Breitbart MUST be destroyed.

Giz said:
Trump is a morally deplorable wretch. However, he has not done anything to appreciably make the USA fascist or destroy the constitution or democracy.
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He's not succeeding but he is trying and talking. He implemented corporate advisory boards. He's suggested the US should try a dictatorship more than once. He's attempted to undermine confidence in elections by lying about voter fraud. He's inflamed racism.

And he leads a party where half the membership could support postponing elections.
 
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Calling attention to concentration camps is not an invocation of Nazism. Such camps are not unique to Hitler and co. The US operated a concentration camp for Americans of Japanese descent during WWII.
 
Giz said:
I was responding to JoeMorgue, when he said:
"Jesus ******* Christ do we have to wait until the mass shootings start or are we gonna get "Well technically they aren't using Lugers..." for that too? "
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My mistake.


Giz said:
I think that the term Concentration Camp is a deliberate attempt to reference Nazism
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Or, it could be a reference to concentration camps which are, in themselves, a bad thing.


Giz said:
Trump is a morally deplorable wretch. However, he has not done anything to appreciably make the USA fascist or destroy the constitution or democracy.
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  • Authoritarianism.
  • Focus on national purity/vilifying a powerless minority in society
  • Obstruction of justice.
  • Vilifying the free press.
  • Defying the separation of powers by ignoring and obstructing Congressional oversight.
And none of these are one-offs. Can you say that Trump is not doing these things?
 
Giz said:
I think that the term Concentration Camp is a deliberate attempt to reference Nazism
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I will go against the grain and agree with you here. AOC was not hoping that her supporters would read her tweets and think about the Boer War or Japanese Internment. The words were chosen deliberately for effect.

Giz said:
Which is a ridiculous comparison (unless just about every government in the world are Nazis... which seems to devalue the term)
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...and here you can tell us about the camps that "just about every government in the world" has constructed to hold their would-be asylum seekers. I expect you to name at least 180 countries. Use spoiler tags if your post gets too long.


ETA - holy crap, I just realized what thread I am posting in. Pour some out for NoahFence and Andrew Brietbart.
 
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Giz said:
Really? “Concentration camps” is not a dog whistle?
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I only care whether it's accurate, and it is.

Nobody said they were extermination camps, either. Is that a hidden message? Stop twisting yourself into salted pretzels to avoid agreeing with liberals on something.
 
Giz said:
Mass hysteria has infected a supposedly skeptical forum.

Trump isn’t going to order mass shootings. The USA is not in an emergency. This is akin to the right wing nuts who thought Obama was going to turn the USA into a communist dictatorship.
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Thank you.
 
Yeah, great. Trump isn’t Hitler, but that doesn’t mean that the things that Trump is actually doing aren’t really bad things that resemble early stage fascism.

The comparison to Obama and communism isn’t even close to equivalent. Arguably, Obama’s biggest achievement was passing the ACA which, at its core, utilized privately owned insurance companies in what was intended to be a marketplace venue. The closest incident you could find of communism is when the government took over the running of General Motors, rather than let it go out of business. However, that was only a temporary situation and the company was quickly back in non-government ownership.

Trump’s actions, words, and policies, on the other hand, edges towards fascism and has continually done so since before the election. Yes, that should be concerning.
 
Giz said:
Mass hysteria has infected a supposedly skeptical forum.



Trump isn’t going to order mass shootings. The USA is not in an emergency. This is akin to the right wing nuts who thought Obama was going to turn the USA into a communist dictatorship.
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The president of the USA disagrees with your assessment that the USA is not in an emergency.
 
Upchurch said:
  • Authoritarianism.
  • Focus on national purity/vilifying a powerless minority in society
  • Obstruction of justice.
  • Vilifying the free press.
  • Defying the separation of powers by ignoring and obstructing Congressional oversight.
And none of these are one-offs. Can you say that Trump is not doing these things?
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I would add crapping on the emoluments clause of the Constitution.

Spending over a quarter of his time in Trump owned properties where he charges the USSS for rooms and food, scheduling meetings with foreign leaders at Trump properties, doing business with the Saudis and then siding with the Saudis over US intelligence agencies (and Jared giving classified info to the Saudis), sending over 100 tweets referencing one or more of his properties, etc, etc, etc.​

Literally telling people to ignore what they read and believe only what he says.

You’ve already mentioned defying separation of powers, but it applies to the judicial branch, as well. After SCOTUS said no to the citizenship question the president insisted that he would do it anyway (at least until the adults in the room told him he could not do that).

