on happening and it’s not the left of ANTIFA doing it. The worst that lefties do the right wingers is making the prominent ones feel uncomfortable when they’re eating dinner.
re: #50 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
“the extreme actions she calls for are too much”
WTH?
re: #59 KGxvi
Yeah, I’m guessing he did the “personally I’m pro life but on policy blah blah blah” thing
TBF I think a lot of Catholic Democrats used to do that and I suspect that still may be how prominent Democratic Catholic men like Tim Kaine and Bob Casey feel. TBH my position on choice is pretty simple. I’m a man. I’m not going to be carrying around a child. I won’t judge a woman for a choice she makes with her own body but I do want to reduce abortions by reducing unwanted pregnancies in the first place and we do that by encouraging birth control and not slut shaming women who do get pregnant. And we also don’t act like rapists are doing a “good thing” by getting women pregnant. Children are great. I love my niece dearly but I would never want to force my SiL or my niece when she’s older to carry her pregnancy and that’s what dipshits on the right will never get.
This asshole was spewing memes while he murdered, Silicon Valley has helped create an entire generation of disaffected psychopathic fuckwits.
Media: be careful with the NZ shooter’s apparent manifesto. It’s thick with irony and meta-text and very easy to misinterpret if you’re not steeped in this stuff all the time (and even if you are).
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) March 15, 2019
He also jokes during the massacre. He says ‘Subscribe to PewdiePie’ right after he gets out of his car
— Paddy (@wpaddypaterson) March 15, 2019
re: #63 goddamnedfrank
This asshole was spewing memes while he murdered, Silicon Valley has helped create an entire generation of disaffected psychopathic fuckwits.
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I’m a gamer who hates gamer culture. Gamer culture is full of toxic douchebags who think they’re special since they happened to have white parents and they happened to get their Daddy’s Y chromosome.
re: #63 goddamnedfrank
This asshole was spewing memes while he murdered, Silicon Valley has helped create an entire generation of disaffected psychopathic fuckwits.
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Social media didn’t create them, it just gave them a platform and a “chance to go out with a bang”
re: #42 HappyWarrior
And remember Murdoch formed Fox in the Clinton years. Coulter was around before then but she didn’t really become a household name until W was President and if memory serves, the WSJ Ed board began going hard right when Rupert bought em. True about Rush tho.
The WSJ editorial columns were to the right of Attila the Hun years before the Murdoch purchase in 2007. Their unrelenting dishonest attacks against Clinton and Dukakis before then were a disgrace.
From downstairs:
re: #172 austin_blue
Australia, after the Tasmanian shooting, shut down the ownership of battle rifles. Isn’t it time your country did to?
We do. The provenance of the weapons involved is going to be a very hot topic.
re: #66 Hecuba’s daughter
The WSJ editorial columns were to the right of Attila the Hun years before the Murdoch purchase in 2007. Their unrelenting dishonest attacks against Clinton and Dukakis before then were a disgrace.
Oh I’m way off then. I thought Rupert bought them long before then. Lo siento.
re: #65 KGxvi
Social media didn’t create them, it just gave them a platform and a “chance to go out with a bang”
What it has done though is given them a platform but it’s also given us ours too. That’s the conflict with social media I feel. That said though, there is something to say about this subculture.
re: #62 HappyWarrior
I just hate the qualifier. I get that it’s a complicated and personal/moral issue for a lot of people, which is why I don’t care what someone would do in their personal life. I care about the policy.
Just like I don’t care if you wouldn’t ride a motorcycle, I just don’t want you trying to make them illegal
re: #70 KGxvi
I just hate the qualifier. I get that it’s a complicated and personal/moral issue for a lot of people, which is why I don’t care what someone would do in their personal life. I care about the policy.
Just like I don’t care if you wouldn’t ride a motorcycle, I just don’t want you trying to make them illegal
Yeah true. And frankly, I think YouTube is great and I take the minority opinion here on FB.
re: #5 teleskiguy
Shooter used semi-automatic rifles with high capacity magazines. Aren’t those difficult to acquire in that part of the world?
Yes. i.stuff.co.nz
Four offenders in custody. Four. Shit.
re: #43 freetoken
America’s shitheads will always be shitheads:
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One. Evil. CENSORED.
Karma is going to get that CENSORED for the hate she spreads.
re: #71 HappyWarrior
Yeah true. And frankly, I think YouTube is great and I take the minority opinion here on FB.
I had a blog when I was in law school back in the early/mid aughts. I remember when comments became a thing. They made a lot of places worse, and I remember a lot of the bigger bloggers opting to not to introduce them on their blogs. Pretty much any place that didn’t have strong moderators basically became Mos Isley
Sky News columnists are already blaming these murders on the terrorist being “unheard”.@SkyNewsAust is a serious threat to the safety of Australians. pic.twitter.com/gBEYM5Dxkk
— Ketan Joshi (@KetanJ0) March 15, 2019
TBH as probably the youngest lizard. It all has me a little worried about a lot of my generation. I really had naively thought at one point that maybe we’d be better. Yeah I know we had our flaws but I really thought we could really kick things in the right direction. I’m sad to say I no longer feel that way. I find myself wondering about my niece and the younger children of my cousins. My niece is aware of her multicultural background. Yesterday was her birthday and she tried teaching my Grandmother “Feliz Cumpleanos”. I hope that’s how her world becomes. Not that we deny our differences. I’ve never liked people who try to tell you “I’m colorblind.” I try to be color and culturally aware which is why I like educating myself about other cultures and people.
re: #75 goddamnedfrank
Sky News is a Murdoch outfit isn’t it??
re: #74 KGxvi
I had a blog when I was in law school back in the early/mid aughts. I remember when comments became a thing. They made a lot of places worse, and I remember a lot of the bigger bloggers opting to not to introduce them on their blogs. Pretty much any place that didn’t have strong moderators basically became Mos Isley
Absolutely. And you know what, it’s such a shame because I think it could really be a great thing. Here I am chatting with you across the continent. I’m able to chat with my friends and family all around the world on FB. I love that but I also know that same technology can connect assohles too in ways they never were before but telephones and TV and radio did the same thing last century.
re: #75 goddamnedfrank
If it was a Muslim who went into a church, would she be saying the same thing and excusing his murderous rampage? Why is she ignoring his manifesto?
Introspection is hard.
Try it sometime.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) March 15, 2019
re: #80 Patricia Kayden
If it was a Muslim who went into a church, would she be saying the same thing and excusing his mutderous rampage? Why is she ignoring his manifesto?
Because Owens is a heartless CENSORED.
re: #75 goddamnedfrank
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Marginalized my ass. The fascist fuck had a fascist symbol for a Romanian fascist movement. This is definitely the result of anti-immigrant sentiments. To deny it is cowardice at best and acceptance at worst. She can kiss my ass. I am tired of fucking whiny white people who don’t realize that the world is for all of us. Your ancestors weren’t originally in New Zealand or the US. They came there too looking for a better life. There’s no real difference between my family’s story and today’s immigrants outside the time period of when they’re moving.
re: #80 Patricia Kayden
If it was a Muslim who went into a church, would she be saying the same thing and excusing his murderous rampage? Why is she ignoring his manifesto?
Because she’s a right wing coward who refuses to ever admit that conservatism can contribute to terrible things.
re: #65 KGxvi
Social media didn’t create them, it just gave them a platform and a “chance to go out with a bang”
I listened to Kara Swisher’s interview with Susan Wojcicki (CEO of Youtube) a couple days ago and she made what I thought was a really good point:
But it was sort of like, I was sort of like, it feels like, as I said, I think you’ve heard me say this, it feels like all you tech companies have built cities, these beautiful cities, but you decided not to initially put in police, fire, garbage, street signs, and stuff like that, and so it feels like The Purge every night.
re: #82 Joe Bacon 🌹
Because Owens is a heartless CENSORED.
That’s not Candece Owens. That’s another moron.
re: #42 HappyWarrior
And remember Murdoch formed Fox in the Clinton years. Coulter was around before then but she didn’t really become a household name until W was President and if memory serves, the WSJ Ed board began going hard right when Rupert bought em. True about Rush tho.
re: #66 Hecuba’s daughter
The WSJ editorial columns were to the right of Attila the Hun years before the Murdoch purchase in 2007. Their unrelenting dishonest attacks against Clinton and Dukakis before then were a disgrace.
It was the actual news arm of the WSJ that was respectable before Murdoch bought them out and turned it into just another propaganda organ overall. The editorial board was always a right-wing nuthouse.
re: #85 goddamnedfrank
I listed to Kara Swisher’s interview with Susan Wojcicki (CEO of Youtube) a couple days ago and she made what I thought was a really good point:
The lack of moderation is a serious problem and it frankly is why we have so many idiots who think being moderated is ATTACKING MAH FREE PEACH. I can’t tell you all how many YouTube comments I read about something as innocent as a musical video will turn into some right wing asshole going on off on Jews, Muslims, immigrants, or whatever.
re: #88 Citizen K
It was the actual news arm of the WSJ that was respectable before Murdoch bought them out and turned it into just another propaganda organ overall. The editorial board was always a right-wing nuthouse.
Danke. My mistake.
re: #79 HappyWarrior
Absolutely. And you know what, it’s such a shame because I think it could really be a great thing. Here I am chatting with you across the continent. I’m able to chat with my friends and family all around the world on FB. I love that but I also know that same technology can connect assohles too in ways they never were before but telephones and TV and radio did the same thing last century.
There’s a lot of aspects to the terribleness of comment sections. The fact that they’re mostly anonymous, that they’re mostly ignored, and that there’s rarely real world consequences to being an asshole online.
As far as connecting terrible people, just remember that they are still the outliers. Most people are good and decent. They might be a bit too caught up in their own problems, but they’re not actively seeking to make the world a worse place. Reactionaries rarely have staying power (because they rarely have answers), and I believe they may have already not only reached their zeineth but are already beginning to ebb
re: #80 Patricia Kayden
If it was a Muslim who went into a church, would she be saying the same thing and excusing his murderous rampage? Why is she ignoring his manifesto?
She is trying to take preemptive action to prevent any association with this crime. The Covington suit does show that the Covington children are being raised as dishonest entitled thugs. Candace must be considered in the same category. Instead of expressing her horror at the crime, she threatens a lawsuit. It is impossible to be a decent human being and to be a full-fledged member of the Trump-supporting clan.
There’s too much fucking hate in this world, man.
re: #91 Targetpractice
Ah, the “oppressed minority” angle already?
Poor whitey doesn’t like that politicians tell him that it’s not just his country anymore. I really have no sympathy for this shit. It was never “your” country. It’s always been “our” country whether that’s here in the US, New Zealand, Norway, or whatever. Right wingers love to rage about identity politics but they are the biggest practitioners of it when it comes to this shit.
re: #75 goddamnedfrank
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People who get routinely targeted for slaughter just for their identity, religion, etc.
All the ‘fuck off’ to you and Sky News, lady.
re: #85 goddamnedfrank
Like when you play sim city or civilization and just decide to fuck shit up because you can
My sister is not taking this well. She’s Muslim.
re: #85 goddamnedfrank
I listed to Kara Swisher’s interview with Susan Wojcicki (CEO of Youtube) a couple days ago and she made what I thought was a really good point:
But it was sort of like, I was sort of like, it feels like, as I said, I think you’ve heard me say this, it feels like all you tech companies have built cities, these beautiful cities, but you decided not to initially put in police, fire, garbage, street signs, and stuff like that, and so it feels like The Purge every night.
Why, she’s practically on par with Bertrand Russell. ///
re: #94 Eclectic Cyborg
There’s too much fucking hate in world, man.
