Politics White Nationalist Rally turns to violence and terrorism

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Can't say I didn't think the same shit when I saw the pics of the douchebags. I wondered if the Apple Store was closed because everyone called in.

 

I'm not talking about the protest, I'm talking about the driver that chose to drive his car through a crowd for a political end. Politically motivated slayings directed at civilian populations to my recollection have usually been pretty easy to call "terrorism," whether it was the Unibomber, the Weather Underground, the IRA, or Timothy McVeigh. Motivated by high-minded, low-minded, or trivial goals, they all had one thing in common; kill or injure people to send a message to their political rivals, be it governments or other citizens.

There's a really easy test here: If this had been a Muslim driving through a crowd of people would we be parsing the phrase "terrorism" so finely? There is no slippery slope here, because I'm not calling the act of protesting an act of terrorism, I'm very narrowly focused on the politically motivated slaying, which appears to be directed at preventing taking down a statue of Robert E. Lee -- a fairly trivial political end, but a political end nonetheless.

 

I think you misread "resident" as "President."

 

I believe that our society is at a point of no return. The whole thing must crumble into war, death and chaos in order for it to get fixed. The next thing coming is people advocating on what you can and can't say or do beyond what is already protected. Simply replacing Trump will be nothing more than a band-aid. And i'm talking about if someone on the Left or the Right eventually replaces him.

Internet access is very quickly radicalizing parties on both sides and growing a divide. Its extremely destructive to society.

People have access to "information" (which is more than likely propoganda) in a manner they could never get before. Nefarious plans can be made, people feel that they need to make their opinions known to all of their friends and people who disagree with them are no longer their friends. News can be fabricated, opinions can be muted on social media channels, certain results can be tailored either by your choosing or by the choice of a company.

And what it all comes down to is mental masturbation. You getting a "win" over someone who has an opposing view. Oh, your candidate lost? Hahah, lets make a video of the candidate's supporter's crying! Its a very complex entity and it could be the fall of our society.

 

Its just both sides love to troll each other and try to incite each other into goading each other to attack and lose control, then play the victim when something happens. Its fucking disgusting behavior. Then they go online, make fun of each other, then try to identify/dox everyone to further piss them off and harass each other while armchair quarterbacks on Facebook cheer either side on.

A big problem is that the left has been tolerating violence against these groups. "Punch a Nazi". "Theses guys look like fucking pussies".

You have Antifa in Berkley assaulting random people. Not even doing anything.

Yeah, when people keep on saying things about them like that and have an "open season on Nazis", they are going to get enraged/triggered/etc. And the end result of this is revenge/rage/murder at the hands of impressionable yokels.

You really don't think there will be retaliation for stuff like this? People celebrate stuff like this, and these fringe groups just build up rage as a result.

 

Keep pounding the table. But update your dad-insults, to make it more entertaining.

 

It seems the counter protest was allowed to continue despite the state of emergency. Everyone should have been dispersed, rather the counter protestors likely rubbed the fact that they "won" in the original protestors face.

 

I guess the Boston Marathon bombers were just raging against runners. I always thought they were terrorists, but I now see I was wrong. Being anti-marathons is not a political motive. Thanks Denny for showing me the way.

 

Well, this is the first time you've admitted that libertarianism is so absurd that calling someone one qualifies as an insult.