All Purpose News and Politics Thread Part IV: The Center Cannot Hold

[Michael Watkins]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...mental-n727221

[Tami]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...mental-n727221

Trump admin will apparently not renew program to fight domestic terror

See a pattern forming?

[Jackalope89]

Trump admin will apparently not renew program to fight domestic terror

See a pattern forming?

The Orange Menace is doing a live broadcast on how "hate has no place in America".

And yet he still lives here. And just blamed video games, as I type this.

[Tami]

The Orange Menace is doing a live broadcast on how "hate has no place in America".

And yet he still lives here. And just blamed video games, as I type this.

Apparently he said Toledo instead of Dayton. Couldn't get the cities straight.

[kidfresh512]

Video games, movies, "kicking Christ out of the public square", and mental issues. Are the greatest hits excuses every time its a white domestic terrorist.

We all know if it was an immigrant or a brown person. There wouldn't have been one word about a video game. It would have been see we needed a wall, and travel ban immediately

[Wakeneuron]

Black on Black genocide is happening in Chicago. Cnn.com reports that 'Chicago hospital stops accepting patients after trauma center is overwhelmed with shooting victims.'

The social movement racism against Blacks in the United States and also the World must end. The guy that killed all those people in El Paso posted in his manifesto that he wanted a racial partition which is creating cities and territories in the United States based on racial groups. But this has always been the case. Black people have forever been separated and put into certain areas since slavery. It wasn't a coincidence that a significant number of African Americans died in New Orleans because they were put into high risk places prone to flooding. Black Roots Science talks about it.

They put us together based on the color of our skin not realizing that we may have differences.

For whatever reason black on black crime and black on black hate is peaking. I think that the only solution sadly might be that Blacks have to separate from each other and be allowed to travel and live in places in the United States that African Americans have not traditionally live.

And we should be allowed to actively participate in sectors of the economy that has been socially barred from such as the fishing industry in Maine and New England.

[Gray Lensman]

The Orange Menace is doing a live broadcast on how "hate has no place in America".

And yet he still lives here. And just blamed video games, as I type this.

Well, assigning some blame to Gamergate and the toxic mentality it fosters would be fair. Except that Trump and Faux News are blaming the games themselves.

[Tami]

I prefer to blame this:

Donald Trump Has Run Roughly 2,200 Facebook Ads Using the Word 'Invasion' Since May 2018

President Donald Trump has run roughly 2,200 Facebook advertisements using the word "invasion" since May 2018, Media Matters announced on Sunday following two mass shootings over the weekend.

"According to Facebook's ad archive, Trump has run around 2,200 FB ads since May 2018 mentioning the word 'invasion.' Scrolling through, all of them seem to be about immigration," Natalie Martinez, an extremism & social media researcher for Media Matters, a progressive media watchdog, tweeted on Sunday, alongside screenshots of the president's advertisements.

"We have an INVASION! So we are BUILDING THE WALL to STOP IT! Dems will sue us. But we want a SAFE COUNTRY!," one of Trump's advertised posts read. "It's CRITICAL that we STOP THE INVASION. Nancy Pelosi and Democrats have no negotiated in good faith to fund a wall at our Southern Border, proving that OBSTRUCTION is far more important to them than YOUR SAFETY..."

Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted Martinez's post on Sunday evening and declared that by repeatedly using the words "infestation" and "invasion" to address a "specific, targeted group of people," Trump is implying that they are "vermin."

[Gray Lensman]

I prefer to blame this:

Donald Trump Has Run Roughly 2,200 Facebook Ads Using the Word 'Invasion' Since May 2018

It doesn't have to be one or the other. The stoking of the fires of hatred, little, if any restrictions on weapons of mass carnage, and a 'safe space' for bigots and misogynists to plot to destroy anyone else's safety can all share some blame.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Video games, movies, "kicking Christ out of the public square", and mental issues. Are the greatest hits excuses every time its a white domestic terrorist.

We all know if it was an immigrant or a brown person. There wouldn't have been one word about a video game. It would have been see we needed a wall, and travel ban immediately

Pretty true really and If I'm the video game industry a multi-billion dollar industry I would start hitting back at Republicans and Trump. That the repeated attacks is beyond nonsense right now. Its like blaming Marilyn Manson back in 1990's when school shootings happened. Fucking beyond nonsense.

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

Well, assigning some blame to Gamergate and the toxic mentality it fosters would be fair. Except that Trump and Faux News are blaming the games themselves.

Gamergate had nothing to do with the content of video games.

[aja_christopher]

Well, assigning some blame to Gamergate and the toxic mentality it fosters would be fair. Except that Trump and Faux News are blaming the games themselves.

"From Gold Farming To Gamergate, The Gaming Ties Of Donald Trump's White House"

https://kotaku.com/from-gold-farming...ona-1789494823

"What Gamergate should have taught us about the 'alt-right'"

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...ght-hate-trump

[jetengine]

Gamergate created right wing loonies who then went on to join Alt Right. Its not hard to see.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

The Orange Menace is doing a live broadcast on how "hate has no place in America".

And yet he still lives here. And just blamed video games, as I type this.

Well, ****, of course he did. Videogames, the tried and true fallback excuse for when a WHITE guy goes on a shooting rampage.

Apparently he said Toledo instead of Dayton. Couldn't get the cities straight.

Seriously? Jesus! Did Trump say El Dorado instead of El Paso? Proof positive Caramel Caligula can't be bothered with expressing empathy.

[Tami]

America’s Taliban, the Council for National Policy, has set 2020 as its deadline to “restore religion and economic freedom” under the US Constitution. KellyAnne, Bannon, Pence, the DeVos family, the Mercers, & Wayne LaPierre are members.

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