John Coffey: I’m tired, boss. Tired of being on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. I’m tired of never having a buddy to be with, to tell me where we’s going to, coming from or why. Mostly, I’m tired of people being ugly to each other. I’m tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There’s too much of it. It’s like pieces of glass in my head, all the time… Can you understand?”
20 years later that movie still gets to me whether it’s the DP and the possibility of executing an innocent or how Coffey got how cruel the world could be to each other. It amazes me that Stephen King of all people could articulate that better than any other writer I saw through the mouth of John Coffey.
re: #96 Citizen K
You know who is marginalized?
People who get routinely targeted for slaughter just for their identity, religion, etc.
All the ‘fuck off’ to you and Sky News, lady.
Exactly. I’m a white man. No one in the MSM questions my culture when something like this happens but non white people don’t get that luxury. We’re allowed to be individuals. PoC and non nominally Christian people aren’t allowed to be individuals.
re: #98 KGxvi
Like when you play sim city or civilization and just decide to fuck shit up because you can
I do like to do that in GTA but I realize two things) I’d never dream of doing that IRL and it’s just a way of blowing off steam.
re: #85 goddamnedfrank
Shit heaps are a major part of the business model. They’re repeat customers with low fucking standards.
Like if that city *coincidentally* had a lot of Purge-adjacent apartments that happen to have blood and semen stain proofing on all surfaces and you get a free knife rack with a one-year lease.
Everybody’s experimenting with some new kind of psychopathic leech capitalism where you specifically make shit worse so you can sell scrap metal for shank-making.
re: #85 goddamnedfrank
I listened to Kara Swisher’s interview with Susan Wojcicki (CEO of Youtube) a couple days ago and she made what I thought was a really good point:
It’s the SimCity problem: You had people who tried to maximize profit and maximum traffic such that they created a toxic stew, then tried to put in police and firemen only after everything had gone to shit. Worse, they did the classic corporate mistake: They overcompensated for that initial lawlessness by clamping down in such a fashion that those who’d been following the rules (what there were) and trying to promote a healthy community got clubbed over the head right next to the trolls and either left for greener pastures or scaled back their involvement in said community.
re: #104 The Ghost of Quesos Past
There’s also a definite, “if you don’t say No enough, I get to fuck you” edge to the social contract these people operate on. Well beyond the standard” ask forgiveness not permission.”
Habitual line-stepping is a deliberate economic strategy, from individual Youtubers to fuckin’ massive corporations.
re: #106 The Ghost of Quesos Past
There’s also a definite, “if you don’t say No enough, I get to fuck you” edge to the social contract these people operate on. Well beyond the standard” ask forgiveness not permission.”
Habitual line-stepping is a deliberate economic strategy, from individual Youtubers to fuckin’ massive corporations.
It’s better to beg forgiveness than ask permission. It’s even better to get away with it enough times that you can claim it’s the norm
Just got home and I don’t want to turn the 6:00 news on.
re: #105 Targetpractice
It’s the SimCity problem: You had people who tried to maximize profit and maximum traffic such that they created a toxic stew, then tried to put in police and firemen only after everything had gone to shit. Worse, they did the classic corporate mistake: They overcompensated for that initial lawlessness by clamping down in such a fashion that those who’d been following the rules (what there were) and trying to promote a healthy community got clubbed over the head right next to the trolls and either left for greener pastures or scaled back their involvement in said community.
Except in practice, it’s usually those following the rules that get fucked and the trolls and folks exploiting the Wild West just move on to their next atrocities, exploiting the benefit of the doubt they had extended to them before. It’s bracingly rare that you get comeuppance in the vein of Alex Jones’ deplatforming, and that took how many years of verifiable harassment and incitement?
I mean yeah guys I curse wingnuts here. I do. I really do but I realize that the vast majority of the world I co-exist with. I don’t want the conservatives out there to suffer. I just man wish they realize that they’re being pinheads. But I don’t want bad things to befall them or their families. In fact, I’d like my ideal policies to open their world up. I never would dream of going to CPAC or any of those other frankly pathetic right wing conferences and shooting one up. Death is death. You can’t take it back and it’s not in my nature to hurt people. I get angry, yes. But anger is a normal human emotion that can be taken back. You can’t take back death. People are dead tonight in Christchurch due to hate.
Still fighting off this CENSORED pneumonia. Did followup with Dr Thursday morning and have to go back to Kaiser Friday morning for more test.
Haven’t been this sick since 1990.
Trying to put myself in recharge mode and hoping I can sleep more than 90 minutes tonight…
re: #109 Citizen K
Except in practice, it’s usually those following the rules that get fucked and the trolls and folks exploiting the Wild West just move on to their next atrocities, exploiting the benefit of the doubt they had extended to them before. It’s bracingly rare that you get comeuppance in the vein of Alex Jones’ deplatforming, and that took how many years of verifiable harassment and incitement?
I really want Alex Jones to be forced to find a living that isn’t shilling hatred and paranoia to millions of people. I don’t want him homeless but I do want him to realize that it’s not lucrative to do what he’s been doing for the past 20 plus years.
re: #81 MsJ
She should be horrified that a murderous White Supremacist claimed that he was inspired by HER. That should give her pause in regard to the hate she so freely spews.
The real problem of course is that they weren’t creating cities at all, they were creating crocodile farms. The population is the product.
re: #108 Grunthos the Flatulent
Just got home and I don’t want to turn the 6:00 news on.
You can listen to this rock band from Arizona if you want. They’re dexterous.
re: #113 Patricia Kayden
She should be horrified that a murderous White Supremacist claimed that he was inspired by HER. That should give her pause in regard to the hate she so freely spews.
This presumes a moral center on her part, sadly.
re: #112 HappyWarrior
I really want Alex Jones to be forced to find a living that isn’t shilling hatred and paranoia to millions of people. I don’t want him homeless but I do want him to realize that it’s not lucrative to do what he’s been doing for the past 20 plus years.
Assistant Night Shift Manager-in-Training at his local Taco Bell.
re: #114 goddamnedfrank
The real problem of course is that they weren’t creating cities at all, they were creating crocodile farms. The population is the product.
They created cities, but the problem is that the cities were really a reflection of their architects. Hence why Twitter seems to be enticed with the smell of its own farts while Facebook is a sociopathic entity that views your privacy as an impediment to its profits.
re: #113 Patricia Kayden
She should be horrified that a murderous White Supremacist claimed that he was inspired by HER. That should give her pause in regard to the hate she so freely spews.
Introspection isn’t in her vocabulary. She has no idea why her Nazi comments were stupid if not minimizing the evils of the Third Reich. Candace should really try reading a book instead of the right wing propaganda she spreads.
re: #117 Dr Lizardo
Assistant Night Shift Manager-in-Training at his local Taco Bell.
Yeah. Perfect.
re: #64 HappyWarrior
I’m a gamer who hates gamer culture. Gamer culture is full of toxic douchebags who think they’re special since they happened to have white parents and they happened to get their Daddy’s Y chromosome.
My son and daughter (both in their 20s) are keen gamers, as am I, and there’s not one of us with an iota of time for those noxious shits. There’s a whole lot of us out there. Take heart.
I don’t need us to deny our differences. I want us to realize our differences help make the world a fascinating place. It’s a world of gosh I don’t know how many languages. A world of music of all kinds and foods too. And yet through it all, we are all humans too. I couldn’t be a Muslim but you know what, if that spiritual path suits you and you can acknowledge my and others right to pursue our own journeys, no problem. If you’re not from my country? Well there was a time when someone with my last name was a newcomer too.
re: #114 goddamnedfrank
“Let’s network all the narcissists, paranoids, and psychopaths.”
Right up there with “let’s make great white sharks smarter and socially-organized.”
re: #121 Grunthos the Flatulent
My son and daughter (both in their 20s) are keen gamers, as am I, and there’s not one of us with an iota of time for those noxious shits. There’s a whole lot of us out there. Take heart.
Individual gamers are fine. The culture tho otoh. Thanks tho.
In regards to the NZ mosque shooting, a total of four people have now been arrested.
UPDATE: New Zealand police have confirmed four people have been arrested but say they “won’t assume that there aren’t others.” https://t.co/QVGMdtOUaE
— CBC News (@CBCNews) March 15, 2019
re: #122 HappyWarrior
I don’t need us to deny our differences. I want us to realize our differences help make the world a fascinating place. It’s a world of gosh I don’t know how many languages. A world of music of all kinds and foods too. And yet through it all, we are all humans too. I couldn’t be a Muslim but you know what, if that spiritual path suits you and you can acknowledge my and others right to pursue our own journeys, no problem. If you’re not from my country? Well there was a time when someone with my last name was a newcomer too.
We as humans are defined by differences more than similarities. That’s the exact point of why ‘colorblind’ policies don’t work. Celebrating differences rather than trying to pretend they don’t exist is how you actually get people and peoples accepted.
re: #125 Dr Lizardo
In regards to the NZ mosque shooting, a total of four people have now been arrested.
Police comments make me think they’ve identified some sort of affiliation that the suspects have, and will be moving on others.
re: #124 HappyWarrior
Individual gamers are fine. The culture tho otoh. Thanks tho.
Internet culture leans toward hyperbole, performative negativity, and gatekeeping as people get more and more bunkered into viewing their interests as their identity. Hence basically everything fannish on the internet having the same fucking toxic shit happen.
Same Skinner box, shaping the rats to shit themselves and roll in it with slightly different stimuli.
Only solution is for everyone to say “fuck this, this is a Skinner box” but too many people think their pellet ration is special and richly deserved.
re: #99 Sionainn, Warrior Mother
My sister is not taking this well. She’s Muslim.
I’m not taking this well…because this doesn’t appear to be a lone gunman, and we still have to get through Friday prayer here in the USA. I’m hoping it’s just that my tinfoil hat is screwed on too tightly but I am concerned!
I was very tired when I got in and fell asleep for a few hours. Now, I wake up to find that Trump’s stochastic terrorism has apparently spread to one of the last places in the world where I would have expected it.
It is especially shocking to see that there have been 4 arrests and Kiwi police have not ruled out that there might be more. They might just be accomplices the cops have rounded up, but 2 different locations in about the same time-frame suggests that they might be active perpetrators. If so, this is a major escalation in RWNJ violence, almost unprecedented.
re: #123 The Ghost of Quesos Past
“Let’s network all the narcissists, paranoids, and psychopaths.”
Right up there with “let’s make great white sharks smarter and socially-organized.”
Don’t forget the friggin laser beams on their heads
re: #126 Citizen K
We as humans are defined by differences more than similarities. That’s the exact point of why ‘colorblind’ policies don’t work. Celebrating differences rather than trying to pretend they don’t exist is how you actually get people and peoples accepted.
Exactly. But yeah brings to mind BWS and me explaining some Irish to VB earlier since she was curious about the pronouncing of Taoiseach. Just as she has explained some Jewish cultural stuff to me. That’s why I admired Anthony Bourdain. He liked learning about new cultures. We need more people like that in our world.
re: #127 Grunthos the Flatulent
Police comments make me think they’ve identified some sort of affiliation that the suspects have, and will be moving on others.
And I would not be surprised if they call on help from ICPO. Let’s hope these perps were sloppy enough to leave enough evidence to really begin unraveling a network.
re: #128 The Ghost of Quesos Past
Internet culture leans toward hyperbole, performative negativity, and gatekeeping as people get more and more bunkered into viewing their interests as their identity. Hence basically everything fannish on the internet having the same fucking toxic shit happen.
Same Skinner box, shaping the rats to shit themselves and roll in it with slightly different stimuli.
Only solution is for everyone to say “fuck this, this is a Skinner box” but too many people think their pellet ration is special and richly deserved.
