All-purpose news and politics thread: Two Steps Beyond!

[heretic]

And now, Russian telly:



This is the state-run telly that's making Fox News look fair and balanced.

Says much about the government. I hope Putin does not get to the "Kill the census takers if I do not like what they tell me" level, but he is not impressing me at all.

Wait, what? Gay marriage makes you a Nazi? That's new!

News to the bulk of Right-Wing-Nuts in the 'States for certain, and probably the bulk of them in the EU as well.

[king mob]

Nigel Farage has been campaigning in Northern Ireland. To say that he's stirring up a potential disaster and doesn't know what he's doing is an understatement as he's campaigning with people associated with the UDA.

And because it's worth watching. Here's the entire car crash of an interview Farage did on LBC on Friday.

[Charles RB]

Wait, what? Gay marriage makes you a Nazi? That's new!

I hear gay people were so powerful in Germany, they had their own logo so everyone would know who they were.

Nigel Farage has been campaigning in Northern Ireland. To say that he's stirring up a potential disaster and doesn't know what he's doing is an understatement as he's campaigning with people associated with the UDA.

The political parties of Northern Ireland have ex-terrorists in them but it takes a special kind of git to have people currently linked to violence, years after the Troubles ended and it should be a piece of piss to find one that isn't.

A quick search finds the Protestant Coalition quickly fell into disarray due to being losers. It says something when some of them migrated to UKIP.

[Charles RB]

Narendra Modi is coming into power in India, and based on his record as governor of Gujarat that's good for the economy and wages! Might not be so good for sectarian harmony, he's got a spotty record re stopping riots against Muslims and has been bigging up his Hindu cred specifically. Hopefully, he was just crap when the riots happen (he was cleared of deliberately letting them happen) and will do a better job if & when it happens again

[worstblogever]

This one's next level.

[Arundel Armor Hunter]

Narendra Modi is coming into power in India, and based on his record as governor of Gujarat that's good for the economy and wages! Might not be so good for sectarian harmony, he's got a spotty record re stopping riots against Muslims and has been bigging up his Hindu cred specifically. Hopefully, he was just crap when the riots happen (he was cleared of deliberately letting them happen) and will do a better job if & when it happens again

He has a background in the Hindu version of the Nazi movement. He started out with a superhardcore group then went over into a less openly intolerant group.

[Mikekerr3]

It is sad that Western media/masses/White House only started caring about Boko Haram when they started trending on twitter.

Maybe if Michelle Obama does some more pouty face tweets on Syria people will give a damn about what's going on there.

Even then the American public at least will have a problem with their sons and daughter potentially dying there. Hell we can't even, as a nation , take care of the casualties of the last half dozen wars/conflicts adequately. Especially not when the outcome either way will have no realistic benefit to the US

[Mikekerr3]

Will It playin Peoria?

The Peoria IL mayor just tried to silence a twitter troll and ended up shooting himself in the foot, andvery likely making the troll rich.

http://http://arstechnica.com/tech-p...p-in-his-face/
His thuggish police force was so desperate to comply that they even made accusations of Child Pornography in sworn statements

[worstblogever]

GOP Candidate for Congress from Arizona's 1st district, Gary Kiehne, claims that 99% of mass shootings are committed by Democrats.

I think I saw this ridiculous meme in the wake of a mass shooting, and it was easily debunked in about two seconds. But that's not stopping an actual candidate from floating it out there.

[Pinsir]

GOP Candidate for Congress from Arizona's 1st district, Gary Kiehne, claims that 99% of mass shootings are committed by Democrats.

I think I saw this ridiculous meme in the wake of a mass shooting, and it was easily debunked in about two seconds. But that's not stopping an actual candidate from floating it out there.

It's pretty sad in American politics that whenever someone does something bad, they try to smear an entire political party.

[Paradox]

And it's one thing if they're trying to smear you with truth. It's quite another if they're just making up some BS to smear you with.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

It's pretty sad in American politics that whenever someone does something bad, they try to smear an entire political party.

That's just how the Republican Party rolls.

[Mikekerr3]

That's just how the Republican Party rolls.

You can't see you just did the same thing?

[Vibranium]

it totally goes both ways

something bad happens, one group points at the other and says

"it was them" or "they did it" or "see what happens when you listen to them"

[Paradox]

Mikekerr3 goes with irony:

You can't see you just did the same thing?

Except, sadly, entirely accurate and justified in this case.