See also: Americanised copies of TV and movies.
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It is now being reported, but this has the full text of the letter.
WARNING: CONTAINS DISTURBING LANGUAGE AND THREATS.
Edited to add warning and hide potentially triggering material. Apologies for doing it late.
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Goddamn remakes fuck up so many good thingsâŠ
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Our political reality is a trigger. This is kkk.
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Iâve heard the remake was bad. So Iâve never seen it so not to disturb the memory of the original-- which Iâve only seen once. Because once I know the ending, whatâs the point?
Aagh-- film criticism is not my forté.
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Letâs just say the ending underwent âAmerican improvementâ and resulted in a happy ending, instead of the original ending, which REALLY RUINED THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE ORIGINAL STORY.
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In Sundays New York Times Magazine, thereâs a longish article on right wing extremism.
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Note: site hijacks page down and imposes smooth scrolling.
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or maybe fourteen
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Thatâs not supported by the articleâs text.
At 38, Johnson spoke with the earnestness of an Eagle Scout, which he was. He was also a registered Republican who grew up in a small Mormon community in rural Virginia where millennialism, or end-times theology, was a core concept. During the 1980s, when Johnson was still in high school, far-right separatists took to the Ozarks or to strongholds in rural Idaho, where they stockpiled food and weapons and conducted paramilitary training in preparation for the biblical âlast days.â Some, like the Aryan Nations, whose members embraced the racist Christian Identity philosophy, spawned domestic terror cells like the Order, which waged a brutal campaign of bombings, armed robberies and murder, culminating with the June 1984 assassination of Alan Berg, the prominent Jewish radio talk-show host who frequently spoke of flushing out the latent anti-Semitism in Denverâs conservative community.
Years of law-enforcement investigation and infiltration of right-wing terror groups commenced, and by the early 1990s, many of the movementâs most violent members were dead or in jail. But the government standoffs at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and Waco, Tex., energized a new generation of separatists, Patriot militias â the forerunners of todayâs antigovernment militia groups â as well as individuals like Timothy McVeigh, who made his way through various antigovernment and racist ideologies and organizations under the radar of law enforcement, before the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
The deaths of 168 people, including 19 children, at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building brought the threat of domestic terrorism by white Americans into stark relief. In the aftermath, the F.B.I. added many more agents to work domestic terrorism cases, and Attorney General Janet Reno created a special task force to investigate domestic terrorism. But by the end of 2001, the dominant business of the F.B.I., as well as every other federal law enforcement body, was international terrorism. Years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the supposed threat posed by Al Qaeda and other Muslim groups continued to drive policy, notably at the Department of Homeland Security, which Johnson, who started his career in Army intelligence, joined in 2005. At the time, he later recalled, he was the only analyst exclusively working on non-Islamic domestic threats. By 2007, he had put together a small team of analysts who began to scour extremist websites and message boards. What they found alarmed them.
You could argue that the reporter is overstating the FBIâs interest in combatting right wing terrorism, but the article draws a contrast between things as they are now, and things as they were twenty years ago.
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Stupid question, but how can fascists, and others calling for police states, be âanti-governmentâ? Sure they can be anti-governance if they want to keep the government beyond accountability.
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I think itâs just rhetoric they use to recruit people, they start with a strong anti-state/government message (which resonates with many people), and then they slowly shift to an idea that the reason they hate the government is that itâs run by Jews, communists, women, and homosexuals (which, of course not, but thatâs how they see it).
In general, I think the problem for them is that they see the âwrongâ people being in charge and if the ârightâ people were in charge, things would be okay⊠They only trust an authoritarian strongman, not a democratically elected government made up of and reflecting all aspects of our more multicultural society. itâs the erosion of their own privilege which upsets them so, meaning theyâd be willing to embrace an authoritarian government, if only the âproperâ world is reinstated.
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In other words, the âright governmentâ is one that goes after everyone else, and leaves them to do what they want, including what they want to do to everyone else.
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The law applies to everyone else, not them.
Iâd say it was a Raskolnikov mindset, but he had a conscience and confessed in the end.
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But they donât have an anti-government message. They want the government to wage wars, keep out immigrants/refugees, put down minorities, etc.
So why does the press keep calling them âanti-governmentâ?
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This is the second time Iâve seen that video, and I still donât think I believe it.
The context is pretty explicit that each âThatâ is a clause dependent on the initial âWe hold these truths to be self-evident.â Theyâre clearly a continuation of the list of self-evident truths from the first part of the sentence, whether there is an em-dash or a full stop between âlife liberty and happinessâ and âthat to secure these rights.â I mean, if you are speaking aloud, the verbal pause youâd add for an em-dash is exactly that which youâd add for a full stop. And the succeeding clauses make absolutely no sense unless considered to be a continuation of a list: otherwise, theyâre dependent clauses that arenât linked to an independent clause.
Nor is quoting that first part out-of-context, and ending it with a full stop, necessarily incorrect in English: if youâve embedded a quote within a larger sentence, and that quote ends the sentence, youâd expect the quote to end in a full stop: look at the first sentence of the preceding paragraph of this comment.
Anyone who reads that whole second paragraph of the Declaration understands that that list doesnât end until âmost likely to effect their safety and happiness.â If theyâre quoting out of context and ignoring a later part of the list that would contradict their point, itâs either deliberately, or because the first dependent clause is the only part of that list that theyâre familiar with.
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