Hey now, these pellets ain’t half bad. They have a nice crunch to them.
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re: #133 Teukka
And I would not be surprised if they call on help from ICPO. Let’s hope these perps were sloppy enough to leave enough evidence to really begin unraveling a network.
Well, the gunman livestreamed his mass murder spree, so I’m thinking “being careful” wasn’t #1 on the priority list.
re: #134 Targetpractice
The crunch is how the get you.
re: #135 Dr Lizardo
Well, the gunman livestreamed his mass murder spree, so I’m thinking “being careful” wasn’t #1 on the priority list.
My hunch exactly.
CNNI and BBC seem to be the go-to stations for thorough continuing coverage of international tragedies — MSNBC and CNN have reverted to their normal rebroadcast of earlier evening shows.
It’s the Nordic Black Sun symbol, popular with neo nazis.
Specifically, the Sonnenrad symbol was most prominent on red shields carried by people who came from Texas, including Robert Warren “Azzmador” Ray, his body guard team, and other members of the East Texas Stormer Book Club. Terrorist Taylor Wilson ended up with one of the shields https://t.co/g0ufiipg3A
— Emily G, women’s history month partaker (@EmilyGorcenski) March 15, 2019
This is all connected.
I need you to understand this is all connected.— Emily G, women’s history month partaker (@EmilyGorcenski) March 15, 2019
Can someone help identify the bug crawling on Sean Hannity’s face ? pic.twitter.com/EHPfT6eF8b
— Tamara Sepper (@TamaraSepper) March 15, 2019
Just something to lift your mood.
re: #19 HappyWarrior
To me anyhow, the conservative movement refuses to acknowledge that we live in the 21st century. That at the core is heart of their problems.
Most of the authoritarians and barbarians masquerading as conservatives didn’t even like the 20th Century.
re: #75 goddamnedfrank
Ms. Watson? Were you born that stupid, or did you study?
As at 7 PM NZ Time:
40 dead. 10 at one mosque, 30 at the other. Scores of injured at local hospital.
It is classed as a terrorist attack.
Source: NZ PM.
It has officially, as of 7 PM NZ time, been classed as a terrorist attack.
40 dead, many more injured.
Source: NZ PM.
Some will have one helluva rude awakening…— Teo (@Teukka72) March 15, 2019
Apparently the youtuber pewdiepie is getting a whole lot of mentions.
People are bringing up one of his latest Instagram posts:
Others want him to delete it now.
I just think it’s part of the violent fetishism that is so prevalent in young people caught up into gaming. Violent ideation is part of a certain type of gaming culture.
Off the edge she goes……
HAHA OMG you racist Leftists are taking your racism and crazy to a whole new level hahah.
“Black people don’t have to be Democrats” now means…mosque shootings in New Zealand?
This clearly won’t stick but damn if I won’t grow #BLEXIT highlighting your sheer desperation. 😂😂 https://t.co/4vM1aXleL4— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) March 15, 2019
A NZ friend just emailed me, pointing out that Christchurch is one of the more infamous places in New Zealand for racism. But even in Wellington, people are being told to stay in for now. Looks like the police are scared of more stuff going down.
What a shit day.
re: #151 LastYearsMan
A NZ friend just emailed me, pointing out that Christchurch is one of the more infamous places in New Zealand for racism. But even in Wellington, people are being told to stay in for now. Looks like the police are scared of more stuff going down.
What a shit day.
I’m afraid of copy-asswipe attacks in the US and Europe. :(
re: #141 Dave In Austin
Nite Owl: What’s happened to us? What happened to the American Dream?
The Comedian: What happened to the American Dream? It came true! You’re looking at it.
So what are the chances that Trump will start saying that the deaths could have been prevented if only there was a good guy with a gun at the mosque??
re: #142 goddamnedfrank
Definitely people who need to go back to their mothers on their shields.
The case for quarantining extremist ideas:https://t.co/Ud3jJaviXr
— Teo (@Teukka72) March 15, 2019
re: #149 freetoken
Look at that picture and think, “Jesus Christ, idiot! Finger outside the trigger guard!”
Which relieves me a bit. If they’re that bad about firearm safety they’ll likely be that bad about tactics, strategy, operational security and logistics.
While NZ has overall stricter gun control than the US it’s pretty goddamned lax by global standards. Getting an AR is comparatively difficult but not impossible and, weirdly, silencers are completely unregulated.
NEW - Marketing Hate: Inside Identity Evropa’s Neo-Nazi Messaginghttps://t.co/scVkW5gLuz
Our final report in a series of leaks from the neo-Nazi group exposes recordings and transcripts of their secret messaging seminars.— Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) March 14, 2019
48 patients with gunshot wounds are being treated at Christchurch Hospital after terror attack.
Canterbury District Health Board Chief Executive, David Meates, says the patients range from young children to adults with gunshot wounds. https://t.co/HAApnwm7co— RNZ (@radionz) March 15, 2019
10 people were killed at the Linwood mosque and 30 at the Deans Ave mosque. A further 20 people have been seriously injured.
Holy shit. 40 dead.
Throw everyone remotely involved into prison to rot and throw away the key.
re: #161 LastYearsMan
Holy shit. 40 dead.
Throw everyone remotely involved into prison to rot and throw away the key.
May they spend the rest of their lives being interrogated in depth.
As a policy I will not knowingly watch and absolutely refuse to create a market for snuff films, and neither should you.
— Franklygoddamn (@goddamnedfrank) March 15, 2019
re: #162 Teukka
May they spend the rest of their lives being interrogated in depth.
I really want to wish every vile thing upon those who did this (and all who contributed). But I know that won’t help. So I’ll just hope for justice. And I’ll hope that this insane fever begins to break. (But I still want far worse…).
re: #157 Romantic Heretic
Look at that picture and think, “Jesus Christ, idiot! Finger outside the trigger guard!”
Which relieves me a bit. If they’re that bad about firearm safety they’ll likely be that bad about tactics, strategy, operational security and logistics.
Yeah. I know the four first commandments by heart.
I. Always assume the weapon is loaded until you have verified yourself.
II. Never point the weapon at anything you do not intend to put a hole into.
III. Be aware of what is behind and around your intended target.
IV. Do not put your finger on the trigger until you are prepared to fire.
I’m one of those the alt-right terrorist enablers call a Gun-grabbing libtard. And I know those four basic rules.
Sheesh.
From the Guardian:
New Zealand police have conducted a controlled detonation at Auckland’s largest train station, the Britomart Transport Centre.
The bomb squad attended the station 40 minutes ago, and cordoned off the area. Just minutes ago an explosion was heard. Authorities told local media it was a controlled detonation.
Yesterday
New Zealand in shock after climate change minister attacked on way to parliament
The New Zealand climate change minister has been attacked while walking to Parliament House, the first physical assault on a politician in the country in more than 10 years.
James Shaw, who is also the joint leader of the Greens party, was outside the Botanic Gardens in the capital Wellington at 7.30am on Thursday when he was assaulted by an unknown man.
A spokesperson for the Green party said Shaw was grabbed and punched in the face, in an unprovoked attack that has shocked MPs and the wider public. The attacker referred to Shaw by name.
re: #167 Amory Blaine
Yesterday
New Zealand in shock after climate change minister attacked on way to parliament
Wonder if it is linked to todays horrific events?
Because “thoughts and prayers” is an escapist meme, a way to avoid really doing anything.
And AOC called people on it and you’re angry because you know AOC is right.— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) March 15, 2019
Now Western medie will be@CNN#Christchurch pic.twitter.com/AcRaYeKrOY
— Riz (@PTI0007) March 15, 2019
Another update:
Another update from that earlier Ardern press conference - the number of people in custody is currently three. Earlier in the day, police said they had four people in custody. There was no further information provided as to why that number changed.
Could have simply been a mistake by the person originally releasing the info.
We absolutely live in the worst possible fucking timeline.
What responsibility do we want these companies to have? On Reddit, one of the most popular sites on the Internet, people have been narrating the video on a forum called “watchpeopledie.” After more than an hour, this was posted: pic.twitter.com/C8nmt7CZgh
— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) March 15, 2019
re: #169 freetoken
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“Thoughts and prayers” is up there with “You can’t stop evil” in terms of empty bullshit that wingnuts say like a ward against criticism before they start in on “IF ONLY THEY’D HAD MOAR GUNZ!!!”
Tonight was a good night to have a bottle of emergency whisky in the rotation.
Seriously, fuck this entire timeline.— Franklygoddamn (@goddamnedfrank) March 15, 2019
re: #172 goddamnedfrank
We absolutely live in the worst possible fucking timeline.
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The new media follows the marketing advice of the old: “It bleed, it leads.”
re: #168 Teukka
I’m thinking not, although the mosque attacks might be a trigger.
The mosque shooters were well armed. If the attack on the minister was part of this he would be dead.
I could always be wrong though. If I knew everything I’d b God and then I certainly wouldn’t be hanging around this silly planet.
Australia’s version of our Trumper GOP :
what. the. heck. #Christchurch pic.twitter.com/gLQi9XXpkY
— Sammy (@DaRealSamBB) March 15, 2019
Some of his latest tweets:
Countries such as Poland, Japan and Hungary that have not allowed Muslim immigration are not facing any terrorist attacks today. This is what we should aim for.
— Senator Fraser Anning (@fraser_anning) March 15, 2019
The real cause of bloodshed on New Zealand streets today is the immigration program that allowed Muslim fanatics to migrate to New Zealand in the first place.
— Senator Fraser Anning (@fraser_anning) March 15, 2019
And so on.
Anning got that position because the guy who was elected, one of the One Nation loonies, was found ineligible after the fact.
Queensland must love their own right wing.
re: #177 freetoken
Australia’s version of our Trumper GOP :
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And so on.
But, you know, AOC is wrong for suggesting “thoughts and prayers” provide no protection.
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No, oh no, my friends. The enemy is fear. The enemy is ignorance. The enemy is the one who tells you that you must hate that which is different. Because, in the end, that hate will turn on you. And that same hate will destroy you.”
— Rev. Will Dexter, Babylon 5 [S03E20]
/FIN— Teo (@Teukka72) March 15, 2019
This is why people say ban the fucking Nazis. You give them a platform and they use it radicalize each other and livestream murder. Any platform that allows white supremacists to congregate is complicit
— Butt “Municipal Power for California” Praxis (@buttpraxis) March 15, 2019
I remember when I joined LGF in 2007 and a regular headline was “Religion of Peace activists attack….”
Now we have NZ police warning people not to attend Mosques for fear of white.supremacist terror attacks.
re: #112 HappyWarrior
I really want Alex Jones to be forced to find a living that isn’t shilling hatred and paranoia to millions of people. I don’t want him homeless but I do want him to realize that it’s not lucrative to do what he’s been doing for the past 20 plus years.
He would not be able to do it without such a receptive market.
re: #177 freetoken
Australia’s version of our Trumper GOP :
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And so on.
On second reading, I have to disagree with your assessment. Even the worst of the “Freedom Caucus” would never stand up in the wake of a shooting at a mosque and suggest that not only did the victims deserve their fate for the “crime” of being Muslims, but go on to suggest that any who identify as Muslim are valid targets for violence. This is a brand of hate that, shocking as it may be to say in this day and age, still seems to be something the worst Republicans are hesitant to say out loud.
re: #184 Targetpractice
On second reading, I have to disagree with your assessment. Even the worst of the “Freedom Caucus” would never stand up in the wake of a shooting at a mosque and suggest that not only did the victims deserve their fate for the “crime” of being Muslims, but go on to suggest that any who identify as Muslim are valid targets for violence.
