i still see a lot of cars with Bernie2016 bumper stickers and i wonder if they think, "well, better keep it on the car so people know not to blame me for this trump nonsense!"

Lol.

I just custom ordered a bumper stick that says "Inso is a ****ing moron".

...and nothing on my side either. At no point in my life have I had a bumper sticker on my car. lol Inso0.

It's like he enjoys being dunked on by the forum. Remember how he introduced this topic:

"I keep politics out of my gaming, except for the 'Go Republicans!' avatar that gets broadcast to every single person I play multiplayer games with." He freely volunteered this info!!

The previous time was about 4 weeks ago.

Big fire in San Francisco. I don’t know if these are paid troll comments or not but this kind of posting on emergency situations with lives at stake has sure accelerated in the last year from my observation.

They're not paid. They're just dicks.

This stinks of Trumps America. Austin bomber

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...top/436980002/

Putin would be proud of how accidental that guy's death will be

Alabama: Not Florida, But It Is Just Next Door

It's a serial bomber, and I guess serial killer is included in that.

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/03..._medium=social

Protip: Make the dealer take it off for you.

Lol'd

My old buddy from HS and college came to visit for a few days. Dude has always been super liberal but of the more radical variety. Like in our early 20s he got the anarchy zine and truly thought anarchy was the solution. I'd make fun of the NAMBLA articles in each issue and ask him what about the road warriors. He is (maybe was) a huge Chomsky fan and was into the Situationists (some French anarchic movement or something).

He had worked for Students for Dukakis and we went to the Democratic convention in '88 and bluffed our way in to a bunch of stuff. At the same time we'd get in arguments about stuff like whether the US was really "more free" than the Soviet Union at the time. I was deemed hopelessly naive by him and our other friend for even suggesting we might be. Reverse Cargo Cult is a freaking seductive narrative. No one wants to be naive.

Anyway obviously I felt pretty safe bashing Trump if/when the subject came up on our first day. Later that night we got drunk and he told me he voted Trump, thinks Trump is a decent guy and is doing a pretty good job. I tried to pick at the edges w/o getting into a huge throwdown. (Yes granted the establishment is terrible, but things can get much much worse, etc.)

All of his reasons were pure choose-your-own-adventure argle-bargle. He doesn't believe any of the Russia stuff. Voted for Obama twice, feels betrayed (because the establishment still exists I guess). I don't remember many other details, but for example he claimed a vote for Trump is a vote against authoritarianism. o_O

The next day I woke up wishing it was all a bad dream. We didn't talk politics for the rest of the trip - just got drunk and watched basketball.

Oh yeah - in least shocking development my buddy is also by his own admission kinda racist (mostly against Muslims). And he's lived in Florida for 15 years or so. The ol' racist radical liberal turned Trumpfan. Rings a few bells.

I'd be more depressed, but we stopped really connecting a while back. He's kind of a dark dude. Still it's kinda painful and thinking about it even enough to make this post is exhausting.

Wtf is going on in Austin?

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign...emocratic-seat

Republican candidate Arthur Jones, a Holocaust denier who has been disavowed by his own party, will be the GOP's nominee in a suburban Chicago congressional district after he ran in Tuesday's primary unopposed.

Jones's campaign website contains a section called "The Holocaust Racket" in which he argues that there is "no proof such a so-called 'Holocaust' ever took place anywhere in Europe against the Jews" and that Jews are "directly responsible for the murder of at least 300 million people."

Jones in February told the Chicago Sun-Times that he's a former leader of the American Nazi Party.

He speaks his mind.

I think it's someone trying to prove gun control is not the thing and doing targeted attacks to prove his point.

Yes! The Austin maggot is dead!!!!!!!!!!!!

Austin Bombing Suspect Mark Conditt Blew Himself Up, Police Say

A law enforcement official identified the suspect as Mark Anthony Conditt, a 23-year-old white man.

Officials did not rule out the possibility that the man had accomplices.

“We do not understand what motivated him to do what he did,” said the Austin police chief, Brian Manley.

The first explosions hit African-American residents whose families are well-known in the city’s black community, though two white men were injured by an explosive triggered by a tripwire on Sunday. Chief Manley did not address any potential motive, including race.

odds that this terrorist was radicalized by donald trump and the maga mob are rising

It's depressing when you think what happens to some well intentioned people sometimes.

The Situationists were a very interesting subversive grouping in the late 60s, daubing radical/surreal slogans in public places ("Under the pavement, the beach!"), borrowing irrational behaviour as a means of provocational propaganda from the Dadaists and espousing the society of the spectacle. They were a huge influence on one Malcolm McClaren, and therefore indirectly on the whole of the 70s punk rock movement.

From that to supporting Trump is a hell of a fall.

It really has been undersold how Trump's message attracted that sliver of the population who wants to burn it all down *and doesn't care how*. This forum doesn't see it because somehow you guys purged yourself of the ACists, but I can imagine old Weather Underground guys being gleeful that finally someone was gonna go in and fight the establishment.

We all hear "yadda yadda yadda to own the libs", but "yadda yadda yadda to own the normies/squares/establishment" is probably just as valid.

Weather Underground were radical leftists. I've been around radical leftists enough to know that while some people say things like "Trump is the best thing to happen..." they mean because now there are 100 people at the Democratic Socialist meeting instead of 5. I've never heard anyone on that side of the spectrum think that Trump is fighting the establishment. The people I know who identify as Libertarians (not left-Libertarians) also all hate Trump, they just hate everyone else about as much.

Only the nearly completely uninformed think that Trump is fighting the establishment and anyone like Suzzer's friend who may have been informed at one time are just ignoring a lot of things because they like the racism.

That is basically the Alex Jones wing of America.

People who buy $3,000 worth of emergency dehydrated meals are not buying it because they afraid that they will need it, they fantasy about needing it.

"First we will have hyperinflation, then there is going to be a civil war and blood in the streets" really means "I want there to be hyperinflation, a civil war and blood in the streets".