[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by evollove

I don't feel comfortable predicting that far ahead, but I feel good predicting 2018 will be a fucking bloodbath for the GOP. Some really, really cool shit is happening on the ground.

I'm in a small place in Ohio. A core group has developed over the past year. We are fierce and committed, and we are well-connected with other groups in Ohio who are just as committed. We've already kicked some ass. Recently stopped some bullshit redistricting proposal in the statehouse. We're ALREADY canvassing for November candidates.

Sure, some popular war may break out and the "don't change horses mid-stream" sentiment might prevail. Who knows?

But I'm headed to Columbus tomorrow to meet with leadership committees from various groups to refine our plan of attack. We're smart. We care. We'll fight hard.

Work local to change the nation. I'm pretty sure it'll work. Maybe not. But I think so or I wouldn't be spending my time. Chin up and help out.

this is great to hear and it gives me some courage

thanks

[evollove]

Originally Posted by Robert Schunk

For instance, the "Muslim Registry" was already in effect as the "Countering Violent Extremism" (CVE) program. .

This interested me, so I did some research. No ban. No registry. It is flawed. It's not as "progressive" as some would want, but it's miles away from anything Trump Administration has proposed or, indeed, implemented.

In 2014, the U.S. government announced a new anti-terrorism initiative in the United States. The program, dubbed Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), aims to deter U.S. residents from joining "violent extremist" groups by bringing community and religious leaders together with law enforcement, health professionals, teachers and social service employees. Attorney General Eric Holder announced a White House CVE summit and three CVE pilot programs to begin in Boston, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles.

These programs, however, are not new. CVE programs have existed for some time, often with dubious results. And while purportedly aimed at rooting out all violent extremism, they have previously focused only on Muslims, stigmatizing them as a suspect community. These programs have further promoted flawed theories of terrorist radicalization which lead to unnecessary fear, discrimination, and unjustified reporting to law enforcement.

https://www.brennancenter.org/analys...-resource-page

Where do you get your "information?"

[ilduclo]

It was no surprise when Mick Mulvaney’s new and improved “no-budget” Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced it was ending its investigation into installment-loan lender World Acceptance Corporation on Monday. Mulvaney and the Trump administration are known to be friendly to the payday loan industry, and World is no exception. Based in Mulvaney’s home state of South Carolina, the company made multiple donations to Mulvaney’s congressional campaigns, going back to 2013.

Sure, that’s not sketchy.

[tesla69]

Wow...

The FBI just released the results of their investigation claiming that the media mogul and found of RT killed himself by repeatedly smashing his head and upper body into the ground.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...his-hotel-room

https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/defa...128_FBIRT1.jpg

[evollove]

No Muslim registry, no widespread ban, including refugees, still far away from El Douche's draconian bullshit, still uncomfortable with it. So, basically what I said. Not at all surprised FBI overstepped; they infiltrated the Occupy movement after all. It's what they do. I will confess I'm embarrassed I didn't pay more attention when the story unfurled. I'll give you that.

You know who did pay attention? Liberal/progressive groups, so your premise that liberals don't actually care is bullshit.

And what was the point of referring to some anti-racism/xenophobia signs you saw pre-Trump? Racism existed before Trump, therefore... what?

I think people are mean to you on this board. I feel bad sometimes. I guess I learned something new, but that was a shitty way to learn it. (Btw, no amount of latinite vocab and convoluted syntax makes your posts any more "intellectual." Only idiots are tricked by a dumb idea wrapped in faux academic prose.)

I'm done. Go organize with people who share your politics. Unless you don't actually care.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by Robert Schunk

My primary purpose in engaging in these discussions is to demonstrate that there's really nothing "left-wing" about PC liberalism, and to challenge the assumptions underlying that ideology.

I increasingly wonder if 'left-wing' simply means something different for those who now describe themselves as such. But if they aren't 'Left', their cavalier attitude to free speech and apparent willingness to tip-toe around the sensitivities of certain (utterly illiberal) religions, make them equally incompatible with what I understand to be liberalism. Or maybe someone just moved the goalposts without telling me.

[ilduclo]

self driving tesla in the ditch with a shunk in the trunk!

 

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by ilduclo

self driving tesla in the ditch with a shunk in the trunk!

 

 

Originally Posted by demonrail666

I increasingly wonder if 'left-wing' simply means something different for those who now describe themselves as such. But if they aren't 'Left', their cavalier attitude to free speech and apparent willingness to tip-toe around the sensitivities of certain (utterly illiberal) religions, make them equally incompatible with what I understand to be liberalism. Or maybe someone just moved the goalposts without telling me.

Nah, look, we have enough problems dealing with the Trumpocalypse to go into the rabbithole (the shithole?) with Schunk. I used to think the difference between him and t69 is that the latter is obviously a paranoid schizophrenic having a psychotic break, while the former was "just" a wretched conceptual mess. But the bottomline is it doesn't fucking matter what Schunk defines as what because he was excruciatingly stupid enough to take what Trump said AT FACE VALUE and VOTE FOR THE FUCKER, even though anyone with eyes and ears could immediately tell Drumpf was lying out of his ass. That alone disqualifies Schunk to discuss anything.

[The Soup Nazi]

This is going really well...

FBI Deputy Director McCabe stepping down

More: https://news.google.com/news/story/d...us&hl=en&gl=US

[Rob Instigator]

far left wing and far right wing are equally fascistic and intractable. the people that matter are the 98% that sit in the middle of that Bell Curve.

[evollove]

Sure. It's so hard to tell the difference between homicidal Neo-Nazis and school administrators. The fuck, Roberto? Bad people on both sides? Where have I heard that before?

