The War Machine, and A Very Curious Silence

[mickthinks]

I doubt he's a Neo-Nazi. ... He just seems to empathize with them

QED

[Immanuel Can]

How exactly do you 'stop a war'? By making it a bigger war?

No. By taking the power away from those who are doing it, and giving it to people who will stop the war.

I suspect it won't be difficult. Putin will want out -- and some face-saving measure should be sufficient to get the job done. There isn't a win in the present situation for him, so he'll be ready to deal.

The Ukrainian people have no interest in regime change in Russia, nor has anybody in the West, except for the people profiting from it at present...the arms dealers and the warmonger politicians on both sides of the aisle.

[Gary Childress]

Unlike the Bush Jr. Administration and Putin, Biden didn't initiate any illegal invasions.

No. He pulled out of one, and left billions of dollars of US equipment there...it's almost like he was glad the arms dealers were going to get paid...yet again.

He pulled out of a war! He's maybe almost as "glad" that "arms dealers need to build more weapons" as you are to knock Biden out of office for being a "leftie". Are you as angry at the Bush administration for fucking up the world? Have you ever noticed that you turn everything into a witch hunt against "socialists", "fag" and "queer" empowerers? Have you thought of getting therapy? My God, you've got some issues. I thought I was messed up.

[Immanuel Can]

I doubt he's a Neo-Nazi. ... He just seems to empathize with them

Where are your "Neo-Nazis," Gary? Are they hanging out with the last of the Prussian cavalrymen or the remaining Roman centurions?

[Gary Childress]

I doubt he's a Neo-Nazi. ... He just seems to empathize with them

Where are your "Neo-Nazis," Gary? Are they hanging out with the last of the Prussian cavalrymen or the remaining Roman centurions?

I stand corrected. You're neither nationalistic nor xenophobic. You just don't like queers and socialists.

[Gary Childress]

I doubt he's a Neo-Nazi. ... He just seems to empathize with them

Where are your "Neo-Nazis," Gary? Are they hanging out with the last of the Prussian cavalrymen or the remaining Roman centurions?

I saw people waving nazi flags among the "conservative" participants in the demonstrations that were shown on the news covering Charlottesville's "unite the right" demonstration. Does that count?

[mickthinks]

Where are your "Neo-Nazis," Gary? Are they hanging out with the last of the Prussian cavalrymen or the remaining Roman centurions?

Are you denying the significant part that Neo-Nazis play in US politics in the same way you tried to ignore the significance of White Supremacists?

There IS no such thing as "whiteness," except as a descriptor of pigment.

The Earth is round. It always has been. And yes, that is trivial. But there are many people who assert that the Earth is flat. Flat-Earthers are real. To the question "Are there Flat-Earthers?", the reply "The Earth is round—Get over it" is not an honest answer.

So it is with White Supremacists and their doctrine of whiteness.

Manny, it's time to man up and answer this:

Manny, are you saying you don't know the answer to the question? You don't know whether there are White Supremacists in the US?

You're pleading ignorance?

Really?

It seems to be a pattern with you. I wonder why that is ...

[Immanuel Can]

I stand corrected. You're neither nationalistic nor xenophobic. You just don't like queers and socialists.

Gary, Gary, Gary...

A person can disagree with you about politics without being a "Nazi." There are no actual Nazis today, and haven't been for half a century now. The most you'll find is a few posers and skinheads who want to wear swastika tatoos in a vain attempt to be "edgy". But Nazism is not coming back...unless you count Antifa as that, which is possible: they use all the same tactics...demonizing the opposition, destroying businesses, silencing critics, burning things down, and a perverse preoccupation with race. But other than them, you're just out of luck for Nazis.

[Immanuel Can]

I doubt he's a Neo-Nazi. ... He just seems to empathize with them

Where are your "Neo-Nazis," Gary? Are they hanging out with the last of the Prussian cavalrymen or the remaining Roman centurions?

I saw people waving nazi flags among the "conservative" participants in the demonstrations that were shown on the news covering Charlottesville's "unite the right" demonstration. Does that count?

Go find them and ask them. I have no idea whether they were merely posers or not. Nor do you, I'll betcha.

[Gary Childress]

I stand corrected. You're neither nationalistic nor xenophobic. You just don't like queers and socialists.

Gary, Gary, Gary...

A person can disagree with you about politics without being a "Nazi." There are no actual Nazis today, and haven't been for half a century now. The most you'll find is a few posers and skinheads who want to wear swastika tatoos in a vain attempt to be "edgy". But Nazism is not coming back...unless you count Antifa as that, which is possible: they use all the same tactics...demonizing the opposition, destroying businesses, silencing critics, burning things down, and a perverse preoccupation with race. But other than them, you're just out of luck for Nazis.

I don't know much about "skinheads" and people who want to be "edgy", you'll have to educate me on that.

But I have met many dedicated and sincere individuals who have practiced activism on behalf of troubled people. The ones I have met don't wave flags used by Hitler youth and don't condone violence. Though I have never participated, there are sincere eyewitness stories I have personally heard from participants in demonstrations who shouted down vandalism during the protests that they held over the shootings of humans with black skin who had done nothing to deserve being shot. I'm told demonstrators will customarily shout things like "not in our community" when stuff like that starts to happen on the part of angry and perhaps "edgy" people who come to the demonstrations and do their own personal demonstrations involving vandalism.

Were there shouts at Charlottesville among the "right" to take down the Nazi flags? If so, then I will acknowledge them. If not, then why were there no such pleas on behalf of those at the demonstrations such as the one at Charlottesville?

