Guido wrote:Sure, make another Trump thread, why not. How many jews, gays and blacks did he gas again?
One of two Trump thread on the forum. The other was last year. This one asks a specific question.
I make no apologies about asking the question. Sorry if it's a painful subject to talk about. By all means don't, if you prefer.
Or would you rather nobody talked about it?
To answer
your question, none. He has, however, largely (though not exclusively) through his constant rhetoric, emboldened the far right and escalated tensions generally. Talking of building walls on the Mexican border, branding 'some' Mexicans rapists, trying to impose a travel ban - largely from Muslim countries, that kind of thing can sometimes cause a little unrest. I won't mention the sexism or misogyny.
I prefer to call out these elements
before they get to the point of gassing jews, gays and blacks. That in itself might sound melodramatic, but then again 'they' are planning concentration camps for Nazis, which was news to me, but I'll take you at your word and assume you've researched it.
Guido wrote:Trump isn't important enough to merit even one tenth of the attention he gets. I don't need live commentary on every tweet he writes or these polls. Maybe make a thread about the wonders of socialism in Venezuela for a change, or about the
chronically drunk, undemocratically elected head of the EU.
There are much darker, much greater forces at play now.
I'd agree with you on the first point if it wasn't for the fact he's elected President of an important nuclear nation and seems to have a somewhat volatile personality.
Why don't
you make the thread about Venezuela? Or life under Stalin or Pol Pot? That must surely be the right-wing equivalent of Godwin's Law though I guess? I've no time for Hugo Chavez or his legacy either incidentally.
Guido wrote:Everybody who has ever expressed a dissenting opinion about EU, immigration, feminism or the gender clusterfuck, no matter how decently expressed, has been blamed for being a Nazi. Truly scandalous, but only a foreshadowing of what is to come. First it was OK to punch Nazi's, then to murder them, and they'll soon be calling for concentration camps for Nazis. A genocide in the making for sure. There will be great bloodshed in Europe. They'll already throw you in jail
for posting a historical photo. That's how far we're down the drain already. Eventually everybody who has a dissenting opinion is a "Nazi", and will be jailed, punched, and dealt with. Which must be a glorious thing if you are so inclined, until a fellow comrade (pun intended) comes along and thinks you're moustache is a little thin, or the music you listen to is a bit patriarchal, and murders you and your family for supporting fascism.
Concentration camps or genocide for Nazis? The karma would be appealing on a base level I'll admit, but in all honesty I'd rather they just learned to get along with everyone else, stop waving their silly torches, making their pathetic little salutes and go back to living in their mother's spare rooms. Sadly, I don't see much chance of that happening. Apart from the bit about living in their mother's spare rooms.
Wasn't familiar with the GatesofVienna site, so I looked it up. What a balanced and thoughtful little website! Would this be the same website often sited as a favourite of Anders Breivik? If this is an example of non-mainstream media then I can't help but feel it rather undermines the argument against the mainstream.
Guido wrote:I don't care what any of you think of me. The unspeakable evil wrought upon this continent will never be forgiven.
You're quite right. Although I doubt we're talking about the same evil.