patrick.net

So I was correct. Anyone paying attention should have recognized this twenty years ago

Love for one of you Trumpkins to explain the plan to fix any of these issues. Remember, it's a Republican world, and with a Republican House and Senate, nothing changes. At least with Bernie, he was working towards something, trying to get his people into legislature. Did Trump even give that a thought? Does he even know that's how our government works?

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So how exactly is continuing to vote in all Republicans a solution to these (Republican) created problems?

One good thing came of all this. Donald Trump, with his usual marketing genius, put the term "alt-left" into play. Names have power. Just look at what the Leftist media did with the term "alt-right" to apply it to anyone who may like or agree with the President and then call them all white supremacists. Now we got "alt-left" to seriously abuse until its ingrained into the public consciousness. Pretty soon everyone will know and agree that Antifa and BLM are alt-left and thus violent anarchists. And SJWs will get lumped in because they deserve it and people hate them. And finally the media itself will be labeled alt-left and have no real way of combating that label since it's clearly true.
Then something will happen. Idk what!

Quigley says

One good thing came of all this. Donald Trump, with his usual marketing genius, put the term "alt-left" into play. Names have power. Just look at what the Leftist media did with the term "alt-right" to apply it to anyone who may like or agree with the President and then call them all white supremacists. Now we got "alt-left" to seriously abuse until its ingrained into the public consciousness. Pretty soon everyone will know and agree that Antifa and BLM are alt-left and thus violent anarchists. And SJWs will get lumped in because they deserve it and people hate them. And finally the media itself will be labeled alt-left and have no real way of combating that label since it's clearly true.

Then something will happen. Idk what!

What does AltLeft mean? BLM and Antifa? I'm tipping at least 90% of people have no clue who they are.

Dan8267 says

This is also what Republicans mean every time they say "deregulate". Deregulate means consolidate.

Sometimes. Sometimes deregulate means open an industry to new players. A great example of regulation keeping out competition is Florists and Funeral Homes. The latter is locked up by Service Corp of America, and in many states it's illegal to build and sell coffins unless you are a licensed Funeral Home Operator.

To be a florist in many states you have to pass a board composed of current florists, who judge your arrangements. What justification there is for this I have no idea, nobody died from an ugly flower arrangement.

In fact the propaganda and manipulation of the Funeral Industry is so good, they're the reason we call our Parlors "Living Rooms". We need to take the dead to a special "Funeral Parlor" just for them - and pay money.

TwoScoopsMcGee says

Sometimes. Sometimes deregulate means open an industry to new players.

I think your example is the extremely rare exception that proves the rule.

Republicans never do anything out of principle or kindness. Their motivations are always selfish self-interests.

Indiana Jones says

You know, this is a super-interesting picture for a lot of reasons.

First of all, it was a black Somali Muslim who shot a white woman, and yet the implication, given the recent protests against cops by blacks, is that all cops are racist against blacks!

Second, the top of the image says TURN RIGHT. Lololol, as they say.

Dan8267 says

Republicans never do anything out of principle or kindness. Their motivations are always selfish self-interests.

Oh come on. As if Democrats have some monopoly on virtue?

There are definitely lots of people on both sides who do things out of principle or kindness.

TwoScoopsMcGee says

https://www.yahoo.com/news/single-donald-trump-tweet-just-151644942.html

A single Donald Trump tweet just lost Amazon $6 billion in value

Donald Trump knocked $6 billion off of Amazon before most of the country was awake.

In a tweet sent at 6:12 a.m. EST, Trump claimed Amazon was "doing great damage to tax paying retailers," resulting in the loss of jobs.

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
Amazon is doing great damage to tax paying retailers. Towns, cities and states throughout the U.S. are being hurt - many jobs being lost!
3:12 AM - Aug 16, 2017
25,272 25,272 Replies 14,480 14,480 Retweets 52,804 52,804 likes

That immediately sent Amazon shares down sharply, resulting in a decline of around $6 billion of the company's market capitalization in a matter of minutes.

Sometimes I think Trump is an idiot, but then more often I think he's actually a genius. He's absolutely right about Amazon killing retail across the US, and for double points with one Tweet, he gets to cost Jeff Bezos a few billion, the guy who constantly disparages Trump via his Washington Post.

