@youngfreeradical replied to your post “Eyo, any advice on combating the argument that Trump…”
“Why does the KKK and neonazi groups support Trump?”
That honestly depends on what you consider KKK and neo-nazi, because it’s different whether you’re on the right, on the left, or even centrist. I can tell you now, that Trump is not responsible for those groups supporting him, if they even are, and he has condemned white supremacy and the supporters of that ideology so many times.
@youngfreeradical said: “He bears no responsibility? Could it be perhaps that they agree with his rhetoric and policy? Did he disavow neonazi groups when he said “there are very fine people” at an explicitly neonazi rally where one of them murdered one person and injured dozens?”
Full context - Trump’s words:
“Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.”
“I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.”
“So you know what, it’s fine. You’re changing history. You’re changing culture. And you had people – and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists – because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. Okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly.
"Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people. But you also had troublemakers, and you see them come with the black outfits and with the helmets, and with the baseball bats. You had a lot of bad people in the other group.”
@clarkphilholmes replied to your post “So I have a member of an Antifa group in my class…”
“Beat him up first and show him who is boss”
Probably not the best idea tbh. He’s like a 6 foot tall dude, and I’m a short lady who can pack a punch, but not enough to beat up a dude like that, and also I don’t want anything to resort to violence.
All jokes aside, I’ll never promote violence towards anyone, because then we become as low as those in Antifa. I’m never going to at least throw the first punch, so no.
Lol I just had a fight about the blackwashing of Ariel and OP blocked me and the others that thought similar. Like, my response isn’t even showing up in the notes. My reblog. Other people’s reblogs. Lovely use of censorship right there.
Y’know when we jokingly referred to Trump as a nazi? I wish that was still a joke.
Yo, if… If he starts like, killing them, can we go to war? Please? If the guy is going to be the next Hitler then we gotta stop him and put him in his place.
Except for the part where these are written in marker, and done in Mexico,. US officials had nothing to do with it.
You know what the Jerries were real big on? Blind belief in propaganda. Like believing a tweet without context, or a site that breathlessly calls yellow ID bracelets “yellow insignia” and likens them to Nazi insignia for Jews.
I guess the last time I went to the carnival, I was actually walking into a concentration camp.
And why am I not surprised my ol’ pal SocialisTexan literally linked to the article which proves them wrong but they didn’t realize it?
There you go again, disrupting leftist fantasies with actual facts.
For those who don’t know, GTM is run by Australians and looks at issues primarily in Western Countries.
Which brings me here today as the Australian Federal Election is concluding overnight. Australia seems to have decided that The Liberal National Party will continue to be in office.
How does everyone react? Petitions to remove Queensland from the commonwealth as most voters were LNP voters. Breakdowns over not having a Labor government, and of course, censorship.
What I say to that?
Get over it. Move to a country that has the values you like if you don’t like Australia’s government. I’m sure Venezuela would love you.
Get a reality check and realise people actually don’t like socialism and Labor. Realise that the election process is fair and stop trying to find loopholes and stop complaining that it isn’t fair. Realise different opinions are actually a part of life and you have to live with them. Realise that you are not the majority. Your views are popular on the internet, not in real life.
Why don’t people want to talk about Jimmy Fallon donning blackface to imitate and mock Chris Rock and Jimmy Kimmel donning blackface to imitate and mock Karl Malone?
Okay, as a journalism student I have a few things to say about Tucker Carlson.
Recently he made an editorial about how the New York Times were planning to publish his home address. They made a response to it today. In this article they basically frowned upon Carlson for even suggesting it, while simultaneously posting at the end of their article the general areas in which reports are that he lives.
No matter how much you hate the guy, you cannot deny that this NY Times article is intentionally leading people to finding out where Carlson lives by indirect means. I’m doing a media law class this semester, and this absolutely falls under what you SHOULDN’T do.
A couple years ago, antifa protestors showed up at Carlson’s house and terrorised his wife while he was at work and their four children were not at home. The protestors were heard on video threatening to throw Molotov cocktails and pipe bombs at the house. They also spray painted insults and the anarchy symbol on his house and driveway. Since then he had received death threats practically daily. It eventually got so bad they moved. Lately, people have tried to get Carlson taken off the air. He had one of the highest, if not the highest, rated news programs in America and many people in other countries watch him as well.
Hi all, this is my first post in a while as this blog is very much inactive these days - due to personal reasons. However I wanted to take the time to address what’s been going on.
George Floyd’s death at the hands of Derek Chauvin, a police office trusted to protect and serve, was terrible and completely unacceptable and inexcusable. For this reason, and the unlawful deaths under police custody that have been plaguing the country for many, many years, I will say this: I stand by the peaceful protestors and those who choose to stand up to police brutality as it is a very real thing and something we should all condemn.
