The Splinter criticisms read as if a bot wrote them sometimes.

Right. I’ve had to deal with that particular nuance in my own major. The difference is with AQ and ISIS is that there’s still a organization that radicalized them and helped them plan. And as you noted: as abominable as these guys are, they generally stop just short of planning this stuff themselves. They have the…

Yes he explicitly mentions that he thinks Donald Trump is a joke policy-wise. Doesn’t change that he directly credits him for being a savior figure for white supremacy, or that he himself is a violent bigot. Kellyanne (per usual) is a dumbass.

You know what’s the most punk thing you can do? Go from being part of a hacker collective and punk rock band to becoming a clean-cut center-right Democrat who actively throws the left under the bus in policy, takes fossil fuel money even when promising not to do that, and remaking yourself as progressive in time for…

Yeah, not voting for tech bros. Next.

It could have. But this was when everyone was still sniffing the bi-partisan togetherness glue fumes.

Part of the problem is that even when the Obama Administration did attempt to address this (i.e. DHS conducting a threat assessment in 2009 on white nationalism/right wing violence), it got shot down by Republicans as partisan despite the administration also doing the same with far-left organizations. So I don’t blame…

Yeah... she doesn’t need to invoke AQ and ISIS in order to hammer home what a threat white nationalism/right-wing violence is. The former two aren’t normalized as a part of global society, or infiltrating governmental structures, or just straight up declaring themselves like; it also implicitly legitimizes the…

Fascists have feelings too! *cries in racist*

Yes and plenty of people of color have served in police organizations despite police being primarily a blunt instrument to oppress them, doesn’t change that police are racist. Liberals and Democrats serving in the military doesn’t change that the military does attract and sometimes even encourages bigots.

*cantina

I mean at this point it no longer matters. They have the market cornered on Trump’s brain. It’s better for them to just double down and maintain his enthusiasm than to seem like they don’t care.-

Having read the manifesto (which despite being a post-grad student whose major is in this very thing made me want to put a power drill through my head), this asshole is pretty explicit in his ideology. Yeah there’s some clear jokes/edgelord shit in there, but he’s not subtle that part of his ideology is inspired by…

Yeah they’re kinda sorta unhinged. And the undercurrent of Islamophobia was pretty off-putting.

Not really. Going to school to get an education isn’t the point. It’s just a badge for them.

Yeah it’s pretty shitty to just dunk on people who actually do give a fuck about getting a decent education, just because this spoiled fail-daughter can hawk shit for Amazon doesn’t make her superior.

The good news is she may have just set her shitty career on fire. So that’s a plus.

You know what I find more sickening personally? An alt-right stooge who shows up before the bodies are even cold to yammer about how “uninvolved” the people who spout the heinous rhetoric that planted the seeds of violence in this guy’s head. The same people he mentioned in his goddamn manifesto and livestream no…

Wow. How shocking... Between this and his shoutout to PewDiePie, I’ve run out of surprise for this shit.

It’s almost as if western civilization is built on a bedrock of exploitation and racism.