This was a moment of sheer genius.

I don't really know what should be done about retail, but I do think Amazon has become too monopolistic and should be broken up.

rando says

Dan8267 says

Republicans never do anything out of principle or kindness. Their motivations are always selfish self-interests.

Oh come on. As if Democrats have some monopoly on virtue?

There are definitely lots of people on both sides who do things out of principle or kindness.

You mean like host a free forum supporting the principle of free speech where even ASSHOLES can vent their spleen with every stupid vicious thought that comes to their tiny brains?

Quigley says

rando says

Dan8267 says

Republicans never do anything out of principle or kindness. Their motivations are always selfish self-interests.

Oh come on. As if Democrats have some monopoly on virtue?

There are definitely lots of people on both sides who do things out of principle or kindness.

You mean like host a free forum supporting the principle of free speech where even ASSHOLES can vent their spleen with every stupid vicious thought that comes to their tiny brains?

Is Patrick a Republican now?

I swear I remember him defending Obama for years. Think he said he voted for him too

It's probably a smarter approach; just support your president, either way. Rather than expend so much energy ragging on about how much the other party's president is destroying everything. You can't do much about it anyway. Try and remain optimistic

rando says

First of all, it was a black Somali Muslim who shot a white woman, and yet the implication, given the recent protests against cops by blacks, is that all cops are racist against blacks!

This has more to do with power vs. weakness/disenfranchisement and not so much a racial issue. In comparison with each other, cops are more powerful than poor people. Cops are more powerful than women. Cops are more powerful than ethnic minorities. Cops have backing them up powerful laws, powerful people and powerful weapons. Your ordinary citizen does not. Making this a racial issue is a distraction imho.

Many police departments in America seem to have lost their way. In the past we were told police were there to protect the citizenry, which they did. But now it is shoot to kill with military weapons. Is this what Lucas is suggesting in Star Wars with the 66 Clone Protocol when the storm troopers first fight on the side of the rebels, and all of a sudden they switch sides to fight for the Empire?

www.youtube.com/embed/09n0qd_n4c0

rando says

There are definitely lots of people on both sides who do things out of principle or kindness.

Keep those assholes off Patnet!

TwoScoopsMcGee says

Horrible. He should give a knee-jerk Politically Correct Opinion that satisfies the virtue signalers and pundits immediately. Bad President.

He has never needed facts or caution before, and no American needed anything substantially greater than the clear reporting on Saturday, as to what the response from the President should have been. The majority of the sane public leaders weighed in by Sunday with a firm denouncement of Nazi assholes.

This is not a wedge issue for America. The country is overwhelmingly untied on this, as is evident by the past two days and what is occurring for Mr. Trump.

Who will remain with Trump in the end? Only the loyal butt hurt anti-American 25% hardliners. I think we may look back and see August 15th as the day the shift finally happened.

errc says

Be honest, Trumpcucks. You're praying to God that a Muslin carries out something worse on American soil, so you can score some points

Only thing that could potentially avert Trump's fall at this point. I know Bannon is praying for it.

Indiana Jones says

This has more to do with power vs. weakness/disenfranchisement and not so much a racial issue.

Humanity rose because of natural selection. The practice of deliberately favoring the weak will the our downfall.

Rew says

He has never needed facts or caution before, and no American needed anything substantially greater than the clear reporting on Saturday, as to what the response from the President should have been. The majority of the sane public leaders weighed in by Sunday with a firm denouncement of Nazi assholes.

This is not a wedge issue for America. The country is overwhelmingly untied on this, as is evident by the past two days and what is occurring for Mr. Trump.

Who will remain with Trump in the end? Only the loyal butt hurt anti-American 25% hardliners. I think we may look back and see August 15th as the day the shift finally happened.

Nope.

People saw the Fake News media try to make it all about Nazis, and Trump as the Only Adult In The Room.

They still remember the assassination of Congressmen, the rioting and the inauguration ridiculousness, the smashing of windows, cars, beaten Trump Supporters over the past year. One psychotic nazi kid isn't going to help normalize AltLeft radicals.

