Heh easy for that special snowflake to say. People like him won’t be the ones fighting and dying in an ugly ground North Korean ground campaign.
Not to mention ignoring South Korea’s concerns about the bellicose rhetoric considering its people will be the ones to suffer the most if a war on the Korean Peninsula restarts(The Korean War never officially ended. What we’ve had has been a decades-long Armistice).
No doubt, the fact that North Korea has God knows how many pre-sighted artillery pieces, rocket batteries, etc capable of hitting Seoul from the DMZ and throwing the global economy into panic is to me a far larger threat than their nukes ever will be.
Seoul, with close to 10 million people, is merely 35 miles from the DMZ.
A member of the vaunted self-proclaimed “Master race” crying over finding there’s a warrant for his arrest from actions at Charlotteville:
http://uproxx.com/news/white-supremacist-chris-cantwell-cries-warrant/
Special snowflake, much?
^ He’s the one highlighted in that Vice video that @scout59 linked to in post #265.
You know what they say about Karma.
Also, if anyone is passing around the following photograph of a supposed antifa protestor beating up a police officer as part of the narrative “all sides are equally to blame”, it’s false as it’s actually a digitally altered photograph from a 2009 protest in Greece.
http://www.snopes.com/antifa-member-photographed-beating-police-officer/?utm_source=fbsnopesvideo
It doesn’t take long to see that this is NOT happening in the US: just take a look at the traffic sign in the right corner of the photo… it is EU.
This youtube is an interview with one of the white supremacist marchers who says he is “barely” a white supremacist and only came for the “fun” because he likes being obnoxious. Didn’t look like he was having fun.
And these guys represent supposedly the superior race/genetics that needs protecting?! 8-| :-& ~:>
“ucb: The FRC says right on its own web page that it advocates terminating the rights of lesbian/gay people to get married.”
No, your link actually does not say that this organization advocates “termination of rights”.
It never recognized such a right in the first place, (nor did the law until a couple of years ago). I’m not arguing in favor of the FRC, but merely stating its position as I see it.
A Charlottesville rabbi writes about his experiences Saturday morning. Moderators I am hoping this is ok to post because it is a blog but it is through an organization, not a personal website.
"…For half an hour, three men dressed in fatigues and armed with semi-automatic rifles stood across the street from the temple. Had they tried to enter, I don’t know what I could have done to stop them, but I couldn’t take my eyes off them, either. Perhaps the presence of our armed guard deterred them. Perhaps their presence was just a coincidence, and I’m paranoid. I don’t know.
Several times, parades of Nazis passed our building, shouting, “There’s the synagogue!” followed by chants of “Seig Heil” and other anti-Semitic language. Some carried flags with swastikas and other Nazi symbols…"
Later they removed the Torah in case the synagog was burned.
One of “the very fine people.”
"katliamom:
I’ve always wondered how I would have behaved in Berlin in the 30’s. Having lost relatives to Nazis, having had my family’s home and businesses decimated in Nazi bombings – and likewise having had some relatives accused in court of collaborating/doing business with Germans during the war – these are questions that are fairly central to my identity.
I would like to know that I would have protested against Nazi ideology before it got to… well, the level it got to!"
I think we all hope we certainly would have objected or hidden people. I know I would.
That said, we are nowhere near Nazi Germany political environment. You have what, maybe a hundred people marching, in a country of 326 million?
When your neighbors start disappearing, it is time to do something. This kind of thing should simply be ignored, not escalated with counter-screaming and violence, in my opinion.
The time to act is well before the neighbors start disappearing!
Back to college related talk-
If white polo shirts is on its way to being a supremacist signal, check through your sons’ clothes and make sure they don’t take one to school!
Brown shirts may not be the best idea either.
"Garland: I’d like to point out that conflating “blocking roads” and violence is a really dubious rhetorical spin. Blocking roads is a standard direct action tactic. The non-violent Civil Rights movement led by MLK, Jr used direct action to get attention the cause, including blocking roadways and bridges. It is this very topic that the passage of King’s I quoted upthread is about.
Were the Movement, and King, wrong to use such tactics? "
MLK was strictly NON-violent. That’s not what we have today. Today we have idiots blocking roads and damaging cars and screaming at people and sometimes dragging them out of cars for extended periods of time. Don’t EVEN begin to compare this nonsense.
If a family member can’t get to the hospital or even to work, your protest suddenly becomes irrelevant.
Part of the point of holding and participating in the counter-demonstrations IS to prevent the rise of the “Nazi Germany political environment”.
One of the major issues most Germans of that period had and most current Germans are still reflecting on is how so many of them were “Good Germans” who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.
And contrary to popular belief and post-war German narratives, it turned out most Germans did know of the Holocaust according to groundbreaking historical research reported back in 2001: