Neo Nazis and the Alt Right

[Clay]

[CraigM]

That is not helping @robc04’s case ;)

[KevinC]

Been that way forever for those of us with shaved heads, though the association has grown less over recent years as the shaved head became more generally popular.

No kidding. I started losing my hair at a young age. By the time I was 27 or so, I just said screw it and started shaving my head. I was seriously shocked by how differently people reacted towards me. While running on a dirt trail, I even had a mother push her two children defensively behind her as I jogged past. I’m 6’6" and that may have contributed, but I had never seen that reaction from anyone before. It was truly bizarre, but it made me understand just a tiny bit the kind of shit that minorities likely deal with.

I don’t notice those reactions anymore, but I don’t know if that’s because I’ve just become used to getting the evil eye or if people around here are marginally less stupid. They elected Jason Chaffetz, so the latter is pretty unlikely.

[Gordon_Cameron]

At Dolly Parton’s Civil War–Themed Dinner Theater, There’s Violence on Many...

[barstein]

From the article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_rJ4yShFhw

[ArmandoPenblade]

So fun fact: I grew up in that town, and our “Top 10%” free lunch for the seniors with the best grades in school was held there near the end of the school year. The only thing I can really remember is that the probably decent nosh was completely ruined by the ever-present smell of horse-shit and hay.

[None]

“You can swipe alt-right on all of them!”

[None]

Yoojin Cho (Yoojin_Cho)

This guy doesn’t believe the confederate flag is a symbol of racism… and then moments later refers to MLK as “Martin Luther Coon”.

[Timex]

He’s only racist against the uppity ones.

[barstein]

White nationalist Chris Cantwell held without bond in Virginia on 3 felony...

[rowe33]

Haha he’s just joking about the ‘coon’ thing. Funny! He has a black friend.

[Pyperkub]

I definitely don’t think that we should destroy the planet quickly. I think we need to identify the imminent threats, and by imminent I mean on the timescale of centuries. Climate change is an imminent threat that must be dealt with. And there are other potential imminent threats, like antibiotic resistance, honeybee colony collapse, etc.

But I don’t regard our population, by itself, as an imminent threat. It’s a long term threat, maybe. Or maybe not. Malthusians have a track record of being proven wrong, over and over again. So I’m a lot less willing to cause immediate suffering to soothe them.

Pet peeve. We aren’t destroying the planet (even if we were to detonate every single nuke on the planet). We’re destroying it as a suitable home for us. Until such time as the sun goes nova, the planet will abide, and come to an equilibrium, regardless of what we do. The question is whether that equilibrium will be capable of sustaining human life, as well as the rest of the ecologies we depend upon.

[triggercut]

https://twitter.com/Yoojin_Cho/status/900725436556161024

This guy doesn’t believe the confederate flag is a symbol of racism… and then moments later refers to MLK as “Martin Luther Coon”.

Case quickly dismissed by judge today.

[Pyperkub]

Putting this here, as apparently any Congressperson who votes for impeachment is putting their life in danger. Funny how when the Right thought (many still think) the Clintons were murderers, no Congressional lives were in danger when President Clinton was being pursued by Starr.

He added, warning: “Try to impeach him. Just try it. You will have a spasm of violence --an insurrection-- in this country like you have never seen before… Both sides are heavily armed, my friend.”

“This is not 1974,” Stone, who worked in the White House during Nixon’s resignation, added. “People will not stand for [impeachment of President Trump]. Any politician who votes for it would be endangering their own life.”

[AntediluvianArk]

Our left-right media divide told through Charlottesville

[Dan_Theman]

Stone needs to stick to the Planters Peanuts labels.

Yes, I’m sure some idiots would act out, but ffs - Trump getting impeached doesn’t mean the election gets undone. It just means Pence takes office.

[Telefrog]

The most interesting part of these kinds of comparisons, (I think there was one earlier for just the election) is how the left’s social media is filled with stories from long-standing “traditional” news sources like NYT, CNN, and WaPo, while the right’s feed is dominated with relatively new sources like Infowars, Breitbart, and Truthfeed with the occasional Fox News link.

[MrGrumpy]

Pet peeve. We aren’t destroying the planet (even if we were to detonate every single nuke on the planet). We’re destroying it as a suitable home for us. Until such time as the sun goes nova, the planet will abide, and come to an equilibrium, regardless of what we do. The question is whether that equilibrium will be capable of sustaining human life, as well as the rest of the ecologies we depend upon.

We are destroying it for a great number of species right now. At the current pace large vertebrae will be largely extinct in the next 20-30 years. Will losing elephants and tigers make human life impossible? No, but a planet left with only domesticated plants and animals for human consumption and a few iconic species kept at zoos will be tragic.

But it’s true the planet itself though will go on, it’s endured worse. (Difference is unlike asteroids or shield volcanoes, humans are willing agents.)

[Pyperkub]

Agreed. After all, it appears as though Mars once had a better atmosphere and liquid water. Now it is at a completely different equilibrium, not really capable of nurturing and sustaining life beyond the scant possible evidence we’ve found.

[Gordon_Cameron]

/carl sagan mode

We are the stewards of Earth, and, some noble exceptions aside, we are not doing a great job of it.

/carl sagan mode

Also, as has been sufficiently commented on, H. sapiens constitutes one of the major extinction events in biological history.