Charlottesville Virginia Clash.

WendyDarling · August 18, 2017, 6:20pm

Is_Yde_opN

Did you catch my video contribution on page one, The Patriot Nurse?

surreptitious57 · August 18, 2017, 7:18pm

Yes I did and she is someone I would definitely like to hear more from

WendyDarling · August 18, 2017, 8:17pm

She does really great medical do it yourself/how-to vids as well.

Arminius · August 18, 2017, 9:12pm

Otto_West:

Arminius:

I did not mean the more objective situation but the more subjective situation, thus: Nixon’s emotions and Trump’s emotions. The outer situations are surely very different, but the inner situations are at least similar, I think.

Are you referring to the last occurrences in Charlottesville (Virginia) or to the USA in general?

The people of the European politics and media are talking about Trump as somebody who is an enemy of Europe or, at least, has nothing to do with Europe. Also, the people of the European politics and media are saying about the last occurrences in Charlottesville (Virginia) that the leftist are harmless and the rightists are guilty of the violence. In other words: Europe has become the new USA as the new USSR. I think, there is merely a slight difference between the Europe and the USA when it comes to politics and media. What do you think?

Well, let us hope that what happened to Nixon doesn’t happen to Trump. If it does it won’t go down as peacefully as it did in the 1970’s. Certainly the circumstances are much different.

Unfortunately Europe (European Union) is a vassal state of the United States with our military bases spread all over there along with our funding of N.A.T.O. I dream that one day Europeans will be independent again to pursue their own lives in independence without being under American yoke and influence. I dream that one day Europeans will shake off the yoke of the European Central Bank and that the Unites States will become free of the Federal Reserve.

(Both institutions work together in conjunction also.)

Agreed.

Sometimes the US media takes its directives from Europe, but mostly it is the other way around.

Arminius · August 19, 2017, 12:11am

She is a black and a female senator.
That makes two privilege points: youtube.com/watch?v=iKcWu0tsiZM&t=231s .

WendyDarling · August 19, 2017, 12:15am

Actually, you forgot that being a senator adds another huge privilege point.

Otto_West · August 19, 2017, 1:12am

Agreed on both counts Arminius and Wendy.

James_S_Saint · August 19, 2017, 4:58am

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxjWYUybnc8[/youtube]

WendyDarling · August 19, 2017, 1:14pm

Thanks for the introduction to One America News. I’ll have to check them out further. Real news would be shocking at this point.

Otto_West · August 19, 2017, 3:19pm

All of Richard Spencer’s websites and forums have been shut down. At this rate only 4chan will be left as a censorship free medium of internet communication whose server I’ve heard is in Japan somewhere. We’re reaching peak lunacy very quickly.

Otto_West · August 19, 2017, 3:30pm

The more you censor any kind of social movement the more you legitimize it, joke is on you all.

Is_Yde_opN · August 19, 2017, 5:47pm

She has a healthy attitude.

Is_Yde_opN · August 19, 2017, 9:37pm

Open letter to the governor.

Dear Governor McAuliffe,

In the Soviet Union, they had essentially two kinds of prisoners in their vast gulag system: the 58s and everyone else. The 58s had been indicted under the provisions of Article 58 of the Soviet criminal code, which gave the state license to lock up virtually anyone for political reasons. If someone was deemed even a potential enemy of the people, that was enough to slap a 58 on him. Intellectuals, free thinkers, religious people, didn’t matter. Anyone unlucky enough to say the wrong thing at the wrong time . . . or not . . . could be looking at ten to twenty-five years hard time north of the Arctic Circle. And your innocence would be completely immaterial since they would torture you until you signed a confession.

And the other kind of prisoner? Those were your run-of-the-mill murderers, rapists, thieves. You know, real criminals. People who needed to be locked up because they posed an immediate danger to the public.

Take a guess which kind of prisoner held more power in the Soviet gulag system. Guess which kind of prisoner the state trusted to help run things for them in the vast reaches of the archipelago.

