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VIDEO: Seattle Neo-Nazi picked the wrong day to wear a swastika armband

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Songbird, Sep 18, 2017.

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  1. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member

    I hear Seattle Nazis make $15 per hour.
     
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  2. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    When we pass universal basic income, we're going to exempt Nazis and terrorists, right?
     
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  3. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

  4. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    What could possibly go wrong with this?
     
  5. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

  6. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member

    No one's getting laid there either.
     
  7. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Let's see. Punching one person who was advocating mass violence vs attempting to enact widespread genocide.

    Nope, the former is still a better person
     
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  8. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Thanks, every 1930s European Political Commentator.

    This "sunk to the same level" bullshit comes from people who willingly want to disregard *exactly* what these people stand for and what they have, in living memory, done when given a foothold. The "many sides" rhetoric is what happens when you let this shit simmer for too long and end up with a Nazi sympathizer as President.

    When someone wears a Nazi armband in public, they are expressly saying "I am trying to accumulate political power so that I can put your son in an oven." I don't have to wait until they have that power to cheer for violent redress.
     
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  9. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    "Any movement that preaches intolerance and persecution must be outside the law."

    Sounds great until you see how they define intolerance and persecution.

    (And, let's also imagine a scenario where a Donald Trump or Vladimir Putin is the one deciding what movements preach intolerance and persecution. It would grant political leaders the power to criminalize their political opponents. Why would anyone ever give government this kind of power?)
     
  10. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member

    Rick, you forgot "brown people."
     
  11. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    The solutions you support would give them the power and authorization to put your son in an oven if they were able to win an election.
     
  12. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Because all governments have that power, if their people want to give it to them. There is no system of government that will protect you from a populace determined to empower leaders to do shitty things.
     
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