Nobody is defending Trump. He's terrible. But this thread isn't about him, so I'm not going to continue to engage you on the subject.
“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.â€
― Leo Tolstoy,
[FONT=&]"I can't get over how rapidly this has come alive," Parrott said, attributing the surge in interest to Trump. Heimbach described the Republican nominee as a "gateway drug" to white nationalism. "We're all growing and using this momentum," he said.
[/FONT] [FONT=&]In the broadest sense, the alt-right is a populist revolt against the political establishment. Alt-righters are mostly young white men who are angry about income inequality, poor job prospects, PC culture, crumbling social welfare programs and war. They come from Pat Buchanan's nativist paleoconservatism, Ron Paul's libertarianism, the rape-y Manosphere, the Gamergate underground, and other subcultures. Along the way, they feed off disinformation and conspiracy theories that have gained credence thanks in no small measure to Republican efforts to demonize journalism, science and what Karl Rove is believed to have dismissed as the "reality-based community." This journey is called being "red-pilled," a reference to the main character's choice in "The Matrix" to swallow a red pill that shows him the horror of his enslaved reality or a blue pill that lets him remain blissfully unaware.[/FONT] [FONT=&]
The horrifying truth the red pill supposedly reveals is that we inhabit a country in the throes of a "white genocide" driven by immigration policies. Some, like Spencer, dress up these notions with palaver about preserving identity and Western culture. Others lace up jackboots. Either way, there is nothing ambiguous about their beliefs. These are unabashed racists who think that blacks, Hispanics and Arabs are congenitally stupid and violent. Most are virulently anti-Semitic. Many are self-identified fascists.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]"I can't get over how rapidly this has come alive," Parrott said, attributing the surge in interest to Trump. Heimbach described the Republican nominee as a "gateway drug" to white nationalism. "We're all growing and using this momentum," he said.
[/FONT] [FONT=&]In the broadest sense, the alt-right is a populist revolt against the political establishment. Alt-righters are mostly young white men who are angry about income inequality, poor job prospects, PC culture, crumbling social welfare programs and war. They come from Pat Buchanan's nativist paleoconservatism, Ron Paul's libertarianism, the rape-y Manosphere, the Gamergate underground, and other subcultures. Along the way, they feed off disinformation and conspiracy theories that have gained credence thanks in no small measure to Republican efforts to demonize journalism, science and what Karl Rove is believed to have dismissed as the "reality-based community." This journey is called being "red-pilled," a reference to the main character's choice in "The Matrix" to swallow a red pill that shows him the horror of his enslaved reality or a blue pill that lets him remain blissfully unaware.[/FONT] [FONT=&]
The horrifying truth the red pill supposedly reveals is that we inhabit a country in the throes of a "white genocide" driven by immigration policies. Some, like Spencer, dress up these notions with palaver about preserving identity and Western culture. Others lace up jackboots. Either way, there is nothing ambiguous about their beliefs. These are unabashed racists who think that blacks, Hispanics and Arabs are congenitally stupid and violent. Most are virulently anti-Semitic. Many are self-identified fascists.[/FONT]
Not the worst of it but the fascist bastards have hijacked a forward-thinking icon -- The Matrix.
Neo's pills and Pepe the Frog don't belong to these thievin' scumsters.
Quote:[FONT=&]... and what Karl Rove is believed to have dismissed as the "reality-based community."....[/FONT]
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Cliff Varnell Wrote:Not the worst of it but the fascist bastards have hijacked a forward-thinking icon -- The Matrix.
Neo's pills and Pepe the Frog don't belong to these thievin' scumsters.
We take back our memes, bitchez!
Yeah, we need to get these back. In Australia proto fascist party has been able to appropriate a symbol of the anti-establishment left when the electoral commission gave them permission to use it to represent them on the ballot paper.
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
David Guyatt Wrote:Turns out Hilary is far more crooked than sick...
[video]https://www.rt.com/news/365299-assange-pilger-saudi-clinton/#.WBxX8JVTZWg.facebook[/video]. The main video of this interview will be aired tomorrow exclusively on RT. Watch that space.
John Pilger can be forgiven for his shock.
Hilarious!
How long has the US of A provided arms to Saudi Arabia?
Decades and decades.
How long have the Saudis and their Gulf allies financed extremist groups like Al Q and ISIS?
Decades and decades.
But the Clinton Deranged think it all started with Hillary and the Clinton Foundation?
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As usual Cliff, you designedly miss the central point that Assange and Pilger made --- utterly blinded as you are by your singular hard-wired partisan perspective.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
R.K. Locke Wrote:Nobody is defending Trump. He's terrible. But this thread isn't about him, so I'm not going to continue to engage you on the subject.
Agreed.
It is a peculiarity of our time that America has reached the stage of its political "development" that the only two people standing in the race for power are both utterly reprehensible and crooked beyond belief.
There is clear evidence that Trump has organized crime connections - besides other seamy matters. Hilary meanwhile, is taking money from a foreign government where corrupt practises, cruelty, and the most abject form of misogyny are the pillars of life.
Way to go America. That's the best presidential candidates you've got for what you amusingly call "high office".
So let's tangle this poisoned recipe up some more shall we? I know just how. Let's fight each other over which of the damned candidate we root for.
However, to do that it is essential that we ignore the schizophrenic thinking that motivates this craziness in us --- one candidate is good, the other bad. The old Hollywood white hat versus the black hat. Simple is as simple does. Why change something that continues to work?
As I keep saying, common sense and intelligence has fled.
The world looks on in astonishment.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Had to smile at this one from the Podesta dump. The writer reflects the view that the war chick, bankster babe and insider stroker doesn't reflect traditional democratic values.
Nope, she doesn't.
She reflects something else altogether.
But hush my mouth...
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.