It is a matter of RW doctrine that all True Muslims are violent Jihadists.
re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is a matter of RW doctrine that all True Muslims are violent Jihadists.
True, but that’s the shit usually left to the wingnut media or the pulpit pimps on Sunday mornings. The politicians generally aren’t dumb enough to say that shit out loud, at least not when 40+ bodies lie riddled with bullets at the hands of wingnut terrorists.
LIVE: Police Commissioner Mike Bush gives update on Christchurch shootings https://t.co/v2gYgKPFwM
— nzherald (@nzherald) March 15, 2019
re: #186 Targetpractice
True, but that’s the shit usually left to the wingnut media or the pulpit pimps on Sunday mornings. The politicians generally aren’t dumb enough to say that shit out loud, at least not when 40+ bodies lie riddled with bullets at the hands of wingnut terrorists.
This guy feels the need to come out swinging…
re: #188 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This guy feels the need to come out swinging…
Aye. And I really doubt he’s gonna face more than a dressing down from his party for it.
re: #189 Targetpractice
Aye. And I really doubt he’s gonna face more than a dressing down from his party for it.
Only for saying so directly.
re: #186 Targetpractice
True, but that’s the shit usually left to the wingnut media or the pulpit pimps on Sunday mornings. The politicians generally aren’t dumb enough to say that shit out loud, at least not when 40+ bodies lie riddled with bullets at the hands of wingnut terrorists.
Local news (Australia) just increased the death toll to 49.
White supremacist terrorists.
The tactical plan for the American hate-right, to respond to this terrorist attack, went out quickly.
From Donnie Jr. to Ben Shapiro, the mantra is “don’t mention his name”.
What they want to do, of course, is make sure people don’t find his manifesto and that he credits Donald Trump for making him bring to importance the idea of ethnic nationalism.
Still, that the plan went out so quickly (that Loesch, Shapiro, DonnieJr. etc.) really does illustrate how they coordinate their propaganda war on America.
The manifesto both credited Trump for his racism and laughed at him for his incompetence. It was a pretty damming 1-2 punch.
Four hours old, still the best short take on why this is important to all of us:
Let me quickly explain why the Christchurch mosque shooting affects many of us, not just Muslim communities. If the shooter’s manifesto and social media feed are accurate, he was inspired by a right wing ideological infrastructure that thrives, recruits and radicalizes online 1/
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) March 15, 2019
Holy shit, the comment section on Breitbart is even more of a cesspool than usual.
Update:
Here are the key points from the New Zealand police commissioner press conference:
49 people were killed in the attack, including 41 at Deans Avenue mosque and seven at Linwood mosque. Another victim died in hospital.
A man in his late 20s has been charged with murder and will appear in Christchurch court tomorrow.
Two others arrested at the scene with guns are being investigated. A fourth person arrested may have had nothing to do with the attack.
Several guns have been recovered from both mosques. Two explosive devices were found on two vehicles at the scene. One has been disabled.
The suspects were unknown to the police.
The police remain vigilant but are not looking for anyone else in connection with the attacks.
The report needs correcting. During the presentation the commissioner corrected himself and said both IEDs were found on one vehicle. The wording was a but ambiguous.
re: #196 Ace-o-aces
Holy shit, the comment section on Breitbart is even more of a cesspool than usual.
FoxNews… the whole lot of deplorables are really earning their moniker this morning.
re: #198 freetoken
FoxNews… the whole lot of deplorables are really earning their moniker this morning.
I remember when these outlets used to shut down comments when their readers started showing their true colors.
“I’m confused.” — yes, yes you are.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) March 15, 2019
You’re confused.
And you’re not honest.— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) March 15, 2019
You asked “So how can this happen if it’s not in the US?”
As if the answer is not obvious.
Given the terrorist credits the likes of Trump and Candace Owens for his inspiration, the “how” is simply that the American hate right has exported its violent ideology.— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) March 15, 2019
Out of date. I was speculating about the significance of having several suspects, then I saw the police press conference.
re: #203 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The commissioner noted that one of the four may not be involved with the others but was picked up for something else.
But yes, there is a cadre of these right wing terrorists.
And the deplorables are all over social media this morning making excuses for them.
re: #144 Teukka
I really hope it won’t, but I won’t be surprised we’ll have at least attempted copy-asswipe incident before this day is out.
I would not be surprised to see a reprisal attack against known Nazis. I am not advocating it, of course, but I think there is a breaking point for a certain small segment of any population. I think it may have been reached.
re: #192 fern01
Local news (Australia) just increased the death toll to 49.
White supremacist terrorists.
I would refer to the asswipes as “alt-right terrorists”, what they did as “alt-right terrorism”, and any of their apologists as “alt-right terrorist enablers”.
Or am I too harsh in thinking we should try to pin those monikers on them?
Tiny Hands should be awake by now.
His sign off tweet last night was to send his followers to that cesspool the bratsfrat.
re: #206 Teukka
I like the idea. The white supremacist terrorists need to be named. There are still vast swaths of people not fully tuned in to the vile nature or the right.
re: #208 Ming5000
I like the idea. The white supremacist terrorists need to be named. There are still vast swaths of people not fully tuned in to the vile nature or the right.
The terrorists themselves need to be named.
And more importantly, the leaders that inspire them to commit their acts need to be named and the ideologies behind their acts need to be discussed openly and publicly.
I am not going to click on any more Raw Story articles like this:
CNN panel spirals into chaos after Trump supporter defends president’s threat of violence with his bikers and military
Cable news, and CNN is a major culprit, thrives on these insincere panels that include nut jobs just for the fireworks.
Then, the news feeds post articles about “Fireworks!” for the clicks…..
This is not helping make anyone more informed and is another toxic internet disease making democracy weaker.
FWIW, Pewdiepie has made a statement:
Just heard news of the devastating reports from New Zealand Christchurch.
I feel absolutely sickened having my name uttered by this person.
My heart and thoughts go out to the victims, families and everyone affected by this tragedy.— ƿ૯ωძɿ૯ƿɿ૯ (@pewdiepie) March 15, 2019
And couldn’t resist shading a Gadsden idiot:
— Teo (@Teukka72) March 15, 2019
re: #199 Ace-o-aces
I remember when these outlets used to shut down comments when their readers started showing their true colors.
it’s evolved into a core part of the business model
The deplorables are in such a fog of hate:
Milo standing with Candace Owens. The left are scared of our movement so they are coming after us one at a time. Now they want to brand our sister Candace Owens as a right-wing terrorist extremist. Sorry liberals, you tried that with the MAGA bomber and Jossie #MAGA #KAG #Blexit pic.twitter.com/rrdtYbJkKg
— Rebbecca Robertson (@beccamebabe) March 15, 2019
And how does Watson still use “PrisonPlanet” on Twitter? I thought all of Alex Jones’ stuff was banned from Twitter?
HAHA OMG you racist Leftists are taking your racism and crazy to a whole new level hahah.
“Black people don’t have to be Democrats” now means…mosque shootings in New Zealand?
This clearly won’t stick but damn if I won’t grow #BLEXIT highlighting your sheer desperation. 😂😂 https://t.co/4vM1aXleL4— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) March 15, 2019
Evil
re: #213 freetoken
More spin than an out-of-control washing machine in a seedy laundromat.
re: #215 Dr Lizardo
More spin than an out-of-control washing machine in a seedy laundromat.
Like a brick in a washing machine….
re: #214 DodgerFan1988
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a small and cosmically* insignificant person
*autocorrect changed it to “comically”. it is learning
Are you intentionally ignoring all the idiotic stuff Owens has said about nationalism?
You do realize that the terrorist in NZ had concerns about ethno-nationalism, don’t you?— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) March 15, 2019
re: #42 HappyWarrior
And remember Murdoch formed Fox in the Clinton years. Coulter was around before then but she didn’t really become a household name until W was President and if memory serves, the WSJ Ed board began going hard right when Rupert bought em. True about Rush tho.
The WSJ board has been hard-right since the paper formed. They were Nixon apologists up to the point where he got on the goddamned helicopter at the end.
Trump has to be awake by now.
I presume some minder has taken his phone and intends to make sure that whatever is tweeted this morning is not going to be so far off the edge that it blows up even worse than what Trump has already done.
It appears as if my information on Fraser Anning was old. He is currently not in any party, having been kicked out of his last one.
So the Australian Senate has this guy out there without any cover from party mates.
They really should just kick him out.
It’s awake and bloviating.
Warmest sympathy and best wishes instead of thoughts and prayers.
My warmest sympathy and best wishes goes out to the people of New Zealand after the horrible massacre in the Mosques. 49 innocent people have so senselessly died, with so many more seriously injured. The U.S. stands by New Zealand for anything we can do. God bless all!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2019
re: #223 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
It’s awake and bloviating.
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He didn’t write that. Some staffer or intern did.
re: #223 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
It’s awake and bloviating.
Warmest sympathy and best wishes instead of thoughts and prayers.
Is anybody on the right falling back on the standard talking point that those people in the Mosque might be alive if they had been properly armed?
Hmmmm….
re: #223 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
My warmest sympathy and best wishes goes out to the people of New Zealand after the horrible massacre in the Mosques. 49 innocent people have so senselessly died, with so many more seriously injured. The U.S. stands by New Zealand for anything we can do. God bless all!
definitely the edited version
Original;
“49 Dead Muslims in New Zealand. Sad, i guess, but it means fewer potential immigrants to ban from entering.”
re: #177 freetoken
Australia’s version of our Trumper GOP :
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And so on.
Yeah but how dare AOC point out the empty rhetoric of thoughts and prayers.//
re: #225 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Is anybody on the right falling back on the standard talking point that those people in the Mosque might be alive if they had been properly armed?
Hmmmm….
they’d be alive if they didnt move here
they’d be alive if they didnt choose to be muslims
they’d be alive if they stayed at home
ass hat thinking
re: #223 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
It’s awake and bloviating.
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A weak statement just as I thought. He won’t call out the hate that inspired these assholes.
re: #225 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Is anybody on the right falling back on the standard talking point that those people in the Mosque might be alive if they had been properly armed?
Hmmmm….
Nah, they’re blaming them for being Muslim in the first place.
re: #229 HappyWarrior
A weak statement just as I thought. He won’t call out the hate that inspired these assholes.
He can’t call it out. It would anger his base.
You enable this sort of shit with your anti-immigration rhetoric and all around bigotry. Shut the fuck up.
— Michele: Out of the Closet and into the fire (@BubbleheadII) March 15, 2019
re: #214 DodgerFan1988
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That witch has no conscience at all. In fact, I bet she’s even glad that she inspired it.
re: #231 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
He can’t call it out. It would anger his base.
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re: #229 HappyWarrior
A weak statement just as I thought. He won’t call out the hate that inspired these assholes.
he can’t call out the hate because *he* inspired these assholes
Not the morning for this https://t.co/5tbnSzgS4N
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 15, 2019
re: #235 Barefoot Grin
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You literally bragged about your support of bikers who have SS tattoos. I’m not Jewish but Jews will never prefer any party you’re the face of. And Republicans like you again think Jewish voters only care about the right’s conception of Israel.
Now it’s blaming Obama for this and that…..
“New evidence that the Obama era team of the FBI, DOJ & CIA were working together to Spy on (and take out) President Trump, all the way back in 2015.” A transcript of Peter Strzok’s testimony is devastating. Hopefully the Mueller Report will be covering this. @OANN @foxandfriends
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2019
re: #238 Dave In Austin
Now it’s blaming Obama for this and that…..
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You were suspected of criminal activity, you pathetic whiner.
re: #238 Dave In Austin
Now it’s blaming Obama for this and that…..
