09-21-2017, 12:33 PM
(08-14-2017, 11:10 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(08-07-2017, 07:57 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: "Red" has gone from signifying revolution to Marxism-Leninism (flags of the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam) to totalitarianism (fascists such as the Nazis, British Union of Fascists, and some Klan groups). The Republican Party would have never associated itself with the color of Marxism until Marxism was dead as an ideology.
The tendency that X AD 84 so excoriates, National Bolshevism, loves to use the red flag.
Anyone doubting that National Bolshevism / Eurasianism / 4th Reichism has not gotten a foothold in the US, after this past weekend, is probably beyond being educated.
I think most thinking people have started to awaken.
Hopefully not too late.
Speaking of fascism -- right-wingers who support the vile act of running over dissidents are hard to top. If this is a joke, then it is a sick one... grim humor near its worst. To be appreciably worse it would have to be something so horrible as a joke about Holocaust victims.
Peaceful protest is a right in a free society, and attacks upon peaceful protesters are crimes. (No hypocirsy -- if leftists are beating up people with KKK robes or Nazi symbols, then that too is a crime).
Quote:A Republican lawmaker in South Dakota is coming under fire for posting a violent cartoon meme showing a car slamming into people along with the phrase “ALL LIVES SPLATTER.”
Rep. Lynne DiSanto, the Republican whip in the state’s House of Representatives, wrote: “I think this is a movement we can all support.”
The tasteless post, which was later deleted, cost DiSanto her job as a real estate agent.
“Due to recent events, Lynne Disanto is no longer associated with Keller Williams Realty Black Hills,” the company wrote on Facebook.
However, House Majority Leader Lee Qualm told the Argus Leader newspaper that DiSanto was not in danger of losing her whip position.
Even the highly-competitive and often ruthless real estate business has some principles. The South Dakota GOP? I am not so sure.
Quote:“Obviously I think she wishes she had not put it out there, but she was quick to pull it down and it seems like one of those things you do without putting much thought into it,” Qualm told the newspaper.
The Sept. 7 post came less than a month after Heather Heyer was killed. She was run over on Aug. 12 while protesting against white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lynn...s_politics
The image is ugly, but it needs be shown to demonstrate how bad the Right can get. All that is missing is a fascist symbol (fasces, burning cross, the letters "KKK", KKK hood, lightning bolt, swastika, or the letters "AV" [American Vanguard].. among others. Assault with a motor vehicle is as criminal as firing a gun at someone under similar intentions.
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The late curmudgeon Paul Fussell would be making much out of this if he were still alive.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.