Where did you see who organized it?
Timing is a reason to attack a free speech rally?
Yeah I've been trying to find actual info but all I can see is people arguing about nazis.
The worst I could find was people screaming "fuck Trump!"
That's a horrible choice, at least the infowars guy, I don't know about "based stickman." What did they talk about?
When they show up in a small town and do what the Nazi's, KKK and Alt-right did, I'll be right there saying that I condemn their actions. The difference is that UNLIKE YOU, I won't be excusing them by saying that "really, the other side is just as bad, they were provoked, the counter-protestors should have left it to the police" and such bullshit. When people commit a crime, call them out on it. Don't make up excuses and turn into an apologist.
You can go onto any social media site and see the threats of violence. Just because there are no specific threats (thus, not really a credible threat from the point of view of police to follow-up on) doesn't mean that some people may be apprehensive about attending a rally. One of the speakers that dropped out due to threats of violence sited rhetoric on social media, especially since the events of Charlottesville. This was reported by Boston Globe a few days ago.
FB, twitter, reddit, hell even in this very site you can find posts of people that support violence against others. You don't need proof to ensure your physical well being. Well, I don't. You may, and that's fine. But many people don't need it, and that includes multiple people initially scheduled to speak today.
Only a great fool would vote for a lunatic. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the candidate on the Right.
But they must have known I was not a great fool, and would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the corrupt candidate on the Left.
MMO-C right in a nutshell
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...13255506649089
America is a center-right country. We're a strongly nationalistic people. We're extremely proud.
The extremist left has tried to change America in fundamental ways for over a century, and accomplished basically nothing. Bernie Sanders was legitimately the most successful left candidate in one hundred years and he was basically a New Deal Democrat who said some stupid things. The left is not a threat. Americans have had plenty of opportunities to buy what they're selling. It's legitimately never happened.
The danger from the extremist right is that America's default ideological position is closer, and they do say some things that, when put certain was resonate with America. Take what Steven Bannon wrote about China? That is not crazy. Take American exceptionalism? That is not crazy. These are elements of the right that resonate with many Americans. It's what's on top of that that makes the extremist right so dangerous and evil.
In other words, America can fall to the extremist right far, fear easier than the extremist left, as we've seen with how a modestly repackaged alt-right message resonated with Trump voters and elected a President.
Moreover, on the merits, the left has not committed jihadi-style terrorism. The Alt-Right has. There is no equivalency, and you're foolish to try and draw one. Nobody wants either, but the threat from one, the Alt-Right, is legitimately far worse than the thread from the other.
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Because they aren't. Your entire argument fails at two points:
The Organized Alt Right committed and excusing terorism =\= The disorganized left engaging in conventional mob violence.
The White Spremacist goals of the Alt Right =\= The far left's goals of, in their eyes, a "more just" society. I disagree with their conclusion, but it's worlds away from the right's "blood and soil".
There's actually no equivalency between them unless you intentionally ignore what the Alt-Right stands for. It is a racist movement. Period.
I mean, all you have to fucking do is google Augustus Invictis and understand exactly what the hell is going on.
That shit heel is from my state and fuck me if he isn't running again.
Here's a brief glimpse into this garbage:
"In March, a former girlfriend reported to Edgewood police that Gillespie had on different occasions beaten her, choked her, put a gun to her head and threatened to push her out of a moving car. He says none of it ever happened.
Another female acquaintance told the SPLC about the time she incurred Augie Boy’s displeasure. When she asked what she could do to prove her good intentions, he texted the following reply:
“Get MDMA, hydrocodone and your girlfriend for Monday night. Maybe then I’ll calm down, after we release some tension.”
The startled woman took a screen shot to save his message." - An excerpt from Carl Hiassen's recent opine
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As someone who supported GamerGate in the beginning it makes me sad how quickly it was co-opted to become a right-wing movement. Now the places that still discuss it like Kotaku in Action on Reddit are little more than /r/the_donald lite.
It became what people like Sarkeesian and her ilk said it was from the beginning, even when it was full of people making legitimate points. And that's incredibly disappointing.
I'm clipping it so the MMO-OT alt-right can choke on it.
This is so perfect, it's mindboggling. Gamergate with the single stupidest thing I've ever seen.
Ethics in video game journalism. Jesus fucking Christ. You know what you're fucking buying with Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4, assholes. You know what you're fucking buying when you get World of Warcraft: The Panda Crusade, assholes. You know what you're fucking buying when you get Super Mario Universe, assholes.
The fact that video games journalism is actually a thing people take seriously is a crock of shit in and of itself. It's like taking comic book journalism seriously.
Everyone's a fucking loser who got upset about that garbage. All it was was fertilizer for the rise of Alt-Right online.
It was the stupidest summer on record and everybody involved needed to be put into a rocket and shot into the sun.
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Well you're not really getting any of the words I'm saying, so it's highly suspicious. But I studied linguistics in college, so thanks.
I think you're under the assumption that antifa won't eventually kill somebody. I'd rather they all go away so we don't have to deal with this anymore.
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