Giving Jared a top secret security clearance after he left business dealings off his repeated applications. (He has since had his security clearance pulled.)
 
BrooklynBaby said:
Breitbart is one of the very few sources of non-fake news in this country.
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That might be true if you just mean the opposite of what Donnie calls "fake news" -- i.e. what our descendants will call "history" -- in which case it's definitely not a compliment.
 
WilliamSeger said:
That might be true if you just mean the opposite of what Donnie calls "fake news" -- i.e. what our descendants will call "history" -- in which case it's definitely not a compliment.
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The reason so many leftists were wrong about Zimmerman, Ferguson, Trump/Russia, "the Youtube video", and so many other issues of great importance is because they watched and read fake news like NYT and WaPo. Why so many people think they can be "skeptics" while consuming nothing but Democrat Party controlled propaganda and outright lies is very puzzling. Don't you guys ever get tired of being wrong?
 
BrooklynBaby said:
The reason so many leftists were wrong about Zimmerman, Ferguson, Trump/Russia, "the Youtube video", and so many other issues of great importance is because they watched and read fake news like NYT and WaPo. Why so many people think they can be "skeptics" while consuming nothing but Democrat Party controlled propaganda and outright lies is very puzzling. Don't you guys ever get tired of being wrong?
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BrooklynBaby said:
The reason so many leftists were wrong about Zimmerman, Ferguson, Trump/Russia, "the Youtube video", and so many other issues of great importance is because they watched and read fake news like NYT and WaPo.
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I’m not entirely sure I want to unpack this, but what do you think “leftists” got wrong in all that?

And, to cut to the chase, do you understand the difference between meeting a legal burden and establishing what actually occurred in a situation? Because, like most conservatives on the board in regards to some of these cases, I’m guessing not.
 
BrooklynBaby said:
The reason so many leftists were wrong about Zimmerman...
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George Zimmerman
Other encounters with law enforcement

Zimmerman has had other encounters with the law, including two incidents in 2005, five incidents in 2013, and other incidents in following years...

On September 9, 2013, in Lake Mary, police responded to a 911 call by Zimmerman's estranged wife, who reported that Zimmerman had threatened her and her father with a gun and had punched her father in the face...

On November 18, 2013, Zimmerman's girlfriend called the police, alleging that after she had asked Zimmerman to leave her home, he had pointed a shotgun at her and begun breaking her belongings. The police reported that Zimmerman had barricaded himself inside the apartment before they made their way inside and arrested him. He was charged with aggravated assault with a weapon...

On November 9, 2016, Zimmerman was removed from a bar after yelling at a waitress. A deputy on the scene said Zimmerman used a racial slur before he left. Zimmerman stated he intended to sue the Seminole County Sheriff's Office. The deputy claimed that Zimmerman said: "I didn't know you were a ****** lover."
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Cabbage said:
The reason so many conservatives were wrong about Zimmerman is they refuse to pay attention to reality, preferring to instead believe whatever the right wing media machine tells them.
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But, you see, because the "conservative" in question is able to say the exact same thing (dishonestly, but still), we are stuck in a situation where there's no way to tell who really is the party who doesn't pay attention to reality. Of course, this relies on us not paying attention to reality.

And so the dance goes, trolling on, never allowing any honest discussion.

The answer, of course, is to not engage. Talk about, never to. There are few conservatives that warrant discussing with. There are no "conservatives" that do.
 
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Cabbage said:
The reason so many conservatives were wrong about Zimmerman is they refuse to pay attention to reality, preferring to instead believe whatever the right wing media machine tells them.
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My position on this topic with other posters in the past is that a court of law not being able to return a "guilty" verdict is not the same thing as proof that Zimmerman is innocent. There is absolutely zero objective evidence on who attacked whom first and who was acting in self-defense. There were exactly two people who knew exactly how the confrontation was initiated and one of them was dead before he could tell anyone what happened.

Saying that one knows what really happened based on a legal verdict demonstrates a lack of understanding about the nature of legal trial, evidence, and reality.
 
BrooklynBaby said:
The reason so many leftists were wrong about Zimmerman,
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You mean the serial domestic abuser who chased down and murdered a black teenager for clearly stated racist reasons, and who has since been in numerous violent incidents? No, we got that one right, it was white supremacists and reactionaries that got it wrong. And actually, they got it right, until Obama spoke about it, at which point they imagined Trayvon Martin entirely in terms of a century-old racist stereotype known as "the Brute" - a drug-fueled, superpowered, rage-filled mega-****** looking to murder poor white men and rape white women.

