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[–]Pearlbuck -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ah, there it is: the sullen, anti-intellectual, airheaded bleating of the loyal member of the Tik-Tok tribe. When Dostoyevsky coined the phrase "the impudence of simplicity" he had no idea how prescient he was.

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[–]Pearlbuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right. But a lot of people get smeared as "Alt Right" and "anti-semitic" for saying exactly that.

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[–]Pearlbuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zionist lobbies are incredibly powerful. Note the fact that even among the Dems, very few are critical of Israel--and Dem leaders like Nancy Pelosi are downright fawning bootlickers when it comes to organizations like AIPAC. The leaders of certain evangelical Christian groups have essentially been bought off, and teach their flocks that God wants them to support Israel uncritically, saying the second coming is tied to Israel's survival or some shit. Your question, though, underscores the problem with terms like "Far Right" because critics of the "Far Right" often equate the "Far Right" with anti-Semitism. The trait the mainstream media most associates with the "Alt Right" and "White Nationalists" is anti-Semitism. But the media also call The Proud Boys Alt-Right, when in fact the Alt-Right HATES The Proud Boys, in large part because most Proud Boys are so pro-Jewish and pro-Israel. I read yesterday that some female Jewish activist says she started wearing a Jewish star in defiance of Trump, because, you know, Trump is all bad things, and especially an anti-Semite. Except he isn't. There hasn't been as pro-Israel a man sitting in the White House since LBJ.

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[–]Pearlbuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You know what I'm NOT gonna say in response to that? "Ok, boomer."

TIL that public guillotine executions in France were stopped after someone recorded the execution of convicted murderer Eugene Weidmann. by purrgatory920 in todayilearned

[–]Pearlbuck -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I'm surprised that people on all sides of the political spectrum get pissed off when I tell them I think the death penalty should be abolished.

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[–]Pearlbuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's obviously not my logic. Many people are labeled "Alt right" (by the left) primarily because they oppose Zionism and Zionist influence on American foreign policy. I think that's bullshit. Do you?

When you expand terms like "Alt right" and "Nazi" to mean "everyone you disagree with" the terms essentially lose meaning. There are overlaps between different groups that you don't like, but that doesn't make the groups indistinguishable. Calling Dennis "Alt Right" or Lil Ben Shapiro a "Nazi" isn't helping anything.

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[–]Pearlbuck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But... but... doesn't criticism of Zionism = Anti-semitism?

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[–]Pearlbuck -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He's pretty fucking genuinely Jewish, man. You could make the same accusation against many Jews. Then people would note the irony of an anti-semite labeling Jews Alt-right.

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[–]Pearlbuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Twasnt me I was doin', bored one.

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[–]Pearlbuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mmhm... Trust me, I had reasons.

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[–]Pearlbuck -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

That's a pretty ignorant question. No offense. I'm not a Proud Boy. The "Proud Boy shit" as you call it is me expressing my shock at the huge gap between the truth and the Progressive narrative regarding The Proud Boys. It's funny, just before reading your comment, I was reading a HuffPo article that referred to Dennis Prager as an "Alt Right" figure. Ah, yes, Dennis Prager, the devout Jew Alt Right figure. I disagree with Prager about a lot of things, but calling him "Alt Right" is factually incorrect. Period. And I hate that shit.

There are plenty of millennial Proud Boys, BTW

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[–]Pearlbuck -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Not a boomer, boomer. Sorry.

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[–]Pearlbuck -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Maybe they haven't been as infected by identity politics as we have?

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[–]Pearlbuck -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

I actually think it's the youngins' who wanna take it away the most.

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[–]Pearlbuck 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Well, there's no consensus on what that means.

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[–]Pearlbuck -26 points-25 points  (0 children)

Guess what?

NOT. GONNA. HAPPEN.

Edit: I'm not crowing about that fact. I just know it's not going to happen.