@barbarian Totally agree it is thrown around with too much abandon and I'd also agree up until recently those causing the current cultural war conflict and nazi name calling were just as miniscule as the few hundred morons running about with actual swastikas and in the grand scheme of things, not really a problem.

The difference I see in the last few years is these ideas and lack of civility seem to be going mainstream. I see it as reminiscent of the Jungian shadow, the idea we all have a darkside inside of us which can come out from time to time in the form of negative projection, violence, resentment etc. Those least aware of their own shadow and capacity for evil are also therby least able to control for it so their shadow is much darker and more dangerous than most. I see this as the essence of mob mentality and something that needs to be nipped in the bud before more serious consequences can occur.

One saving grace in the west is we have at least an idea of a free market. Evidence is starting to build that when companies go 'woke' they suffer financially so this in itself might remove some incentive for a continued push toward insanity.

Latest updates

• Twitter account that started this appears to be a bot account with suspicious activity
• Covington School now closed
• Lunatics justifying violence against children with some extremely tenuous evidence..sourced from actual racists
• Twitter confirms that calling for murder of white children doesn't violate TOS (but don't you dare disparage all female Ghostbusters!)

@barbarian
I'm certainly not masking the horror of the 30's and 40's. I love history and have always been very fascinated as to how a functioning society can fall to level of hell so quickly, part of it is a highly influential figure, another part is the general populace going completely off the deep end.

To be absolutely clear I'm not saying this is a holocaust, or that this is definitely leading to a holocaust, that would be retarded, but I drawing an argument about the most devastating consequence of a group hysteria.

Here we have a significant number of people including high profile celebs, politicians, multiple mainstream media outlets, social media organisations calling for or defending threats to school children because it suits their particular hatred of an orange man. You don't see frightening parallels here? I have friends and family that now think this way against anything Trump related, it's like a mental illness has taken over and these are or at least were absolutely decent upstanding people, that scares me.

I hope this whole thing starts defusing but I see no signs of it right now and I don't see the gap between threatening to murder school children despite video evidence showing they are innocent to actually attacking school children as being that large. The school is currently shutdown because of threats and prominent organisations are still defending their baseless accusations.

@jegga said in Fake News:

This is awful , read the whole thread

https://mobile.twitter.com/PikePlaceTechie/status/1087117202749378560

I hope the lawyers go to town on these media outlets. SPLC are standing by their statements - utter cunts. Every outlet needs to be hit, every politician, every person of influence hell even twitter which has deemed threatening of violence against children as long as they are white within their TOS. Make this the Gawker example for all things lefty lunatic. Waiting for Trump to tweet something out, maybe he'll save it cause this proves absolutely everything he has said about the media.

@No-Quarter It's genuinely scary. Just talking to normal folk who don't follow the news who want this kid expelled and outed internationally for being a vile racist, and acquaintances already predisposed to the left calling for violence against kids. It's funny how the left see Nazi's everywhere...but not in the damn mirror. The idea that Hitler created the holocaust is only part of the story, the greater tragedy is normal everyday people putting their morals aside to live their own shadow and the holocaust is a consequence of this. I think we are seeing this now.

@jegga said in NZ Politics:

@Siam said in NZ Politics:

I heard that the highest rate of domestic abuse was lesbian couples, then hetero then gay men.

Can't vouch for the accuracy but bloody funny if true.
New add for doc martens?

Oh yeah her partner was in charge of the local centre for non violence and when their office got broken into they wouldn’t let a male cop on the premises.

Ahh the classic over compensate, our good mate and friend of Czech drug dealer Mr Hardcore is running with the 'Toxic Masculinity' narrative on FB...

Talking with protesters, always great for a laugh

I actually thought, you know what. Maybe my sources are just biased and there is a little more nuance to the situation so I decided to listen to one of the better more credible lefty youtubers David Pakman for his take.

Although not as bad as the 'murder children' brigade. He's still incredibly dishonest firstly claiming even after this event that almost all fake news is right wing..and this zinger of a quote:

"There were reporting of build-the-wall chants against the indigenous peoples, that's disgusting, and that of course proves that the border wall has nothing to do with border security, because if it were you wouldn't be yelling it at native Americans, its about Xenophobia and racism and its vile"

Now his report is after apparently watching the video..and there was no such chant. You can bet your bottom dollar if there was it would have been plastered over all the 'truthful' left-wing outlets...

@Paekakboyz Apparently Tim Pool is putting together a compilation video of the top 20 fake news stories on Trumps Russian collusion

@jegga I can't believe I actually used to love the bloke, Jon Stewart used to have him on as his go-to woke Muslim to smash the Fox media racists.

...I mean he actually ate human brains..they guy is not morally right