Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo — Page 707

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

My point was that it sounds like a mechanism for squashing all dissenting debate. The very act of discussing a change to a law could be labeled “promoting” illegal activity, and all involved with running the forum where the discussion took place could be criminally charged. That sounds rather patently un-American to me. A dangerous precedent.

It’s dangerous but there have been other things similar to this done to attempt to police the internet. It is usually done under the guise of fighting sexual exploitation (e.g. human trafficking or child pornography) but in reality doesn’t combat that issue and only serves to threaten people that are not guilty of those crimes.

moviefreakedmind said:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ted-nugent-parkland-survivors-mushy-brained-children-article-1.3907005?utm_content=bufferd628d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw

I feel like anyone reporting what Ted Nugent says as though it has any relevance in the world is doing a disservice to both sides of the debate.

Tyrphanax said:

moviefreakedmind said:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ted-nugent-parkland-survivors-mushy-brained-children-article-1.3907005?utm_content=bufferd628d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw

I feel like anyone reporting what Ted Nugent says as though it has any relevance in the world is doing a disservice to both sides of the debate.

He’s an NRA board member.

My point stands.

Not really. The NRA is a major voice in this debate, like it or not, and Nugent is one of their most notorious associates.

Sure but his being a nutjob and the NRA not denouncing his nutjobbity doesn’t really have any bearing on weather or not guns are good or bad, it just strikes me as more polarization for polarization’s sake. That was the crux of my point, there.

Oh believe me, I’m no NRA fan in any sense of the word.

Tyrphanax said:

Sure but his being a nutjob and the NRA not denouncing his nutjobbity doesn’t really have any bearing on weather or not guns are good or bad, it just strikes me as more polarization for polarization’s sake. That was the crux of my point, there.

It’s comparable to how the Trump campaign refused to denounce David Duke or the alt-right. I think it’s worth mentioning.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/04/01/donald-trump-tweets-easter-deal-dreamers-dead-vandalism-golf-course/476584002/

Quick reminder of how Trump is most certainly NOT better than LBJ.

Yeah, I don’t remember that ever being in his platform.

“Platform” should’ve had almost a billion more quotation marks around it.

This might have been brought up already, but it bears repeating:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWLjYJ4BzvI

^ Is he practicing being frozen in carbonite?

This is a (mostly) great article exposing right-wing hack and self-help author Jordan Peterson. It has some stupid stuff in it like attributing Peterson’s fanbase to “white male privilege being under attack” when I think that’s giving them too much credit, I think they’re probably just socially inept desperate for some kind of intellectual authority to agree with their politics. Overall though it’s great.

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and-fascist-mysticism/

Jordan Peterson’s only response to it was “I’d slap you.” What a joke this man is.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/03/20/jordan-peterson-slams-left-wing-academic-who-called-him-fascist-id-slap.html

ChainsawAsh said:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/02/598820472/trump-official-wants-to-put-tight-leash-on-consumer-watchdog-agency

If they’re going to actually follow through with this, then they might as well just get rid of the agency altogether.

Yet another assault on our freedoms from the current regime.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/02/politics/justin-muzinich-treasury-department/index.html?sr=fbCNNp040218justin-muzinich-treasury-department0618PMStory&CNNPolitics=fb

More terrible decisions.

Republican admits his party “hates poor people.”

http://www.newsweek.com/republicans-hate-poor-people-colorado-gop-group-apologizes-social-media-post-868290

I appreciate the honesty.