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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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that's rather harsh. I can understand why they wouldn't watch the news. They live in the middle of nowhere. Nothing that happens anywhere affects them directly.
Though I suppose that with all the unemployment, they'd have enough time to get good or at least varied information. They get Internet, right?
edited 29th Jan '17 10:50:46 AM by Kayeka
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People are being rounded up on the basis of nationality, the security/intelligence services are being politicized, and the rule of law is being flaunted. And they accept this, or even support it.
That's how genocide happens. They'd either cheer or look away if people were being murdered by the thousands.
edited 29th Jan '17 10:53:35 AM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.@170642: This is why I have to chuckle about people wondering when Trump's supporters are going to wake up to reality; short answer, it is never going to happen. The ones that are not virulent bigots or apathetic, vengeful nihilists might as well be living on another planet. When the sum total of their life is "vote R, all media are liars selling falsehoods, and the rest of the world ends at my front yard fence", there is no avenue for reaching them, let alone getting them to consider anything they do not like. For most intents and purposes, they might as well be detached from reality, seeming how they only occasionally intersect the rest of the world anyway.
If they have the power to affect the country, they should care about what's going on in it. You don't just vote and then not check what the politician is doing, even if it's just listening to the radio or watching tv when you get back home from work. SOMETHING.
That said, military personnel have better discretion shooting at people abroad than the police do at home so its anyone's guess. Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
A new, horrifying detail from this article
(emphasis added):
So be careful and don't sign anything if you don't know what it is.
1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KVSocial media sites, occasionally yes but forums? I really doubt it.
The article is describing basically the same kind of working class white enclave we've heard about multiple times already. They are very detached from what is going on in the rest of the US, never mind the rest of the world beyond it. Maybe they'll have some generic non-complaint about "how the world is going to shit", but won't be able to give an informed answer as to what that is exactly, outside of their job situation being bad. And they say he's "doing great" despite the fact that they have little idea of anything he's doing and simply don't care.
Case in point:
That doesn’t stop her from feeling passionate about Trump in the White House. “The world is going to hell in a handbasket, and from what I’ve seen he’s going to fix it. Sure, he’s blunt and says what he thinks, but he doesn’t take any shit.”
In other words, vapid feels-based bullshit with no substance to it. How can you be passionate about a man when you have no knowledge of what he's up to in the White House and how it's affecting the country? They fell hook line and sinker for his snake oil. And they're going to pay the price.
edited 29th Jan '17 11:26:29 AM by Draghinazzo
If nothing else, the Macomb v. Media article is a morbidly fascinating case study on the people whom support autocracies. All this news should be a boon to historians of the 1930s. Effectively, a sort of community that doesn't include the people outside your front porch or the greasy spoon. An ironic nationalism built off of a lack of a national community...
By the way, the stages
of genocide
are:
- Classification—People are divided into "us and them".
- Symbolization—"When combined with hatred, symbols may be forced upon unwilling members of pariah groups..."
- Dehumanization—"One group denies the humanity of the other group. Members of it are equated with animals, vermin, insects, or diseases."
- Organization—"Genocide is always organized... Special army units or militias are often trained and armed..."
- Polarization—"Hate groups broadcast polarizing propaganda..."
- Preparation—"Victims are identified and separated out because of their ethnic or religious identity..."
- Extermination—"It is 'extermination' to the killers because they do not believe their victims to be fully human".
- Denial—"The perpetrators... deny that they committed any crimes..."
And we're going to pay the price. They may never know what they lost....
edited 29th Jan '17 11:14:32 AM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our livesRemember while 50% of the military may have voted for Trump that's mainly the grunts, the officer level folks aren't fans of Trump and they're the ones giving the orders. Sure the grunts could rebel against orders but that's highly unlikely, following orders is kinda drilled into people in the military.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranIt's the last part that really gets me. If you really think genocide was the right thing to do, why hide it? Be like the Romans, the Hebrews, etc. They weren't ashamed of doing what they thought was right.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.The first military operation approved by Trump has been underway. A raid on Al Qaeda.
One American dead and three wounded. 30+ civilians were also killed, 10 of them being women or children.
He said he was going to kill civilians and families and he is.
Oh really when?

Ignorance at his finest. FUCK FUCK THEM TO THEIR ARSES
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