[Gry]

There is no longer a republican party, and you can credit them for that as well.
Libertarians, specifically the koch brothers are responsible for this.

[CaptainDankness]

Originally Posted by Gry

Violence against minorities has increased over 45% in the past year.
Charlottesville looked like 1950 recently.
The republican party has been eviscerated.
That is not the work of liberals.
For Koch's sake, don't touch that dial.

Do you have factual data on this?? 45% certainly sounds like fake news to me.

Also I think Charlottesville would have been a joke like all white supremacist events in the past 20-30 years had ANTIFA and BLM not attacked them for being idiots. Not like they strung minorities from trees like way back.

[bigtacofarmer]

Originally Posted by Gry

There is no longer a republican party, and you can credit them for that as well.


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This is great news. Hopefully they stay away. Now how do we run them democrats out of office too?

[geneva_sativa]

Originally Posted by Gry

Violence against minorities has increased over 45% in the past year.
Charlottesville looked like 1950 recently.
The republican party has been eviscerated.
That is not the work of liberals.
For Koch's sake, don't touch that dial.

Really ?

Are you talking about fake hate crimes ?

Even the local news channels have reported on the fake hate crimes. . . youtube it, see for yourself

Also, Charlottesville organizer Richard Spencer was staunch supporter of Obama and Occupy Wall Street. . . sounds more like an agent provacateur to me

Koch bros are no friends of liberty

[Weird]

Originally Posted by geneva_sativa

Really ?

Are you talking about fake hate crimes ?

Even the local news channels have reported on the fake hate crimes. . . youtube it, see for yourself

Also, Charlottesville organizer Richard Spencer was staunch supporter of Obama and Occupy Wall Street. . . sounds more like an agent provacateur to me

Koch bros are no friends of liberty

there is real news that validates this

sadly most people do now know how to tell the difference

https://www.historians.org/about-aha...-of-propaganda

I posted legitimate data that was not sensationalized by the news and most people here didn't bother to read it

but most people don't want to do due diligence they rather read something short and poignant that confirms their suspicions which is a tool of propaganda

Since I have been here I have challenged many respected personalities mindsets questioning the validity of their though processes

Notice I NEVER try to sell directly the concept with emotional hooks to sway opinion but rather try to evoke a new way to perceive the same concept through one's own volition not by manipulating adoption of my own

I have use the same methodology with decision makers in IT create lasting business relationships by helping them make informed decisions.

The driver type personalities that get frustrated by it are the worst type of customer because they want to be given a simple decision with no liability in the choice making and they use a lack of due diligence to deny culpability in that decision making if they don't like the outcome. Trump would be a good example of that kind of manipulative business personality.

[Gypsy Nirvana]

From the link Weird left above, and there is a lesson to be learned here:


Hitler, Mussolini, and their followers have been industrious mythmakers. The near-deification of Hitler by the Nazis and the technique of mass hypnotism of the Germans are things that we, as a democratic people, find it very difficult to understand.

To us it is incredible that a fanatical, intense, uneducated Munich agitator, unschooled in economics and politics, should be exalted by mass appeals and terroristic tactics into an all-powerful and “infallible” leader, “Der Führer,” who exacts unquestioned obedience from his people.

This “infallibility” that the Nazis have credited to Hitler is bluntly expressed in the words of Robert Ley, the director of the Nazi Labor Front. “Germany must obey like a well-trained soldier,” he said. “The Führer, Adolf Hitler, is always right.”

Why did large sections of the German public come to accept this legend of the Munich agitator? One historian thinks that it was because millions of Germans were yearning for “an end of all thought, will, or action on their own part in the conduct of their own affairs.” The idea of a Führer, he believes, expressed their satisfaction in having found a leader who to them was “a symbol of absolute authority, a Great Father, a patriarch-ruler who can be worshipped as an all-wise Messiah, bringing solace and salvation to his sorely tried children.” Hitler took “all responsibility for their own welfare.” What they had to do was to give him “implicit faith and blind subordination.”

I have perused US FBI crime statistics which do have racial stipulations as to which colour/blend of people are committing what sort of crimes on whom...black on black, black on white, white on black, white on white, with Hispanics mixed in there somewhere, and they do make quite alarming reading, especially amongst the violent crimes. Whether or not these statistics are true or not, I have no idea, and could possibly be just propaganda.

[geneva_sativa]

Guess I would have expected to notice a 45 % increase in violence against minorities. . . either observed in environment or in a change in peoples attitudes and actions around me and people I know. . .

cant say I have witnessed either.

But I can say that I have seen a lot of stuff reported in MSM that reeked of bullshit

and SPLC numbers are ridiculous. . . ' Merry Christmas ' and other random statements are deemed hate speech and tallied in their figures. . . they have lost any credibility in most reasonable peoples view

[igrowone]

Originally Posted by Gypsy Nirvana

...

Why did large sections of the German public come to accept this legend of the Munich agitator? ...

strong man rule is as old as the human race
the big man at the top, that's how it was done for thousands of years
i believe we are evolutionary wired for this trait
the strong leader in control is a fast decision process
and fast can be decisive in war

[St. Phatty]

Originally Posted by Gypsy Nirvana

Hitler, Mussolini, and their followers have been industrious mythmakers.

Compared to Western Governments, they were amateurs.

[Gypsy Nirvana]

Originally Posted by igrowone

strong man rule is as old as the human race
the big man at the top, that's how it was done for thousands of years
i believe we are evolutionary wired for this trait
the strong leader in control is a fast decision process
and fast can be decisive in war

Yes but fast decisions can also lead to war, if the diplomatic process has not been thoroughly exhausted.

Some leaders seem to want to go to war just to win public approval, even when their nation is not really under any attack from the nation they are attacking.....see Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya etc....etc...etc.