It's funny how Republicans think WE are brainwashed when they are the delusional, easily manipulated brainwashed one.
Equally as lame is always searching for that one story a month that 'proves' their case.
Both sides, right and left, can sit around googling stories and articles and twist the logic around to fit their narrative.
This forum can be filled with stories all day everyday making both sides look bad. Nobody is convincing anybody here. I don't get why people try so hard lol. Like it will sway people's opinion or something.
Republicans are the last group of people to be talking about logic and lack of intelligence. Especially when most trump supporters don't even have a post secondary education. Yee haw!
White supremacists find a new platform to spread hate: A federal courtroom in Charlottesville
Defendants are using a trial about the 2017 Unite the Right rally as an opportunity to spew the hate they’ve been banned from some social media platforms for expressing
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Several hundred white nationalists and white supremacists carrying torches chanted “White lives matter!” and “Jews will not replace us!” as they marched through the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville on Aug. 11, 2017. (Evelyn Hockstein for The Washington Post)
By Ellie Silverman
November 10, 2021|Updated today at 5:00 p.m. EST
CHARLOTTESVILLE — Devin Willis testified for hours about the racist vitriol he endured as a young Black man while a torch-carrying mob marched on his college campus four years ago, surrounding him and his friends, spraying chemical irritants and making “monkey noises.”
Now, one of those violent white supremacists, who is representing himself without an attorney in this trial, stood in front of Willis in a federal courtroom, badgering him to name his friends in public proceedings that hundreds of people are listening in on each day.
“I’m hesitant to name them,” Willis told Christopher Cantwell, a neo-Nazi defendant who is serving a prison sentence for extortion and threat charges from a separate case. “Some of them live here.”
District Judge Norman K. Moon told Willis he had to answer the question.
Within minutes, the names of Willis’s friends, and photos of at least one of their faces, spread to far-right chat rooms where extremist supporters were following the trial. One chatroom was led by another defendant, who was also live-tweeting this information.
“Cantwell needs to keep drilling down for more names,” one user wrote in the chat room the afternoon Willis testified.
The brazen display of doxing — or publicly uncovering personal information about a private individual — revealed the ways that white supremacists are weaponizing this federal civil trial about the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally weekend into a spiteful stage.
Some of the defendants have been ousted from social media such as Facebook and the dating site OkCupid, but in this courtroom, they’ve found a new platform to amplify their racist views, put on performances they boast about on podcasts, radio shows and in live during-the-trial chats, and attack their opponents.
“This is kind of unprecedented in terms of real-time doxing that the defendants are able to facilitate in the middle of a court proceeding,” said Oren Segal, the vice president of the Center on Extremism at the Anti-Defamation League. “All of them understand that in some ways, the performance that they put on over the next month is going to sort of set themselves up for whether or not they still have whatever following they will have.”
The defendants are some of the most notorious white supremacists and hate groups in the country, and the plaintiffs allege they engaged in a conspiracy to commit racially motivated violence at the rally in Charlottesville. The lawsuit, which is backed by the nonprofit civil rights organization Integrity First for America, is underpinned by a Reconstruction era statute designed to protect newly emancipated Black people from the Ku Klux Klan.
Hundreds of people are listening to the daily public audio broadcast of this trial brought by people who intend to hold white supremacists accountable for the rally violence. They hear the defendantsrepeat the greatest hits of right-wing extremist beliefs in the courtroom and double down on the racist personas they have crafted for their followers, many of whom are paying attention.
‘The world was listening’
When Michael Hill, another defendant, was questioned by attorneys on Friday about his beliefs and planning ahead of the rally, he proudly repeated a pledge in which he called himself “a white supremacist, a racist, an antisemite, a homophobe, a xenophobe, an Islamophobe, and any other sort of ‘phobe’ that benefits my people, so help me God!’"He was presented in court with a February 2019 tweet from a now-suspended account, in which he wrote about the deadly rally: “I would not go back and change a thing.”
Hours later, Hill called in to a far-right radio show and told listeners he was “very pleased” to share his testimony, knowing the court was “a public forum” where “a lot of people were listening.”
“I didn’t deny anything that I believe in,” Hill said on the radio show and, referring to the plaintiff’s attorney who questioned him in court, added: “I’m very honored … to have gotten to face off with this New York Jew attorney.”
Cantwell has used cross-examinations to re-litigate previous grudges, uncover information on people who oppose him and emphasize his views.
At one point, he asked co-defendant Matthew Heimbach to tell his “favorite Holocaust joke.” He also asked a historian and expert on Holocaust denial whether it was ever okay to tell antisemitic jokes.
From the beginning, Cantwell had known this trial was a chance to promote himself. After delivering his opening statements last month, he predicted on a right-wing radio show that he had the plaintiffs “shook up.” And comparing himself to other attorneys in the courtroom, he claimed: “I look like a star next to them.”
“I considered it a spoken word performance you know, and I take that kind of thing seriously, especially once I found out that people were going to be able to listen,” Cantwell said on the show. “I saw this as a tremendous opportunity both because of the cause at hand and because I knew the world was listening.”