I think the media is only making fools of themselves, thinking that everybody forgot all the looting, rioting, burning, and beatings of the past year that were decidedly by the AltLeft.

errc says

a solution to the democrats?

Any one of these would probably be just as good if not better.

American Freedom Party 2010 American Third Position Party
American Solidarity Party 2011 Christian Democratic Party USA
America's Party 2008 America's Independent Party
Black Riders Liberation Party 1996
Christian Liberty Party* 1996 American Heritage Party
Citizens Party of the United States 2004 New American Independent Party
Communist Party USA 1919 Workers Party of America
Workers (Communist) Party of America International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Constitution Party 1992 U.S. Taxpayers' Party
Freedom Socialist Party 1966 Committee for Revolutionary International Regroupment
Green Party of the United States 2001 Association of State Green Parties Global Greens
Humane Party 2009
Independent American Party 1998
Justice Party 2011
Legal Marijuana Now Party 1998
Libertarian Party 1971 International Alliance of Libertarian Parties
Interlibertarians[3]
Modern Whig Party 2007
National Socialist Movement 1974 National Socialist American Workers Freedom Movement World Union of National Socialists
New Black Panther Party 1989
Objectivist Party 2008
Party for Socialism and Liberation 2004
Peace and Freedom Party 1967
Prohibition Party 1869
Reform Party of the United States of America 1995 United We Stand America
Socialist Action 1983 Fourth International
Socialist Alternative 1986 Labor Militant Committee for a Workers' International
Socialist Equality Party 1966 Workers League International Committee of the Fourth International
Socialist Party USA 1973 Debs Caucus
Union for Democratic Socialism
Socialist Labor Party of America 1876 Workingmen's Party (1876–1877)
Socialistic Labor Party (1877–1880s)
Socialist Workers Party 1938 Pathfinder tendency (unofficial)
Traditionalist Workers Party 2015
United States Marijuana Party 2002
United States Pacifist Party 1983
United States Pirate Party 2006 Pirate Parties International (observer)
Unity Party of America 2004
Veterans Party of America 2013
Workers World Party

TwoScoopsMcGee says

People saw the Fake News media try to make it all about Nazis, and Trump as the Only Adult In The Room.

TwoScoopsMcGee says

I think the media is only making fools of themselves, thinking that everybody forgot all the looting, rioting, burning, and beatings of the past year that were decidedly by the AltLeft.

You are in the far minority TwoScoops if you think A) Trump is the adult when he is in a room with anyone over the age of 21 and B) that there is such a thing as an AltLeft that is more violent than the radical hate groups bolstering support for Trump himself.

errc says

TwoScoopsMcGee says

errc says

What were yous doing the past twenty years, to just now realize that the Media is biased?

Why has the "Resistance" forgotten that there is Fake News, and that Mainstream Media is controlled by a handful of Oligarchs? And that the Intel Agencies leak, distort, and tell half-truths to get preferred policies imposed or continued? Starting in 2009 when Obama took office?

Honestly I can't really answer this, I'm not sure what you're talking about. Care to elaborate? Unlike some people, I'll answer any question you want to ask of me, and I'm sure that the answer might be that I don't know. I'm not afraid of that, on the contrary, I'm open to learning something.

Love for one of you Trumpkins to explain the plan to fix any of these issues. Remember, it's a...

Talking about "what if Bernie was president" is a lot like talking about "what if Jeb was president"

Neither party was smart enough to nominate someone who was qualified to be president. So we got stuck with the lesser of two evils.

On another note CNN has always been a left wing propaganda organization posing as news. But this week they abandoned any semblance of impartiality and turned full Goebbels in the anti-Trump propos. Just because he spoke the truth, there was violence on both sides. You can hate racists all you want, but they have a right to their point of view too. Hate for racists is still hate. Someone needs to say it.

Some hate blacks, some hate whites, some hate Christians, some hate Moslems, some hate those who hate. They are all haters.

Don't be a hater. At least Trump said it right: "We have to respect each other," he said. "Ideally we have to love each other."

A good president doesn't bullshit around. And what he said above is no bullshit.