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There’s a major international tragedy and this fuckstain is yammering about unmitigated bullshit.
re: #240 Mike Lamb
There’s a major international tragedy and this fuckstain is yammering about unmitigated bullshit.
I bet this is what Fox is focusing about today.
re: #208 Ming5000
I like the idea. The white supremacist terrorists need to be named. There are still vast swaths of people not fully tuned in to the vile nature or the right.
On a similar trajectory, here’s a thread about the difference in the UK media coverage vs NZ coverage.
Basically every New Zealand media outlet is rightly calling the shootings a ‘terrorist attack’. Striking that few UK outlets are doing the same -
MailOnline: ‘Mosque killings’
Telegraph: ‘Shooting’…’attacks on two mosques’
Times: ‘Mosque attacks’
BBC: ‘Mosque shootings’— Josiah Mortimer (@josiahmortimer) March 15, 2019
re: #242 Alephnaught
On a similar trajectory, here’s a thread about the difference in the UK media coverage vs NZ coverage.
BBC calls it a terrorist attack in the sub-headline
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.@Kasie: “Do you think that the experience [@BetoORourke] has here in the House is a strong enough foundation to jump to the Oval Office?”@SpeakerPelosi: “And you ask me that when we have a President of the United States who never – you know – please. Yes, the answer is yes.” pic.twitter.com/YLDK1FPYSF
— Kasie DC (@KasieDC) March 14, 2019
re: #150 Dave In Austin
What is the attraction to someone who is so obviously deranged? She doesn’t even write well. I can barely understand that tweet. Conservatives have become wedded with violent extremists and they need to look at themselves and stop inciting violence.
re: #238 Dave In Austin
So has Trump expressed any condolences for the victims of the rightwing terrorist attack in NZ?
re: #238 Dave In Austin
Now it’s blaming Obama for this and that…..
Well I’m glad maga potus has changed his tweeting on this day of tragedy oh wait….
re: #242 Alephnaught
On a similar trajectory, here’s a thread about the difference in the UK media coverage vs NZ coverage.
GMA called it a terrorist attack and called him a white supremacist. It’s probably easier for them when it’s not in the US, but it’s a start.
re: #248 Patricia Kayden
So has Trump expressed any condolences for the victims of the rightwing terrorist attack in NZ?
Yes, warmest sympathies or something like that. One tweet.
What moar do you people Want?!?!
re: #247 Patricia Kayden
What is the attraction to someone who is so obviously deranged? She doesn’t even write well. I can barely understand that tweet. Conservatives have become wedded with violent extremists and they need to look at themselves and stop inciting violence.
They’d be forced to admit their belligerent and noxious rhetoric lies at the bottom of this surge in right-wing violence we’re seeing.
They want the freedom to spew their toxic invective yet refuse to own the real-world consequences of what they’re saying.
The POTUS wakes up and tweets utter garbage, neglecting the tragedy happening to an important ally.
re: #254 Amory Blaine
The POTUS wakes up and tweets utter garbage, neglecting the tragedy happening to an important ally.
Who else but Trump. Sigh.
re: #231 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
He can’t call it out. It would anger his base.
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Because we haven’t mocked Dana in a while:
You should download that app that tells you where you can go to find a safe space for conservatives.
— ‘Stache (@Stache2020) March 13, 2019
I have literally been in war zones four times less worried about being armed than you going to freaking Wegmans. Calm down.
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) March 14, 2019
re: #248 Patricia Kayden
So has Trump expressed any condolences for the victims of the rightwing terrorist attack in NZ?
Someone tweeted out an expression on his twitter feed; probably not Trump.
re: #238 Dave In Austin
Now it’s blaming Obama for this and that…..
Fox & Fiends better be careful—it’s two-timing on Fox with OANN.
re: #258 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Someone tweeted out an expression on his twitter feed; probably not Trump.
If he says anything, it will be the usual incoherent bs.
re: #258 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Someone tweeted out an expression on his twitter feed; probably not Trump.
Yeah, like I said awhile ago, it was probably a staffer or some intern. I’d be surprised if Trump wrote it…..he’s too busy watching Fox & Friends. You know……”executive time”.
re: #260 Sir John Barron
Fox & Fiends better be careful—it’s two-timing on Fox with OANN.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he starts watching more OANN instead of FNC, as OANN is pretty much 24/7/365 pure, unvarnished Trump ass-kissing.
re: #263 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, like I said awhile ago, it was probably a staffer or some intern. I’d be surprised if Trump wrote it…..he’s too busy watching Fox & Friends. You know……”executive time”.
Executive Bathroom Time.
re: #265 HappyWarrior
I thought that was Executive Golden time. /
re: #254 Amory Blaine
The POTUS wakes up and tweets utter garbage, neglecting the tragedy happening to an important ally.
It’s not as useful to him as whatever is on F&F and OANN.
re: #246 Belafon
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Yet another reason to love Nancy! She knows right where to stick it to the asshole in the Oval Office.
I am Jewish and I can tell you you’re full of ssshhhhhaaaaavvvvviiiinnngggg cream!
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) March 15, 2019
re: #43 freetoken
To be clear, it was we played the Candace is a fucking Nazi stooge who doesn’t get how history or her actions work to enable and condone right wing extremists. Or that she thought Hitler was a good guy who went overboard by invading Germany’s neighbors. https://t.co/6jnc3a0cSX
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 15, 2019
But yeah, please do go on about how you’re the victim in all this or that you’re going to sue people for defamation or other bulkshit when your statements are available for all to see as a public figure (higher standard applies).
She’s not the only one engaging in stochastic terrorism - Trump takes an oversized amount of the blame for that. Why? Because he’s done more to normalize white nationalism, white supremacy, and the far right xenophobic agenda than any other major public figure in the world.
Other right wing extremists are keying off him. And he’s already equated goddamned Nazis with the people protesting them. He equated the Nazi who murdered Heather Heyer with the people who were protesting those Nazis.
Trump repeatedly demonizes Muslims and repeats anti Semitic tropes. This works its way into the right wing lexicon and Fox spreads it, as does all the lower levels of the right wing ecosphere online. This is no accident.
These are purposeful decisions to demonize minorities and nonwhites (and women).
The consequences are deadly - as we again witness in Christchurch, where at least 49 Muslims were murdered by right wing terrorists who singled out 2 mosques to carry out their manifesto - and livestreamed for all to see.
Has Fox covered the shooting much? I was talking to a conservative coworker, and he hadn’t heard about the shooting. I don’t know what his morning habits are, but I have mentioned stuff before and he’s known about them.
SHS did issue a standard “thoughts and prayers” statement.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders also issued a statement condemning the attacks.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families,” the statement said. “We stand in solidarity with the people of New Zealand and their government against this vicious act of hate.”
re: #213 freetoken
The deplorables are in such a fog of hate:
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And how does Watson still use “PrisonPlanet” on Twitter? I thought all of Alex Jones’ stuff was banned from Twitter?
@jack sees nothing wrong with that. He’s too busy trying to “find himself” a la Jackie Gleason in Skidoo.
re: #272 Belafon
Has Fox covered the shooting much? I was talking to a conservative coworker, and he hadn’t heard about the shooting. I don’t know what his morning habits are, but I have mentioned stuff before and he’s known about them.
Expect to soon hear:
“NZ is a gun-free zone, gun controls don’t work.”
“Stop blaming this on maga potus.”
“Mental illness”
“Too soon to talk about shooter’s motives.”
“Whataboutwhataboutwhatabout”
‘Trump is a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose’: New Zealand gunman’s sick manifesto reveals he supported the president and wanted to spark ‘a civil war in the U.S.’ by massacring dozens https://t.co/bATYpAfehv via @MailOnline
— Dayne (@KARLewis) March 15, 2019
Meanwhile on OANN, Candace Owens will get her ass endlessly kissed…
Says the guy whose own website ran a piece headlined “7 Things You Need To Know About Orlando Terrorist Omar Mateen” 48 hours after he killed 49 people in a mass shooting:https://t.co/Wn422YMifC
Ah the bad faith of the modern US conservative moment, the sheer bad faith… https://t.co/Kc9Xws2Ey2— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) March 15, 2019
Guess who had a think tank even though he accused Clinton of using her foundation to make connections:
APNewsBreak: The Sanders Institute, a think tank founded by Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders’ wife and son, has stopped accepting donations and plans to suspend operations by the end of May. https://t.co/ODQvDVLMrB
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) March 14, 2019
re: #278 Belafon
That was different because
re: #278 Belafon
A few quotes to remember:
Ben Shapiro: “above 800 million Muslims are radicalized…that’s a majority”
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: “every devout Muslim…must have at least approved of [9/11]”
Brigitte Gabriel: “A practicing Muslim…cannot be a loyal citizen to the US”#Christchurch— Omar Baddar (@OmarBaddar) March 15, 2019
re: #271 lawhawk
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But yeah, please do go on about how you’re the victim in all this or that you’re going to sue people for defamation or other bulkshit when your statements are available for all to see as a public figure (higher standard applies).
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Candace could have proclaimed her innocence — and also expressed sympathy toward those who were massacred. But AFAICT, she has still failed to say anything that remotely suggested any concern about the 49 deaths and 20 wounded. Have any of the other Turning Point crew shown any feeling or empathy at all or have they continued to demonstrated that they rightly earned the “deplorable” title.
Hmm… For some reason, this doesn’t show in the replies to pewdiepie? What’s going on?
Not saying that @pewdiepie incited the NZ shooter(s),
but how is it that whites always are “mentally ill” instead of terrorist?
What they did was terrorism.
The perps are terrorists.
People who make excuses for them are terrorist enables.
Not negotiable.— Teo (@Teukka72) March 15, 2019
Over on Voat (I put on the ol’ hazmat suit and ventured over), they’re claiming the NZ massacre was either a false flag or they’re praising the shooter as some kind of hero.
Sick fucks. The lot of them.
re: #284 Dr Lizardo
Over on Voat (I put on the ol’ hazmat suit and ventured over), they’re claiming the NZ massacre was either a false flag or they’re praising the shooter as some kind of hero.
Sick fucks. The lot of them.
“It’s either something We shouldn’t be blamed for or it is something We should be proud of.”
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re: #33 De Kolta Chair
Someone help me understand this cartoon. I saw it last night and again just now and I still don’t get it.
re: #286 MsJ
It’s a motion capture suit…. riffing on the conspiracy theory going around that whoever is accompanying Trump on some of these trips isn’t actually Melania.
re: #286 MsJ
Someone help me understand this cartoon. I saw it last night and again just now and I still don’t get it.
That would be a motion capture suit, used in movies to allow a computer to overlay an image on top of the person. Think Hulk or Thanos. “Melania” is digitally added later.
“The manifesto, littered with conspiracy theories about white birthrates and “white genocide,” is the latest sign that a lethal vision of white nationalism has spread internationally.” https://t.co/k4zcInz3nO
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 15, 2019
re: #284 Dr Lizardo
Over on Voat (I put on the ol’ hazmat suit and ventured over), they’re claiming the NZ massacre was either a false flag or they’re praising the shooter as some kind of hero.
Sick fucks. The lot of them.
Always. Sigh
re: #243 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
BBC calls it a terrorist attack in the sub-headline
To be fair, I think the UK media is starting to refer to it as a terrorist attack now. I wonder if they caught some flack about their initial reporting.
re: #286 MsJ
Someone help me understand this cartoon. I saw it last night and again just now and I still don’t get it.
You and me both!
re: #285 Sir John Barron
“It’s either something We shouldn’t be blamed for or it is something We should be proud of.”
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Or, not infrequently, both
re: #290 freetoken
Arguably it started well before this - Utoya comes to mind. And the endless series of right wing domestic terror attacks here in the US.
re: #116 Citizen K
This presumes a moral center on her part, sadly.