However, I don’t believe how the situation has been escalating will help the cause at all. Protests turning into riots, which turn into looting and burning buildings, flags, and attempting to burn police as some have done. Do not bring children to these protests, do not bring elderly, do not subject your children to violence and hate and anything you are tasked with protecting them from. Do not take your children into a situation where rubber bullets, tear gas, tasers, batons, horses and flash bangs are used for crowd dispersal. Do not take children.
Do not burn buildings, do not burn police vehicles and precincts, do not cause more harm because enough harm has been done. Not very long ago a group of protestors swarmed the streets in front of the White House, burned the guard house and the historical church nearby, as well as forcing President Trump into the bunker. This is a clear threat to the president, who had no part in George Floyd’s murder as plenty of African-American men and women have been killed under police custody and under police hands for years before President Trump was elected.
This is chaos, civil unrest and part of it is completely and totally justified - however it is getting out of hand.
The police are using sometimes completely unjustified force because one or two people in an otherwise peaceful protest decide to throw something at an officer, or yell an insult. Keep in mind the police’s job here is to disperse a crowd in which would otherwise turn more violent. The actions of some officers are not justified, however what happened in LA a few days ago where the ‘peaceful protest’ turned violent because of police presence, the police were called in because protestors were surrounding a bus and the bus driver was scared so he called the police.
There are two sides to everything. There are people protesting with peaceful intent and people protesting with violent intent. There are people who are using the chaos as an excuse to loot and get free stuff, and there are people looting as a form of protest - both are illegal, protesting is not. There are police who are following orders and police who are using their position for an abuse of power. There are police who are marching with the protestors.
Stay safe. I’ll maybe start making GTM more active in the future.
So I haven’t really commented on the UK, or anything really lately (been too busy to keep up with this), but I’d like to say that I am happy with the landslide victory for the Tories. I’m not invested in UK politics, but I am well versed and I will say that Jeremy Corbyn scares me, and even before Boris Johnson was PM, I said that he should’ve been instead of Teresa May.
That recent convention where they were all like “Point of Personal privilege” and “thank you comrade” really missed an opportunity to call it ‘Commie Con’
“So you’re against blm for their rhetoric that inspires evil attacks but you’re not against trump for inspiring evil attacks am I getting that right?”
I’m against organisations that directly call for violence. Such as BLM and AntiFa. I’m not against Trump for the reasons I stated, he never directly calls for violence, but he says a lot of poorly-worded shit that some people take the wrong way. I’m not pretending that he’s a saint because he isn’t, but I believe he’s the best thing for the US at this time.
Like I said, every ideology inspires extremism, but I don’t know why you’re so focused on Trump’s ideology inspiring extremism, when I brought up the Ohio shooter and ISIS as people and/or groups who were inspired by generally relatively civil ideologies to do extremist acts. Like I said, it’s direct calls to violence that I’m against.
Send me an ask if you want to discuss this stuff with me. There, you can ask me a direct question that you want to know and I will answer it as best I can. I’m not pretending to be an expert in anything but these are just my opinions, and I don’t know if you’re just trying to establish what I think or don’t, or if you’re intentionally trolling my account. You don’t follow me, yet you’re always coming up in posts you haven’t been tagged in. I notice.
Send me an ask and then we can talk further. Ask me a direct and conscise question and I will answer.
““The group was not directly involved with BLM, but it’s possible the rhetoric inspired the evil attack. I’m not entirely sure, though.”
Hey fletch I wonder if you have the awareness to say the same about trumps rhetoric and the fact that hate crimes against minorities have risen dramatically since he was elected.”
Extremism happens on both sides, so yeah I’m aware enough to say the Texas shooter was an extremely right wing radicalising Trump’s words. I’m also aware enough to know that the Ohio shooter was a radical leftist. So yeah, stuff inspires extremism on both sides, just like how ISIS is extremist Muslim views, but we don’t demonise the entire Muslim faith, now do we?
Ohio shooter backed Warren, wanted gun control and supported AntiFa.
I’m against the BLM organisation for the same reasons I’m against AntiFa groups, both groups outwardly call for violence against white people and conservatives so I’m not about that.
Trump may say a lot of stupid shit and he definitely needs to word his tweets better, but he has never once said anything or done anything like this:
My question is why do you keep responding to me? It’s obvious we won’t agree but instead of sending in a respectful ask like most people do, you choose to reply to my posts.
Next time you want to respond to some of my views, I’d invite you to my ask box. It’s a much nicer place there, maybe we can have some civil discourse instead of what’s already been going down.
