Hitler was a very nice fellow until SJWs started calling him a Nazi.: Today in Tweets

Otrame, Mike sounds like a wonderful companion. My condolences to Sandra and Axe all of us who have lost a friend or who are seeing that loss looming on the horizon (mine is 13 now …).

Seems it’s taken seeing yer actual Nazis on the street, tooled up and flag-waving and murdering someone, for some people to change their tune a little about the trump maladministration in general and the “alt-right” in particular. I do wonder who wrote that speech for him (and made it so starkly different to his normal speech-patterns and vocabulary). Any news of Bannon, is he busy reassuring the righty-whities that this is window-dressing and it’s really business as usual?

Nice to hear that about your captain, Valentine.

@BS and his four fluffy kitties:

Why isn’t it ok to just unambiguously condemn the KKK?

Because then they’d have to admit that evil can come from people like themselves. This is a difficult realisation for people to come to. People who know more about psychology than I do can speak about othering and fundamental attribution error, but on a human level it’s a pretty difficult thing to have to admit to oneself, especially for the privileged.

Violet: Getting it over quickly?

That or very, very slowly.

I tried both approaches this year; it took them a month to get over the move. Which sucks because we’re about to move again.

SFHC, please don’t go away again. I adore you.

Axe, condolences on you grandma. Much <3 to your puppers.

Everone else that I didn't name: hugs, support, and warm thoughts sent you.

It’s our job to push the social and emotional costs of staying on Team Nazi as high as we can.

And when otherwise stable people say that it’s ok for nazis to bring assault weapons to a rally which is being held for the purpose of ginning up support for exterminating other people… “because fear”… it’s gonna take a LOT of shame to get to them.

Regarding shame – Jack Posobiec got a flurry of attention when he was retweeted by Dolt 45.
Then he went on Twitter himself to frantically deny that he was alt-right. It was pathetic and somewhat entertaining.

He’s still a blob of glup, but he’s afraid to be known by normies as one.

Re: aging and dying pets, saw this sorta old tweet this morning, and fuck…
https://mobile.twitter.com/tumblrfeeI/status/882320683891658752

Thought it was cool, then had a sad, then back to cool. We’re pet elves, people! 😀

There is only one good reason to replay 2016: to try to avoid having another disaster in 2020.

Here’s the thing. I don’t think anyone has really come to terms with what a disaster Trump’s election was. Luckily he’s so scatter-brained and buffoonish that most of the things he wants to do won’t happen. But the single most lasting consequence of his election with be total control of the federal court system for the next 30 years by packing it with young radical right-wing activist judges. I would not be shocked to see Social Security and/or Medicare crippled by a Supreme Court ruling in the next 10 years. There is also the danger that — between White House policy and Supreme Court rulings — they will be able to bring about a level of voter suppression that will be a bulwark against the tsunami of millennials that threatens to wash them away. I won’t be around to see all that, but it still scares me.

People need to understand that the deck is stacked against Democrats in 2018, and not be too discouraged when the bums aren’t thrown out. My big concern is that the Democratic Party will split between the mainstream and the progressive wings, and the sides will not reunite for the general election — and the Republicans will win the White House and Congress and be able to make their dominance permanent.

The instant unpopularity of the name “Hillary” I will quite confidently attribute to the misogynistic attacks on the first “First Lady” who didn’t obsequiously play the “good helpmate” role. I still think the biggest factor in her failure to win the White House was that all the negative coverage she got — nothingburger scandals and all — gave people who really didn’t want to have a woman president an excuse for not voting for her.

Bernie was a good thing as long as he was acting as a spokesperson for progressive wing of the party. Then he began to think he might win the nomination, and he turned into a megaphone for the Republican program of damaging Hillary. They were telling the moderates that she was a wild-eyed lefty crypto-communist and telling the lefties that she was a corporate shill and basically a Republican (and this is where Bernie was a big help). I supported Hillary because I thought that Bernie couldn’t win — I know, the polls, but nobody had really tried to attack him yet, and there was a shitload of oppo research available — and that she was far tougher and better qualified to deal with the Republican vandals who would almost surely retain control of Congress. There was no way any of Bernie’s program was going to pass this year’s Congress, so the only real issue in the election was whether the Republicans would be allowed to savage the non-rich in this country.

I’m willing to be even more hesitant with my opinions on Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders if it’ll encourage SFHC to stick around. She contributes more to this site than yet another post-mortem of the 2016 election would.

That is honestly what Trump sounds like right now, if you can stand to watch CNN anymore (he’s live right now, whining about how “unfair” the coverage of Bannon is – I had to mute him)

There’s a 7-congressperson letter asking President Trump(1488) to fire Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller and Sebastian Gorka. It’s only Democrats signed on to it, but at least some people are trying.

There is a 30+ sponsor House Resolution requesting the firing of such white nationalist aides as SB, SM, and SG.

Alex Jones has his usual idiot take on things. “Those ‘Nazis’ were actually Jewish actors.” No, they weren’t.

Jesalin skrev:

We did win WWII right? ‘Cause it sure as fuck doesn’t seem like it.

The Allies won the war. Anti-anti-colonialism and anti-anti-fascism, blended with anti-Stalinism under the general rubric of “anti-communism”, won the peace. Read up on Project Paperclip, or watch your copy of Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

So…does anyone here play PoE?

I don’t play any game by those initials that I’m aware of, sorry.

@Robert Walker-Smith:

He’s still a blob of glup, but he’s afraid to be known by normies as one.

Like monkeys and like shadows.

@Scild, @numerobis – thanks – I think what sucks the most is knowing that we are moving somewhere temporary (due to reasons beyond my control) so I will have to uproot him again within a year. Lots of cuddles is the best I can do I guess.

@Axe yay for pet elves!

@everyone else, I don’t really get the whole Bernie thing (I’m British and TBH I don’t understand how the American political system works ie what is primaries? What is a byGOP? Why is the person who got the most votes not the winner?) but I notice some of you mentioning how he trashed Hillary and I just wanted to say I disapprove of people trashing their rivals. To me this is a worrying trend in politics which is directly connected to the amount of aggressiveness we have in the world today. I want to hear about what makes you the best candidate, not why your opponent’s the worst.

Also we are having a similar “he would fix everything and water would become wine” thing going on at the moment in the UK with Corbyn, and actually he is not Jesus he is just a guy – his presidency wouldn’t have been perfect. Not possible.