Politicians are grudgingly admitting that there may be such a thing as right wing terrorism.
Looks like we have found their red line. If you shoot a popular conservative politician in the head in his own front yard, then you no longer qualify for concerned citizen status.
absolutely nobody:
the cops:
âHEY WE ARRESTED A LEFTIST WHO WE KINDA THINK WAS MAYBE AT A PRIDE ACTING AS A BODYGUARD FOR LGBTQ FOLK IN BREACH OF PAROLE EVEN THOUGH HIS COLLECTIVE SAID HE WAS AT HOME. ALSO WE ARENâT GOING TO CHARGE THE NAZIS.â
I am so fucking sick and tired of these assholes co-opting European and Pagan imagery. Any asshole named âVandeweideâ should know better.
Heâs the kind of guy my grandparents would have been pointing guns at when they worked at the prison for Quislings after the war.
And we have a confession.
Imagine that! Someone who identifies with a far right, violent ideology commits an act of violence! Who would of thunk it? /s
This is horrible, though.
Pretty much.
Serve and protect only applies to the ârightâ people
A cop, a Nazi and a Klansman walk into a bar.
The barman says, âwhat can I get you, sir?â
Thread:
save your neighborhood. âcentristsâ are just fascists in disguise.
The Atlantic is really getting polluted.
Huh, I never thought about how in America there is no reason for the word âAtlanticâ to have the same conservative connotations that it has here.
What connotations does âAtlanticâ have in Germany, and why?
The word is part of all kinds of figures of speech related to the relationship with the United States. And in post-war holding (certain aspects of) America up as a role model and following its lead are mainstream conservative things.
So if found a German publication called Der Atlantik without a boat on the cover, I would fully expect it to contain opinion pieces explaining how this country would be a better place if we privatized everything that is left to privatize and dismantled the welfare state. And perhaps we could bomb Iraq at least a little bit. Not because of anything they did, but because it would be impolite to America not to.
And it would be owned by a coalition of German first-families who all made their dough in arms manufacturing.
a rebuttal of sorts:
One of the reasons federal civil-rights protections for queer people have been so difficult to enact is that 80 percent of Americans think they already have them. This is partially because mostâ72 percentâthink it should be the rule, but also because laws against discrimination would seem a logical precursor to the legalization of same-sex marriage.
Whatâs more, the media have been too busy dissecting Trumpâs every tweet-storm and tirade to take note of his administrationâs systematic attacks on the LGBTQ community. When the Trump administration rolled back LGBTQ rights across the federal government in May, most of the major TV networksâNBC, CBS, ABC, and MSNBCâignored the stories completely, according to an investigation by liberal press watchdog Media Matters. CNN and Fox News allocated a meager eleven minutes. CNN included a single voice from the communityâa trans person talking about a recent Gillette commercialâin its six segments on the Trump rollback. Foxâs coverage featured Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, who said that departmentâs rule allowing homeless shelters to reject transgender people was âbeing fair to everyone.â
Kirchick includes this line in his Atlantic piece.
From a legal standpoint, the movement has achieved nearly everything it needs for gay people to prosper as equal citizens. Instead of fighting this pointless war over wedding cakes, it should declare unilateral victory.â
From a legal standpoint, many of those victories rest on little more than the continued good will of the courts, and the administrative agencies. and both of those bodies seem to be in less than friendly hands. These victories may only be said to be truly won when peace treaties are signed.
Exactly. Technically, Roe v. Wade is still the law of the land. See how well thatâs working?
The Weimar Republic had one of the most open and vibrant Queer communities in Europe. Temporarily.