Putting Robert on ignore. So done with this shit. I'll miss out on Tucker Carlson links, but I'll live.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by Robert Schunk

'All Hell Broke Loose': NYU Prof Suing School After Being 'Coerced' Into Paid Leave for Criticizing PC Culture

A liberal studies professor at New York University was put on paid leave and ridiculed by his colleagues for his criticism of political correctness on campus. Michael Rectenwald is suing NYU and several professors, alleging they have launched a harassment campaign against him because they disagree with his views. Tucker Carlson noted that the Greenwich Village school is one of the most liberal in the world. Rectenwald agreed, saying "all hell broke loose" after administrators discovered his Twitter account, which listed criticisms of political correctness and suppression of speech on campus writ-large. "I merely made criticisms," he said, noting that his focus was national - citing the treatment of conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos in 2017. "I mentioned no persons by name, no... identities at all," he said. Rectenwald told Carlson he was "coerced" into being put on paid leave and soon after returning to NYU, he was pelted with stern emails from colleagues, questioning his "mental well-being."He said the campus' "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" group denounced him in what he called a "double-speak Orwellian condemnation."Carlson remarked that it was ironic to see a college's "inclusion" committee "exclude" Rectenwald."[I'm] guilty for the structure of my thinking," he said, paraphrasing the group's critique.NYU spokesperson John Beckman responded, “This suit has no merit.”

Something similar happened at a university in Canada, where a lecturer was brought in front of a committee and had to defend herself for showing a clip of Jordan Peterson during a class debate about gender identity.

The lecturer secretly recorded the meeting on her phone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usoID8zkUQM

[!@#$%!]

jeezus fuckin christ this thread lol

been busy moving but to summarize:

schunk’s first post: whataboutism and dementia (because a discreet “prevention of radicalization” is not the same as the public stoking of ethnic strife so his caveat of “qualitative difference” actually disqualifies the whole presentation as the qualitative differences are such as to make the comparison both silly and perverse)

demonyo extrapolates the lunacy of academia to society at large. there is no free speech issue with schunk— he says whatever the fuck he wants and others do the same. he defends a racist, gets called an idiot, in the marketplace of ideas

ilducio and soupnazi are being goofy which this being the internet is their prerogative i guess

as for the certain-certain-certain let’s not dance around the issue, your’re talking about muslims and islam and saying the religion is illiberal. issue is muslims come in all stripes just like christians. the american taliban is actually christian. so, deport all christians?

american muslims were doing fine until this whole bullshit with “terrorism” started. now they’re being pushed against the corner by terrible fucking policies and rhetoric.

robigator’s statement is patently true but maybe a bit of an odd timing contextualizes it as an extreme relativism

evollove is just practicing good time management, because it’s crazy to engage a crazy. just wish it was in a less wounded fashion.

tucker carlson is a shitbird no doubt

and academia is indeed an ideological hellhole which is why i quit it early and often. last discussion i had on the new blade runner with a professor friend she was foaming at the mouth and banging at the table with a fist screaming “weinstein”. so much for “ideas.”

anyway suckas have fun with this fucking marmaja of a debate

[ilduclo]

Poor little consies, they sure can dish it out but can't take it, what's called a china chin

[Severian]

Trump's State of the Union: 18 WTF Moments

Yeah, it’s Rolling Stone, but they’ve had better political writing than music writing in the last two years, and this is a good primer for anyone who wasn’t watching the goiter flap in real time.

[evollove]

Originally Posted by ilduclo

Poor little consies, they sure can dish it out but can't take it, what's called a china chin

Was this directed at me? Can't tell. If so, how's this: Robert Schunk is a retarded faggot.

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

and academia is indeed an ideological hellhole which is why i quit it early and often.

No. Ideologically entrenched Academia is merely annoying and unfortunate. (I left a place called Antioch College after exactly one semester for that very reason.)

Living among homicidal neo-Nazis and their apologists is the real hellhole. If saying that makes me PC, color me PC. But I'm fucking sick of tolerating retarded faggots.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by evollove

No. Ideologically entrenched Academia is merely annoying and unfortunate. (I left a place called Antioch College after exactly one semester for that very reason.)

Living among homicidal neo-Nazis and their apologists is the real hellhole..

kissinger famously said (im paraphrasing) the reason academic fights are so vicious is because the stakes are so low

and yeah the academic casualty count is low, but it’s still a hellhole if your livelihood depends on it. and who’s afraid of virginia woolf?

but you’re right— the problem is now we have a lunatic in charge of the asylum who is applying low-stakes tactics to such high-stakes situations as the future of liberal democracies or global thermonuclear war. it’s a fucking disgrace.

the other stuff you wrote and i’m not quoting is embarrassing and goes against the point you’re trying to make, but i understand the rage and what it does to a brain. you likely need to sleep it off. what ilducio said wasn’t against you since you’re not a consie (conservative, i’m guessing) so... yeah.

don’t engage a crazy or you might become one.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

and academia is indeed an ideological hellhole which is why i quit it early and often. last discussion i had on the new blade runner with a professor friend she was foaming at the mouth and banging at the table with a fist screaming “weinstein”.

Yes. This. Academia is its own kind of hell, no question. If you don’t feel that way, I daresay you’re either a minion of Satan or you haven’t experienced academia.

[Rob Instigator]

everything is sux. there is no perfection. at least academia doesn't send thousands to their deaths to protect three corporations oil fields.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

everything is sux. there is no perfection. at least academia doesn't send thousands to their deaths to protect three corporations oil fields.

no, seriously, academia is a special kind of hell

speaking of oil fields, check this shit out

White House seeks 72 percent cut to clean energy research, underscoring administration’s preference for fossil fuels