Charlottesville white nationalists riots

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barrylee said:
It"s not leftist, it"s just common decency! Forget the left for a minute, doesn"t it give you pause that 67% of America disagrees with you?
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At least 40% disagree based on political bigotry alone. That cuts the odds quite a bit on who actually disagrees based on policy and performance. Run a poll in E Tennessee; ask respondents to name a favorite football team; any guesses on the distribution?
 
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"Fighting Nazis is a good thing, but fighting Nazis doesn’t necessarily make you or your cause good. By my lights this is simply an obvious fact.

The greatest Nazi-killer of the 20th century was Josef Stalin. He also killed millions of his own people and terrorized, oppressed, enslaved or brutalized tens of millions more."

Fighting Nazis doesn’t make ‘antifa’ the good guys
 
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StillStanding said:
I read where Wolfe Blitzer thought that the Barcelona attack was maybe a copycat of the Charlottesville attack. I had to smile at the pure ignorance of that statement!

Here's the differences between the many Isis vehicle attacks and the Charlottsville attack as I see it:

1. The victims of ISIS attacks are completely innocent, meaning there were just going about their day and minding their own business. The victims of the Charlottsville attack were in the area for political purposes. They were there to physically show support or opposition to the march because of strong political views one way or the other.

2. ISIS attacks are planned days in advance, and most times involve more than one attacker. This attack seems to be a lone wolf who made an instantaneous emotional stupid judgment call that will cause him to spend the rest of his life behind bars.

3. The ISIS attacks are followed by praise of the attackers by group leadership. The white-supremacist march organizers and participants have not yet been seen dancing in the streets celebrating or shown on TV taking responsibility and praising the death and injuries.

4. If police knew in advance about a possible ISIS attack, they would have swarmed the area and placed their vehicles to protect the crowd. In Charlottsville, the authorities knew that there was an extremely high likelihood of violence, yet chose to stand down. Why? They should have lined the parade route in riot gear to keep the sides physically separated.

Ok. Rant over! :)
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He knows all this but can't pass up a chance to blame the President and fire up the alt-left base
 
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theFallGuy said:
"Fighting Nazis is a good thing, but fighting Nazis doesn’t necessarily make you or your cause good. By my lights this is simply an obvious fact.

The greatest Nazi-killer of the 20th century was Josef Stalin. He also killed millions of his own people and terrorized, oppressed, enslaved or brutalized tens of millions more."

Fighting Nazis doesn’t make ‘antifa’ the good guys
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Only a Nazi would make that excuse. Comrade Stalin only killed and tortured "white nationalists"
 
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Grand Vol said:
Yeah, Mother Jones isn't exactly respected by anyone around here including the left and the right.

Might want to rethink your source on that.
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I'm not trying to fire anybody up, he did an interview where Bannon himself says in the interview that Breitbart is the platform of the Alt-Right.

Here's a link to the original interview with the Investigative Fund. It's still the same quote.

http://www.theinvestigativefund.org...eated_an_online_haven_for_white_nationalists/
 
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It's obvious that the term "alt right" does not have a consistent definition. There are Nazi/racist groups that call themselves alt right because nobody would ever give them the time of day if they just showed up and said what they really are. There are also people who subscribe to conservative or libertarian principles who are not Nazis or racists and who throw their lot in with what they see as the party that most closely comports to their ideology even though they are not accepted as mainstream republicans and are hence referred to as the alt right.
 
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Grand Vol said:
Check the author and source. It's the same.
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I'm not sure what you want. What is an acceptable source for you to feel okay about reading that the *FORMER* White House Chief Strategist stated in an interview in July of 2016 that Breitbart is the platform of the Alt-Right. To help with the author and source confusion, here's an excerpt from the transcript from her interview with NPR's Fresh Air. Below it is the link.

"Last July, Posner interviewed Steve Bannon when he was still the head of Breitbart News. Bannon told her that Breitbart was the platform for the alt-right. That statement has since been very widely quoted. The alt-right is a rebranding of white nationalists and others who embrace white identity politics and has been associated with racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and misogyny. Steve Bannon is now president Trump's chief strategist and a member of the National Security Council's Principals Committee.

Sarah Posner is a reporter for The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. Her articles are published in Rolling Stone and Mother Jones."

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/02/51304...istic-and-christian-right-influences-on-trump
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
It's obvious that the term "alt right" does not have a consistent definition. There are Nazi/racist groups that call themselves alt right because nobody would ever give them the time of day if they just showed up and said what they really are. There are also people who subscribe to conservative or libertarian principles who are not Nazis or racists and who throw their lot in with what they see as the party that most closely comports to their ideology even though they are not accepted as mainstream republicans and are hence referred to as the alt right.
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Correct. I've heard a few in the latter group start saying "new-right" as a way to distinguish themselves.
 
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A woman came to the antifa/communist rally here last night because her grandfather was shot down over Europe in WWII.

I mean lol. Delusions of grandeur.
 
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MT LeConte said:
You forgot to screw the likes of Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham. Corker, Graham, Scott and McCain are just the vocal ones on the R side. Trump is bleeding support. His presidency is off the rails and is destined to crash and burn. He will never finish this term.
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Tell us again how accurate are your predictions?
 
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MT LeConte said:
You forgot to screw the likes of Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham. Corker, Graham, Scott and McCain are just the vocal ones on the R side. Trump is bleeding support. His presidency is off the rails and is destined to crash and burn. He will never finish this term.
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F em all. I know you all alt-lefties keep saying/wishing this but too bad he will be President for at least 3.5 more years.
 
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utvols88 said:
This is the dumbassery of the left. You have an opportunity to have a direct discussion with the President of the United States. THIS IS YOUR DAMN CHANCE. This is your opportunity to let your daughters wishes be heard. But no. Throw a childish tantrum and think anyone gives a ****. next week, we will never hear about this lady again and nothing will even have a chance to change.
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You don't understand. Trump was driving the Challenger.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
There shouldn't be violence at any of these assemblies. The police need to be permitted to do their jobs and practice some crime prevention rather than just trying to pick up pieces after the fact. What did the Charlottesville authorities expect to happen when these groups came into direct contact?
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The Charlottesville authorities got what they wanted. That is why they told the police to stand down.
 
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lawgator1 said:
How many were murdered for their political beliefs ?
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so you're only worried about killings if they're done by white power racist. as long as it help push your party's Marxist agenda, you don't care about the murders between black, Hispanics, etc...

I think most people know this.
 
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