These garbage people are just coming out of the woodwork now, sheesh. And you never know whether you might be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Exactly. America is starting to feel like the wrong place, sadly.
It kind of reminds me of the breathtakingly toxic crap youād read in general chat on World of Warcraft ten years ago. I figured it was all just twelve-year-olds trying really hard to act out and get attention.
Ah, the innocence.
I thought a lot of it was from teens and even young twenty-somethings, but I never thought it indicated a significant chunk of the population.
jpinard
4301
Wow the comments there. Republicans constantly trying to do the āboth sidesā argument. Both sides need to do x. But the thing is, the right-wing is the only side assaulting and killing on a regular basis.
What about all those Soros-backed murders, Jeff? WHAT ABOUT THEM, HUH?
KevinC
4305
I donāt know but it I read it in Strongbadās voice because the āstrong armā thing must have conjured up Trogdor from my memory.
ShivaX
4306
His fans literally show up to protests with body armor, shields and clubs like itās 450 AD.
Heās readying his foot soldiers.
Hereās my crazy prediction. Dems do well in the midterms and Trump starts calling the election a sham. Voter fraud, illegals voting, China meddling, etc. Then Antifa fucks up some proud boys in Philly on the 17th and Trump declares war on the radical left. Radical left eventually extends to enemies of the people, the Dems who cheated to get in office and the press that supports them. Roll the authoritarianism.
ShivaX
4308
Thatās basically been my guess for the last year or so.
I would be scared, but I donāt think Trump has the disciple to pull that off. Or the brains.
Something like that. Iāve been thinking the same thing, thatās how the next civil war gets rolling.
KevinC
4312
We just need to meet in the middle somewhere. At the very least, please, no one call them bigots otherwise we run the risk of turning them into Nazis.
Menzo
4313
As many people have noted, calling them nazis is why we get more Trump, right? RIGHT?!
NYT with the quote
Of course, 4/5ths of his options are illegal, but whatever. Bring on the Authoritarian Fascist State!
KevinC
4315
Iāve been harping on this since 2016, but we are so fucked if an actual crisis happens. Something like an attack on the scale of 9/11 or a massive economic downturn.
We watched firsthand how quickly people were willing to give up constitutional rights for the idea of security back in 2001. I also watched the xenophobia ā especially towards Muslims ā build, and that was with a President who was at least going out there and making speeches about how Islam isnāt the enemy, especially not American Muslims.
The fact that a shocking number of people are willing to cling to a supposed āstrongmanā like Trump due to the imminent thread of some barefoot refugees in southern Mexico makes me terrified of what a Republican party like this will do when a real crisis presents itself.
Oghier
4316
Yep. If another 9/11 happened now, I think weād see (Muslim) American citizens in internment camps. Not hyperbole.