The only moral center these people have surrounds money.
re: #283 Teukka
Hmm… For some reason, this doesn’t show in the replies to pewdiepie? What’s going on?
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As I said last night, we’re allowed to be individuals. Timothy McVeigh being a white man meant nothing in the conversation after OKC but PoC as individuals are held responsible for criminal actions done by individuals.
Beneath contempt are you and your ilk, the ideological cousins of the terrorist who killed so many in NZ.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) March 15, 2019
re: #298 freetoken
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She wasn’t trashing prayer. She was trashing empty prayer by politicians who are able to do something and yeah the NRA does deserve blame when they engage in race baiting bs.
White identity politics and racial grievance — ever more openly espoused, clearly articulated — is the motor of grassroots Republican politics in a Trump bastion in PA, reports @AsteadWesley. https://t.co/qSOQNY5KQL
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) March 15, 2019
re: #289 Belafon
That would be a motion capture suit, used in movies to allow a computer to overlay an image on top of the person. Think Hulk or Thanos. “Melania” is digitally added later.
I’ve caught a few tweets alleging that a woman who looks like Melania, but who isn’t Melania, has appeared with Trump several times recently. Not sure if I can take them seriously. One side-by-side comparison suggested the fake Mel was shorter than the real one by a few inches, but the image for “the real Mel” had her standing closer to the camera than Donald, thus looking as tall as he, but “the fake Mel” was standing alongside him, and looking shorter than Donald.
OTOH, this administration is so consumed with image over substance, that replacing Melania with a “stunt double” would not be at all surprising.
Thread:
Let me quickly explain why the Christchurch mosque shooting affects many of us, not just Muslim communities. If the shooter’s manifesto and social media feed are accurate, he was inspired by a right wing ideological infrastructure that thrives, recruits and radicalizes online 1/
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) March 15, 2019
re: #298 freetoken
Notice how these yokels always pick the “crazy eyes” shots for AOC in their tweets.
She has them rattled.
re: #286 MsJ
Someone help me understand this cartoon. I saw it last night and again just now and I still don’t get it.
I think it is a reference to the Melania body double theory. The white dots represent the targets used when scanning a human body. The silhouette represents the mystery woman. Anyway, that’s how I see it.
re: #301 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
I’ve caught a few tweets alleging that a woman who looks like Melania, but who isn’t Melania, has appeared with Trump several times recently. Not sure if I can take them seriously. One side-by-side comparison suggested the fake Mel was shorter than the real one by a few inches, but the image for “the real Mel” had her standing closer to the camera than Donald, thus looking as tall as he, but “the fake Mel” was standing alongside him, and looking shorter than Donald.
OTOH, this administration is so consumed with image over substance, that replacing Melania with a “stunt double” would not be at all surprising.
I’m pretty sure Melania knows what’s going to earn her the most money after the divorce, and so she shows up.
C’mon…they moved the office to Jerusalem! That has to count for something. Iran bad! And Jexodus has a nice ring to it…
Jexodus…
recruiting all Dem people…— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 15, 2019
re: #306 darthstar
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That’s because wingnuts like Trump think American Jews only care about Israel or more accurately what Bibi wants.
I see the president is laser focused on what matters in this time of international crisis and mourning…
— POTUS On The Pot (@potusonthepot) March 15, 2019
Right now a conversation through Trump’s bedroom door:
Sir, can you approve this statement on New Ze—
LISA PAGE AND HER LOVER!
—aland and the mosque shoo—
NO COLLUSION!— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 15, 2019
re: #301 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
I’ve caught a few tweets alleging that a woman who looks like Melania, but who isn’t Melania, has appeared with Trump several times recently. Not sure if I can take them seriously. One side-by-side comparison suggested the fake Mel was shorter than the real one by a few inches, but the image for “the real Mel” had her standing closer to the camera than Donald, thus looking as tall as he, but “the fake Mel” was standing alongside him, and looking shorter than Donald.
OTOH, this administration is so consumed with image over substance, that replacing Melania with a “stunt double” would not be at all surprising.
If you look at all the photos, some look like her and others do not. I think that she just photographs differently in various angled poses. It’s a kinda stunning difference but I have seen it before with people I know. Personally, I am pretty photogenic and I think I always look better in pictures than I do in real life. Still looks like me but better.
OK, off to teach. Last lesson of the week. Back later.
OT: Last weekend when I did my laundry I noticed that one of the hoses was slimy. So I ordered some new steel braided from amazon. They were delivered to my neighbor. He opened up my package and realized that it was not what he ordered. He looked at the label and put the package on my front door step and since the amazon delivery people were still there he told them to get it right. Thank you Neighbor.
It’s Friday, so is it Mueller time again?
So, if there was knowingly & acknowledged to be “zero” crime when the Special Counsel was appointed, and if the appointment was made based on the Fake Dossier (paid for by Crooked Hillary) and now disgraced Andrew McCabe (he & all stated no crime), then the Special Counsel…….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2019
We might want to be careful about that manifesto. There appears to be a fair bit of misdirection in it. See the linked article in this tweet:
The killer was steeped in internet culture. He intended this video to go viral to inspire others. Just as he was inspired by Breivik. And it has. Facebook & Google broadcasting it right now to millions. That is not algos gone bad. It’s a human decisionhttps://t.co/jsmc3BhlQP
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 15, 2019
But this manifesto is a trap itself, laid for journalists searching for the meaning behind this horrific crime. There is truth in there, and valuable clues to the shooter’s radicalization, but it is buried beneath a great deal of, for lack of a better word, “shitposting”.
Shitposting is the act of throwing out huge amounts of content, most of it ironic, low-quality trolling, for the purpose of provoking an emotional reaction in less Internet-savvy viewers. The ultimate goal is to derail productive discussion and distract readers. [The Manifesto] is a clear and brutally obvious example of this technique.
In his manifesto, Brenton credits far-right personality Candace Owens with beginning his radicalization. He states that, “Each time she spoke I was stunned by her insights and her own views helped push me further and further into the belief of violence over meekness. Though I will have to disavow some of her beliefs, the extreme actions she calls for are too much, even for my tastes.”
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It is possible, even likely that the author was a fan of Owens’s videos: she certainly espouses anti-immigrant rhetoric. But in context seems likely that his references to Owens were calculated to spark division, and perhaps even violence, between the left and the right. At multiple points in the manifesto the author expresses the hope that his massacre will spark further attempts at gun control in the United States, which he believes will lead to gun confiscation and a civil war. He believes this civil war would be the best opportunity destroy the American “melting pot”. This idea is repeated often enough that it seems to be something the author legitimately believes in.
Given the tone surrounding the Candace Owens passage, it seems clear that it was “bait”, thrown out to attract attention on social media and sow further political division.
re: #283 Teukka
Hmm… For some reason, this doesn’t show in the replies to pewdiepie? What’s going on?
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Since my original reply got censored:
How is it that whites always are “mentally ill” instead of terrorist?
What they did was terrorism.
The perps are terrorists.
People who make excuses for them are terrorist enablers.
Not negotiable.— Teo (@Teukka72) March 15, 2019
re: #316 Alephnaught
We might want to be careful about that manifesto. There appears to be a fair bit of misdirection in it. See the linked article in this tweet:
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That’s true. That said Candece Owens has no right to whine when she praised Nazism’s actions until 1939.
re: #311 darthstar
This was more accurate than I realized.
Hey asshole. There was a major terrorist attack on one of our allies today and you’re bitching about being held accountable?
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 15, 2019
re: #319 darthstar
This was more accurate than I realized.
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There’s the right’s Alpha Male. Someone get Trump a pacifier so he’ll shut the fuck up for once.
Another criminal that won’t be stopped by a wall.
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Can you help identify this brazen criminal? 😁 pic.twitter.com/23e1QfQQSk
— 🌊❄️Dexter #TeamPelosi (@Texas_Dexter) March 15, 2019
re: #315 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
It’s Friday, so is it Mueller time again?
He’s really bringing people together
re: #316 Alephnaught
I have not read the shooter’s manifesto, but caught some snips of it here and there. Within the cryptocurrency circles, some noticed that he mentions he had made some good money with Bitconnect.
Bitconnect was a massive ponzi scheme that purported to be a cryptocurrency scheme. It collapsed in early 2018, and many people lost millions of dollars as a result. Shooter guy could have been one of the guys near the top of the pyramid.
re: #323 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
I have not read the shooter’s manifesto, but caught some snips of it here and there. Within the cryptocurrency circles, some noticed that he mentions he had made some good money with Bitconnect.
Bitconnect was a massive ponzi scheme that purported to be a cryptocurrency scheme. It collapsed in early 2018, and many people lost millions of dollars as a result. Shooter guy could have been one of the guys near the top of the pyramid.
If what Alephnaught posted is correct, this guy was one of the smarter ones, one of the really dangerous ones.
About the New Zealand murder porn that’s circulating:
1. Don’t watch it.
2. Don’t RT it.
3. Report it.
4. Mute the poster so you don’t see more shit like that from them.— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 15, 2019
Female scientists in sspppaaccee!
Godspeed, @Astro_Christina and the Expedition 59 crew! Now on her way to the @Space_Station, Christina Koch started her NASA career as an electrical engineer right here at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center! pic.twitter.com/IwNcu4dVDl
— NASA Goddard (@NASAGoddard) March 14, 2019
She will later take part in the first all-female spacewalk mission.
These Christian fascists throw in Judeo to make it sound like they’re inclusive, but when you dig just under the surface, it turns out that they’re just trying to cover for the xenophobia and bigotry.
When push comes to shove, Jews will be thrown under the bus too.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 15, 2019
re: #325 darthstar
Mute? Posting that shit into my timeline will get you blocked. https://t.co/7A7BTgcSvF
— Michele: Out of the Closet and into the fire (@BubbleheadII) March 15, 2019
re: #315 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
It’s Friday, so is it Mueller time again?
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I suppose it’s too much to ask that the fucking POTUS understands the concept of “probable cause”.
re: #327 lawhawk
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And they don’t mean all Christians either. Just conservative ones. Gorka can fuck off.
Ben Shapiro kind of agrees with me.
1 and 2 yes. On 3 it’s important to know who inspires people like this and call them out for their words. Even when the terrorists happen to be white nationalist christians.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 15, 2019
The ‘Jexodus’ movement encourages Jewish people to leave the Democrat Party. Total disrespect! Republicans are waiting with open arms. Remember Jerusalem (U.S. Embassy) and the horrible Iran Nuclear Deal! @OANN @foxandfriends
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2019
Morning!
Arrrrrrgh!!!
I am fighting website issues with a client that is freaking out and he is in Australia and communicating with him is difficult.
We had to move his company’s web site to a new server due to the need for an updated MySQL database for the web store. And since that move we have had nothing but problems.
The internet is a god thing, but sometimes it is pure hell too.
And it is totally ruining my LGF viewing!
Pray for me…
re: #332 lawhawk
“Come join the party that calls you globalists, accuses you of owning the media and the banks, and still holds you accountable for the death of Jesus. We’re far better for you than people who criticize Israel for the treatment of Palestinians.”
re: #333 ObserverArt
To paraphrase Wendell, the internet was created for sharing scientific documents. It wasn’t created to sell goods or to allow you to post pictures of your pets.
Tomorrow is Parshat Zachor (the Shabbat before Purim) where everyone is required to attend the Torah reading.
