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This is one of the weirdest news stories lately.

by mongol 9y ago

ajross 9y ago
There are almost 2000 nazis holding a protest in Virginia as we speak. The president threatened a nuclear first strike last week, then figured he's threaten a "military option" against Venezuela (Venezuela!?) yesterday just for kicks. This bit of weird comic relief doesn't even make the top ten, sorry.
- jsmthrowaway 9y ago
  All of those are now routine, though. This is weird.
- toufka 9y ago
  Multiple US diplomats being sent home from Cuba with unexplained hearing loss...
- mprev 9y ago
  And yet a woman is, perhaps, dead. Hardly comic relief.
- mschuster91 9y ago
  >There are almost 2000 nazis holding a protest in Virginia as we speak Said nazis actually murdered one protestor and injured multiple others by mowing them down with cars. What happened there is bordering on insanity... and Trump didn't even try to distance himself from the nazis who voted him in in the first place.
  - tpallarino 9y ago
    Pretty sure he did: http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/22/politics/donald-trump-disavow-groups-new-york-times/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/22/politics/donald-trump-disavow-...
    - tdb7893 9y ago
      I'm glad he did. I don't know if he has come out with a new statement but the fact that he had disavowed them before makes his less than total condemnation of them now all the more baffling. There definitely is violence on both sides but I never thought Trump would be the one to equivocate on terrorism
    - ajross 9y ago
      That's a link from almost a year ago. The complaint yesterday was that Trump engaged in a series of "bothsidesism" tweets condemning the violence but not the racism. He kept going back to the well over the day because he'd forgotten stuff (e.g. he talked about the dead cops in the helicopter crash but not the dead woman killed by the driver) without actually addressing the root cause. And one of his comments had a bleedingly obvious dog whistle ("we should cherish our heritiage" or the like) which called out his support for the white nationalists (and yes, they got this message: multiple posts on e.g. stormfront celebrated this).
  - oh_sigh 9y ago
    Did leftists distance themselves from the shooter of Scalise and others two months ago? That was a literal targeted assassination attempt of a USG official.
    - tdb7893 9y ago
      All my elected representatives were strictly against it. Maybe some pundits didn't but they make their money by being sensational
    - mschuster91 9y ago
      There is a massive difference between mowing down innocent people and assassinations on politicians. The latter have bodyguards for exactly that reason, and that's why assassinating a politician is, well, an assassination, and what that 20-year-old Nazi did yesterday is an act of domestic, right-wing terrorism. (for the record, I personally do not like assassinations)
mrweasel 9y ago
Extremely weird. If he killed her, then why would he sail around for an additional 12 hours only then plan to sink the sub on low depth. Of cause it's equally weird to drop of the journalist, only for her to go missing and then happen to be in distress, as everyone suspects due to the journalist being missing.
- Boothroid 9y ago
  I wonder how many of these islands have a mooring suitable for a submarine? Can you just park this thing up and climb off? Seems implausible to me. I can't help but think the worst. It seems like something bad happened to this woman at some point at his hands and without a good plan he waited until he had no other option and then sank the sub to cover his tracks. Truly the weirdest story for a while.
  - jessaustin 9y ago
    Any object that floats presumably may be moored at any sufficiently large dock?
    - Boothroid 9y ago
      That's my point. This island that he dropped her off at - does it have a dock?
      - wodenokoto 9y ago
        Yes it does.
  - interfixus 9y ago
    > "These islands" Everything has taken place within or very close to Copenhagen harbour facilities.
    - Boothroid 9y ago
      He said he'd dropped her off at an island though right?

This is one of the weirdest news stories lately.

by mongol 9y ago

This is one of the weirdest news stories lately.

There are almost 2000 nazis holding a protest in Virginia as we speak. The president threatened a nuclear first strike last week, then figured he's threaten a "military option" against Venezuela (Venezuela!?) yesterday just for kicks. This bit of weird comic relief doesn't even make the top ten, sorry.

jsmthrowaway 9y ago
All of those are now routine, though. This is weird.
toufka 9y ago
Multiple US diplomats being sent home from Cuba with unexplained hearing loss...
mprev 9y ago
And yet a woman is, perhaps, dead. Hardly comic relief.
mschuster91 9y ago
>There are almost 2000 nazis holding a protest in Virginia as we speak Said nazis actually murdered one protestor and injured multiple others by mowing them down with cars. What happened there is bordering on insanity... and Trump didn't even try to distance himself from the nazis who voted him in in the first place.
- tpallarino 9y ago
  Pretty sure he did: http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/22/politics/donald-trump-disavow-groups-new-york-times/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/22/politics/donald-trump-disavow-...
  - tdb7893 9y ago
    I'm glad he did. I don't know if he has come out with a new statement but the fact that he had disavowed them before makes his less than total condemnation of them now all the more baffling. There definitely is violence on both sides but I never thought Trump would be the one to equivocate on terrorism
  - ajross 9y ago
    That's a link from almost a year ago. The complaint yesterday was that Trump engaged in a series of "bothsidesism" tweets condemning the violence but not the racism. He kept going back to the well over the day because he'd forgotten stuff (e.g. he talked about the dead cops in the helicopter crash but not the dead woman killed by the driver) without actually addressing the root cause. And one of his comments had a bleedingly obvious dog whistle ("we should cherish our heritiage" or the like) which called out his support for the white nationalists (and yes, they got this message: multiple posts on e.g. stormfront celebrated this).
- oh_sigh 9y ago
  Did leftists distance themselves from the shooter of Scalise and others two months ago? That was a literal targeted assassination attempt of a USG official.
  - tdb7893 9y ago
    All my elected representatives were strictly against it. Maybe some pundits didn't but they make their money by being sensational
  - mschuster91 9y ago
    There is a massive difference between mowing down innocent people and assassinations on politicians. The latter have bodyguards for exactly that reason, and that's why assassinating a politician is, well, an assassination, and what that 20-year-old Nazi did yesterday is an act of domestic, right-wing terrorism. (for the record, I personally do not like assassinations)

mrweasel 9y ago

Extremely weird. If he killed her, then why would he sail around for an additional 12 hours only then plan to sink the sub on low depth. Of cause it's equally weird to drop of the journalist, only for her to go missing and then happen to be in distress, as everyone suspects due to the journalist being missing.

Boothroid 9y ago
I wonder how many of these islands have a mooring suitable for a submarine? Can you just park this thing up and climb off? Seems implausible to me. I can't help but think the worst. It seems like something bad happened to this woman at some point at his hands and without a good plan he waited until he had no other option and then sank the sub to cover his tracks. Truly the weirdest story for a while.
- jessaustin 9y ago
  Any object that floats presumably may be moored at any sufficiently large dock?
  - Boothroid 9y ago
    That's my point. This island that he dropped her off at - does it have a dock?
    - wodenokoto 9y ago
      Yes it does.
- interfixus 9y ago
  > "These islands" Everything has taken place within or very close to Copenhagen harbour facilities.
  - Boothroid 9y ago
    He said he'd dropped her off at an island though right?