The Politics Thread

@neutralgrey  
the ONLY reason they are the most watched and not in decline is because the left has gone BATSHIT INSANE!

@neutralgrey
 
Then again, you also have the people who get their news from Breitbart

@Shirani
 
Generalizing.
 
AGAIN.

@Shirani  
Don’t get it that way, the right is getting substantially wackier (what with the alt-right) and also more popular. I just hope people realize that being an extremist SJW or a “Kek cultist” is not good.

@Shirani  
I think it’s more nuanced then that, I’d get into more detail but…eh. You really want me to?
 
@FirelordofHyrule  
Lol.

@BadgingBadger  
wacky yeah, but I don’t see them condoning violence against people they disagree with no matter how disgusting the views they disagree with are!

@Shirani  
The alt-right isn’t saintly. They’ve done harassment campaigns and death threats before.  
That Quebec shooter is just the start, unless we make an effort to stop radicalization.

Fox News also tweeted that the Quebec shooter was from Morocco. 10/10 reporting.

@Shirani
 
See white supremacists and Islamophobes.

@BadgingBadger  
not saying that they were free of sin….but they aren’t the ones being violent pricks to anyone who disagrees with them….

@KingKek42
 
I mean, come on, really
 
Dude was white as fresh winter snow.

@KingKek42  
and they retracted it and corrected it a day after….while I admit they should have done that sooner.

@Shirani  
it all depends on how well the faction in the political spectrum can condemn its extremists.

@BadgingBadger  
while the right doesn’t do a good job, the left is currently doing FAR worse in condemning its extremists even outright praising them in some cases!

@Shirani  
I agree. I wish we made a better job of doing that.  
But hey, i’m doing it, so that counts as something? :P

You know I think we should all just chill now.

@KingKek42  
we are chillin like an ex-villain!! Also how….what….How does that even WORK!?

@FirelordofHyrule  
>Completely straight face use of the term “Islamiphobe”.
 
Welp, there goes rational discussion. Islam is a religion and a political philosophy, no more immune from bitter criticism or even insult than fascism and christianity.
 
If you’re talking about anti-arab racism, specify that, but don’t wrap up a whole race to a legitimately problematic political philosophy, one that leads far to often to religious fascism.

We should have an hour on this thread where’s it’s nothing but just bashing people we all hate, like North Korea or ISIS.

@neutralgrey
 
Yeah
 
Fuck Kim Jong Un, and all that jazz

@FirelordofHyrule  
Kim Jong Fat Cakes more like, seriously he’s probably the only fat guy in North Korea

@neutralgrey  
I second this!

@neutralgrey  
i thought he was dead.

You guys know about this story?
 
North Korean vice-premier one of ‘two officials executed with anti-aircraft guns’ after he ‘dozed off in meeting’