Yes, Virginia... the Alt-Right are indeed a bunch of fucktards

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  1. Zombie

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    Nope. You're right. They are nothing alike.
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    Mainly on the right, tho.
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    I didn't mean left and right in the political sense.

    Probably should have used another phrase in place of "left and right"

    I'd be firing anyone who was at the protest playing Nazi. I'd let the counter-protesters slide.
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    Looks like I need to put up my decoder chart again. "White nationalist" = Nazi. "Alt Right" = Nazi. "Far Right Extremist" = Nazi. "White Evangelical" = Nazi. Pretty much anything with "white", "nationalism", "pride", and it's not to do with LGBT, "family", but they don't care about ripping apart the families of brown people, "concerned", and they want to stamp out fun, "patriots", and they hate democracy "freedom", but they want to squash yours, it all equals Nazi.
    Call out every instance of the press using these cutesy chickenshit buzzwords
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    A state of emergency has been declared in Charlottsville after a Nazi drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters. At least seven injured.
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    Evangelicals are definitely cave men on many social issues but where do you get off calling them the same as Nazis?
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    sorry Zombie - if workers are protesting in their off the job time (and not representing their company) it's not your call who you can fire or who you can't.
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    I saw a report on Facebook that one person has been killed. :mad:
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    throw the book at him! Simple as that, and in this case you might be able to tack a "hate crime" charge because situations like this is why we have hate crimes as a classification.
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    Do we know he was a Nazi?

    I can't find anything that says he was part of the protests. There were anti-protesters attacking cars.

    Not saying this driver wasn't a Nazi, he could be, but it could easily be a case of the anti-Nazi protesters attacking cars like fuckiing idiots and panicking the people driving them.
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    Do you know what they used to call themselves before re-branding as "evangelicals"?

    I remember, I was alive for the 80's, and I payed attention to the news.

    Fundamentalists.
    Christian fundamentalists.
    They not only applied the term to themselves, they were quite proud of it.

    Y'know, the same thing as "the Muslim animals".

    And they didn't re-brand because the Muslims were worse, they just didn't like us secular folks connecting the dots.
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    Yeah it is my call.

    You can believe whatever the fuck you want. I don't have to employ you.

    How fucking dumb are you Oldfella to want Nazi's working in your business?

    I'd do the same to Antifa protesters as well.
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    I wouldn't want a Nazi working in my business, but unless you have the right (depending on how the employment contract is written) you very well might not have that legal right to fire them.
    Maybe being a Nazi is a disqualifying tenet in your company - I don't work there, so maybe you're right.
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    Yeah I don't give a fuck about legal at this point. You're a Nazi? You're not working for me.
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    "Listen up, folks. Call me what you want, but I will never be a champion of Nazism! I will not be anyone's symbol of hate, racial prejudice and genocide! I am an American! Like all true Americans, I must strive to be a champion of tolerance and diversity—justice and kindness! That's what being an American — a human being — means! Shame on you if you think otherwise!"

    Superman to a bunch of American Nazi sympathizers who assumed the newly debuted "superman" was on their side
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    I don't know about Georgia, but in TN and NC, employers absolutely have the legal right to fire someone for pretty much anything other than revenge or for being a protected class. Hell, look at what happened to that dude at Google. :shrug:
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    I'd be lying if I said I didn't find this concerning, but also kinda hilarious that they used tiki torches.
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    In all seriousness, I have two of those at the edge of my patio. If I swung one and hit you as hard as I could with it, it would probably leave a red mark but I honestly don't think it would leave a bruise. They're made of young, flimsy bamboo. Their purpose is to keep bugs away.
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    I like Michael Rapaport more and more every day. :lol:


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    There's video footage of it from at least two different angles, if you wanted to see for yourself.

    NSFW (not very graphic, but someone may have died): http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/0...ists/charlottesville-white-nationalist-rally/

    This happened in what appears to be a one-way street or an alley (not sure). The protesters appeared to be letting other cars pass without incident, so your implication that these protesters brought it on themselves is false. It doesn't expressly state which side of the protest he was on, but the fact that he targeted the counter-protesters seems to indicate which side he was on.
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    You just know that Home Depot, Lowes and any other hardware store are thinking, "hey maybe we can put together a protester kit and sell it......"

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    Oh there was no implication. It is a fact that protesters had attacked cars.

    Again not saying this guy wasn't a scum bag but until we know for sure who he was and what he was doing it's a little premature to call him a Nazi.
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    He cant, those people make a good portion of the 38% who support him. He looses them he is in trouble and he knows it. This is just the begining.
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    So you re in favor of corporations looking into the personal lives of their employees and firing them if they engage in activities they do not approve of?
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    Shooting someone you disagree with, sort of like what the Nazis did.
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    Meanwhile I'm at work on my day off because there are competing protests at a Confederate memorial here, but I think there has been...one...arrest? Even the pro-monument group (who are fucking armed of course :rolleyes:) put out the word that any Kluckers or Nazis who show up will be removed from their area with extreme prejudice.

    Our police are smart, though. Whenever there are competing protests like this (like when Trump campaigned here last year) they physically separate the groups. With Trump, they made them stay on opposite sides of a seven lane street and today the protesters are a city block apart, with the park that has the monument in it between the groups.