Just seen Texas has lots of armed teachers in rural areas.
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Oh for fuck sake. "Divide and conquer".Originally posted by ad hoc View Post
"So, ad hoc, as a leading Palestinian apologist on these boards, how would you define your love for an anti-Hitler?"Comment
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The New Yorker on the terrible toxic achievement of the leading NRA lobbyist in Florida
Douglas students walked among them, placing flowers on an improvised memorial and demanding that lawmakers pass new gun-safety laws. One student, a solemn seventeen-year-old named Demitri Hoth, shared footage on his phone of his classmates just after the shooting. They were walking single file down Coral Springs Drive, with their hands over their heads. “I wanted to show the American public the true failure of our politicians,” Hoth said. “We all lost something—our friends, our loved ones, our security, our innocence.”
On the other side of the tape, public officials congregated. Normally, Moskowitz moves with the jumpy energy of a Hollywood agent, but now he was subdued. He wore a charcoal suit, and his hazel eyes were raw and red-rimmed. He had come from the funeral of Meadow Pollack, a senior at Douglas.
Moskowitz shook hands with Dan Daley, a young city commissioner in Coral Springs. “I was talking to one of the Douglas students,” Daley said. “His only words to me were ‘Do something.’ I had to tell him that I legally can’t do anything, because the governor could take away my job if I tried.”
Moskowitz turned to me. “That’s the legacy of Marion Hammer,” he said.Comment
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Hammer is another one I believe to be truly evilComment
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There's journalism, and then there's soap.
Sometimes, the need for one or the other, has been forgotten.
How else can you attract something, that is not your goal? You lie, manipulate, and then, you kill.
Thank you Wayne LaPierre.Comment
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oh man. Can someone please stop this person? All I wanted was Disneyland on a 24 hour basis, but I realised that one must fight for the things that make one happy.Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post
Fucking America. It took me all of this time to get here, and when I arrived, no-one is in.Comment
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The NRA membership is about 3% of the population. For argument sake, let's assume there are another 3-7% who are on board with their Nazi bullshit, but haven't joined.
So maybe 6-10% of our country are hard-right ethno-nationalist militarist/fascist fuckheads. Does that make us that different than most predominantly white countries?
The difference is that they're armed and are able to buy so many politicians.Comment
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Reed, I think that your number is way low if you are trying to imagine what kind of support an American Front National or AfD would get. I would put that at between 20 and 30 percent, which is higher than Western European comparables, but a bit lower than the likes of Hungary or Poland.Comment
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They certainly went to the right high school:Originally posted by Nefertiti2 View Post
Speak up. Learn to talk clearly and forcefully in public. Speak simply and not too long at a time, without over-emotion, always from sound preparation and knowledge. Be a nuisance where it counts, but don’t be a bore at any time… Do your part to inform and stimulate the public to join your action….
Be depressed, discouraged and disappointed at failure and the disheartening effects of ignorance, greed, corruption and bad politics — but never give up. — Marjorie Stoneman DouglasComment
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True. How’d they do in an election is different than how many hardcore members willing to do dirty work they’ve got, which is what I was thinking.Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post
Realistically, however, no right-wing candidate can get far unless they can win the GOP nomination. Many voters are loyal to the brand, as is Fox News and a lot of the other right-wing media. There was a time when we could safely assume that the people who really ran the GOP and the media just wanted their trains to run on time, so to speak, and therefore were a bulwark agains the really nasty right.
But as this excellent piece points out, in the long-con of the the American right, the marks have taken control of the grift and all the old assumptions are out.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/splinte...1793944216/ampComment
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Fucking hell. That woman is utterly vile.Originally posted by Nefertiti2 View Post
(BTW and totally off topic, what's with the umlauts over the second e in words like reevaluate and reelection? Is that a New Yorker style guide thing? I've never seen it before and it's kind of distracting)Comment
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In a joint press conference Malcolm Turnbull tells Trump what works. Trump basically says he's not interested in what works.
I try to avoid getting wound up by him because otherwise I'd be self-harming and helping nobody, but some things just push every button, and one of those is when a coward calls somebody else a coward. Cunty double cunt.Comment
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The New Yorker reëvaluates the diaeresis
anyway back to these kids- dynamite.
"We didn't fail. The people around us failed."
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/966383605495803905
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That piece is such an excellent distillation of so much.Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostComment
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I just watched Trump talking for two minutes about arming teachers. My god. How can he live with himself. He's got to know it's not going well.Comment
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I wouldn’t be so sure.
He’s really eliminated any exposure to all but the most craven sycophantsComment
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I get that he's a lifelong bullshit artist, who likes to get high on his own supply. but even for an obvious sociopath, who sees life as a game, he has to feel discomfort. It's how he knows the game isn't going well. Even Boris Johnson feels discomfort when he is caught out, and he feels a certain amount of angershame at losing this phase of the game. Trump has to know when he is out of his depth, and that has to cause him some level of discomfort, and he's out of his depth all the fucking time.
A bullshit artist has to feel a certain level of unease when his bullshit is so fucking bad that even he can't follow it. A man has to have some standards. This whole staying in bed watching television doesn't make it seem like he's having a good time.Comment
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You are downplaying the early onset dementiaComment
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Ah yes.
God bless middle America. They spend the 72 years since Roosevelt Cunting on about coastal elites, and then they elect the most obvious, and low rent huckster in the long and storied history of New York Cunts.
It would seem that the driving dynamic of US politics isn't the American Dream, it's this.
and a large slice of ThisComment
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