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Anybody that says white privilege is a myth loses credibility right there. If you live in America and think white privilege isn't real then either you're clueless or don't want to admit it.Funny how was out of the news in a heartbeat
It's both comical and absurd the argument that people who deny white privilege exists use to make their case.
White privilege is real. Maybe not as strong as it was a couple of decades or more ago but it's still bad enough to be a problem. Thankfully, in this time and age it isn't as bad and we are making great strides in creating equality. Long way to go though. We are getting there. And mark my words we WILL get there.
Having said that..just get this Kyle clown for the weapons charges, maybe manslaughter. He's dumb as rocks and the idiotic bitch bit off more than he can chew but I don't think he will be convicted of murder or all the charges. In fact, I don't even think it's far fetched that he will get acquitted.
Still so surprised they let him take the stand. Always so risky. Zimmerman didn't if I recall. But Zimmerman was an asshole. This kid is too but I guess he's young, and if the jury hears him tell his side, and he can sort of convince the jury in his words why he was so scared and why he did it, it was worth a shot.
I wish I can find a place to bet on this haha. I'd bet not convicted of all charges. I'd sprinkle a little on manslaughter. Even a little on full acquittal.
Man these cases are so fascinated where it's not just a case where there's a defendant and a victim or victims, but it's the left rooting for one side, and the right rooting for the other side. It's crazy. Interesting.
Derek Chauvin that bitch got what he deserved when he was found guilty. In this case I think the right wingers ''win this one''
Objectively speaking, it's terrible the state our country is in. Spare me the accusations that it's the Leftys or the Rightys' fault. It's both sides.
Too divided. Something's gotta give. I do agree with many of the Right's policies and beliefs. I also agree with many of the Left's beliefs and policies. But I'm not happy with either side at all and haven't been for a long time. Can't say I cheered for or approved of U.S President since the GOAT Bill Clinton. Okay not the GOAT but damn close. Ever since then it's been crap. (I mean Bill Clinton sandwiched between the two Bushes haha, especially junior, what a royal fuck up he was)
Whatever. I really don't give a shit. So why'd I type this? Cause I like to ''hear myself talk''
This country is divided and Trump (obviously) wasn't the answer and Biden definitely isn't the answer either.
According to life expectancy, I will be alive for approximately 51 more years. Wonder what the country will look like then. I don't get why people get so worked up over politics. I mean I talk about it, chime in but I don't get consumed by it. Is it mostly older people that don't have anything better to do? Will I become like that too when I'm older? Fuck hope not.
As long as I get mine, I don't give a shit what party is in power. Life's too short to worry about these things. And one side is about to be fuming after this Rittenhouse case is settled. Why? Why the stress? Geez.
Fuck some fly chics, work out, play some ball, eat good food, make your friends laugh, do nice stuff for your family and take care of your health and wealth. What's this nation's obsession with politics? Both sides just use and manipulate us how they see fit. Nothing really changes.
Right wins. The Left wins. Zimmerman gets lucky. Derek Chauvin gets convicted. Now with Rittenhouse who knows. etc etc. Who the fuck cares. So many people I know on BOTH sides at my office saying oh if this happens I'm going to fuck shit up. What? Lol. Damn dude, chill. I just laugh at them.
I can't imagine protesting and I can't imagine going out and travelling to protest the protestors. Tempers and emotions are here, something bad bound to happen. Why the fuck even go to an environment like that. I don't get the mindset.
Whatever I'm out. Hit the fucken over live 209.5 GoldenState Warriors hard for the nightcap. Barely hit it. Boom! Gotta rake this weekend. I have a good feeling it's a fantastic Sunday for teasers. I'll post tomorrow night. Don't worry. It's a fucken winner.
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Well, you can say I, I told you so
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Play it easy, as you go
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Put a fist, put a fist through your steel-plated door
Did you hear about the midnight rambler?
He'll leave his footprints up and down your hall
And did you hear about the midnight gambler?
And did you see me make my midnight call?
And if you ever catch the midnight rambler
I'll steal your mistress from under your nose
I'll go easy with your cold fanged anger
I'll stick my knife right down your throat, baby
And it hurts!
It's not one of those
Well, I'm talkin' 'bout the midnight
The one that closed the bedroom door
I'm called the hit-and-run raper in anger
The knife-sharpened tippie-toe
Or just the shoot 'em dead, brainbell jangler
You know, the one you never seen before
So if you ever meet the midnight rambler
I'm coming down your marble hall
Well, he's pouncing like a proud black panther
Well, you can say I, I told you so
Well, don't listen for the midnight rambler
Play it easy, as you go
I'm gonna smash down all your plate glass windows
Put a fist, put a fist through your steel-plated door
Did you hear about the midnight rambler?
He'll leave his footprints up and down your hall
And did you hear about the midnight gambler?
And did you see me make my midnight call?
And if you ever catch the midnight rambler
I'll steal your mistress from under your nose
I'll go easy with your cold fanged anger
I'll stick my knife right down your throat, baby
And it hurts!
