<div dir="ltr"><div><div>"It's clear now that the Paris attacks enormously energized the Trumpist movement. He's now speculating openly about invading Syria. Trump's proposals have gone from overt prejudice to things literally taken out of late Weimar history — closure of mosques and a national Muslim database.
The rank-and-file have both fed off and stoked this behavior. When a
lone protester started chanting "black lives matter" at a Trump rally,
Trumpists jumped him (he was luckily not badly injured). Trump later said, "Maybe he should have been roughed up." Hours later he lied about witnessing Muslim crowds celebrating 9/11, and retweeted nonsense racist garbage from a literal neo-Nazi."<br><br><a href="http://theweek.com/articles/590497/donald-trumps-alarming-skid-toward-outright-fascism">http://theweek.com/articles/590497/donald-trumps-alarming-skid-toward-outright-fascism</a><br><br></div>After decades of being allowed to stockpile arms with increasingly little federal interference, a general escalation in the violent rhetoric of the right, and shrill sponsorship from the NRA, semiliterate knuckle-draggers are only too eager to start a race / "religious" war in the U.S., and the candidates, allowed to start their noisome campaigns two years in advance of an actual election, are only egging them on.<br><br></div>I live in a state where black churches were burned, in a city with clear color lines. I'm not afraid of black people. I'm afraid of shitheads teething for glory.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 7:37 PM, David Kilroy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thesaintgodard@gmail.com" target="_blank">thesaintgodard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Apologies for harping on this point. Know that I do. But it frankly terrifies me.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 7:17 PM, David Kilroy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thesaintgodard@gmail.com" target="_blank">thesaintgodard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">(shades of Lot 49, too: recall the swastika armbands)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 7:16 PM, David Kilroy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thesaintgodard@gmail.com" target="_blank">thesaintgodard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>The tech sector's too "What, me worry?" about the problem.<br><br>Anonymity in comments threads, Craigslist, 4chan, Reddit et al permit open promulgation of hate speech. Most sites, when confronted about the problem, cite free speech as a concern when the fact is they don't want to face the added hassle of verifying accounts and making people responsible for their words.<br><br></div>There's a massive network of these shitheads armed for a race riot and no-one seems to want to stop them.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Steven Koteff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steviekoteff@gmail.com" target="_blank">steviekoteff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thanks a lot for this, Mark. Reading it now, and I agree with you. Very smart and sadder for it. </div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Mark Kohut <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark.kohut@gmail.com" target="_blank">mark.kohut@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Charlie Pierce on the Powder Keg that is the United States of America<br>
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