Oct 22, 2018 7:04 PM
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Promethianfire
Most on the left are regular people. Most on the right are regular people. Both are encouraged to perceive the other as absolute madmen.
CthuluChan
Im sure the comment section will be polite discussion and disagreement
DONTSHAKETHEBABY
"The right paints us all in one picture, what they don't know is we do the exact same thing!" Political posts sure are always different
Daetur
Immigrants are lazy ppl living on goverment handouts yet stealing our jobs!
charndatiger
They're overwhelming our country from within but we need walls to keep them out!
FelixHossill
"Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak." - Umberto Eco on fascism
elcee50
This is why you hear them dismiss people/news organizations yet spend 24/7 trying to destroy those same supposedly irrelevant entitties
TwoShedsJackson2
Not mutually exclusive
Talmorean
Emotionally weak so they act out in violence. I think that's their view.
Which, of course, is just projection from them.
proileri
Not always but yes.
humptyblargh
That's how mobs work. 20+ cowards threatening one middle-aged couple and their young kids, but the same 20+ will run from ten Proud Boys.
Thank goodness there are proud Patriots willing to run down crowfs of teenagers in their car, maga?
DovahQuinn
Both exist, they should not be used to represent the left. The only thing that represents the left, or the right, are the views they hold.
The actions make you a shitty person but the views you hold can still be valid. The two are mutually exclusive.
CrunchyCloud
It's easy being a cowardly POS when you have the shields of big numbers and anonymity, which makes it easy to escape into the crowd.
It's easy being a cowardly POS when you have law enforcement and congressional Republicans on your side.
I'm sorry, I don't sell tinfoil hats.
There's a reason that, after his Proud Boy thugs beat some people up, Gavin Mcinnes bragged he had a "lot of support in the NYPD".
"Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses."
"Lucy in the sky with diamonds"
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement
madmardagan
Eric Clanton fits both sides of this narrative so I'm not sure it's as fictional as you seem to suggest.
PlaguesandBacon
Pretty much everything the far right spews is fictional. They're very emotionally charged sensitive dummies.
Who?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/26/eric-clanton-former-calif-professor-arrested-in-vi/
Oh, I didn't know that bike lock guy had a name. The fascists certainly never bring up his name, just the fact that he hit a Nazi.
Care to back up your claim that he's a Nazi or do you just tell yourself that to justify the actual fascism and extremists you support?
"Actual fascism," yeah, you're totally arguing in good faith here...
Promethianfire
Most on the left are regular people. Most on the right are regular people. Both are encouraged to perceive the other as absolute madmen.
CthuluChan
Im sure the comment section will be polite discussion and disagreement
DONTSHAKETHEBABY
"The right paints us all in one picture, what they don't know is we do the exact same thing!" Political posts sure are always different
Daetur
Immigrants are lazy ppl living on goverment handouts yet stealing our jobs!
charndatiger
They're overwhelming our country from within but we need walls to keep them out!
FelixHossill
"Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak." - Umberto Eco on fascism
elcee50
This is why you hear them dismiss people/news organizations yet spend 24/7 trying to destroy those same supposedly irrelevant entitties
TwoShedsJackson2
Not mutually exclusive
Talmorean
Emotionally weak so they act out in violence. I think that's their view.
FelixHossill
Which, of course, is just projection from them.
proileri
Not always but yes.
humptyblargh
That's how mobs work. 20+ cowards threatening one middle-aged couple and their young kids, but the same 20+ will run from ten Proud Boys.
charndatiger
Thank goodness there are proud Patriots willing to run down crowfs of teenagers in their car, maga?
DovahQuinn
Both exist, they should not be used to represent the left. The only thing that represents the left, or the right, are the views they hold.
DovahQuinn
The actions make you a shitty person but the views you hold can still be valid. The two are mutually exclusive.
CrunchyCloud
It's easy being a cowardly POS when you have the shields of big numbers and anonymity, which makes it easy to escape into the crowd.
FelixHossill
It's easy being a cowardly POS when you have law enforcement and congressional Republicans on your side.
CrunchyCloud
I'm sorry, I don't sell tinfoil hats.
elcee50
There's a reason that, after his Proud Boy thugs beat some people up, Gavin Mcinnes bragged he had a "lot of support in the NYPD".
FelixHossill
"Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses."
CrunchyCloud
"Lucy in the sky with diamonds"
FelixHossill
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement
madmardagan
Eric Clanton fits both sides of this narrative so I'm not sure it's as fictional as you seem to suggest.
PlaguesandBacon
Pretty much everything the far right spews is fictional. They're very emotionally charged sensitive dummies.
FelixHossill
Who?
madmardagan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/26/eric-clanton-former-calif-professor-arrested-in-vi/
FelixHossill
Oh, I didn't know that bike lock guy had a name. The fascists certainly never bring up his name, just the fact that he hit a Nazi.
madmardagan
Care to back up your claim that he's a Nazi or do you just tell yourself that to justify the actual fascism and extremists you support?
FelixHossill
"Actual fascism," yeah, you're totally arguing in good faith here...