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Trump press conference: Alt-left, Robert E. Lee = Washington, #NotAllAltRight

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pigeon

Banned
Finale Fireworker said:
Here's the deal with "people like you."

You live in a fantasy universe where you look down on politics as frivolous. You don't understand why people get so worked up and think you're better than everyone else for having an "unbiased opinion" forged by what is probably a lifetime of disaffected disinterest. You confuse being uninformed and complacent as being open-minded and unbiased when you are positively neither. Your perspectives are based on the misconception that you're smarter than everyone because you don't get involved and this has afforded you absolutely zero insight on what is actually going on around you. And yet, this doesn't stop you from weighing in on the situation with a cocked eyebrow and saying everyone is to blame.

Everyone, of course, except you. Who is smart and stays out of politics.

We are in the midst of an ideological war that is going to shape our country for the foreseeable future. Whether people have healthcare, or jobs, or receive fair trials, or maintain their civil rights, is reaching such a boiling point that people are being killed in the streets. For you to come here and say "wow, there are many sides to this issue", you are one of two things:

1. Somebody who doesn't believe in civil rights or the welfare of your fellow Americans and thinks it's okay that people die from the institutions that fail them. In which case, you masquerade as a "moderate" to beg the benefit of the doubt from people you know will despise you for your hatred.

or 2. Somebody who has no idea what they're talking about trying to make it look like they're the smartest one in the room.

So whichever one you are, stop grandstanding and either get out or get informed. If you are interested in a concerted effort of the latter, we will help you. You have nearly infinite resources at your fingertips to figure out what is happening in this country right now and you should refrain from deliberating the strife of your countrymen before you realize what is actually at stake here.
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This seems right
 
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PeakPointMatrix

Member
Finale Fireworker said:
Here's the deal with "people like you."

You live in a fantasy universe where you look down on politics as frivolous. You don't understand why people get so worked up and think you're better than everyone else for having an "unbiased opinion" forged by what is probably a lifetime of disaffected disinterest. You confuse being uninformed and complacent as being open-minded and unbiased when you are positively neither. Your perspectives are based on the misconception that you're smarter than everyone because you don't get involved and this has afforded you absolutely zero insight on what is actually going on around you. And yet, this doesn't stop you from weighing in on the situation with a cocked eyebrow and saying everyone is to blame.

Everyone, of course, except you. Who is smart and stays out of politics.

We are in the midst of an ideological war that is going to shape our country for the foreseeable future. Whether people have healthcare, or jobs, or receive fair trials, or maintain their civil rights, is reaching such a boiling point that people are being killed in the streets. For you to come here and say "wow, there are many sides to this issue", you are one of two things:

1. Somebody who doesn't believe in civil rights or the welfare of your fellow Americans and thinks it's okay that people die from the institutions that fail them. In which case, you masquerade as a "moderate" to beg the benefit of the doubt from people you know will despise you for your hatred.

or 2. Somebody who has no idea what they're talking about trying to make it look like they're the smartest one in the room.

So whichever one you are, stop grandstanding and either get out or get informed. If you are interested in a concerted effort of the latter, we will help you. You have nearly infinite resources at your fingertips to figure out what is happening in this country right now and you should refrain from deliberating the strife of your countrymen before you realize what is actually at stake here.
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Your post inspired my thread!
 
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Eusis

Member
SolidSnakex said:
LePage chimes and and actually manages to one-up Trump's Washington/Lee comparison

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How did a confederate get to be in charge of a Union state now?
 
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Mammoth Jones

Member
Finale Fireworker said:
Here's the deal with "people like you."

You live in a fantasy universe where you look down on politics as frivolous. You don't understand why people get so worked up and think you're better than everyone else for having an "unbiased opinion" forged by what is probably a lifetime of disaffected disinterest. You confuse being uninformed and complacent as being open-minded and unbiased when you are positively neither. Your perspectives are based on the misconception that you're smarter than everyone because you don't get involved and this has afforded you absolutely zero insight on what is actually going on around you. And yet, this doesn't stop you from weighing in on the situation with a cocked eyebrow and saying everyone is to blame.

Everyone, of course, except you. Who is smart and stays out of politics.

