There really seems to be no more thin-skinned group than the extreme right wing, does there? Any criticism at all just results in a ridiculous outpouring of bile and rage.

A friend of mine had a phone number in the 90s that was really close to that of a popular uk saturday morning show, Going Live. They used to get phone calls on a Saturday asking if they could play this game:

Yeah, in hindsight I think one could argue that McCain was trying for a faustian pact in 2008- get into the White House with the support of the crazies, hopefully limit their influence when you get there. The issue is the growth of the crazies in the first place. I don’t know this except by hearsay, but wasn’t it the…

I’m not saying all people who hate Islam are like this, but I’m pretty sure there’s a significant overlap between Islamophobes and people who think dressing in a short skirt and drinking alcohol is ‘asking for it.’

‘ “Non-Muslims telling Muslims what to wear”

So, when faced with evidence that Islam is not some uniform monolith of oppressive sexism, you totally ignore that and act as if you didn’t just see something which contradicts your view.

You then claim that ‘islamophobia’ doesn’t exist, that all Muslims necessarily support everything proscribed in every Islamic…

There was once a time when ‘Republican’ didn’t mean crazy. I think ‘traditional Republican’ and ‘Shithead Republican’ (stealing that term, I like it!) are distinct parts of the American right wing which are at war with each other. I’m not any kind of Republican, but I believe I can respect the traditional ones at…

I think you’ve lost track of what you were talking to me about. Not surprising, since you seem hell-bent on arguing with a dozen people at once in ever decreasing circles.

We started off talking about Richard Spencer, and I still am. In our conversation, that’s the first time either of us has mentioned Trump.

I…

Jack Kirby agreed with you:

Yes, I have listened to his speeches. I have watched footage of his speeches. I was directly quoting, without paraphrase, from what I saw and heard in footage of those speeches. I don’t know what information sources you’re using to inform your view, but I’m pretty confident in mine.

Oh, and there are a lot of people I…

You’re Jewish? Cool. So is my wife, her family, and by extension, my daughter.

I know what the alt-right looks like. Sometimes it looks like Stormfront. sometimes it looks like the twenty or so people that tried to march past my wife’s workplace a few weekends back, and got shouted down by a much larger group of…

‘I am a classic liberal. I am also The real Alt Right’s public enemy number one.’

Oh man. Look at this fucking guy, everyone. Any minute now he’s going to tell us the ethnicities, genders and religious affiliations of ‘some of his best friends’ with a straight face

Indeed. He has not attacked anyone. At present, he is just treading a philosophical path which has been trodden before, and which, because it was not treated seriously until it had too much momentum to stop, enabled a culture of racist atrocity. He is deliberately and explicitly invoking that ideology. He needs to be…

It does. (thumbs up).

You’re not helping, Obi-Wan. ;)

‘Spencer was merely speaking while the Nazi Party was enforcing it’s beliefs violently by force.’

So his views about the racial supremacy of the whites are better than theirs because he hasn’t attacked anyone yet? Bullshit.

He is arguing for a shift in a particular direction. They are the proof that it is a fucking bad…

Will the endless atrocities of Big Diaper never end?

Yeah, that happened to a pal of mine. He’s about a foot taller than me and once broke my collarbone in one of those ‘you don’t know your own strength’ accidents (at university his nickname was ‘the bulldozer puppy’) and when we were 13 I would sit on the subs bench watching entire teams of opposition players bounce…

I was in a team like that- one of my friends was about a foot taller than everyone else until we got to about age 14. We had a few other people like that too, just early developers who were very physically talented. Then it all started to even out in terms of height, weight, strength etc for everybody. We went from…

I think you’re pretty much right. The fact that the England team didn’t just adapt to that is a reflection on them, not the Italians.

It does look to me like they (and Italy) perceived their advantage as being out wide, but it’s strategy 101- if your opponent is better than you at doing something, find a way to stop…