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MercTech -> RE: Far left, far right, common trait... (5/14/2017 7:16:24 PM)
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ORIGINAL: BoscoX
Yeah, gone off the rails. Totalitarian, communist in my opinion. Can you name a significant group on the right that is like them, equal in numbers and influence?
And they are pretty mainstream in the Democrat party, wouldn't you agree?
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The radical very far right fringe tends not to throw bricks but mew up in compounds, indoctrinate recruits, and stockpile armaments all while waiting for the government to self destruct so they can take over. Are people such as the American Nazi Party far right or just off the scale whackadoodles? That's something for the individual to consider.
https://www.americannaziparty.com
The Alt-Right has a lot of traction due to asking questions that the mainstream either side-steps or calls you names for even asking the question. A good way to pull people into thinking you have all the answers is to specifically provide a hypothetical answer to questions your elected representatives refuse to touch with a ten foot lobbyist.
The National Policy Institute is a good source for the Alt-Right. http://www.npiamerica.org/
I won't get into the KKK to much. In its heyday (1930s), the KKK was a purely Democratic Party thing and totally broke into small fractions after the DNC stopped giving it credence in 1967. David Duke is probably the most well known name associated with the KKK. See his website for his beliefs
https://davidduke.com/
The far right is not a coordinated group but a lot of groups with a common thread; the white working class is getting the shaft from the mainstream. Well, yeah, the whole working class has been getting the shaft for decades. When Hilary lumped the whole working class with the far right as "Deplorables" was when I pissed off my relatives saying "Trump may very well win."
The left has moved from being liberal to being socialist totalitarians. i.e. since when do our elected representatives need to pass a bill before they can know what is in it? (From the debates on the Affordable Health Care Act)
If you talk about traditional liberal concepts such as freedom of speech; you are attacked as being a Nazi. One quirky thing is the militant arm of the far left, Antifa, uses the same tactics as you saw militant KKK members using back when they were the bad boys of the Democrats. Who gave them a copy of the racist activist play book?
One thing I think all people, regardless of philosophy, need to do is quit electing stupid. The elections of 2016 gave us presidential candidates a narcissistic blowhard and a person with a 30+ year track record of questionable ethical decisions and enough stupid to fall for a 4Chan trolling campaign to convince the lefties that a cartoon frog was a New-Nazi emblem.
BTW, Pepe continues as a meme and grows more hilarious week by week. "Free Kekistan" has enough ancillary silliness to keep one giggling for hours. The Euro-pop disco song billed as the "National Anthem of Kekistan" is the kind of song that embeds in your psyche whether you want it to or not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAzNXbutRHw
Have you heard the latest trolling venture; thumb and finger circled with three fingers in the air is "white power"? Interesting since the symbol for OK has been kicking around since the Martin Van Buren campaign of 1840.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNAkZKi4abc
BTW... World of Warcraft chat didn't allow you to use LOL for Lough Out Loud. So KeK became a shorthand for telling someone you were laughing at them. Then, someone noticed there was an obscure Egyptian god with a frog head named Kek. And Matt Furie's cartoon frog, Pepe, was adopted as the high priest of Kek. Yep, all was a silly invention of a juvenile gamer mentality. I'm still entertained how a juvenile prank made its way to the mainstream media and even into the political arena. There are enough people laughing at the joke that you can hear at quite a few political speeches someone yelling "Pepe" whenever anyone mentions the Alt-Right. It makes a good short-hand for "you are flinging bullshit with a scoop shovel".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoLDX6RHTY4
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