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2017-08-14 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-14 03:02|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 p.s. Divideet Impera anyone?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-14 04:15|| 2017-08-14 04:15|| Front Page Top

#2 And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-14 06:51|| 2017-08-14 06:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Welcome to Bleeding Kansas.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-08-14 08:34|| 2017-08-14 08:34|| Front Page Top

#4 The alt-right and the radical left are meant for each other. The term alt-right has been attributed to Richard Spencer but it got legs with Hillary's (Hillary and "legs?") campaign. It seems fairly well-defined. The left has been organizing for a long time and is a polymorphous amalgam of various groups. The lame-stream media salivates and gets a boner over these staged right-left melees that pop up. The left has found that trying to take down historical statues such as Robert E. Lee or Stonewall Jackson are triggers for the extreme right. Meanwhile all the useful idiots play their part according to script.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-14 08:45|| 2017-08-14 08:45|| Front Page Top

#5 The script here are the actions of the municipal govt, as already explored by Baltimore, Berkeley and Portland. The violence will continue because that is the true script of the Left.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2017-08-14 09:33|| 2017-08-14 09:33|| Front Page Top

#6 The cities are largely run by Democrats or lefties and so they have become the battlegrounds of the left. Seldom do you find these conflicts in Podunk, USA. Occupy Wallstreet, BLM, and AntiFa have all stirred up things in the larger cities. I typed in "jobs for community organizers" just to see what came up. It seems to be a cottage industry with fairly good pay--definitely above minimum wages. I'd bet, these jobs attract many who don't really give a sh!t about ideology right or left.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-14 09:56|| 2017-08-14 09:56|| Front Page Top

#7 If i were a member of the alt-right or KKK or whatever I'd plan dozens of rallies. Get the permits, then wait for the anitfa and such to buy up plane tickets, drive to the location ready for battle, book hotels and such. Then cancel the rally for whatever reason and laugh at all the opposition pissing away so much money. Then repeat as often as it works.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-08-14 10:30|| 2017-08-14 10:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Until our leadership in DC decide to act like civil parents and leader we will continue to live the lord of the flies life. The path ahead is clear, the lead by example and we stop this craziness, or their bad example leads us to destruction....

Posted by 49 Pan 2017-08-14 10:38|| 2017-08-14 10:38|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm reminded of two separate rallies Trump held last fall in California.

The first was in San Diego where the mayor and police chief devised a plan to keep protesters and Trump supporters strictly away from each other. The rally was peaceful.

The second was in San Jose where the mayor and police chief sat back and let the shit happen and, well, shit happens. The protesters attacked Trump supporters with eggs and fists.

I tried to tell my family that when you go out looking for trouble it's usually not hard to find. The only problem is you might get more than you bargained for. Then the rest of us have to hear about it ad nauseam everywhere we go. I'm really sick of hearing about it already.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-08-14 11:30|| 2017-08-14 11:30|| Front Page Top

#10 Which raises the question: Were the mayor and police chief in Charlottesville really that stupid or did they want violence, which is a whole other level of stupid. Do we want civil war in this country or do we want cooler heads to prevail? I don't think the people who want war understand what that means.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-08-14 11:36|| 2017-08-14 11:36|| Front Page Top

#11 I heard that the Mayor invited AntiFa - much like the Mayor of Berkley (an active antifa terrorist) did before. The precedence has been set. We need to start holding those mayors accountable for their actions.

Posted by CrazyFool 2017-08-14 11:58|| 2017-08-14 11:58|| Front Page Top

#12 If you're disgusted with the Left, vote accordingly. Get up off your deathbed and vote. The Donks already have the dead vote

Posted by Frank G on the Road 2017-08-14 11:59|| 2017-08-14 11:59|| Front Page Top

#13 Ron White: "I didn't know how many it would take to kick my ass, but I know how many they were gonna use."

Posted by Skidmark 2017-08-14 12:09|| 2017-08-14 12:09|| Front Page Top

#14 Vote hell, they don't accept a democratically voted in president or anything else that they don't agree with. They are bullies, sometimes bullies need to be hit in the mouth.

Posted by chris 2017-08-14 21:45|| 2017-08-14 21:45|| Front Page Top

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