Quigley says

You mean like host a free forum supporting the principle of free speech where even ASSHOLES can vent their spleen with every stupid vicious thought that comes to their tiny brains?

Well, I'm hoping the "uncivil" link will help discourage the stupid vicious thoughts and encourage smarter kinder thoughts. Any other ways I might do that?

errc says

Is Patrick a Republican now?

I swear I remember him defending Obama for years. Think he said he voted for him too

It's probably a smarter approach; just support your president, either way. Rather than expend so much energy ragging on about how much the other party's president is destroying everything. You can't do much about it anyway. Try and remain optimistic

I would not call myself a Republican or a Democrat. I hope to be able to think for myself and choose candidates based on what they are actually proposing.

I did defend Obama from a lot of outright racist slurs, and I did vote for him twice. I was greatly disappointed though. I thought he would be different, but he was not any different, aside from being black. The real low point was when Obama signed the NDAA, allowing indefinite detention of Americans without trial. At that point, I was completely done with Obama. Fucker betrayed the Constitution with that one and we still have that law on the books.

I never supported Bush II because he deliberately started a war for no valid reason, resulting in a bazillion deaths of random Iraqis, and tens of thousands of US soldiers killed. I just saw some memorials to local dead soldiers in Napa, where I am at the moment, and cursed Bush again for that.

I actually do like Trump because he was absolutely not wanted by the globalist corporations or the press. They did everything they could to prevent his election, and failed! That is very exciting. The idea that the people might still be in charge, and not the globalists or the press.

Indiana Jones says

Cops have backing them up powerful laws, powerful people and powerful weapons. Your ordinary citizen does not. Making this a racial issue is a distraction imho.

I agree with you.

And yet BLM has made this 100% a racial issue, and that alone.

rando says

Quigley says

You mean like host a free forum supporting the principle of free speech where even ASSHOLES can vent their spleen with every stupid vicious thought that comes to their tiny brains?

Well, I'm hoping the "uncivil" link will help discourage the stupid vicious thoughts and encourage smarter kinder thoughts. Any other ways I might do that?

Patrick - there aren't a whole lot of forums on the net that let, and encourage, both sides of every issue to vent. I don't see a whole lot of outright hate on here. I do see bias. Oh boy do I see bias.

I thank you Sir, for hosting such a fine site.

rando says

Quigley says

You mean like host a free forum supporting the principle of free speech where even ASSHOLES can vent their spleen with every stupid vicious thought that comes to their tiny brains?

Well, I'm hoping the "uncivil" link will help discourage the stupid vicious thoughts and encourage smarter kinder thoughts. Any other ways I might do that?

Patrick, can you please either A) bring back the ignore function or B) remove all threads from the screen of a user who is not allowed the right to post on that thread.

Uncivil should be used more not less. It is possible to disagree without being uncivil. Most here don't know how to do that. I tried, but kept getting treated like shit so I responded in kind. Some even think it is good entertainment to ad hom attack and uncivil postings are more common from two of the biggest posters on this site. Bias allows them to get away with it. But it is still uncivil no matter how much research you put into your position if you call the opposition names, practice guilt by association or mischaracterize their positions.

Instagram is now taking measures to prevent slurs and other hate type speech. Not saying I agree with it, but recognizing that the discourse in this country and on this site is toxic (at times).

WorkInProgress says

Patrick - there aren't a whole lot of forums on the net that let, and encourage, both sides of every issue to vent. I don't see a whole lot of outright hate on here. I do see bias. Oh boy do I see bias.

I thank you Sir, for hosting such a fine site.

I'm glad you like it! I wish I knew how to get more people to use it. Enforcement of some minimum level of civility does seem to be important for that.

Why do you guys watch so much CNN, if you're so sure it's crap?

errc says

Why do you guys watch so much CNN, if you're so sure it's crap?

I don't watch it. But I used to like the website. Now it is pure propaganda, just like the TV.

PeopleUnited says

Patrick, can you please either A) bring back the ignore function

Yes, will do, just give me a bit of time to finish the conversion from PHP to node.js. I keep thinking it's almost done and then find functionality that doesn't quite work.

Also, when it's converted over to node.js, it will be more amenable to having any user contribute code to change how the site works.

