All-purpose news and politics thread: Two Steps Beyond!(Part II)

[Malvolio]

Depends. Keep in mind that the allure of the alt-right is based on masculinity. I think few things made them less attractive to loners on the internet than Spencer getting punched, and that one guy trying to tear up the sign and failing.

I think the only time punching someone in the face accomplishes anything more than personal satisfaction is when you do it to keep that person from punching someone else in the face.

[Tazirai]

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Virginia’s lone black statewide official sits out Robert E. Lee tribute

[Jack Dracula]

Depends. Keep in mind that the allure of the alt-right is based on masculinity. I think few things made them less attractive to loners on the internet than Spencer getting punched, and that one guy trying to tear up the sign and failing.

I'd guess for most the younger members the allure is a sense of brotherhood and a misunderstanding of what masculinity really entails, but I'd argue the main attraction seems to actually be the fear of change brought on by immigration.
"We will not be replaced" was the slogan being chanted by the protesters at Charlottesville. Focusing on the knee-jerk reaction of fear and anger towards the idea of foreigners and people of color settling and building lives in our communities might create a more genuine and lasting change. You can only do that through education, not violence.

[Tuck]

"We will not be replaced" was the slogan being chanted by the protesters at Charlottesville. Focusing on the knee-jerk reaction of fear and anger towards the idea of foreigners and people of color settling and building lives in our communities might create a more genuine and lasting change. You can only do that through education, not violence.

They were chanting, "Jews will not replace us."

The idea is that their labor is already subjugated to Jewish power, and that progressive moves to increase diversity among the population is being done at the behest of Jewish interests to replace white labor with more amenable workers.

It's always been far deeper and disturbing than people seem to realize.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Trump White House reportedly sought to put Pelosi ‘in her place’

Trump’s decades long track record of misogyny can’t be ignored as it’s clear to me he can’t tolerate having to deal with a strong willed woman in a position of power, be it Hillary Clinton, Angela Merkel or Nancy Pelosi. In his mind, women should be like little children, seen but not heard, to be engaged in a battle of wills with Pelosi has to be driving Trump crazy, especially when she refuses to give so much as an inch to him.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

According to reports Trump is now crawling to Pelosi and Schumer and wanting to take the offer that was offered last January where he would support the DREAMERS program and they give him funding. This after he 1st accepted the offer and then listened to morons in his administration who had him reject it. The comical part if Trump does this....he was gonna be given way more funding for his wall . Now he's getting a small portion of it.

[aja_christopher]

"This weekend, D.C. is unusually crowded. The third Women's March is happening Saturday, but on Friday it was preceded by the long-running anti-abortion March for Life and the Indigenous Peoples March. For the people attending the latter, it's an especially fraught time as the government shutdown is interfering with many basic services for Native Americans. This comes months after the Supreme Court ruled against Native voting rights in North Dakota, and just days after the president cracked jokes on Twitter about historic massacres.

Multiple videos have surfaced since Friday showing a group of teenage boys crowded around attendants of the Indigenous Peoples March. In the footage of the encounter, many of the boys are wearing Make America Great Again hats, and can be seen laughing at and imitating a Native drummer. One boy even stands directly in front of the drummer, as close as he can get, staring the man down for several minutes."



"The boys are reportedly from the all-boys Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky, though according to the Cincinnati Enquirer there's no confirmation for that yet (the Enquirer did report that the school's website announced students would be traveling to D.C. for the March for Life). According to Indian Country Today, the man in the video is Omaha elder and Vietnam vet Nathan Phillips.

The Indigenous Peoples March is neither a partisan nor explicitly anti-Trump event."

https://www.gq.com/story/maga-hat-in...-peoples-march

[PaulBullion]

The boy is gonna be fine. His parents sent him to an incredibly expensive Christian private school were, clearly, he was taught nothing about morals.

As much as I would like to see his life derailed over being such a pathetic little ****, he will thrive. Daddy's got a trust fund and great connection to other rich white MAGA bastards for him.

[Kirby101]

More extortion. Trump ended DACA. Now he's offering to reinstate it for his Wall in exchange for opening the Government which he also shut down. No giving in to thugs.

[zinderel]

"This weekend, D.C. is unusually crowded. The third Women's March is happening Saturday, but on Friday it was preceded by the long-running anti-abortion March for Life and the Indigenous Peoples March. For the people attending the latter, it's an especially fraught time as the government shutdown is interfering with many basic services for Native Americans. This comes months after the Supreme Court ruled against Native voting rights in North Dakota, and just days after the president cracked jokes on Twitter about historic massacres.

Multiple videos have surfaced since Friday showing a group of teenage boys crowded around attendants of the Indigenous Peoples March. In the footage of the encounter, many of the boys are wearing Make America Great Again hats, and can be seen laughing at and imitating a Native drummer. One boy even stands directly in front of the drummer, as close as he can get, staring the man down for several minutes."



"The boys are reportedly from the all-boys Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky, though according to the Cincinnati Enquirer there's no confirmation for that yet (the Enquirer did report that the school's website announced students would be traveling to D.C. for the March for Life). According to Indian Country Today, the man in the video is Omaha elder and Vietnam vet Nathan Phillips.

The Indigenous Peoples March is neither a partisan nor explicitly anti-Trump event."

https://www.gq.com/story/maga-hat-in...-peoples-march

What a fine bunch of young racist shitbags-in-training. Just goes to show that waiting on bigotry to die out with the older generations does nothing when they have a captive audience of children upon whom to push their filth in the name of religious education....

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*Waiting for the 'That's not us, or our school's values, just a few bad apples, stop persecuting our religious freedom...' press tour in 5...4...3...2...*

Edit: Oh, look! This guy went to the same school! Former Covington Catholic basketball player Jake Walter charged with rape, sodomy

[worstblogever]

The boy is gonna be fine. His parents sent him to an incredibly expensive Christian private school were, clearly, he was taught nothing about morals.

As much as I would like to see his life derailed over being such a pathetic little ****, he will thrive. Daddy's got a trust fund and great connection to other rich white MAGA bastards for him.

My theory is his college choices will now be far more limited, but he'll still be able to go to Liberty or Bob Jones University.

[zinderel]

My theory is his college choices will now be far more limited, but he'll still be able to go to Liberty or Bob Jones University.

Able to go? Hell, he'll get welcomed in with palm leaves and called a hero at either of those 'schools'...

[Tuck]

Those are both Protestant schools.

I don't know about Liberty, but Bob Jones got in some heat when someone there called Catholicism a cult. A lot of evangelicals preach that Catholics are going to hell.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

More extortion. Trump ended DACA. Now he's offering to reinstate it for his Wall in exchange for opening the Government which he also shut down. No giving in to thugs.

Exactly! Once you give in to a hostage taker, the demands NEVER end.

[zinderel]

Those are both Protestant schools.

I don't know about Liberty, but Bob Jones got in some heat when someone there called Catholicism a cult. A lot of evangelicals preach that Catholics are going to hell.

True. But they do the same about Jewish people, calling them 'the former chosen people'. Meanwhile, those same Jew-hating protestants are all gung-ho about supporting Israel so that Jesus can come back and forcibly convert/otherwise eradicate the old chosen people to make room for the new chosen people...protestants.

So hating the right people can make a Protestant look the other way about religion, at least for a while.