Was There Just a Coup in the US?

[vertical_doug]

Only in the minds of cosplaying 'resistance' rich college kids fighting Quixotic bad guys.

50 freaks shouting crazy shit + 10,000 college kids wearing black costumes & masks shouting their disapproval = cosplay silliness

My view is more from UK than US on this. But come over to this side of the pond, you may be surprised. We have a smorgasbord of nationalist groups to pick from starting with the EDL and DFLA. I also think Breit Bart is even more extreme in UK than US.

[mjbabcock]

Only in the minds of cosplaying 'resistance' rich college kids fighting Quixotic bad guys.

50 freaks shouting crazy shit + 10,000 college kids wearing black costumes & masks shouting their disapproval = cosplay silliness

Dude...Fuck that. If I were a POC or LGBTQ, I'd be scared. There was literally a massacre of Jewish people in a synogogue and black worshipers in a church, and you're chalking this up to "quixotic kids"? Wake the fuck up!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...=.8b15de6c5c09
James Fields charged with first-degree murder in Charlottesville attack
Jussie Smollett hospitalized: "Empire" actor assaulted in possible hate crime, attackers yelled “MAGA country” - CBS News
Man shouting 'anti-Muslim slurs' kills 2 on Portland train, police say - CNN
'Tree of Life' synagogue shooting suspect charged with hate crimes - CNN
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/u...harleston.html

[theflashunc]

Only in the minds of cosplaying 'resistance' rich college kids fighting Quixotic bad guys.

50 freaks shouting crazy shit + 10,000 college kids wearing black costumes & masks shouting their disapproval = cosplay silliness

Counterpoint: Charlottesville.

Which the President said there were "good people" on both sides. And one side was literal Neo Nazis.

[Dallas Tex]

Dude...Fuck that. If I were a POC or LGBTQ, I'd be scared. There was literally a massacre of Jewish people in a synogogue and black worshipers in a church, and you're chalking this up to "quixotic kids"? Wake the fuck up!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...=.8b15de6c5c09
James Fields charged with first-degree murder in Charlottesville attack
Jussie Smollett hospitalized: "Empire" actor assaulted in possible hate crime, attackers yelled “MAGA country” - CBS News
Man shouting 'anti-Muslim slurs' kills 2 on Portland train, police say - CNN
'Tree of Life' synagogue shooting suspect charged with hate crimes - CNN
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/u...harleston.html

That would be like someone saying that BLM is a threat to our country because a couple years ago a nut job assassinated 5 cops in Dallas and talked about BLM to police negotiators.

I get that aimless college kids have given up on traditional achievements of family, work, & financial independence and need to fill a void and pretend that their life is meaningful and their actions important. But adults don’t have to play along with the delusion.

[mjbabcock]

That would be like someone saying that BLM is a threat to our country because a couple years ago a nut job assassinated 5 cops in Dallas and talked about BLM to police negotiators.

I get that aimless college kids have given up on traditional achievements of family, work, & financial independence and need to fill a void and pretend that their life is meaningful and their actions important. But adults don’t have to play along with the delusion.

One is an anecdote, the collection of anecdotes becomes a reflection of something systemic. This has nothing to do with "the youth". Though I will say, as someone who works with minoritized youth on a daily basis, they have a lot more figured out than we have. They haven't descended into some moral relativism that seems to allow the actions of an insane assassin to be equivocated as akin to a pattern of violence targeting people of color, religious minorities, women, and LGBTQ folks.

Kids today, just like kids of yesteryear, want their work to make a positive impact on our world, they want a family that is free from violence and full of love, and they want to get paid fairly for the work they do.

[King Of Dirk]

This thread's got a whole lot of talking and very little listening.

[nahtnoj]

That would be like someone saying that BLM is a threat to our country because a couple years ago a nut job assassinated 5 cops in Dallas and talked about BLM to police negotiators.

I get that aimless college kids have given up on traditional achievements of family, work, & financial independence and need to fill a void and pretend that their life is meaningful and their actions important. But adults don’t have to play along with the delusion.

The "whataboutism" is strong with you.

BLM is a response to a threat to our country. I'm not judging whether its a good response, but absent structural white supremacy, there would be no reason for it to exist.

Also, Heather Heyer's mom would like to have a word, re: cosplaying.

[Sbti]

There economy is now crashing, which is the only thing holding them back. Be careful of Iran. Perhaps Intelligence should go back to school!

[Dallas Tex]

One is an anecdote, the collection of anecdotes becomes a reflection of something systemic.

I nearly spit out coffee when i read that. Hilarious.

[Too Tall]

Whoop there it is.