PeopleUnited says

Instagram is now taking measures to prevent slurs and other hate type speech.

That's the kind of thing that makes me worry. When corporations are deciding what "hate speech" is, they are probably going to err on the side of excessive censorship to protect profits instead of a commitment to allowing civil but un-PC points of view to be expressed.

They have the most big blocks of colors and pastels...
And their set LED lighting is second to none...
It's a fake news eye fuck!

errc says

Why do you guys watch so much CNN, if you're so sure it's crap?

errc says

I knew that the democrats were definitely not the party to save us. They were all the lawyers whose business was to profit from bad, complex laws that harmed people.

And that's the enemy we should be fighting, not each other!

Maybe I was slow to get woke.

rando says

Dan8267 says

Republicans never do anything out of principle or kindness. Their motivations are always selfish self-interests.

Oh come on. As if Democrats have some monopoly on virtue?

I don't see how "republicans never do anything out of principle or kindness" implies "democrats have a monopoly on virtue" or even "democrats are virtuous".

The Democratic Party is simply the far less or the two evils. The lesser of two evils is still evil, but if force to choose between the two, the wisest policy is always to choose the lesser evil. The Democratic voters are statistically less evil than Republican voters. Yes, there are some Democratic voters who are downright evil, any Antifa member who votes -- and I doubt many of them do -- would qualify, but only maybe 20% of Democratic voters are selfish little shits who are in favor of violating human rights. In contrast, easily 80% of Republican voters are selfish and do like the idea of violating human rights because "the subhuman enemy deserves it". No, I don't have hard statistics on this as no one would be honest enough to admit their evil desires. I also don't have hard stats that men are more willing to have anonymous one-night stands, but I know it's true because it's so damn obvious.

Neither the two parties, nor their constituents, are equal. So it's a false equivalency to say the two parties are a wash and it does not matter which you support. One party favors the upper middle class and the rich. The other party favors only the rich and is willing to torture, kill, and imprison everyone else in order to increase the power and wealth of the rich. That's a big difference.

The Democratic Party will beat you up and steal your lunch money. The Republican Party will rape your entire family to death, making you watch, and then sow their skin into clothing. The are not in the same ballpark. They aren't even playing the same sport.

errc says

Now AFTER the Neo Nazis ran their ca

Cmon, errc. I know you've chewed on the MSM's Charlotte story a while, but certainly you must have retained enough facts to know that the car was owned by a single individual who did the crime by himself, and wasn't involved with the racist torch march the day before. I just quoted your most egregious mistake. Stating an obvious and provable lie isn't a good way to advance your argument.

errc says

I came back to this thread, thinking somewhere, someone linked some evidence to back up the claims that...Charlottesville was chocked full of AltLeftists causing violence... Why is it so hard to produce evidence of AltLefts provoking the violence?

The L.A. Times has an article on that, quoting each side accusing the other, and reporters noting that many groups on both sides arrived with weapons ready to fight, and fought:

"Hunter Wallace, a far-right blogger at Occidental Dissent: “The streets were not barricaded. Violent antifa [anti-fascists] were not penned in their own area as per our agreement with the Charlottesville Police Department, but were roaming the streets and blocking the entrance to Lee Park. They immediately launched an attack on our group with mace, pepper spray, bricks, sticks and foul liquids. The police stood idly by on the sidelines while a brawl was allowed to ensue. We had to fight our way into Lee Park and dozens of our people were injured by mace and pepper spray as we marched through the gauntlet.”
***
Washington Post reporter Joe Heim: “Counter-protesters fought back, also swinging sticks, punching and spraying chemicals. Others threw balloons filled with paint or ink at the white nationalists. Everywhere, it seemed violence was exploding. The police did not move to break up the fights.”"

IOW, one side got a permit to rally in a park. Police did not enforce the permit, and alt-left tried to block access, so the permit holders decided "to fight [their] way into" the park, incurring dozens of injuries. Violence escalated on both sides, and police did not break up the fights. The "counter-protestors" outnumbered the permit-holders, and took the streets, after which a Nazi sympathizer drove a car into people.