BREAKING Synagogues in New Zealand close for Shabbat following massacre https://t.co/ckuwpd6dXG pic.twitter.com/y8VeDpKvmo
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) March 15, 2019
My sister’s continued stoking of anti-immigrant sentiment is right in line with today’s tragedy in Christchurch, NZ. Has she no idea where the end game leads? Does she even really care? Perhaps she should look within herself to see what demons are at play. Apologies to all. https://t.co/pHTyylnEKD
— Curtis Ingraham (@CurtisIngraham1) March 15, 2019
That’s Laura Ingraham’s brother… and he’s calling her out in no uncertain terms.
re: #327 lawhawk
“Some civilizations are better than others. And ours, the Judeo-Christian civilization is the best of all.”
And that, in a nutshell, is modern white supremacism.
Do not let them wiggle out of or around it.
re: #338 lawhawk
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That’s Laura Ingraham’s brother… and he’s calling her out in no uncertain terms.
He’s been calling her out. Props to him. She’s a bigoted witch.
re: #275 Sir John Barron
Expect to soon hear:
“NZ is a gun-free zone, gun controls don’t work.”
My brother already posted this on FB. I’m biting my tongue because we’ve only just started talking again.
Mueller isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. This makes it clear that we’re talking at least two more months before we can even sniff a report being completed:
NEW: Rick Gates — still cooperating! Mueller’s office asks to delay his sentencing again, as Gates “continues to cooperate with respect to several ongoing investigations.” They ask for another 60 days until the next update pic.twitter.com/dnIPvc57BF
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) March 15, 2019
All those who thought Mueller was wrapping up in February, and now March have been talking out their ass. The filings make it clear Mueller’s still got a lot of work ahead of him.
re: #342 lawhawk
Mueller isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. This makes it clear that we’re talking at least two more months before we can even sniff a report being completed:
All those who thought Mueller was wrapping up in February, and now March have been talking out their ass. The filings make it clear Mueller’s still got a lot of work ahead of him.
Mueller Witchy Hunt ending THIS WEEK! Mass arrests of Clinton, Holder, Obama, Lynch coming right up!!
re: #275 Sir John Barron
Expect to soon hear:
“NZ is a gun-free zone, gun controls don’t work.”
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“If only all those Muslims had been properly armed…” does not seem to be put forth as an argument here.
Wonder why?
re: #323 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
I have not read the shooter’s manifesto, but caught some snips of it here and there. Within the cryptocurrency circles, some noticed that he mentions he had made some good money with Bitconnect.
Bitconnect was a massive ponzi scheme that purported to be a cryptocurrency scheme. It collapsed in early 2018, and many people lost millions of dollars as a result. Shooter guy could have been one of the guys near the top of the pyramid.
Or the bottom, creating a “fuck it, kill everyone, I have nothing, might as well go to prison or die” mentality.
re: #341 NO SMOCKING GUN!
“People have died from contaminated food, so restaurant cooks should not have to wash their hands.”
re: #344 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Same reason that the NRA was silent when African Americans were murdered in church in Charleston.
The 2A solution only applies when it’s a white guy as the victim.
re: #342 lawhawk
Mueller isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. This makes it clear that we’re talking at least two more months before we can even sniff a report being completed:
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All those who thought Mueller was wrapping up in February, and now March have been talking out their ass. The filings make it clear Mueller’s still got a lot of work ahead of him.
He needs to present a case so solid and overwhelming that it cannot be dismissed on any procedural grounds or overlooked as irrelevant.
He needs to force the GOP to either move to impeach DT or to appear complicit and enabling in his crimes.
For those that may be unable to view this for any reason, here is a helpful list of thing Donald has publicly said about racist congressman, Steve King… pic.twitter.com/u6VTSVV8MO
— Old Rant Dump (@TrumpinTheShark) March 14, 2019
re: #344 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“If only all those Muslims had been properly armed…” does not seem to be put forth as an argument here.
Wonder why?
“The Muslim worshippers should have been armed.”
Next week:
—Muslim worshippers shoot and kill armed attacker of mosque
“Muslims murdered an innocent protester protesting hateful and violent Muslims, Muslims should be banned.”
Screw you asshole. He killed those people because they were Muslim immigrants. Not because he had a “legal” beef with them. Saying anything else is openly supporting white nationalism. But that’s not anything new with you is it? https://t.co/dhCae2qWdV
— Michele: Out of the Closet and into the fire (@BubbleheadII) March 15, 2019
’ Morning, all. Not of course, good morning. I’m reaching the “I can’t even” stage. What were these (and particularly that) idiots thinking?
My heart breaks for the victims, their families, friends and community.
That is all.
Here’s an interesting side note to all of this. The last non-American mass shooting incident that I think compares with Christchurch is Breivik and that was in 2011.
EIGHT YEARS AGO.
And here in America we can’t even go eight WEEKS between mass shootings.
re: #342 lawhawk
Anyone who’s paid any attention to history should recognize that special counsel investigations have a tendency to last more than two short years…
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re: #180 Teukka
(Sings) There’s no hiding place down here!
re: #354 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Anyone who’s payed any attention to history should recognize that special counsel investigations have a tendency to last more than two short years…
Anyone who’s paid attention would also know that Mueller’s uncovered more criminal wrongdoing than any of the prior special counsel investigations.
And those indicted include dozens of Russian companies/individuals as foreign agents.
It doesn’t include the Cohen saga and all the spinoff investigations either.
re: #351 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
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“Controversies.” They were worshiping peacefully you ass. You wouldn’t say that if a non Christian shot up a church.
Those videos are still out there. I just found five in about two minutes of Googling.
sigh…
re: #353 Eclectic Cyborg
Here’s an interesting side note to all of this. The last non-American mass shooting incident that I think compares with Christchurch is Breivik and that was in 2011.
EIGHT YEARS AGO.
And here in America we can’t even go eight WEEKS between mass shootings.
And Christchurch is further from Norway than it is here. But yeah you are right.
I’m not going to watch. I can’t give them that sanctification and I think it’s disrespectful to the dead and their families that I watch their last moments on Earth.
re: #353 Eclectic Cyborg
Here’s an interesting side note to all of this. The last non-American mass shooting incident that I think compares with Christchurch is Breivik and that was in 2011.
EIGHT YEARS AGO.
And here in America we can’t even go eight WEEKS between mass shootings.
I recall reading that more Muslims die from Muslim terrorists than non-Muslims.
re: #315 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
It’s Friday, so is it Mueller time again?
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I got a bit of a break to try to get caught up a bit.
Rachel Maddow did a pretty extensive report on the “Fake” Steele dossier last night and I wasn’t able to pay close attention, but it sounded like she was making a point by point rundown of how it really is very factual, etc.
I wonder if Trump watched or heard about it and that is why he is out again using tweets to try to play it down.
If only our Orange Piggy President would spend as much time being a president as he does watching for how TV is talking about him…
Nah, he’d still be a mess.
re: #360 HappyWarrior
I’m not going to watch. I can’t give them that sanctification and I think it’s disrespectful to the dead and their families that I watch their last moments on Earth.
Completely understand, though I can’t help but have mixed feelings about the video. There’s a part of me that wants to force, Clockwork-Orange-eyes-propped-open style, all the mealy-mouth “both-siderists” who make excuses for white supremacy to watch.
re: #363 Interesting Times
Completely understand, though I can’t help but have mixed feelings about the video. There’s a part of me that wants to force, Clockwork-Orange-eyes-propped-open style, all the mealy-mouth “both-siderists” who make excuses for white supremacy to watch.
You can’t discount the possibility that they wouldn’t mind watching.
It’s okay to work for a racist bigot who isn’t directly interfering in the day-to-day operations. But that will change the moment he goes full-time into campaign mode.
And they’ll still be working to reelect a racist bigot.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 15, 2019
re: #365 lawhawk
The only people who will work for Trump are those with no reputation to ruin…
re: #365 lawhawk
[And they’ll still be working to reelect a racist bigot.]
Trump didn’t start the Wht Supr movement, But he is a tumor that is its greatest symptom right now. Excising that tumor won’t be a cure, but it would be a big help.
re: #338 lawhawk
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That’s Laura Ingraham’s brother… and he’s calling her out in no uncertain terms.
Whoa.
Between this family feud and the one between Rep Paul Gosar and his family, I wonder how many other families are split over wingnuts and normal people in the family that have to excuse the wingnut for being over-the-top, and need to either stay away from them or cut them off completely.
I bet the number would be stunning.
re: #358 Eclectic Cyborg
Those videos are still out there. I just found five in about two minutes of Googling.
sigh…
The internet is forever. They won’t go away.
re: #368 ObserverArt
Whoa.
Between this family feud and the one between Rep Paul Gosar and his family, I wonder how many other families are split over wingnuts and normal people in the family that have to excuse the wingnut for being over-the-top, and need to either stay away from them or cut them off completely.
I bet the number would be stunning.
George and Kellyanne Conway…
re: #351 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
Michele: Out of the Closet and into the fire
@BubbleheadII
Screw you asshole. He killed those people because they were Muslim immigrants. Not because he had a “legal” beef with them. Saying anything else is openly supporting white nationalism. But that’s not anything new with you is it?
Your comment makes me want to add a point to it.
Saying it was because the Muslim immigrants is correct, but what part does religion play in much of this?
People of one religion hating people of another religion is a big part of it too.
When it comes to Muslims, I wonder if religion is as big a cause for the pure hate as is people being different in lifestyle, traditions, cultures, economic power, etc.
Beto O’Rourke: ‘Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt’ That Trump Tried to Collude with Russia and Obstruct Justice https://t.co/Kvz8UvTI3s pic.twitter.com/BzsvwD6Ojs
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) March 15, 2019
re: #368 ObserverArt
Whoa.
Between this family feud and the one between Rep Paul Gosar and his family, I wonder how many other families are split over wingnuts and normal people in the family that have to excuse the wingnut for being over-the-top, and need to either stay away from them or cut them off completely.
I bet the number would be stunning.
Fox News is a fucking cancer on society.
re: #368 ObserverArt
Whoa.
Between this family feud and the one between Rep Paul Gosar and his family, I wonder how many other families are split over wingnuts and normal people in the family that have to excuse the wingnut for being over-the-top, and need to either stay away from them or cut them off completely.
I bet the number would be stunning.
Never suspect a whole family based on the actions [incl. words] of one. Nor a whole town, nor state, nor profession, nor……….
If I was like some in my family, town, profession, I’d be the biggest jerk still allowed to post here. That bar is not as high as it used to be, but still lets jerks in. Which is OK, if kept in check.
LGF could teach @ jack some things, but jack doesn’t care enough about those things to listen.
re: #368 ObserverArt
Whoa.
Between this family feud and the one between Rep Paul Gosar and his family, I wonder how many other families are split over wingnuts and normal people in the family that have to excuse the wingnut for being over-the-top, and need to either stay away from them or cut them off completely.
Only slightly related, a while back I looked up an old buddy I hung out with in High School, not a close buddy or anything, who went off to join the Army and we lost touch.
I had one look at his FB timeline with all its pro-gun and anti-Obama postings and decided not to bother…
re: #372 MsJ
Beto O’Rourke: ‘Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt’ That Trump Tried to Collude with Russia and Obstruct Justice
BETO JOINS PARTISAN WITCH HUNT!!!11ty
re: #235 Barefoot Grin
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“Jexodus” O_o
there’s already a word for Jewish exodus…it’s Exodus.
Junior Moron can just go take a seat
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re: #377 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Jexodus” O_o
there’s already a word for Jewish exodus…it’s Exodus.
Junior can just go take a seat
Jarexodus!!!
Jeb Bush says Trump should face a Republican primary challenger https://t.co/GKqslRXnl0
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 15, 2019
re: #377 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Jexodus” O_o
there’s already a word for Jewish exodus…it’s Exodus.