If you guessed it was the real criminals, you’d be right. Better to be a convicted violent criminal in the old Soviet Union than it was to be even a suspected thought criminal who never harmed a soul in his life. This is the very antithesis of the American way of life where people are supposedly allowed to think and speak as they please as long as they’re peaceful about it.

Does any of this sound familiar to you? It should. Because on Saturday, August 12, 2017, during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, you helped resuscitate the Soviet Union right here in America. On one hand, you had over a thousand Right-wingers who were there simply to congregate peacefully, to attend speeches, and to legally protest the removal of certain Civil War statues. They had no intention of violence, as evidenced by the peaceful assembly they had held the night before.

These are the people whom you wish to brand with the 58 label: the thought criminals, the enemies of the people. These are the people you so lazily smear as “white supremacists and neo-Nazis” when really the most accurate thing about that description is the first word. These are folks whose only crime was to break cultural taboos by standing up for their own race and culture. Like the 58ers in the gulag, they were perfectly innocent, yet guilty of everything.

And on the other hand, you had the riotous violent counter-protesters who came there with the sole purpose of causing trouble. They had no permit, yet were allowed to assemble (as opposed to the Unite the Right people who had a permit and were told to disband). They had hate-filled signs. They spat on people. They wielded clubs and baseball bats. They threw rocks. They threw frozen water bottles. They threw jars filled with concrete. They threw jars filled with urine. They threw jars filled with feces. They attacked people with modified flame throwers. They shot pepper spray at people. One man very well might have suffered permanent damage to his vision because of such an attack. Another suffered a blow with a claw hammer near his ear.

And as for the young man who drove into a crowd of counter-protestors, killing one woman and injuring nineteen more, his car was beset on all sides by a violent mob. There is video showing thugs smashing his rear window with bats. And so he panicked and hit the gas and then reverse to get out of there. If there ever was a time to have reasonable doubt, at least before all the facts come in, this is it.

But instead, you prefer to side with the real criminals over the thought criminals, the violent over the non-violent, the ‘everybody else’ over the despised 58s. In fact, don’t think we don’t remember how you signed an order last year that restored voting rights for 206,000 Virginia ex-felons in Virginia, including murderers and rapists. If that’s not a red flag pointing to your Soviet sensibilities, I don’t what is.

You say that the Unite the Right crowd has no place in America. But whose America? That of the inheritors of the Soviet Union who’d rather bash heads than exchange ideas? That of the useful criminals who gladly do that bashing for them as their leadership turns a blind eye to their misdeeds? Is that what you want to turn America into? A place where people fear for their lives when saying politically incorrect things? A place where defending yourself is tantamount to attacking someone in the eyes of the public and press? A place where merely sticking up for one’s racial interests instantly makes one guilty of past atrocities and worthy of exile?

And to compound all this, you don’t wish to apply these draconian standards equally among all people, do you? In Terry McAuliffe’s America, non-whites don’t have to fear for their lives when saying politically incorrect things, do they? The obnoxious anti-white tweets of Charlottesville’s vice mayor Wes Bellamy shows that that’s true. In your America, non-whites can also stick up for their racial interests all they want, yes? When you spoke at the Mt. Zion First African Baptist Church on Sunday, the day after the rally, you said you stood with the African-American community in condemning white supremacy. So clearly you are not against people organizing on the basis of race.

No, in Terry McAuliffe’s America it’s only white people who cannot be allowed to do these things. Or they can, as long as they are being explicitly anti-white about it. Then they can wave Soviet or Antifa flags and assault people all they want and you’ll never disavow them. They’re not the 58s, you see. They’re not the real troublemakers. But when a few nitwits show up at a right wing rally with Nazi flags, well, that’s enough to condemn the whole lot of them, isn’t it?

So, congratulations, Governor. By siding with the violent counter-protesters and applying this double standard towards non-violent whites, you’re only proving yourself to be just as bad as Soviet officials and twice as hypocritical. It is, after all, their form of jurisprudence you wish to emulate.

That’s quite an accomplishment, isn’t it?