We are in the midst of an ideological war that is going to shape our country for the foreseeable future. Whether people have healthcare, or jobs, or receive fair trials, or maintain their civil rights, is reaching such a boiling point that people are being killed in the streets. For you to come here and say "wow, there are many sides to this issue", you are one of two things:

1. Somebody who doesn't believe in civil rights or the welfare of your fellow Americans and thinks it's okay that people die from the institutions that fail them. In which case, you masquerade as a "moderate" to beg the benefit of the doubt from people you know will despise you for your hatred.

or 2. Somebody who has no idea what they're talking about trying to make it look like they're the smartest one in the room.

So whichever one you are, stop grandstanding and either get out or get informed. If you are interested in a concerted effort of the latter, we will help you. You have nearly infinite resources at your fingertips to figure out what is happening in this country right now and you should refrain from deliberating the strife of your countrymen before you realize what is actually at stake here.
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I know I'm late but thanks for this. This is beyond politics for me. There's a group of men marching because they want to murder my wife, my child, myself. It's not about politics. This shit is terrorism to some of us. We don't have the privilege of not being their target. They want to kill us.
 
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MagnaderAlpha

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Mammoth Jones said:
I know I'm late but thanks for this. This is beyond politics for me. There's a group of men marching because they want to murder my wife, my child, myself. It's not about politics. This shit is terrorism to some of us. We don't have the privilege of not being their target. They want to kill us.
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That is why there should be ZERO tolerance for EVERYTHING Nazis and White Supremacists stand for. THAT should be the law of the land, because these "people" are EVERYTHING WRONG with humanity. No leeway, no slippery slope, the target is clear as crystal, it is JUST Nazis and White Supremacists groups. JUST them.
 
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Apt101

Member
Richmond, the capital of the confederacy, is now considering removing their behemoth Confederate monuments. I remember these were the first Confederate monuments I saw, and even as a teen I was baffled as to why we had enemy statues so tall along a street:

http://www.businessinsider.com/rich...attleground-over-confederate-monuments-2017-8

Mayor Levar Stoney has ordered a city commission to consider removing monuments to Confederate leaders in Richmond, Virginia — an option that was previously not being considered.
Stoney said he would not allow the city 'to be threatened by white supremacists and neo-Nazi thugs.'
Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy, and its monuments are massive and include some of the oldest in the US.
Organizers have already canceled a rally planned in support of the monuments after white supremacists descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, and a woman was killed.
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In the article they mention the idea of adding contextual placards - turning it into a kind of outdoor museum. To that, I'd suggest someone read Mitch Landrieu’s speech on the subject (on removing them from New Orleans): https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/opinion/mitch-landrieus-speech-transcript.html?mcubz=0
 
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Host Samurai

Member
iMAGINATION said:
I hate how it took nazis terrorizing our country to finally get rid of all these Confederate statues. Now make the flag illegal.
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These pieces of shit should have been dealt with decades ago. Boggles my mind how the hammer wasn't thrown down on them like the Mafia, Crips, Bloods and various terror cells. Everything Nazi should have been shut down since WW2


But harp a darp it's the MS13 that needs to be taken down.
 
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psynergylover

Member
Finale Fireworker said:
Here's the deal with "people like you."

You live in a fantasy universe where you look down on politics as frivolous. You don't understand why people get so worked up and think you're better than everyone else for having an "unbiased opinion" forged by what is probably a lifetime of disaffected disinterest. You confuse being uninformed and complacent as being open-minded and unbiased when you are positively neither. Your perspectives are based on the misconception that you're smarter than everyone because you don't get involved and this has afforded you absolutely zero insight on what is actually going on around you. And yet, this doesn't stop you from weighing in on the situation with a cocked eyebrow and saying everyone is to blame.

Everyone, of course, except you. Who is smart and stays out of politics.

We are in the midst of an ideological war that is going to shape our country for the foreseeable future. Whether people have healthcare, or jobs, or receive fair trials, or maintain their civil rights, is reaching such a boiling point that people are being killed in the streets. For you to come here and say "wow, there are many sides to this issue", you are one of two things:

1. Somebody who doesn't believe in civil rights or the welfare of your fellow Americans and thinks it's okay that people die from the institutions that fail them. In which case, you masquerade as a "moderate" to beg the benefit of the doubt from people you know will despise you for your hatred.

or 2. Somebody who has no idea what they're talking about trying to make it look like they're the smartest one in the room.

