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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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If Milo actually incites violence against students in his speeches, then that goes further than simple free speech and makes him a danger to the community, and the university is right to bar him from speaking.
I do not however support the violence of the antifas protesters.
edited 5th Feb '17 10:39:07 AM by Draghinazzo
With Milo the fact that he hasn't be arrested for inciting violence against people is a daming statement about the US legal system. Honestly I could understand if the Black Block stormed the stage when Milo started insightign violence against individuals, but just smashing up stuff randomly beforehand, not a fan.
edited 5th Feb '17 10:55:59 AM by Silasw
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
A gay Jewish misogynistic Nazi troll with a sizable nazi/alt-right following online. His claim to fame is his hobby of singling out targets and setting loose his horde of idiots to stalk and harass them into silence.
edited 5th Feb '17 11:03:50 AM by carbon-mantis
Breitbart "journalist" who's the main "hey, I'm not homophobic/antisemitic, this is my gay/jewish friend" for the alt-right, he was first thrown into the spotlight with gamergate (I'm assuming it's ok to just name it as a detail when talking about something else, if it's not tell me and I'll remove this part of the comment).
1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KVNew Documents Show Trump Retains Direct Tie to Businesses
Raise your hand if you're surprised by this.
Nope.
Non-violence doesn't work when one side is rolling tanks and machineguns on the protesters.
The Nazis beat or killed every single one that was a threat to their power to submission or death, the Arab spring protests in Syria and Libya were peaceful until the government decided to bomb and shoot them in response, Tienanmen Square massacre was peaceful until the PRC rolled tanks on the protesters.
Tear gas and water cannon are crow control, violence but the less lethal kind, what I mean for non-violence not working is when you have a protest and the other side has guns, the side with the guns simply decides to shoot the protesters.
Inter arma enim silent legesGUYS!
If you want to do something other then just complaining about the current regime.....
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security is taking calls about Bannon's appointment to the NSC. You can call: 202-224-4751 and tell them YOU DONT WANT HIM.
remember in 2013, Stephen Bannon, current Chief Strategist of the White House, stated he was a Leninist to a journalist. When questioned on what he meant, his verbatim response was; "Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that's my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today's establishment."
you can use that against him here
If they get enough calls they will know people actualy give a damn
While that's certainly helpful, but that's an long distance call for me.
And speaking of protesting, I wonder how many times people have gathered near the White House because of Trump's Executive Orders?
Answer no master, never the slave Carry your dreams down into the grave Every heart, like every soul, equal to breakSome articles I came across today that I thought I'd share:
The House is Quietly Working to Dismantle Medicaid
US healthcare policy is not exactly my strong suit, but it looks like there's a bill to remove federal funding from patient's Medicare while the application documents are being processed, and that this will especially affect immigrant families and children.
Trump's lies are not the problem. It's the millions who swallow them who really matter
Pretty long, and it addresses a lot of things we've been talking about here already, but this bit really stood out to me (emphasis mine):
New Yorker and Vanity Fair Pull Out of Correspondents' Dinner Parties
Not surprised, but this year's dinner is going to be fascinating. Like watching a train wreck. For any other president I would be happy that it's less celebrity focused, because that might leave more room for actual journalists, but it's probably going to be mostly BB and Fox, right? note
edited 5th Feb '17 12:07:24 PM by Pseudopartition
Against Normalization: The Lesson of the “Munich Post”
, here I'm preaching to the choir by sharing this, but it needs to be said: This is not normal.
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Various media pulling out of presidential events is counter-productive. Much like the Secessionist states pulling out of Congress just before the Civil War, it allows them to ramrod their twisted agenda through without criticism or opposition.
You don't want less media scrutiny of Trump and his ilk, you want more. If he insults them for their negative coverage of him, they're doing something right.
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