Donald Trump and US politics

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鬼殺し wrote:

This quote from politico is quite nice.

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Something like “alt-left” was always going to happen; it’s a product of whatever it is in our brains that conditions them to think in terms of opposites. As soon as everyone starts talking about the “alt-right”—that inchoate and incoherent grouping of Nazis, Klansmen, resentful failsons sweating from video games and chicken fingers, cynical media wannabes, bloviating internet commenters who think they’re Ignatius J. Reilly, and others who think they’re the Joker—that word seems to sit on one side of a seesaw, across from a silence waiting to be filled. If there’s an alt-right, there must, somewhere, somehow, be something called an alt-left, otherwise the universe is unbalanced. And while the universe is unbalanced—everywhere, from the points of terrifying heat scattered haphazardly across a lonely void, to the murder and oppression that break out constantly across the world and are never met with justice—for a lot of mediocre intellects, good judgment basically consists of pretending that everything balances out somehow, and all the ledgers are even. Something like the alt-right sticks out, a lexical blasphemy: to put the world in order, you have to invent something equivalent on the left.

Sorry if I'm not replying directly to you. It just means you're not meeting me halfway. Yet. Keep at it though.

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morbo wrote:

AntiFa can be dealt with easily, you just need to use brutal police force on them - once.

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A "confused anti-fascist" swung a knife towards the face of a man with a haircut similar to the one popular with white nationalists.

Joshua Witt, 26, was getting out of his car at Steak ’n Shake in Sheridan, Colorado when a man ran over to him yelling, "Are you one of them neo-Nazis?"

The man aimed for his head over his car door, but Witt blocked the blow with his hand, which needed three stitches.

“I threw my hands up and once the knife kind of hit, I dived back into my car and shut the door and watched him run off west, behind my car."

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

As if that worked on the alt-right. (It didn't, by the way; they love the attention.) Violence only pushes extremism and drowns out moderate voices and reasoned debate. Words not swords, goddamnit! I'm all for charges and arrests and due process but brute force?!? Seriously?

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DalaiLama wrote:

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

I'm all for charges and arrests and due process but brute force?!? Seriously?