And posts like that are PRECISELY why more and more people can find less and less common ground anywhere NEAR the middle. The never-Trump crowd does everything they can to antagonize ANYONE who voted for the current POTUS.

Yeah, not everyone at a Nazi rally is necessarily a Nazi. Like, I’m sure some of them were just out for an evening stroll and got caught up in a tiki torch rally.

I'm here to specifically antagonize sexists, and the white women sitting at the right hand of power who enable them.

So, you're even more special. <3

*michelle showing up for the rally*

"Well I didn't expect all this nazi propaganda, but... we're already here so lets just stay and maybe see what they're serving for lunch, eh??"

Anyone who voted for Trump is nowhere near the middle and if it was up to me I'd ship y'all over to papa Putin.

Some poor slob probably thought it was a Jimmy Buffet concert what with all the Tiki torches and white people. That’s an easy mistake to make.

Pretty sure that Trump just meant that some of the attendees were pretty good looking. I mean, i am as straight and progressive as the next guy, but you gotta admit that Baked Alaska has legs for miles.

Yes, that's made very clear especially in the thread Missing Politics Posters:

A vote for Trump was better than the alternative, who would have done infinitely more damage to the country. Sadly, the left can never seem to look at the reality that they chose to put forth a candidate that was even MORE polarizing and damaging than DJT.

If you actually had the ability to look over my shoulder at the ballot, however, you would ALSO have seen a mix of candidates with a mix of letters behind their name. I'm a candidate's worst nightmare...I actually look at issues, NOT the letter behind their name. Fortunately, in MY State, we don't have to register to a specific party. The closest we come to something like that is having to choose which of the two primaries we will vote in.

But pissing off the leftist whiners even MORE is that THIS fiscally-conservative yet socially-moderate lesbian is not beholden to an agenda/party that will do me more harm than good. I was one of those voters who was lied to by the previous officeholder with respect to insurance. As a result, I lost a policy that did what *I* needed it to and that cost me less than $2,500.00 per year (which was about $2,400.00 more than I spend annually on medical care). I now have no insurance and put the rare medical expense on American Express. As such, the candidates that got my attention in the past few cycles were the ones that claimed that they would at least make an effort to remedy the problem. Sadly, that has not come to pass.

Of course, it would probably ALSO shock some to know that I have donated to candidates on both sides of the ballot. The key is in ensuring that they are not committed to turning the rest of the country into a literal ****hole like has been permitted up and down the West Coast and that they won't endorse sanctuary city practices.

But that’s the way our company has always worked. 2+2 published our first book in 1987 and then the attacks began. If you can find old issues of Poker Player and Card Player you can read some of these including why Mike Caro kept his intense rage to himself. In addition, when I walked into a poker room there was often someone there to hassle me and I even got anonymous phone death threads plus an in person death threat by a well known poker personality (at that time). But our product was always better and it made it easy for us to win the competition with other writers and publishers, and we did this by always recognizing good work by others whether they were associated with 2+2 or not. So, yes, we did follow the ideas of Milton Friedman and sometimes things get rough, but that’s the way things ofwork. But the end result can be well worth it for almost everyone, and that’s what I think is happening now.

Best wishes,
Mason

Ins0 said the cool kids insulted SHS's looks. That is a lie. It was two posters who barely post. He knows that.

And when they got there and saw the Nazi flags? Then what?

If you do a search of posts containing "huckabeast" you will find boat loads of insulting posts by regs.

Wild idea but maybe he could have just permabanned vaya and deleted the post instead of ordering the mods to do it at 11 on a Friday night. In fact the post so bad it shut the forum down is still just hanging out in the thread it was posted in.

The rally in question was hosted by Richard Spencer, whose site once hosted this gem: https://web.archive.org/web/20120216...genocide-right

It's SUPREME gaslighting to suggest ANYONE was there under confused or false pretenses. It was a white supremacists rally. They chanted "Jews will not replace us" on the first night.

You really have to do mental backflips to imagine anyone wound up there is a "fine person" - unless your definition of fine person includes white supremacists - which of course we know it does in Trump's case.

When a person asks for reasonable gun control measures, they are asking for reasonable gun control measures

Just because someone else screams that person is waging a war on guns doesn't mean it's actually happening. That person's ignorance is not anyone else's problem. That person's refusal to address reality isn't anyone else's problem either

Oh. So this forum is another example of the result(failure) of libertarian principles - if you want vigorous debate and let everyone post freely you will get bullying and name-calling that shuts down the debate.

I've learned my lesson.

Yeah and we had a big throwdown about that to tell some of them to stop doing it. You gonna nuke OOT for misogyny too?

The funny part is the crocodile tears over casual misogyny as a reason to nuke the forum - from the same crowd who constantly complain about snowflakes, lighten up Francis, **** your feelings, etc. It's nice that so many of you are born again feminists. But I suspect this will be short-lived when its usefulness has worn out.

Do agree with EVERY left-leaning individual YOU might run across? My guess is that, if you are capable of being honest, the answer is no. Yet you likely have some commonalities with those persons you would generally disagree with.

Too many people seem to believe that the United States citizenry marches in absolute lockstep to one of two positions. Except that they never have and they never will. But the push towards the new McCarthyism does nothing but further the divide and piss off the moderates in the middle (witness the New Yorkers pissed off about the loss of jobs and income or the people in SFO that have to dodge human feces on their way to work or the people in Los Angeles that have real concerns about the return of typhus).

Given how little attention some people appear to have paid in high-school English class, that might be an idea.

Ms. OOT says "Hi."

No, but I don't go to rallies organized by white supremacists, and if by some weird accident I find myself at a rally marching with Nazis, I leave.

Why is this so hard?

Well, last November Ezra Levin indirectly called Cruz a neo-Nazi sympathiser because he made a sympathy phone call to Iowa Representative Steve King. Rep King has often been described as white-supremacist, anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic.



Rep King also has just said he's like Christ on the Cross because he's been removed from certain House committees due to accusations of racism. He appears not to recognise that crucifixion under the Roman Empire was just slightly worse than a mere loss of privilege.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iowa-st...controversies/

You're a white supremacist.

And a mark.