[Immanuel Can]

I don't know much about "skinheads" and people who want to be "edgy", you'll have to educate me on that.

I'm totally uninterested in that task, Gary. The minute somebody cranks out the "Neo-Nazi" accusation, I lose all belief in their intelligence and their integrity. There's just no coming up from a mendacity so transparent or an accusation so perverse and dishonest.

[Gary Childress]

I don't know much about "skinheads" and people who want to be "edgy", you'll have to educate me on that.

I'm totally uninterested in that task, Gary. The minute somebody cranks out the "Neo-Nazi" accusation, I lose all belief in their intelligence and their integrity. There's just no coming up from a mendacity so transparent or an accusation so perverse and dishonest.

What else would you call someone who waves the flag of a political organization that is widely reputed to have murdered millions of human beings in order to "solve" the "problems" with their society? Do you believe that the Nazis did not kill millions of Jews, Gypsies, mentally ill and other groups that seemed undesirable to them? Was it a hoax? Why would someone do something like wave such a flag if they weren't seriously messed up. Why shouldn't others dislike demonstrators who would do something like that to oppose demonstrations held by people ("leftists") who are demonstrating on the behalf of minorities who have been unjustly prejudiced against in society? Or do you believe that prejudice against people because of skin color is "justifiable" prejudice? Or that no such prejudice exists? I will listen if you truly believe you have something to enlighten me about.

[vegetariantaxidermy]

I don't know much about "skinheads" and people who want to be "edgy", you'll have to educate me on that.

I'm totally uninterested in that task, Gary. The minute somebody cranks out the "Neo-Nazi" accusation, I lose all belief in their intelligence and their integrity. There's just no coming up from a mendacity so transparent or an accusation so perverse and dishonest.

What else would you call someone who waves the flag of a political organization that is widely reputed to have murdered millions of human beings in order to "solve" the "problems" with their society? Do you believe that the Nazis did not kill millions of Jews, Gypsies, mentally ill and other groups that seemed undesirable to them? Was it a hoax? Why would someone do something like wave such a flag if they weren't seriously messed up. Why shouldn't others dislike demonstrators who would do something like that to oppose demonstrations held by people ("leftists") who are demonstrating on the behalf of minorities who have been unjustly prejudiced against in society? Or do you believe that prejudice against people because of skin color is "justifiable" prejudice? Or that no such prejudice exists? I will listen if you truly believe you have something to enlighten me about.

If Mick Stinks calls him a Nazi then he most likely isn't one. IC is just a kristian. No way is he a Nazi.

[Gary Childress]

I'm totally uninterested in that task, Gary. The minute somebody cranks out the "Neo-Nazi" accusation, I lose all belief in their intelligence and their integrity. There's just no coming up from a mendacity so transparent or an accusation so perverse and dishonest.

What else would you call someone who waves the flag of a political organization that is widely reputed to have murdered millions of human beings in order to "solve" the "problems" with their society? Do you believe that the Nazis did not kill millions of Jews, Gypsies, mentally ill and other groups that seemed undesirable to them? Was it a hoax? Why would someone do something like wave such a flag if they weren't seriously messed up. Why shouldn't others dislike demonstrators who would do something like that to oppose demonstrations held by people ("leftists") who are demonstrating on the behalf of minorities who have been unjustly prejudiced against in society? Or do you believe that prejudice against people because of skin color is "justifiable" prejudice? Or that no such prejudice exists? I will listen if you truly believe you have something to enlighten me about.

If Mick Stinks calls him a Nazi then he most like isn't one. IC is just a kristian. No way is he a Nazi.

I don't think he's a Nazi. He doesn't want to have anything to do with them, that is clear. However, I think he's misguided and is not looking at what is going on among some he's defending nor with some he's accusing of deciet. I took him to be saying that there are no such things as "Neo-Nazis." If I am wrong and there are no such things as "Neo-Nazis" then I am wrong. However, I don't know what else to call someone who waves a flag that pretty much every human being in my country generally knows to associate with murder and genocide. If that didn't happen in Nazi Germany, then I'm also wrong.

[vegetariantaxidermy]

What else would you call someone who waves the flag of a political organization that is widely reputed to have murdered millions of human beings in order to "solve" the "problems" with their society? Do you believe that the Nazis did not kill millions of Jews, Gypsies, mentally ill and other groups that seemed undesirable to them? Was it a hoax? Why would someone do something like wave such a flag if they weren't seriously messed up. Why shouldn't others dislike demonstrators who would do something like that to oppose demonstrations held by people ("leftists") who are demonstrating on the behalf of minorities who have been unjustly prejudiced against in society? Or do you believe that prejudice against people because of skin color is "justifiable" prejudice? Or that no such prejudice exists? I will listen if you truly believe you have something to enlighten me about.

If Mick Stinks calls him a Nazi then he most like isn't one. IC is just a kristian. No way is he a Nazi.

I don't think he's a Nazi. He doesn't want to have anything to do with them, that is clear. However, I think he's misguided and is not looking at what is going on among some he's defending nor with some he's accusing of deciet. I took him to be saying that there are no such things as "Neo-Nazis." If I am wrong and there are no such things as "Neo-Nazis" then I am wrong. However, I don't know what else to call someone who waves a flag that pretty much every human being in my country generally knows to associate with murder and genocide. If that didn't happen in Nazi Germany, then I'm also wrong.

I think that adding 'neo' to it simply allows wonkers like Mick Stinks to give anyone who disagrees with him a label with the word 'Nazi' in it. A Nazi is a Nazi.