And a Bernie supporter shot at US Congressmen. A muslim killed a bunch of people at Fort Hood. You go down this route, it ends poorly. The truth is that men in this country have too many guns. It doesn't matter what party they are aligned with.
You're right, that's what needs to happen. Manafort and Stone are hard core rat********ers from the 70s. They should have been driven from public life. Somehow Robert Bork ended up being a Supreme Court nominee. Some of Bush II's people, like Alberto Gonzalez and the woman he nominated...Harriet Miers?...are nonentitites. There's never been a proper comeuppance for the financial industry for what happened in 2008. I'm just incredibly dubious that our conservatively biased media won't enable Republicans, again. Think about how widely believed the lies about Vietnam soldiers getting spit on is.
Anecdotally speaking, young white males seem to be at least as bad as old white males. In a post-truth, and post-sort world where they only have to engage with people like themselves, they could (and probably will) end up worse. At least the Boomers had the good sense to not go around calling people n*****s in public. It seems like the next generation has no such compunction.
I am 100% for extremely strict gun control on the NZ model. But I also think it matters that right wing extremists are radicalising wannabe Nazis. We can be worried about both aspects.
It's weird because racism was more out in the open when I was younger. I think today's youth of all stripes are more woke than we were in that regard. Our schools never had diversity days and all that like they do now. At the same time i think some yoots today feel SM "anonymity" means they can still be racist aholes. And of course posting dog whistle racist shit is popular with Wingnuts of all ages. So it's maybe better than in the old days. It's more underground but definitely still there.
QUOTE="Cascarino's Pizzeria, post: 36363112, member: 14351"]It's weird because racism was more out in the open when I was younger. [/QUOTE] Much more so. Huey Newton said that white people needed to be taught by the barrel of a gun. Oakland built several municipal buildings to double as fortresses, should the riots turn that serious. With windows that could double as gun slits. People threw stones at school buses. Openly angry, violent times. Death Wish. Walking Tall. Today, it seethes through the Internet. As you write, a different mechanism. Although not entirely different -- the Death Wish remake arrives this Friday.
Sixties brutalism was function as well as form. On a side note, that shit was UGLY. East Berlin is so much better than West Berlin because the Westerners had the money to renovate 50 years ago, and did so with that garbage architecture. The East couldn't get around to the task until much later. Lucky them. Well not lucky them at the time, but lucky for those who came later.
The one where reasonable, civilized folks shot 50 rounds into Sean Bell's car, or the one where Abner Louima ran into a reasonable, civilized police patrol with anal fantasies they weren't endowed enough to carry out biologically? Or maybe the one where a guy said "We need a White Mayor" and won, in nineteen eighty-nine? Perhaps the one where Rodney King was hit 56 times in 83 seconds... or the one where an anti-choice activist killed two people and wounded five others? Or that university where the hockey arena was financed by a bigot, decorated with racist imagery and contractually approved by the school? Asking for a friend... Pointing fingers at regions is dangerous. You're almost certain to miss the rest of them.
YES. I haven't become some raging right-wing nut job. I would prefer we base ourselves in facts, and the facts show that Trumpism is destroying the GOP.
Perhaps already posted, historian that predicted Trump winning, now predicts impeachment will happen. http://www.msnbc.com/david-gura/wat...rediction-about-president-trump-1183185987655
Yeah. No. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/...on=top-news&WT.nav=top-news#commentsContainer WASHINGTON — Even as the special counsel expands his inquiry and pursues criminal charges against at least four Trump associates, House Intelligence Committee Republicans said on Monday that they have found no evidence of collusion between Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia to sway the 2016 election. Representative K. Michael Conaway of Texas, who is leading the investigation, said committee Republicans agreed with the conclusions of American intelligence agencies that Russia had interfered with the election, but they broke with the agencies on one crucial point: that the Russians had favored Mr. Trump’s candidacy. “The bottom line: The Russians did commit active measures against our election in ’16, and we think they will do that in the future,” Mr. Conaway said. But, he added, “We disagree with the narrative that they were trying to help Trump.” These are the people that will have to do the impeaching.