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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
America has moved from ISIS attacking us to producing our own homegrown non-religious misogynist terrorists.
And I have no doubt this is just going to be a trend now like school shootings.
I was on a school trip during Columbine. I realized it would be a turning point then and I have that same feeling now.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Jun 30th 2018 at 6:49:57 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Trump has repeatedly stoked violence and called for attacks. So I wouldn't think there would be a problem with someone blowing up a building like the New York Times for some of these psychopaths.
I mean, this IS a terrorist attack on journalists.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Jun 30th 2018 at 6:57:29 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.I wonder if Sinclair just has standing orders to kill all things which make white supremacist misogynist nutjobs look bad.
EDIT:
ICE is hated by the police for multiple reasons, including the fact they're impersonating them.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ice-conflict-20180630-story.html
https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/politics/ice-officers-police-bill/index.html
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Jun 30th 2018 at 7:21:38 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
x6
Why should people punish themselves for taking a "wait and see" approach regarding the motives of someone already in custody? Ringing the alarm bell too soon would cause a Crying Wolf mentality to take hold.
Also, anything more solidly reputable than Salon and/or Reddit
as a source for that information? Though apparently, the symbol the guy shooped onto the foreheads of those he had a grudge against originated in Berserk, so I can only imagine how quickly the Moral Guardians will jump against that instead of firearms.
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Well sure - it wasn't kids and the body count was only single-digits. That's practically ho-hum in this day and age.
Edited by ironballs16 on Jun 30th 2018 at 7:27:42 AM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/29/ted-cruz-arthur-jones-vote-democrat-688743
Ted Cruz said not to vote for GOP caniddate Arthur Jones the Nazi over the Democrat candidate.
I'm saddened this pleasantly surprised me.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Jun 30th 2018 at 7:31:29 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.On the subject of Arthur Jones, if I'm reading this right the GOP had multiple chances to prevent Jones becoming the nominee and botched every one of them.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/29/arthur-jones-nazi-illinois-republicans-686875
Mc Sweeney’s comments come just days after the filing deadline passed for qualifying a third-party candidate for the general election — which could have provided a safe harbor for Illinois Republican votes. Prior to that, the party had also failed to recruit a candidate to challenge Jones in the primary election, failed to knock him off the primary ballot and wasn’t able to field a write-in candidate against him in the primary.
Running a third-party candidate against Jones in November was among the options left to Illinois Republicans after Jones clinched the GOP nomination by running unopposed. But the deadline came and went this week and that didn’t happen either.
Edited by sgamer82 on Jun 30th 2018 at 8:55:54 AM
I'm especially not giving him credit because said Nazi is running in a blue district, and basically only got the nomination because the GOP couldn't be bothered to put in the effort of finding a real candidate for a race they were almost certainly gonna lose anyway.
It doesn't take courage to stand up to a bad person when you have considerably more power than them and they're not likely to ever gain power.
Edited by Gilphon on Jun 30th 2018 at 11:34:57 AM
Cross-posted from the European Politics thread:
Quit the EU for better trade deal, Trump reportedly told Macron
He was a white guy in his thirties who attacked a newsroom after Trump and-even more blatantly-a prominent alt-right figure encouraged attacks on the press, with alt-right sites/boards celebrating the attack almost immediately after it happened.
What more do you want?
"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."
The PCA wasn't a traditional treaty; it was more a simple agreement that every nation signed on to, with their own conditions thrown in. Real Treaties in the USA have to be approved by Congress and signed by the President. That is why Trump could easily leave it, and the Iran Deal. It's also why he can't leave NAFTA and the UN as easily, because those were actual Treaties signed by Congress.
Of course, don't blame Obama for being forced to only make agreements with nations and not Treaties, blame the Obstructionists in Congress.
And the Paris Agreement is in practice meaningless compared to the other organizations, as it doesn't bind any of its members to complete the goals. Trump leaving it was just to send the message that the enviroment wouldn't be held in consideration at all in his presidency.
Edited by Grafite on Jun 30th 2018 at 6:39:00 PM
Life is unfair...

There's a certain irony that Reddit is actually like 10,000 individual boards and communities.
So, on the politics board there's nothing but people talking about how they hate the Alt-Right and are disgusted they exist.
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/8v1cog/accused_annapolis_shooter_had_deep_dark_links_to/?st=jj1fwabn&sh=3629af7a
But are scared they're high fiving them. They won't go to check, though, lest they be infected like journeying into R'lyeh.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Jun 30th 2018 at 6:37:27 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.