Random political thought thread.

[DiscoBiscuit]

The internet made it possible for a generation of Will Huntings to get a fabulous education without ever stepping foot in ivied halls.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Being mocked with the tenants of your religion isn't fun, is it?

I would surely know on that front.

 

[The Cat]

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

You don't get to create the modern global trade system with God's own navy after WWII, enjoy the fruits of that system for 50 yrs watching it lift the world out of poverty, then suffer a MAINLAND attack on civilians as bad as pearl harbor and move forward unbroken

 

[ceecee]

‘A white nationalist pyramid scheme’: how Patriot Front recruits young members

The rightwing group’s workings resemble a media production company more than a classic neo-Nazi group, researchers say

www.theguardian.com

 

[Lexicon]

‘A white nationalist pyramid scheme’: how Patriot Front recruits young members

The rightwing group’s workings resemble a media production company more than a classic neo-Nazi group, researchers say

www.theguardian.com

Those socially impotent cultists love to drape seemingly innocuous banners on overpasses, they do it around New England (where I am) a lot. Things like, “RECLAIM AMERICA [with a link to their website in tinier print below]” or, “REJECT POISON [with a drawing of a weed plant].” So any random person driving past can go, “Say... I sure do like America, and golly, I think drugs are bad... I’m gonna check them out!” It’s such an underhanded way to attract people to your white supremacist site.
It’s also really unsafe if that crap flies off & across the windshields of cars on the highway, but that’s the least of my concerns.

Their social media is as pathetic as it is disturbing.



They put up similar stickers on street signs (as mentioned in the article). They’ve started hiding razors under them to injure those who remove their trash, just a heads-up to anyone else who takes this stuff down when you see it. I don’t know if that is just happening in my area (people I know/trust IRL have encountered this firsthand. no pun intended, for once) or if they’re doing it everywhere, but err on the side of caution.

They were formerly known as Vanguard, but changed their name to distance themselves from their member who murdered Heather Heyer (& injured many others) at the Unite The Right Rally/protests in Charlottesville, VA in 2017. I’m glad the article points this out, so more people are aware of that kind of affiliation, though I guess it may also serve to recruit more closeted (literal) Hitler-worshippers to their ‘cause.’ They openly supported her murder on their discord back then, & mocked her grieving family.

They continue to support that kind of mass violence in secret, presently. I’ve personally spent time perusing some of their communities before, out of morbid curiosity, though I won’t link them here/give them the traffic.



Other gems outside of supporting home-grown terrorism, murder, racism, anti-semitism (& all manner of bonkers Jews Control Everything conspiracy “theories”) & targeting LGBTQ people (who they believe are abominations & an affront to their [bizarre interpretation of a] Christian God & nature), include comments like, “unmarried women should be legally allowed to get raped.” That is a verbatim statement “liked” by many. And the support of child marriage (girls younger than 12 in some cases). And of course, in their ideal world, women are property without rights, as their sole purpose in life is essentially to be birthing cows to perpetuate their race, & nothing else.

What a glorious white utopia.





There’s a similar, smaller group popping up around here with the same rhetoric & vandalism: NSC-131. They are more out-and-proud nazis than Patriot Front, but their credo is nearly identical. One of theirs was arrested last year for having a nice pile of child porn, so that tells you what kind of broken people these groups attract.

They like to do practice drills with rifles a lot in southern VT & in state forests in MA & NH. I can’t imagine people this stunted, emotionally unstable, & ignorant being able to consistently handle a firearm properly/safely. I’ve urged friends IRL to steer very clear of them whenever either of these groups hold mass demonstrations in my area. I fully expect them to open fire sometime in retroactive “self defense” & hit not one, but multiple bystanders out of sheer incompetence, if nothing else.



They are all vile cowards, & have lost their humanity, if they’d ever developed any to begin with.

 

[The Cat]

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

The spice must flow!

 

[yeghor]

Being mocked with the tenants of your religion isn't fun, is it?

I would surely know on that front.

Radical feminism and wokeism bear semblance to institutionalized religion.

 

[yeghor]

You don't get to create the modern global trade system with God's own navy after WWII, enjoy the fruits of that system for 50 yrs watching it lift the world out of poverty, then suffer a MAINLAND attack on civilians as bad as pearl harbor and move forward unbroken

I think you are giving too much credit to US.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

I think you are giving too much credit to US.

Naaaww. We we the only power on its feet capable of doing anything after Hitler died.

 

[yeghor]

Naaaww. We we the only power on its feet capable of doing anything after Hitler died.

Maybe for 20 years or so, not 50. Other WWII participants have caught up with US after that.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Have they?

 

[yeghor]

Have they?

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Don't you think there's something wrong with US having to spend so much more tax payer money on its military? Especially when considering its only neighbours are Canada, Mexico and Cuba?

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Don't you think there's something wrong with US having to spend so much more tax payer money on its military? Especially when considering its only neighbours are Canada, Mexico and Cuba?

Yea I think there's something wrong. US subsidizing European security is highway robbery against the US taxpayer.

 

[yeghor]

Yea I think there's something wrong. US subsidizing European security is highway robbery against the US taxpayer.

UK, Italy, Germany and France seem to be spending around 40 to 50 billion USD each in average, i.e. around 650 USD per capita. US population is around 330 million, so US military spending on a comparable level should cost 330 mio x 650 = 215 billion USD.

That means US is overspending about 500 billion USD of taxpayer money every year to police the world, which eventually goes to military personnel, contractors and arms manufacturers. Lucrative business I would say.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

UK, Italy, Germany and France seem to be spending around 40 to 50 billion USD each in average, i.e. around 650 USD per capita. US population is around 330 million, so US military spending on a comparable level should cost 330 mio x 650 = 215 billion USD.

That means US is overspending about 500 billion USD of taxpayer money every year to police the world, which eventually goes to military personnel, contractors and arms manufacturers. Lucrative business I would say.

Lol. Show me how to have a defense industry without defense contractors and I'll show you a perfect system.

The reason that the why does US have to spend so much on its military debate is so dumb is that we spend it to keep trade going with our navy. That spending kept the world spinning.

We've just started to pull back in the last 5 years, and look at the destabilization, Ukraine invaded twice in the last 8 years.

Assume no one in the world had a navy except one guy who has a missile boat destroyer that he can run by himself.

That one guy can shut down all of the middle easts ability to ship oil by sea by blocking the strait of Hormuz. If he then did that for 6 months, the entire world would be at war over the lack of oil.

Without a US naval presence, its blindingly easy to interrupt global trade.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

 

[yeghor]

Lol. Show me how to have a defense industry without defense contractors and I'll show you a perfect system.

The reason that the why does US have to spend so much on its military debate is so dumb is that we spend it to keep trade going with our navy. That spending kept the world spinning.

We've just started to pull back in the last 5 years, and look at the destabilization, Ukraine invaded twice in the last 8 years.

Assume no one in the world had a navy except one guy who has a missile boat destroyer that he can run by himself.

That one guy can shut down all of the middle easts ability to ship oil by sea by blocking the strait of Hormuz. If he then did that for 6 months, the entire world would be at war over the lack of oil.

Without a US naval presence, its blindingly easy to interrupt global trade.

Sounds like an excuse to me to justify high budgetry spending on a needlessly overgrown military to keep hegemony over vital resources/territories around the globe.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Sounds like an excuse to me to justify high budgetry spending on a needlessly overgrown military to keep hegemony over vital resources/territories around the globe.

It's easy to be an NFL quarterback from your couch, and its easy to think that having never studied international relations.