Junior can just go take a seat
That wasn’t Junior. That was the original article. His dear old Dad.
I had my own personal “Jexodus” in 2010. I left the #GOP forever. I will never vote for a #Republican again! https://t.co/P30HRoAESt
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) March 15, 2019
re: #377 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Jexodus” O_o
there’s already a word for Jewish exodus…it’s Exodus.
Junior can just go take a seat
That’s daddy’s quote, not juniors.
re: #371 ObserverArt
Your comment makes me want to add a point to it.
Saying it was because the Muslim immigrants is correct, but what part does religion play in much of this?
People of one religion hating people of another religion is a big part of it too.
When it comes to Muslims, I wonder if religion is as big a cause for the pure hate as is people being different in lifestyle, traditions, cultures, economic power, etc.
Good point.
re: #381 HappyWarrior
That wasn’t Junior. That was the original article. His dear old Dad.
fixed
thanks…been up most of the night because of the storm.
need more coffee…
re: #371 ObserverArt
Your comment makes me want to add a point to it.
Saying it was because the Muslim immigrants is correct, but what part does religion play in much of this?
People of one religion hating people of another religion is a big part of it too.
When it comes to Muslims, I wonder if religion is as big a cause for the pure hate as is people being different in lifestyle, traditions, cultures, economic power, etc.
Religion is just another tool for tyranists, unless it’s kept out of their hands.
re: #210 Ming5000
I am not going to click on any more Raw Story articles like this:
Cable news, and CNN is a major culprit, thrives on these insincere panels that include nut jobs just for the fireworks.
Then, the news feeds post articles about “Fireworks!” for the clicks…..This is not helping make anyone more informed and is another toxic internet disease making democracy weaker.
I don’t click on any Raw Story articles, all they do is steal stories from legitimate news sources, sprinkle in their own bias, and add a click-baity headline. The whole site is trash.
Local News: One of the many things I get with my Ring Doorbell is Neighborhood Watch. It informs me (and others) of incidents going on in the area. After reading about the horrible shooting in New Zealand, and everyone being on a heighten state of alert, a local middle school Woodrow Wilson is currently in lockdown. This school is a mile from my house in NE Philly. I hope everything ends peacefully.
re: #383 Colère Tueur de Lapin
That’s daddy’s quote, not juniors.
There’s the dumb one, the dumber one, and the dumbest one…which one is which depends on who’s been in the media most recently. The most recent one is always the dumbest.
Jesus H Fucking Christ.
Missouri: The Shoot Me State.
“There’s even a bill that would require every adult in Missouri between the ages of 18 and 35 to own an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, the assault weapon of choice among mass shooters in this country.” https://t.co/sdxEvg7nsw— Jess Piper (@EnglishTeach07) March 15, 2019
re: #385 Backwoods_Sleuth
fixed
thanks…been up most of the night because of the storm.need more coffee…
Hey all good. It really shows how illiterate he is in the Bible doesn’t it?
re: #387 danarchy
I don’t click on any Raw Story articles, all they do is steal stories from legitimate news sources, sprinkle in their own bias, and add a click-baity headline. The whole site is trash.
I agree with you.
I don’t often, IIRC.
re: #389 Sufficient unto the day…
There’s the dumb one, the dumber one, and the dumbest one…which one is which depends on who’s been in the media most recently. The most recent one is always the dumbest.
My Aunt had a great one about how to tell them apart. I forget the exact deets lol but it was pretty spot on.
re: #390 MsJ
Jesus H Fucking Christ.
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Requiring gun ownership is stupid. Requiring owning an AR-15 is criminal.
re: #390 MsJ
Jesus H Fucking Christ.
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I’ve said it before that at the rate we’ve been going, mandatory gun ownership was more likely to come to pass than meaningful gun control.
I didn’t even mean it literally though. What the fuck.
re: #393 Belafon
“It’s a black man with an AR-15! Shoot him!”
These fucking people. This is why I fucking hate guns.
re: #390 MsJ
Jesus H Fucking Christ.
When I was a kid, there was a made-for-tv movie about a town that required everyone to carry. I don’t remember much, though I do remember that one of the things the focused on was people who didn’t have any training attempting to use the gun for self-defense. I partially remember that the ending was some really bad shooting occurred that caused the town to revoke it.
re: #398 Belafon
When I was a kid, there was a made-for-tv movie about a town that required everyone to carry. I don’t remember much, though I do remember that one of the things the focused on was people who didn’t have any training attempting to use the gun for self-defense. I partially remember that the ending was some really bad shooting occurred that caused the town to revoke it.
Was it that town in Georgia?
re: #390 MsJ
Jesus H Fucking Christ.
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And uh, who the hell pays for all those AR-15s?
re: #380 MsJ
That should be worth about five whiny potus tweets.
re: #400 Eclectic Cyborg
And uh, who the hell pays for all those AR-15s?
Yeah we don’t have enough money to give every child health care but we do to help the firearms industry out. Fuck. These people aren’t capitalists. They’re cronies of the gun industry.
re: #400 Eclectic Cyborg
And uh, who the hell pays for all those AR-15s?
Clearly it comes out of Social Security. Because guns are the only real security after all. ////////
re: #398 Belafon
When I was a kid, there was a made-for-tv movie about a town that required everyone to carry. I don’t remember much, though I do remember that one of the things the focused on was people who didn’t have any training attempting to use the gun for self-defense. I partially remember that the ending was some really bad shooting occurred that caused the town to revoke it.
[…]
Originally, the county commission considered an ordinance requiring gun ownership. That got watered down after some locals complained such an ordinance would be as repressive as forbidding gun ownership.
[…]
“Citizens are getting tired of being tossed around and pushed to the limit by regulations,” said Carl Livingston, a county commissioner. “We want the Forest Service to know we’re prepared, even though violence would be a last resort.” At a meeting of the county chamber of commerce recently, Forest Service District Ranger Mike Gardner urged caution. “What are you guys arming against?” he asked. “A .30-.30 won’t do any good against (U.S. government) Bradley fighting vehicles and attack helicopters.”
re: #403 Citizen K
Clearly it comes out of Social Security. Because guns are the only real security after all. ////////
I think Social Security is only paid for on a federal level but this would come out of people’s health care, educations, and infrastructure. Keep on voting for Republicans, Missouri, this is how little they regard your welfare as a citizen.
Honestly, I’d be happy to get my ass arrested for refusing to own an AR-15.
DAMN happy.
re: #407 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Jebsodus!!!
There are millions of Jebs tired of being taken for granted who are ready to make the leap and switch to…uh…something.
re: #407 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Jebsodus!!!
I’VE DONE MOAR FOR THE JEBS THAN ANY OTHER PRESIDENT EVER
Jeb: the Voice of the Burning Bush!!!
I see Dish Dzousa is already claiming THE MEDIA is making way too much out of this little ole shooting in that country just because it fits THE MEDIA “narrative”.
re: #390 MsJ
Jesus H Fucking Christ.
“Why are shootings going up after we required everyone to have a gun? Do we need to authorize more powerful weapons?”
So, does this mean Trump is now an Antijebite?
If Jeb feels that way. He should run against him or advise someone who will.
re: #406 Eclectic Cyborg
Honestly, I’d be happy to get my ass arrested for refusing to own an AR-15.
DAMN happy.
That used to be called Non-Violent Direct Action, if you worked at it. Active refusal, not the Passive Resistance of the less-confrontational.
Oh man, does this bring back memories-Beto O’Rourke was a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow, an early hacktivism group!
re: #411 Sir John Barron
I see Dish Dzousa is already claiming THE MEDIA is making way too much out of this little ole shooting in that country just because it fits THE MEDIA “narrative”.
When I want a really stupid take, I just look at what DInesh says. It’s usually very stupid and coming from a stupid place.
Trump response to House vote 420 to 0 to release Mueller report: NO! https://t.co/xEnSZJBy6v
— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) March 15, 2019
re: #337 The Vicious Babushka
Tomorrow is Parshat Zachor (the Shabbat before Purim) where everyone is required to attend the Torah reading.
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They shouldn’t have to close; rather they should be protected by armed guards. I’d be first in line to volunteer if I lived in Christchurch. Because that city’s got a lot of living up to do to get to that name.
This is an interesting thread, but the Sartre quote that Jeet Heer posts is right on about the difference between anti-semites (and other extremists) and those who believe in equality in liberal civil society.
2. This is something Sartre noticed in 1944: Nazis rhetoric often includes absurd jokey flourishes, to better destabilize reality. From Sartre’s “Anti-Semite and Jew”: pic.twitter.com/K6eDj2zO5O
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) March 15, 2019
re: #377 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Jexodus” O_o
there’s already a word for Jewish exodus…it’s Exodus.
JuniorMoron can just go take a seat(edited for accuracy)
You’d think before doing a national TV spot they might put together a better website than this: jexodus.org
re: #416 mmmirele
Oh man, does this bring back memories-Beto O’Rourke was a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow, an early hacktivism group!
This makes me laugh:
But is the United States ready for O’Rourke’s teenage exploits?
re: #418 Citizen K
Such transparent very courage
The only problem is that ALL republicans are running interference for Trump, including Romney and his no-longer-in-congress running mate.
They are all complicit.
Republicans are nuts. Off the rails nuts and should be nowhere near any seat of power.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) March 15, 2019
re: #421 danarchy
The link is down for maintenance.
re: #422 Belafon
This makes me laugh:
But is the United States ready for O’Rourke’s teenage exploits?
He’ll clean up his past by photoshopping an ‘L’ into his old band’s name, FLoss.
Hmmm…
US, #EU & #Canada hit #Russia w/additional sanctions for the #KerchStrait attack, #Crimea & separatist elections in #Ukraine
“The United States & our transatlantic partners will not allow Russia’s continued aggression against Ukraine to go unchecked” per @USTreasury’s Mnuchin pic.twitter.com/obqx4q0X6i— Jeff Seldin (@jseldin) March 15, 2019
re: #422 Belafon
The days when you could post a text file full of Scientology’s secret scriptures on a file server in Beijing and bring down China’s internet pipe to the world are long gone. But they were *fun*.
re: #425 PhillyPretzel
The link is down for maintenance.
Must have just happened, It was just a page with a big red white and blue star of David, a short one paragraph spiel about how millennial Jews were fed up with “Leftist” democrat policies blah blah blah, a link to a short bio on their spokesmodel Elizabeth Pipko, and a contact us form.
re: #429 danarchy
It just came up. I liked the maintenance screen better.
re: #416 mmmirele
Oh man, does this bring back memories-Beto O’Rourke was a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow, an early hacktivism group!
I can think of a lot of young coworkers that will probably find a lot of that cool.
re: #390 MsJ
Jesus H Fucking Christ.
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I don’t have the time to dig into it, but I wonder what direct connections there are between this thinking and NRA money to the politicians floating this dangerous legislation?
The NRA needs to be taken out. It is time to make that organization go away. It is for the good of the country. Bury it is history with the knowledge of what it did to this country.
re: #393 Belafon
“It’s a black man with an AR-15! Shoot him!”
That is not the NRA’s problem. They sold the gun and got what they wanted.
re: #414 HappyWarrior
If Jeb feels that way. He should run against him or advise someone who will.
No one is clapping for Jeb.
And I think he knows it.
re: #419 William Lewis
They shouldn’t have to close; rather they should be protected by armed guards. I’d be first in line to volunteer if I lived in Christchurch. Because that city’s got a lot of living up to do to get to that name.
I also see them doing it in solidarity: if they are telling people not to go to Mosques, they are going to stay away from the Temple.
re: #370 Eclectic Cyborg
George and Kellyanne Conway…
I know I’m not the only poster here who have wingnuts in the family.
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