And you know what? You’re right. If this is indeed what America will turn into then the people who attended that rally on Saturday will certainly have no place there. No one on the Right will. That’s because we can envision a better place. A place without small-minded, would-be Soviet apparatchiks like yourself who place higher value on physical violence than on free thought and association. Keep pushing us, Governor, and one day we will find that place and go there.

And if you do ever get that America you envision, and your precious non-whites turn on you in the same way they turned on the Unite the Right crowd on Saturday, don’t coming knocking.

Because we won’t let you in.

Sincerely,

Spencer Quinn

Otto_West · August 20, 2017, 2:17pm

All governors are controlled at the state level, it is a waste of time trying to reason with them.

iambiguous · August 20, 2017, 6:47pm

Okay.

Of course my own rendition of that revolves around the extent to which any particular individual out in any particular world [rooted existentially in an extant historical, cultural and experiential context] is able to make a substantive distinction between what he believes is true about human interactions “in his head” “here and now” and what he is able to demonstrate that all reasonable men and women are obligated to believe in turn. Why? Because something can in fact be shown to be true objectively for all of us.

In this case, pertaining to the “Charlottesville Virginia Clash”

In other words, different folks embracing different political prejudices [derived from different philosophical assumptions] come to this thread and argue for one or another political narrative that is said to best explain “what happened” there. Either as the optimal frame of mind or as the only rational manner in which to construe it.

My argument though is that these conflicting political prejudices/narratives [on threads like this] are rooted more in the manner in which I have come to construe these “human all too human” interactions as the embodiment of dasein, conflicting goods and political economy.

The part that most objectivists avoid like the plague. Why? Because [in my view] they have too much invested psychologically in this:

1] there is a “real me” that transcends contingency, chance and change
2] this “real me” is in sync with one or another understanding of “virtue” or “truth” or “justice”
3] “virtue”, “truth”, “justice” embedded in one or another rendition of God, Humanism, ideology, nature

In fact, some will insist that any attempt on my part to tug the thread in this direction is merely an attempt to “derail” it.

I suspect instead however that a part of them recognizes that to go in this direction is to risk being yanked down into the fucking dilemma that plagues me.

But: I go there precisely because it is the only manner in which I might come across a frame of mind that yanks me up out of it!

Otto_West · August 20, 2017, 9:38pm

I await your saparately created thread Iambiguous and your invitation to it.

iambiguous · August 21, 2017, 5:34pm

It’s right here: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=193244

I’d also like to pursue an exchange [with you or with others] relating to the points I raised above. On this thread. In other words, to what extent can folks [liberals or conservatives, the hard right or the hard left] discuss the events at Charlottesville, Virginia, embedded in anything other then conflicting sets of political assumptions?

My argument is that individual political narratives are merely a collection of political prejudices derived from the manner in which I construe the day to day interaction of identity, value judgments and power – out in any particular world viewed from any particular point of view. Ever and always embedded over time and across space in contingency, chance and change.

What can be established as true objectively for all of us? And what instead is only an ever evolving subjective/subjunctive fabrication – an intellectual/existential contraption – rooted in dasein, conflicting goods and political economy.

WendyDarling · August 22, 2017, 1:50am

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqn3P5gN7po[/youtube]

James_S_Saint · August 22, 2017, 4:11am

These guys are obviously a bunch of hicks and hard to listen to, but after the first 6-7 minutes, you really should listen to what they have to say. They were the ones who actually had permission to have a rally.

Note that they are very seriously pro-Constitution, whereas the communists (Antifa) and socialists (Nazis) are extremely anti-Constitution (and as always, “commies hate nazis” … but both hate Constitutions). The only non-violent, and non-government associated group present (both the first Facebook-video testifier and supposed victim were/are government employees involved in crises events) were these guys…
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgJRba8vVuo[/youtube]

Otto_West · August 22, 2017, 4:20am

James let me see if we’re on the same page here, a historical society petitioned for the permit of protest where neo-nazi and antifa groups showed up unexpectedly out of nowhere?

I wonder if there is someway somebody could get an original copy of the permit to post it online as evidence.