And, for some literal Nazis, a thread:
ugh, found out today (well, received 100% confirmation anyway) that one of my oldest friends supports these insurrectionist nazi assholes, and now i have to lose a friend. long ago we just made a mutual agreement to never discuss politics, because we knew we differed. i just didnāt realize in the ensuing years HOW different weād become. he sounds exactly like any of the people in the videos from yesterday that youāve seenā¦ āthey are patriots, defending democracy!ā etc. ā he even said that the BLM protests were worse because yesterday didnāt end with the building on fire. i canāt even. so i said, āwell, then we are done. have a nice life, cya.ā ā i can tell heās too far gone to even try and pull him back towards reason. itās sad.
I have cut off friendship with two people in the last several years due to this kind of thing.
Alas half my family is also delusional.
My sister and I are in agreement that at least my oldest brother died before weād have to publically disavow him.
He lived in Salem,OR and Iām sure he would have been up to something.
pretty sure most of my family are sane, but thereās a few i wonder about (one lives in florida now, go figure). itās just staggering to me how once decent individuals can fall prey to such insane thinking. itās like a virus, or something. ugh.
Itās just my side (waspy background); fortunately on my wifeās side (non-wasp) they are pretty much all sane.
And now theyāre cop-killers; so much for law-and-order.
A year or two ago I caught up with an old friend from school, who had been my first roommate and who Iād gone through some rough times with all those years ago. We lived in the south, in a relatively progressive area (due to the city), but still we had far more than our share of right-wingers. It was Republican country, redneck territory, and their side of things is what you always heard and what Iād mostly grown up believing.
But this girl was wild - beads in her braids, hitchhiking to hippie festivals in other states wild. After we got evicted from our apartment, we spent a summer staying with first one of the hippie groups that she met and then another. Once or twice a week weād break out the really big pots and cook food for the homeless for the Food Not Bombs meals. Also hung out at an anarchist house with a bunch of punks. She was the most far left-wing person Iād ever met.
But we went our separate ways when I decided to get stable, get a job, become an adult, and she didnāt want to.
A year or two ago, when we reconnected, I saw that she was posting right-wing stuff and thought, ok, so sheās become right-wing which is really weird, but Iāve become quite far left of where I was back then and after all itās still her. But then she turned out to be a huge loyal Trump fan, so after awhile I unfollowed her on Facebook. Now sheās gone full wingnut conspiracy theorist spreading the stuff about how it was actually Antifa that stormed the Capitol and COVID is a hoax and all that. Unfriended.
I prefer to keep my memories of her as I knew her way back then untarnished, and just pretend I never saw how sheās turned out.
Not Mother Jones, etc.: Time magazine, a favorite of everyoneās grandparents, is pulling no punches.
White supremacy is so entrenched into so many cultures, and has been for a looooooooong time (Aryans vs. Dravidians), probably predates recorded history.
BTW, having read āThe Clan of the Cave Bearā and two of its sequels make me think Jean Auel subscribed to such beliefs.
You know how I feel about violence against the violent. But I feel pushed to the brink. Itās probably a GOOD thing I have no money because Iād probably use it to do something to satisfy my growing rage that would undoubtedly get me into trouble.
Like becoming an assassin.
White supremacist philologists, historians, classicists and anthropologists promulgated theories that confirmed their existing prejudices.
thatās where i am at right now. i remember the good times we had together, but i canāt engage or even muster enough energy to try to pull him back from the deep pit of crazy heās gotten himself into.
Maggie Koerth and some other guy.
I donāt know the full details, but one proposal, the COUP ACT, is supposed to challenge white supremacist influence in federal police forces, instead of relying on the existing forces and adding more criminal penalties.
Recorded in 1996.