Ferguson,
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You mean the town with the brazenly white supremacist police force that attacked an entire community of black people for over a year using military surplus like they were an ISIS front, live and on camera broadcast throughout the entire world? Again, it's clear who got this one wrong - conservatives and white supremacists.

Trump/Russia,
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You mean the very clear siding of Putin for Dolt 45 over Hillary Clinton? Whoo boy, did the right every get this entire election wrong, fooled by garbage on Twitter and Facebook - and now they're whining about how Dolt 45 is hurting *them*, and not just the queers and the darkies.

"the Youtube video"
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You mean...actually, there are billions of Youtube videos, who knows what you mean?

And honestly, given what you've already cited of examples of "leftists" getting things wrong that they actually got right, who even cares what video you're talking about?

and so many other issues of great importance is because they watched and read fake news like NYT and WaPo. Why so many people think they can be "skeptics" while consuming nothing but Democrat Party controlled propaganda and outright lies is very puzzling. Don't you guys ever get tired of being wrong?
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The funny part is that many "leftists" hate the NYT in particular. If anything, far too many of them ended up listening to buffoons like Jimmy Dore or Julien Assange.

But do reactionaries ever grow tired of being ignorant, fear-filled, and consumed with hatred and anger?

Guess not...
 
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BrooklynBaby said:
The reason so many leftists were wrong about Zimmerman, Ferguson, Trump/Russia, "the Youtube video", and so many other issues of great importance is because they watched and read fake news like NYT and WaPo. Why so many people think they can be "skeptics" while consuming nothing but Democrat Party controlled propaganda and outright lies is very puzzling. Don't you guys ever get tired of being wrong?
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I stopped reading right there. Once someone trots out Trump's 'fake news' crap, I know any rational, logical, and intelligent discussion isn't going to happen with that person.
 
BrooklynBaby said:
Breitbart is one of the very few sources of non-fake news in this country.
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Really?!

A factual search reveals numerous failed fact checks by IFCN Fact Checkers. Here are just a few of many as an example:

Breitbart Duped by Fake News (Again) (False)
Following Joe Kennedy’s speech, Breitbart says Fall River, Mass. not built by immigrants (False)
Breitbart gets the wrong Loretta Lynch in Whitewater claim (Pants on Fire)
Did Planned Parenthood ‘Team Up’ With Satanists to Promote Abortion Rights in Missouri? (False)
Trump’s ISIS Conspiracy Theory (False)
Breitbart article baselessly claims a study of past climate invalidates human-caused climate change (False)
Overall, we rate Breitbart Questionable based on extreme right wing bias and publication of numerous false claims.
Breitbart: questionable source (Media Bias/Fact Check)
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Am I the only one who finds Breitbart terribly boring?

It somehow fails to be informative and interesting.

It has that drab 'propaganda' feel. Like a Soviet publication. Serving up the talking points without enthusiasm and avoiding offending the masters.
 
I get the feeling that Breitbart is Steve Bannon sitting in his office alone with an ever increasing pile of empty bottles of Jack.
 
NoahFence said:
The piece of **** that runs Britebart also runs the Trump campaign.

The Trump campaign appears to not be willing to stop until he's destroyed the country. All because of the uppity ****** that destroyed him at the Correspondent's dinner.
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How exactly is Trump destroying this country?
 
jakesteele said:
How exactly is Trump destroying this country?
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A bit off topic. The tl;dr version could be:
  • Tearing down relations with long term allies while cow towing to foreign dictators.
  • Tearing down regulations that help protect Americans both financially and in terms of health and environment.
  • Disregarding US Constitutional checks and balances between the branches of government.
  • Having an administration rife with corruption and crime.
 
Craig4 said:
I get the feeling that Breitbart is Steve Bannon sitting in his office alone with an ever increasing pile of empty bottles of Jack.
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And lots of pills.

Totally legal pills, obviously. Bannon would never do illegal drugs. Those people should be in jail.
 
Upchurch said:
A bit off topic. The tl;dr version could be:
  • Tearing down relations with long term allies while cow towing to foreign dictators.
  • Tearing down regulations that help protect Americans both financially and in terms of health and environment.
  • Disregarding US Constitutional checks and balances between the branches of government.
  • Having an administration rife with corruption and crime.
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-Not having a clue what he's doing
-Firing everybody who does have a clue
 
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