I’m pretty sure the cheering here only would’ve been louder if a mob of people kicked the shit out of him, which is what condoning him being punched is leading to. Legitimizing political violence takes us to one place and it’s not a good one.

I don’t think the guy getting beaten cares much whether or not it’s ‘the government’ beating him. Condoning what happened is trivializing the crime, which is what everyone else here is doing, and it’s being condoned purely based on the fact that he’s the current Democratic enemy #1, but actual terrorists were…

The magnitudes are different but they are comparable because the reason we don’t torture is the same as the reason we don’t condone people getting beaten in public. If you think neo-nazis who committed no crimes are to be beaten in public just because their words are so abhorrent, but waterboarding someone for…

So you’re fine with avowed neo-nazis, at least, being beaten in public, but not waterboarded? Why’s that?

The left defended actual terrorists from cruel and unusual punishment who ACTUALLY killed innocent people during the Bush years. Were they all as despicable to you as I evidently am? I don’t care who you are, the rule of law exists for a reason and you’re holding people accountable for crimes they haven’t committed,…

So why is beating this guy in public okay but it wasn’t okay to torture actual terrorists in 2005? People that ACTUALLY murdered innocent people instead of bitching about it on Stormfront? Is Obama some sort of terrorist sympathizer for trying to close Guantanamo for the last 8 years (Rush Limbaugh would certainly…

This is a disturbing trend I’m noticing from the left. The very same left that villified the Bush administration for torturing terrorism suspects ten years ago and throwing them in prison without trial. What the hell happened to them? The cynic in me is starting to believe that they’re only against this kind of thing…

Honestly, Kotaku’s been pretty great about this sort of thing lately. Aside from the left sidebar that links to the outrage stuff on the other sites that I figured out how to disable, you could hang out here and typically not have to worry about seeing the Trump hysteria. What was pulled yesterday and this post is…

I’ve seen the mainsteam politics raised here and there before when something gaming related invoked it, but this one and the one the other day were just really reaching. Maybe it’s just Gach as he’s the weekend editor and I’m pretty sure that position jumps around. Regardless, I’m sure a bunch of people lured over…

This guy is supposed to represent Donald Trump. He’s obviously doing a fantastic job at that, it cannot be argued.

This is the same exact argument Bush-era Republicans used to justify torture and indefinite detention in the mid-aughts. I recognize it because I had people acting exactly like you and everyone else in this comment section! Same shit! Calling me a terrorist-lover, saying I sided with Bin Laden, saying I wanted…

Hello, Republican from 2005! I’m used to dealing with people calling me a ‘whatever’-lover because I don’t agree with extrajudicial punishment from back then, so I don’t really see the difference. However, your justifications are exactly as bad as your Bush-loving colleagues from yesteryear:

“1. The the individual that…

Oh, you’re calling me a traitor for not thinking we should be extra-cruel to the enemy. So I take it you voted for Bush in 2004?

Sure, you call me a ‘Good German’ now - I’m just being consistent. Tell me, were you with the Republicans about a decade ago when it came to torture and renditioning? I’m sure if you think Neo-Nazis who haven’t done anything except talk shit should be beaten in public, you should’ve been in full agreement with Cheney…

Man, are you a Republican from 2005? I remember you guys telling me I loved terrorists because I thought the war in Iraq was bullshit and that we shouldn’t torture or indefinitely detain suspected terrorists.

So if someone found whatever that Trump protestor was advocating deplorable, it was okay to have them beaten? No, I’d guess, because you’re gleefully embracing the double-standard here. Maybe someone thinks people that caused trouble at Trump rallies were inciting violence and deserved to be beaten just as much as…

The only one ‘pretending’ here is you. You’re just ignoring what I say and acting like you found me guilty of some fallacy in a rhetoric manual when you’re actually just full of shit and looking for excuses to ignore people that are calling you on it. There, now you have a LEGITIMATE reason to ignore me as I have hurt…

“Where did I call you any name, let alone “a bunch of names?””

Literally immediately afterward:

That guy got in his personal space and escalated the incident. This guy sucker punched him and ran away. If Spencer got up in someone’s face and was spewing invective at them, I wouldn’t be here making this argument.

I’m pretty sure all the LITERAL Nazis are either dead or living off an oxygen tank in South America. This guy didn’t kill anybody, didn’t fight in WWII, didn’t send anyone off to a concentration camp. If he did, then why the fuck isn’t he in jail?

People think and write and say terrible things all the time, they’re not…