White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville

[Jackie]

[KevinM1]

[Minimalist]

I've seen hostage videos that were more sincere that what the WLB just spewed out.

[Aegon]

[Secular Elf]

[Anomalocaris]

[Secular Elf]

A car deliberately runs into a crowd at 40 mph, killing one and maiming many more, and our Commandant & Thief paints the hatred and violence on both sides as equivalent.  Total.  Scum.

This is what the right does not get. I don't mean the far gone right, I mean the middle of the road economic right and swing voters. 

This isn't the same as riots after a cop shoots a black man. This is simply the far right holding the entire party hostage. The GOP has sold fear and bigotry for decades, then when they are met with opposition they try to paint the reaction as equal.

It should be about economics. There are poor rural whites too. There are white middle class struggling as well. But what the GOP has done successfully and unfortunately is convinced just enough of the economic right and religious right that their social order is being upset. That party wants us back to the days prior to desegregation.

There is no "equal" going on here. There is simply the GOP pandering to voting base that cannot accept that times have changed.

What the Right did not understand is that when you stir the pot you foment opposition, sometimes it can go so far as violent opposition. I am of the opinion that the Right has gone so far in trying to undo the progress we have made in America for so long and have vilified the Left and Progressives as being their bogey man that our only response to them is aggressive confrontation. And I think that is the only proper response to Conservatism, Dominionism, and Fascism. The time for trying to join hands with the Right Wing and sing kum-ba-ya has been long over. They are at war with us. Time to take them seriously and bring the war to them.

[Amarok]

Frankly I never get the pride element . What are you proud of again

They were traitors

They were slavers at least there laws were pro slavery

They lost

[Secular Elf]

Pfft. This is nobody's fault. These are supremacists having a hissy-fit; this is democracy in action.

Now, if it were a peaceful march on the mall in DC, it would of course be a threat to the Republic.

Go figure.

Yup. Just like the peaceful weenie roast that far left anarchists were having at Berkeley when they set public buildings on fire and destroyed private property because they didn't like conservative speakers coming to that campus. Or the Black Lives Matter gang demonstrating and chanting, pigs in a blanket. Fry'em like bacon, creating a hostile atmosphere that has influenced the murdering of police officers. I saw the president's comments on the white nationalist riots and murder yesterday. He condemned them in strong terms, much stronger than he condemned those riots by the far left anarchists at Berkeley and other campuses and the BLM  protestors encouraging cop killing. Now you fuckers are upset that Trump added in his statement that hatred needs to stop on all sides. You don't agree with that? Or do all you numb nuts fuckers hate Trump so much that no matter what he says or does it's not going to be good for you.

I definitely advise you to look in the mirror.

[CapnAwesome]

Probably should be giving gang wars in Chicago equally proportional coverage to the Charlottesville thing.

IOW, 1000 hours of Chicago for every hour of Charlottesville . . . .

QFT