Quigley says

errc says

Now AFTER the Neo Nazis ran their ca

Cmon, errc. I know you've chewed on the MSM's Charlotte story a while, but certainly you must have retained enough facts to know that the car was owned by a single individual who did the crime by himself, and wasn't involved with the racist torch march the day before. I just quoted your most egregious mistake. Stating an obvious and provable lie isn't a good way to advance your argument.

How is it a lie?

The guy is a Neo Nazi. Fact

He traveled from afar to join his Nazi brothers in stirring shit against the local community, looking for violence. Fact

He drove his car into a crowd of Americans, just like ISIS does to Europeans. Fact

IOW, one side got a permit to rally in a park. Police did not enforce the permit, and alt-left tried to block access, so the permit holders decided "to fight [their] way into" the park, incurring dozens of injuries. Violence escalated on both sides, and police did not break up the fights. The "counter-protestors" outnumbered the permit-holders, and took the streets, after which a Nazi sympathizer drove a car into people.

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So the AltLeft is a broad enough term to include any Charlottesville resident who is anti Neo Nazi. Interesting. I guess yous are just going to call anyone who isn't a Nazi, AltLeft.

errc says

Why is it so hard to produce evidence of AltLefts provoking the violence?

You keep repeating this, but you've been provided with countless pieces of evidence of AltLeft violence. Not only Curious2's most recent piece from the LA Times, but also the fact that in TWO separate incidents, reporters were physically assaulted by AltLeft Protesters who thought they looked like White Supremacists, at Charlottesville alone. There was also Dan's piece on the Middle Aged Harpy who thinks she can punch anybody she thinks is a fascist. Additionally, we have Hodgkinson the Terrorist Assassin who tried to kill 5 people including a Congressmen, who he put into the ICU and Critical Condition.

As for Charlottesville itself, I believe one reporter was a local network affiliate, the other was from The Hill. Both mainstream outfits. The AltLeft Terrorist who assaulted the Hill reporter is being held because he not only struck her, but he's wanted on another warrant.

Duh, I forgot Moldylocks. The Preppy Bourgeois who went to a private school with equestrian activities, announcing on Instagram she was going to "collect 100 Nazi Scalps", and sure enough, charged people.


Unfortunately her sheltered background never provided her with evidence that it's not a good idea to charge and attempt to choke an adult male larger and stronger than her.

I say get an island, set up cameras and drones, and sell tickets on Pay Per View for the AltLeft-AltRight Main Event.

"I'm telling you Acosta, we're gonna take 100 Nazi Scalps. Ummmm Yeahhhhh, make a masturbation video."
"Listen, Sally Kohn, we're gonna crush you Degenerates. I got a lot of meth with me, brother."

Put it on in lieu of SNL. ;) Classic

errc says

yous are just going to call anyone who isn't a Nazi, AltLeft.

A profound change occurred when identitarian (pseudo-)"liberals" embraced Islam, which prohibits blasphemy and commands believers to kill blasphemers.

Time was, if KKK or Nazis wanted to hold a rally, the liberal left would hold a better (and usually bigger) rally. Creative people made entertaining signs, played guitar, sang, etc. Typically, KKK and Nazis were outnumbered by at least 10:1, and seemed like boring losers.

Since the "left" embraced Islam, the "left" assert an Islamic compulsion to suppress blasphemy, and prevent the offensive assembly from even happening. Instead of creative counterprogramming, we see violent suppression. That isn't liberal, and it doesn't have much in common with what used to be the left, so I suppose you could call it "AltLeft."

curious2 says

Since the "left" embraced Islam, the "left" assert an Islamic compulsion to suppress blasphemy, and prevent the offensive assembly from even happening. Instead of creative counterprogramming, we see violent suppression. That isn't liberal, and it doesn't have much in common with what used to be the left, so I suppose you could call it "AltLeft."

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Yes, this is sadly true.

I used to consider myself on the left, but now find the left to be entirely about fighting blasphemy against the leftist Koran on race, gender, etc, and to have utterly given up their traditional role of protecting labor from the depredations of capitalists.

Maybe this was even planned as a way to de-fang the left and let the corporate globalists operate without any restraints as the various races, genders, and sexual groupings fight each other and forget about who is really running the world. Divide and conquer.