So whichever one you are, stop grandstanding and either get out or get informed. If you are interested in a concerted effort of the latter, we will help you. You have nearly infinite resources at your fingertips to figure out what is happening in this country right now and you should refrain from deliberating the strife of your countrymen before you realize what is actually at stake here.
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Yoooooooo!!!! Straight fire right here!!!!
 
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mlclmtckr

Banned
StrategyFan said:
what's the MLA format for citing a statue?
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http://libanswers.walsh.edu/faq/147845

From the Purdue OWL:

A Painting, Sculpture, or Photograph

Include the artist's name. Give the title of the artwork in italics. Provide the date of composition. If the date of composition is unknown, place the abbreviation n.d. in place of the date. Name the medium of the piece, and finally, provide the name of the institution that houses the artwork followed by the location of the institution.

Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV. 1800. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid.

For photographic reproductions of artwork (e.g. images of artwork in a book), cite the bibliographic information as above followed by the information for the source in which the photograph appears, including page or reference numbers (plate, figure, etc.).

Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV. 1800. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Gardener's Art Through the Ages. 10th ed. By Richard G. Tansey and Fred S. Kleiner. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace. 939. Print.

For artwork in an online format, consult “An Image (Including a Painting, Sculpture, or Photograph)” by following the link Works Cited: Electronic Sources at the bottom of this page.
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Laekon

Member
I'm so close on giving up on humanity after trying to deal with some of these people defending Trump on this. A close family member (by marriage only) posted a picture of the Statue of Liberty with the quote of " I hope I'm not next". I edited out the names but here is a sample of the discussion.

Dumb ass 1 - "fought against our country" ? Lee was U.S. Army

Me - Dumb ass 1, so was Timothy McVeigh. Are you raising money to erect a statue in his name?

Dumb ass 2 - your post state they had slaves they were poor country so they ended it 71 years before America an the point !! Still had slaves I bet a lot longer , slavering ended long before our time . I never owned nor did your parents or there parents or there parents

Dumb ass 1- Timothy McVeigh is just like your antifa
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Complex Shadow

Cudi Lame™
OmnipotentO said:
Holy fuck EVEN THE CEO OF FOX is calling Trump out
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Thought the CEO was Rupert not his sons. But yea, hell must be a frozen waste land by now.
Laekon said:
I'm so close on giving up on humanity after trying to deal with some of these people defending Trump on this. A close family member (by marriage only) posted a picture of the Statue of Liberty with the quote of " I hope I'm not next". I edited out the names but here is a sample of the discussion.
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Huh didn't know slavering was a word 🤔
 
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Kill Your Masters

Member
Finale Fireworker said:
Here's the deal with "people like you."

You live in a fantasy universe where you look down on politics as frivolous. You don't understand why people get so worked up and think you're better than everyone else for having an "unbiased opinion" forged by what is probably a lifetime of disaffected disinterest. You confuse being uninformed and complacent as being open-minded and unbiased when you are positively neither. Your perspectives are based on the misconception that you're smarter than everyone because you don't get involved and this has afforded you absolutely zero insight on what is actually going on around you. And yet, this doesn't stop you from weighing in on the situation with a cocked eyebrow and saying everyone is to blame.

Everyone, of course, except you. Who is smart and stays out of politics.

We are in the midst of an ideological war that is going to shape our country for the foreseeable future. Whether people have healthcare, or jobs, or receive fair trials, or maintain their civil rights, is reaching such a boiling point that people are being killed in the streets. For you to come here and say "wow, there are many sides to this issue", you are one of two things:

1. Somebody who doesn't believe in civil rights or the welfare of your fellow Americans and thinks it's okay that people die from the institutions that fail them. In which case, you masquerade as a "moderate" to beg the benefit of the doubt from people you know will despise you for your hatred.

or 2. Somebody who has no idea what they're talking about trying to make it look like they're the smartest one in the room.

