TGHusker Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 2 hours ago, Frott Scost said: Right wing politicians are jackasses in every country https://www.yahoo.com/news/christchurch-mosque-shooting-australian-mp-muslims-144820837.html Sounds like congressman stephen king for Iowa - if you change NZ for USA. Link to comment
commando Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 3 hours ago, Frott Scost said: Right wing politicians are jackasses in every country https://www.yahoo.com/news/christchurch-mosque-shooting-australian-mp-muslims-144820837.html much like hitler blaming the jews for bringing the holocaust onto themselves. Link to comment
ZRod Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 4 hours ago, Frott Scost said: Right wing politicians are jackasses in every country https://www.yahoo.com/news/christchurch-mosque-shooting-australian-mp-muslims-144820837.html Whoever gave the pouty face to this needs to seriously reevaluate their life, and stop being a coward. Show your face, stand behind your opinion or get out of here. You're a coward if you don't. 1 Link to comment
knapplc Posted March 15, 2019 Author Share Posted March 15, 2019 To everyone still supporting Trump, this is what that support is earning you: Quote Racist suspect in New Zealand mosque massacre praised President Trump as 'a symbol of renewed white identity' The immigrant-bashing white supremacist suspected of killing dozens of Muslims at a mosque in New Zealand released a disturbing manifesto before the Friday massacre praising President Trump as an inspiration for his hate. The suspect, who has been identified as 28-year-old Australian citizen Brenton Tarrant, released the since-deleted screed before storming into the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch during afternoon prayer local time and killing at least 41 people. Another eight people were killed in a separate attack at a nearby mosque minutes later. The 74-page document shouted out right-wing extremists like South Carolina church shooter Dylann Roof and Norwegian neo-Nazi Anders Breivik, lauding them for attempting to provoke race wars in their home countries. The hateful manifesto also lists Trump as a source of partial kinship. “As a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose? Sure,” the suspect wrote. “As a policy maker and leader? Dear god no.” In the wake of the horrendous attacks, Trump didn’t explicitly condemn racism despite his name being referenced by the suspect. 1 Link to comment
knapplc Posted March 15, 2019 Author Share Posted March 15, 2019 And lest we forget Trump's ties to racists and White Supremacists: 2 1 Link to comment
VectorVictor Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 On 3/15/2019 at 7:52 PM, BigRedBuster said: What’s funny/sad is that these are the same damn arguments made 100 years ago (technology aside) by conservatives—only instead of Muslims, African countries, and Middle Eastern refugees, it was the Chinese, Germans, and Jewish religious community. I mean, FFS, an irrational fear of German immigrants by conservatives in the US Government is part of the reason the United States stayed out of WWI as long as we did (the other being the money we were making hand over fist by trading with both sides of the war). In short, history has proven this fear mongering was without merit 100 years ago, and it’s still without merit. 3 Link to comment
knapplc Posted March 17, 2019 Author Share Posted March 17, 2019 35 minutes ago, VectorVictor said: What’s funny/sad is that these are the same damn arguments made 100 years ago (technology aside) by conservatives—only instead of Muslims, African countries, and Middle Eastern refugees, it was the Chinese, Germans, and Jewish religious community. I mean, FFS, an irrational fear of German immigrants by conservatives in the US Government is part of the reason the United States stayed out of WWI as long as we did (the other being the money we were making hand over fist by trading with both sides of the war). In short, history has proven this fear mongering was without merit 100 years ago, and it’s still without merit. Not to mention the Irish. 1 Link to comment
VectorVictor Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 11 hours ago, knapplc said: Not to mention the Irish. S***, forgot the Irish, and on this weekend of all weekends. 1 Link to comment
knapplc Posted March 22, 2019 Author Share Posted March 22, 2019 Quote Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez receives so many death threats her staff performs visitor risk assessments Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has received death threats frequently enough that her staff “stiffens” every time someone knocks on the door of her office. The realities of Ms Ocasio-Cortez’s time in Congress as the US representative of New York's 14th congressional district have been revealed in a new Time profile, which displays the youngest-ever Congresswoman on the cover. According to the profile, the outspoken Congresswoman has made many fans and enemies in her first few months in office, with the latter leading Capitol Police to train her staff in performing risk assessments of all visitors - even those just leaving positive Post-it notes. 1 Link to comment
knapplc Posted March 22, 2019 Author Share Posted March 22, 2019 You'd better sit down for this one... Quote Counties that hosted a 2016 Trump rally saw a 226 percent increase in hate crimes ...we aggregated hate-crime incident data and Trump rally data to the county level and then used statistical tools to estimate a rally’s impact. We included controls for factors such as the county’s crime rates, its number of active hate groups, its minority populations, its percentage with college educations, its location in the country and the month when the rallies occurred. We found that counties that had hosted a 2016 Trump campaign rally saw a 226 percent increase in reported hate crimes over comparable counties that did not host such a rally. Of course, our analysis cannot be certain it was Trump’s campaign rally rhetoric that caused people to commit more hate crimes in the host county. However, suggestions that this effect can be explained through a plethora of faux hate crimes are at best unrealistic. In fact, this charge is frequently used as a political tool to dismiss concerns about hate crimes. Research shows it is far more likely that hate crime statistics are considerably lower because of underreporting. Additionally, it is hard to discount a “Trump effect” when a considerable number of these reported hate crimes reference Trump. According to the ADL’s 2016 data, these incidents included vandalism, intimidation and assault. What’s more, according to the FBI’s Universal Crime report in 2017, reported hate crimes increased 17 percent over 2016. Recent research also shows that reading or hearing Trump’s statements of bias against particular groups makes people more likely to write offensive things about the groups he targets. 2 1 1 Link to comment
Landlord Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 I love AOC. Love that she's shaking stuff up, love that she refuses to be silenced, that she's taking the fight in directions it needs to go, and so on. She's a breath of fresh air. But I also wish she'd stop unapologetically exacerbating the division. Wish she'd go higher when they go lower instead of engaging with some of the more boorish responses to her. Link to comment
Guy Chamberlin Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 My racist gun-hoarding 85 year old step-father-in-law just broke the news on his Facebook feed: a new investigation reveals that the New Zealand mosque has been recruiting radical jihadists for years! I gave this bombshell a quick Google search, and found that while there were multiple mentions, they were all traced to OANN: the One America News Network. Care to guess how bats#!t OANN is? There appears to be no follow up to their groundbreaking original reporting. 2 Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 38 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said: My racist gun-hoarding 85 year old step-father-in-law just broke the news on his Facebook feed: a new investigation reveals that the New Zealand mosque has been recruiting radical jihadists for years! I gave this bombshell a quick Google search, and found that while there were multiple mentions, they were all traced to OANN: the One America News Network. Care to guess how bats#!t OANN is? There appears to be no follow up to their groundbreaking original reporting. OANN is conservative propaganda. Please, everyone, vote next year, because we all know all the Guy Chamberlin's FIL's of the country will be. And it's a pretty safe guess for whom. 3 Link to comment
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