Aug 13, 2017 Don't know too much, but I worry they're giving the white nationalists the exact platform they want But, on that note, nice job in Charlottesville this wknd sxn80
Aug 13, 2017 Feels like antifas response is sustaining WN momentum though. So no they aren't "necessary" Real life isn't a twitter debate
Aug 13, 2017 United Nations won WW2(with the Soviet Union at the forefront), not America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II https://www.quora.com/Which-country-played-the-greatest-role-in-winning-WW2-Britain-USSR-or-USA
Aug 13, 2017 I didn't get that from twitter and I didn't say that was the the Virginia monument... All the confederate statues went up around the same time (around 30 years after the war) for the same reason (to usher in Jim Crow and oppress black people), I just like that one because it actually spelled it out. And as far as the VA General Lee monument... They ought to bring it down and put up one for Heather Heyer since she never did any human trafficking or committed treason against America... And she can remind us of terrible part of American history we went through with Pepe larpers who didn't have their s--- together enough to peel potatoes in the army.
Aug 13, 2017 reading the news is comical at this point... literally feels like we are in a comic because its so unreal
Aug 13, 2017 No it wasn't, although the name "United Nations" was rarely used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II
Aug 13, 2017 You should've just said Allied Powers instead of UN. The Allied Powers and the UN, although compromised of many of the same countries, are not the same thing.
Aug 13, 2017 That would've made what I said more clear, but the formation was still called United Nations and it doesn't change the fact that America didn't single-handedly win WW2 and wasn't the top contributor to the victory either
Aug 13, 2017 "United Nations" was just a secondary name the allied powers went by. The actual institution of the United Nations as we see it today, was created after WWII.
Aug 13, 2017 Ok so first an apology: I was driving when I posted that so my tone came off a little too clipped. Know I will never do anything to hurt you. ::kisses forehead:: Broadly this violence is a response to rhetoric, right... from what I can tell. Provocative incendiary offensive maddening rhetoric yes. I You may sidestep my point about twitter but it's worth internalizing. (Side note: the Black Panthers were necessary. X was necessary. Both responses to institutional injustice and "domestic terrorism" to use modern terminology. I don't remember either group descending into fisticuffs w an actively violent klan, as opposed to these mostly deluded poseurs calling themselves nazis or whatever.) So here's the point: this alt left stuff isn't wrong per se... but sometimes you just ignore trolls.... as you know lol.... It's very possible this would've never become a national story if not for the counter protest.** So there's increased notoriety. On some level I'd rather leave the Fringe on the fringe. In that sense this melee was Wholly Unnecessary **its a question of optics/ tone, not ideology mind you. There's a white nationalist protest here in a few days: am I going to feed their desire for publicity by joining the opposition to shout etc? No.
Aug 13, 2017 So in a thread about a white supremacist mowing down peaceful protesters, this is your go to line? In June 2015, Dylann Roof was inspired by the “hate facts” posted on Daily Stormer and Council of Conservative Citizens to murder nine people at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina. In July 2015, John Russell Houser, a far-right former bar owner, shot and killed two people and injured nine others before committing suicide in a Lafayette, LA movie theater which was playing Trainwreck, due to its feminist themes and characters, as well as its lead actor's Jewish background. Houser was said to have been a misogynist and praised the actions of Adolf Hitler on online message boards. In November of 2015, a group of well-armed 4chan regulars attended a Black Lives Matter camp in Minneapolis, harassing them with racial slurs. They opened fire on activists attempting to chase them out when they returned a second night, wounding five. An antifascist protester of Milo Yiannopolous was shot in stomach on Inauguration Day by Elizabeth Hakoana, who came to the protest with her husband, who planned to “crack skulls” of the “snowflakes” at the event and provoke a reaction to justify shooting someone. Later in January, Alexandre Bisonette, a supporter of Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen, opened fire on a Quebec City Islamic Culutral Center, killing six. In February, a white U.S. Navy veteran, Adam Purinton, 51, killed an Indian engineer, wounded his Indian co-worker, and shot a man who tried to stop the murder at a bar in Olathe, KS while yelling "get out of my country." In March, James Jackson, a subscriber of Alt Right Youtube channels, traveled from Baltimore to New York with the sole purpose of murdering a black person at random. He stabbed Timothy Caughman, killing him. Sean Christopher Urbanski, a University of Maryland student and member of online alt-right facebook groups, randomly stabbed to death black Army Officer Richard Collins III in Baltimore. A man in Portland, OR stabbed 3 people, killing 2, who intervened to tell him to stop making racist remarks to muslim women on a light rail train. Anthony Robert Hammond hacked a random black man with a machete after yelling racial slurs at numerous people in Clearlake, CA in May. Jimmy Kramer, a 20 year old Native American, was run over during his birthday party in Washington state by a man and woman in a large pickup truck who first circled the party yelling racial slurs and taunts at the group from inside the truck. Kramer died and his friend was hospitalized. A Minnesota mosque was hit by an early-morning explosion on August 5, 2017 as worshipers had just begun to gather inside for morning prayers.