So whichever one you are, stop grandstanding and either get out or get informed. If you are interested in a concerted effort of the latter, we will help you. You have nearly infinite resources at your fingertips to figure out what is happening in this country right now and you should refrain from deliberating the strife of your countrymen before you realize what is actually at stake here.
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Damn, this is a good analysis of the bothsiders.
 
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Ithil

Member
AwakenedCloud said:
Trump has made these people bold.

Abraham Lincoln said war was over taxes, not slavery

Anecdotally, this is probably the most popular local news source in the state.
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Just about taxes and states rights everyone, nothing about slavery

“We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable.”
TEXAS DECLARATION OF CAUSES FOR SECESSION, FEBRUARY 2, 1861

“Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery — the greatest material interest of the world.”
MISSISSIPPI DECLARATION OF CAUSES FOR SECESSION

“They assume that the negro is equal, and hence conclude that he is entitled to equal privileges and rights with the white man. If their premises were correct, their conclusions
would be logical and just but their premise being wrong, their whole argument fails.”
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERACY CORNERSTONE SPEECH, MARCH 21, 1861

“Our new government is founded upon … the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal
condition.”
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERACY CORNERSTONE SPEECH, MARCH 21, 1861

“A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery.”
SOUTH CAROLINA DECLARATION OF CAUSES FOR SECESSION, DECEMBER 24, 1860
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Nothing at all.
 
TheContact

TheContact

Member
Is this really a surprise to anyone that trump is a nazi? I mean, he's had the opportunity in the past to rebuke these guys when they've come out in support of him and he flat out refused to do so.
 
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capitalCORN

Member
TesUsa said:
Is this really a surprise to anyone that trump is a nazi? I mean, he's had the opportunity in the past to rebuke these guys when they've come out in support of him and he flat out refused to do so.
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More like the fucker believes in racehorse theory, so he's always had that checkmark.
 
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Z3M0G

Member
CBC radio is going to interview someone from Jewish temple that was nearly attacked that day:

http://www.cbc.ca/listen/live/radio1/

- They are talking about Trump's words and the statues first
- Interesting that a lot of the statues went up WAY AFTER the war and not to remember the war itself... but rather as symbols directly against black people and supporting white supremacy at the time they went up...
- Edit, nevermind, interviewing a book author, they only played a tape from the temple.
 
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Megasoum

Banned
Just read an article (in French) about Israel's reaction to the whole shit show and how they actually said that their relationship with Trump is more important than denouncing Nazis..... FFS
 
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Magilla

Banned
Finale Fireworker said:
Here's the deal with "people like you."

You live in a fantasy universe where you look down on politics as frivolous. You don't understand why people get so worked up and think you're better than everyone else for having an "unbiased opinion" forged by what is probably a lifetime of disaffected disinterest. You confuse being uninformed and complacent as being open-minded and unbiased when you are positively neither. Your perspectives are based on the misconception that you're smarter than everyone because you don't get involved and this has afforded you absolutely zero insight on what is actually going on around you. And yet, this doesn't stop you from weighing in on the situation with a cocked eyebrow and saying everyone is to blame.

Everyone, of course, except you. Who is smart and stays out of politics.

We are in the midst of an ideological war that is going to shape our country for the foreseeable future. Whether people have healthcare, or jobs, or receive fair trials, or maintain their civil rights, is reaching such a boiling point that people are being killed in the streets. For you to come here and say "wow, there are many sides to this issue", you are one of two things:

1. Somebody who doesn't believe in civil rights or the welfare of your fellow Americans and thinks it's okay that people die from the institutions that fail them. In which case, you masquerade as a "moderate" to beg the benefit of the doubt from people you know will despise you for your hatred.

or 2. Somebody who has no idea what they're talking about trying to make it look like they're the smartest one in the room.

So whichever one you are, stop grandstanding and either get out or get informed. If you are interested in a concerted effort of the latter, we will help you. You have nearly infinite resources at your fingertips to figure out what is happening in this country right now and you should refrain from deliberating the strife of your countrymen before you realize what is actually at stake here.
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Hot Damn!

Can this automatically get posted in every Trump thread? Every Reddit Trump thread? Every fucking facebook post?

<3
 
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