Probably the shooter, an Australian, is someone from his election campaign team. A Dutch populist has in the past campaigned with the slogan: "I say what I think and I do what I say". This is the result of hate mongering.
Maybe an aboriginal should put the world out of this shit misery and boomerang this vile person to death.
Maybe the Aboriginals could use their collective voting power, along with white Australians, to nonviolently vote him out instead.
He only got 19 votes. But in a weird quirk of politics he got his seat when one of those who got more votes in his party was found ineligible.
Adam Serwer wrote this very prescient article this week in The Atlantic. I wrote about the history of the “white genocide” conspiracy theory, which treats the presence and immigration of those deemed non-white as an existential threat. That hatred appears to have been the motive for a terrorist attack on Muslims in New Zealand. https://t.co/WgmB8OTHya pic.twitter.com/CO4i0IGOvX— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) March 15, 2019
Trumpism is sometimes white-genocide light (say, when criticizing NFL players), sometimes white-genocide heavy (say, when talking about how Mexican gangs kill white Americans). But it is definitely steeped in white genocide. Which is why the complaints by those who are treated badly while wearing MAGA hats sound so hollow. We know what MAGA means, people. You're not fooling anybody, except perhaps yourselves.
No matter how ridiculous it may seem, it's important to them to call *anything and everything* into question. The idea is not to convince anyone that it's a false flag operation. Rather, the constant-ness of making everything seem questionable makes the very idea of truth or reality suspect for people. Which in turn makes it much easier for people to simply give up and believe whatever they're being told the loudest, or believe what they want to believe anyway.
Bingo. That's when why our ICs yawned at Trump calling into question the size of his inaugural audience, treating that as a trivial thing, I fervently disagreed -- and still do. Calling blue skies green and not being fired for doing so is the soul of totalitarianism. To make truth not a matter of evidence but instead a matter of who owns the bullhorns.
Agreed with the last two sentences; but which of the many definitions of "IC" are you working with here?
Hmmm, couldn't say in a court of law. I just remember that our lefty/Dem majority was hammering Trump on this, and that there was some pushback from others about how the issue was trivial and we were overdoing the outrage.
Sorry, I was making a joke about this place's making up of abbreviations that don't exist anywhere else in the world. I can't remember what "IC" is used for here -- Involuntary Celibates? -- but that last time this abbreviation came up, whatever the answer was wasn't remotely anything I'd ever think of. My jokes are always funnier when I explain them.
These are thoughts of the majority of the Republicans in the US Congress right now. They just don't say it quite this explicitly. It really hurts for me to say that, by the way.
I don't believe that it's true. I do believe, though, that is the overwhelming belief of Trump's core supporters ("the deplorables"),. It might also be true of most GOP voters, whom, I believe, are worse than their politicians, overall.
Who is that guy? He looks like a cross between Jim Carrey and James Brolin, wit the cross imitating a trog.