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Mr Interweb posted:While I'm very glad that Trump is getting trashed by Hillary in the polls this week, Trump was actually leading her a week ago. Here's my question: what made those people who supported Trump no more than a few DAYS ago, suddenly change their minds? I mean yeah, yeah Trump said a whole bunch of noxious poo poo. So what? He's been spewing garbage like that ever since he started running (and for, you know, the the past 40 years). "I know Trump said he hated muslins, but I never thought he'd actually attack one!" Rotten Red Rod posted:That bump and rebound always happens after conventions practically every election
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:An immature part of me enjoys reading way too much into this comment: As a "German-American" this makes me lol. Just when our reputation started to recover here comes Herr Drumpf to gently caress it up for another couple of generations. We were parlaying this craft beer wave into Oktoberfests and everything. Things were looking up!
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*Trump walks into the House of Reagan and smashes a hole in the wall with a sledgehammer* *Thousands of tiny spiders with Hitler mustaches come pouring out* Paul Ryan: "I don't know what this is, other than it isn't us!"
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Petr posted:Conservatism may be at a low point, but populism isn't, and the next demagogue may not have the disadvantage of being a literally insane fascist. The next couple of decades may see a modern Huey Long, who could gently caress up the Democratic party (and possibly America) as much as a Trump presidency.
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Bip Roberts posted:What would the danger of a more populist version of Bernie be?
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Again I'd look at the Five Star Movement (or M5S), which is a really odd duck. If you look at its politics and organization, its ideology is a blend of (and all these categories are very vague within the party) anti-globalization, environmentalism, sustainability, populism, anti-interventionism, Euroskepticism, and being against "corrupt" politicians in general. They've played coy on immigration. It also embraces "internet voting" (think Redditers) and has a proprietary website where party members can vote up or down on various issues. But it's also totally internally unaccountable (since a handful of people at the top control the e-voting system) and is built around the personality cult of a demagogic comedian name Beppe Grillo who makes racist anti-Muslim jokes. If you took the Trumpstaffel and the Bernie-or-Busters and merged them into one party and added Peter Thiel, you'd get something like M5S. Also M5S is in a coalition in the E.U. parliament with far-right parties including AfD, UKIP, the Swedish Democrats and the Lithuanian Party of Order and Justice. And if it wasn't for the peculiar way the Italian parliament seats parties, M5S would be the second-largest political party in the country. BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Aug 13, 2016 |
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Antti posted:Italy or any other European country is a poor example to use because, well. White people.
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:There are a surprising number of those KKK comics giving Mexico props for smacking down the Catholics. My knowledge of that period is hazy, was Mexico's government at the time backing laicism, or generally impeding the organized power of the church? My knowledge of Mexican history is also hazy.
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ReidRansom posted:https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/765285492711682048 quote:Austin-based Democratic pollster Leland Beatty argues, in a memo obtained by The Texas Tribune, that several factors, including an anticipated drop in GOP straight-ticket voting, could provide beleaguered state Democrats their biggest opening in 20 years. His predictions come as Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton continues to trounce Trump in all national and most battleground state polling, raising questions about his strength even in some reliably red states. So if Hillary has consolidated to that level, and Trump has stayed flat, it could be neck and neck. BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Aug 15, 2016 |
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Classic Alex Jones on Austin public access is something else https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FyDF2wllSc People watching this like wtf BI NOW GAY LATER posted:alex jones hasn't changed much over the years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgJbsraMdDQ BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Aug 18, 2016 |
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Here's an opinion. If you're gay and support Donald Trump you're an idiot.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:Well he literally wants to consume the blood of healthy young people in order to live forever and ya gotta admit that's a bit loopy Popular Thug Drink posted:it's possible that peter theil is not a single issue voter, just because he is Gay. he might actually have other issues, that weigh upon him more, than his sexuality, perhaps
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Iron Lung posted:Yeah I saw all that and agree, but would be very surprised if any of these people do anything. Hopefully it doesnt happen, but if it does I have a feeling things are going to change very rapidly for him and his rallies, and not in a way his supporters are going to like. What's somewhat concerning are these new alt-right / white supremacist groups popping up. Small, and only in a few cities. But they're young men, with varying levels of fitness, and looking a lot better than our typical meth Nazis. https://twitter.com/Cascadia_TRS/status/755838973142982656 https://twitter.com/HoustonGoylers/status/757291734988709888
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Yeah I'm real scared that the rejected members of Cross Fit Local 1046 are going to start up poo poo. https://twitter.com/AntifaDFW/status/752273965926670336 But it's heartening the anarchists are aware of 'em. Though some of these groups on Twitter are also letting off some steam at firing ranges. I do think it's concerning because young men + stupid poo poo + guns = dead body. Especially stupid racist poo poo.
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Pakled posted:It's a pun. Houston Oilers + "goy." Mostly they find each other on Twitter and the invite-only TRS forum. Idea being to take the forumers and Twitter users and connect them at the local level and have them take it from there. Also, a very deliberate co-opting of left-wing language like "safe spaces" and "occupying space." Also a bit more ideologically flexible, although it's deffo a Nazi movement, but more flexible than say the National Alliance.
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It all lead up to this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYnFIRc0k6E A month after this video was released, Bush won Florida. And that, as they say, was history.
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If I had to take a guess at nu-metal's popularity, I'd want to explore the suburbanization of American youth after Reagan accelerated deindustrialization. Hip-hop hit its first golden era in the early 1990s and nu-metal borrowed from that. I'd also want to look at race relations and how nu-metal, for all its lovely music, represented a fusion of white and black youth cultures (although nu metal was definitely on the whiter side of the equation). I'm out of the loop today but I don't see music crossing racial boundaries as much. It feels like there's been a hardening.
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Aug 21, 2016 08:51
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Local white supremacists in attendance: https://twitter.com/CuckerPunch/status/767448182624092160
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Yinlock posted:I don't really understand civil war reenactments since it seems to be a really America thing, is it just people trying to pretend that the south won? So yes.
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Sydney Bottocks posted:Reading about how Trump doesn't drink reminds me of how people used to say they wanted to have a beer with GWB (who was a recovered alcoholic and teetotaler), and the constant "Drunken Uncle Joe Biden" jokes (who is actually also a teetotaler). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok2g6M4wTeg
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Interesting trend that American Neo-Nazis have taken to VK because they don't ban them like Facebook.
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lol @ NY Times How do you gently caress up an article on a speech?
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