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The Republican Primary - please define grand, and what kind of party?
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She's just a media whore whose 15 minutes are almost up. Sorry to be blunt, but I don't see her as a significant problem for anyone but people unfortunate enough to be driving on the same highway as her.
I'd argue that the fact she basically has a show about her life as a transwoman and says things like she could be Ted Cruz's trans-advisor would be "commited to the idea of being a leading figure in the community"
As for the junction point, weird phrasing on my part: We're at a point in time where the transgender community is becoming more visible to the mainstream and is becoming increasingly targeted by American conservatives as a threat to the social order in the way they tried to portray the gay and lesbian community for years.
Therefore, Caitlyn Jenner saying really crap things and it spreading through the media is probably going to continue to be a thing
But convicting a celebrity of a crime, in California, so, probably you're stuck with her.
So...forever.
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All. The. Time.
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If only we had some sort of recording device at these events to support trumps claim, ah well, just have to take his word for it
Pretty great Girl Hitler cosplay tbh
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Well, sure. That's always pretty likely when people say something so clearly wrong. Except for the grain in the pyramids. That's real.
But that reads more like somebody who is ignorant, and likely willfully so, to the realities of the lives of others. Jenner is over sixty and started the final stages of the process only a few years ago or so. Until then, that's a whole lot of life lived inside the rich, white, male cloak.
What I'm saying is that it can be both, but mere stupidity doesn't do enough to explain it away.
Do not engage the Watermelons.
The GOP has long had a problem understanding how recorded media works.
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I voted none as the kind of party the Republicans are going to be
they continue to act like there is no such thing because
1) nobody ever fucking calls them on it to their face like they should
2) it doesn't matter to any of their constituents anyway--you could show trump saying one thing and him saying exactly the opposite to one of his fans and it would not change their opinion of him in the least
apparently there is already apologists/deniers/damage control* for this one. unsurprisingly they're full or crap.
people might still try to call foul on saying that Trump is a Nazi. but at this point** you cannot deny that some of his followers are literally Nazis.
*however you want to phrase/classify it.
**even if you ignored prior evidence.
Cuz I'm pretty sure if someone started flashing a nazi salute near me I would punch them
And then I'd be a guy who punched a grandma and that would be bad
Like, nazis. How could anyone want to be a nazi? Even the actual nazis tried to pretend they were not in fact nazis after the war.
i imagine it was an insidious, underground type thing until someone was bold/stupid enough to declare it publicly and wasn't smacked down for it. once that happened others started being more overt and it became an actual movement.
of course there's also the fact that the real Nazis hid cause otherwise they faced being tried for war crimes. there was a good reason for them to try and disappear. Neo-Nazis had none of that hanging over them.
Only because they lost the war and were being hunted down to be tried as war criminals.
Or so probably goes the thought process of a Neo-Nazi, along with subscribing to the belief of racial superiority as a way of compensating for their feelings of inadequacy and powerlessness as a white male in a time of economic exploitation of the so-called middle class. Better to subscribe to a delusional philosophy that tells you you're special and that your not being successful is a nebulous Other's fault than to acknowledge legitimate flaws in the system of government and economy of the country that you were raised to believe is The Best.
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a quote from the video that isn't in the article "Donald Trump makes me embarrassed to say I'm a Republican". when someone steps down from Breitbart because of a Republican nominees actions, its serious. when that same person still clings to the party, even through embarrassment, its just sad.
I must admit I'm growing increasingly worried about how the definition of protesting has changed from "stand outside the building with signs and shout slogans" to "sneak in and try to legally cause as much havoc as possible". Yeah yeah "Trump is evil and a bigot". That doesn't give you any right to restrict his freedom of speech. Like if the neo-Nazis barge into a Hillary event and started screaming and flipping off attendees, they'll just point to BLM and say "they did it first". And you know what? They'd have a point*. That's what protesting is nowadays. "How dare you equate BLM with those evil fascists" How dare you appoint yourself political commissar? Condoning unethical behavior when it's your side and condemning it when the other side does it is insanity.
*just to be clear, I'd be just as angry if they did that. I don't support disrupting political meetings of the opposite party; I think it sets a very bad precedent. I have no desire to regress to the machine politics days where candidates hired whole bars to go out and break up meetings across town.
Honestly, I am now concerned that there is a very real risk of an overreaction from the extreme fringes of Trump's support. "Well, if they're gonna show up to all our rallies and screw with us, then we're gonna do the same thing to them!" Like, what's to stop some crazy from bringing a gun to a rally somewhere? The chances of that happening are probably small, but they're high enough to be worrying.
The only thing making me take a step back is the fact that we've had a black President for 8 years, and while there have been plenty of real threats and dangers, somehow we made it through two elections and all those years without having a large scale incident like that.
It's new territory. Activists have for a while been a staple of campaigns, but they're a sideshow. They yell, they get escorted out. Trump escalated. Along with the escort there are the "Trump! Trump!" chants, the encouraged aggression, and increasingly making the protesters and the act of removing them a part of the show, which made for some publicity, and that brought more protesters. It was effective theater. From knowing a few protesty types, they feel some kind of vague kinship, and at some point the collective narrative of what Trump rallies are gave rise to a new plan, that I'm sure is gonna be copied. But the next Trump supporters they encounter are gonna be people who saw that on the news, and possibly be looking for it and bad shit will happen.
I've been thinking about guns all day, but I didn't want to mention it yet - I'll just hope nothing happens.
The worry for me isn't the person who plans something, those are rare. But the person who brings something with them, gets into a heated interaction, and makes a poor decision.
When you have completely passive protesters going to Trump rallies with something as innocuous as a shirt with a slogan, or a sign/button, or more recently just having the wrong color skin, and being met with violence and hate speech this is not exactly a surprising result. Trump's authoritarian tendencies and explicit calls to violence against those who disagree with him ratcheted up the tensions to where his supporters beat people for daring to disagree. When you try to silence opposition with violence, you don't convince that person that they're wrong, you convince them that they need an equally credible threat of violence to be heard. That's basically where we're at right now.
Why go to a rally of someone you disagree with to protest? Because that's who you're taking issue with, and honestly more importantly, why not? If they're disruptive, they get thrown out, if not, then welcome to political discourse. The precedent has been set that going to a Trump rally without having drunk the kool-aid results in Donald Trump openly and personally calling for you to be beaten by his loyal supporters. It was only a matter of time before the protesters were in a situation where they weren't hopelessly outnumbered and that script wasn't going to fly.
All parties agree that all relevant security providers assured Trump that he could still conduct his rally, his free speech wasn't infringed, he just unsurprisingly couldn't conduct his usual bombastic derogatory shitstream at his opponents unopposed, and so he folded like the yuuuuge tough leader that America needs.
Are you trying to say Donald dollar-fucking Trump is being denied his freedom of speech? The same Donald Trump who wants to create new laws to punish media that's unfavorable to him? The same Donald Trump who told his followers that he'd cover their legal fees if they beat protestors? Who gets 24 hour news coverage, headlines, and thousands of rally goers?
That Donald Trump?
Cause holy shit dude. Also, I love trying to use Nazis in a metaphor in support of the belligerent leader of a cult of personality who encourages violence and scapegoats minorities while promising to restore glory to his country.
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I don't normally post much in these threads, but I had the same worry as soon as the first images started coming up on the news: that someone in the melee, by intent or coincidence, had been carrying when this began and the whole world would get to see a very poor snap decision in real time.
Had to stop watching. The dread still hasn't gone away.
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