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> At this point, is anybody surprised by this? I mean it does seem weird that you have liberals cheerleading for funding a genocide, and completely losing thei

> At this point, is anybody surprised by this? I mean it does seem weird that you have liberals cheerleading for funding a genocide, and completely losing their shit at Republicans for trying to stop it.

X86BSD 9y ago
Does it really seem weird? I mean in the last 7 months we have literally watched the liberal left eating itself. Everest college. Berkeley. Antifa. BLM. Everyone disagreeing with them being silenced and called out as a bigot or racist. If I flip on the news, I seriously don't event know what country I am living in anymore. Up is down. Freedom is slavery. War is peace. I've heard that before... Oh god...
- Alex3917 9y ago
  > Everyone disagreeing with them being silenced and called out as a bigot or racist. Well the fact that antifa and all that stuff happened within a couple months of everyone donating to the ACLU is amusing on its own.
- notfromhere 9y ago
  oh please, save your hyperbolics. the US president went to bat for a group of white supremacists a couple weeks ago, so I think we have bigger problems than bored college kids and an overturned trashcan in Berkeley
- enraged_camel 9y ago
  The liberal left is more vocal than ever because they see Nazis and white supremacists openly marching on the streets holding tiki torches and with assault rifles slung over their shoulders, running over and killing counterprotesters, and a President who has been exceptionally lackluster in his condemnation by blaming "both sides".
- Top19 9y ago
  Your last words are something Bernard Knox, the famous classicist, encountered in the texts of Virgil while hiding in a bombed out villa in the Italian countryside during World War II. """After training as a parachutist, he fought with a special force organized by the O.S.S., the British and the Free French to coordinate elements of the French Resistance with advancing Allied troops after the Normandy invasion. He also instructed members of the French Maquis in the use of explosives. The O.S.S. later sent him into northern Italy for an equally dangerous mission with the Italian underground, and it was there that he rekindled his passion for the classics. Holed up in an abandoned villa, he discovered a bound copy of Virgil and opened it to a section of the first Georgic that begins, “Here right and wrong are reversed; so many wars in the world, so many faces of evil.” Professor Knox recalled, in “Essays Ancient and Modern,” “These lines, written some 30 years before the birth of Christ, expressed, more directly and passionately than any modern statement I knew of, the reality of the world I was living in: the shell-pocked, mine-infested fields, the shattered cities and the starving population of that Italy Virgil so loved, the misery of the whole world at war.”"" TRANSLATION: we've been here before, at least twice https://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/books/17knox.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/books/17knox.html
losteric 9y ago
No, that's just the media inciting tribalism for profit. People across the political spectrum are sick and tired of our absurdly expensive and destabilizing foreign wars and international policing. Republican politicians are escalating the war. We've actually increased the number of lives and dollars being sent to this war since Trump came into office. None of the Republican governing factions are seriously opposed to the Middle Eastern war. Democrat politicians aren't really trying to stop it either. Obama de-escalated relative to Bush, but there was never a serious push to withdraw. Some of the progressive governing factions are in favor of moving foreign war spending to domestic investments, but I don't really hear the drums beating for ending the war purely for the sake of it. There's a disgusting discrepancy between voter priorities and politicians.

X86BSD 9y ago

Does it really seem weird? I mean in the last 7 months we have literally watched the liberal left eating itself. Everest college. Berkeley. Antifa. BLM. Everyone disagreeing with them being silenced and called out as a bigot or racist. If I flip on the news, I seriously don't event know what country I am living in anymore. Up is down. Freedom is slavery. War is peace. I've heard that before... Oh god...

Alex3917 9y ago
> Everyone disagreeing with them being silenced and called out as a bigot or racist. Well the fact that antifa and all that stuff happened within a couple months of everyone donating to the ACLU is amusing on its own.
notfromhere 9y ago
oh please, save your hyperbolics. the US president went to bat for a group of white supremacists a couple weeks ago, so I think we have bigger problems than bored college kids and an overturned trashcan in Berkeley
enraged_camel 9y ago
The liberal left is more vocal than ever because they see Nazis and white supremacists openly marching on the streets holding tiki torches and with assault rifles slung over their shoulders, running over and killing counterprotesters, and a President who has been exceptionally lackluster in his condemnation by blaming "both sides".
Top19 9y ago
Your last words are something Bernard Knox, the famous classicist, encountered in the texts of Virgil while hiding in a bombed out villa in the Italian countryside during World War II. """After training as a parachutist, he fought with a special force organized by the O.S.S., the British and the Free French to coordinate elements of the French Resistance with advancing Allied troops after the Normandy invasion. He also instructed members of the French Maquis in the use of explosives. The O.S.S. later sent him into northern Italy for an equally dangerous mission with the Italian underground, and it was there that he rekindled his passion for the classics. Holed up in an abandoned villa, he discovered a bound copy of Virgil and opened it to a section of the first Georgic that begins, “Here right and wrong are reversed; so many wars in the world, so many faces of evil.” Professor Knox recalled, in “Essays Ancient and Modern,” “These lines, written some 30 years before the birth of Christ, expressed, more directly and passionately than any modern statement I knew of, the reality of the world I was living in: the shell-pocked, mine-infested fields, the shattered cities and the starving population of that Italy Virgil so loved, the misery of the whole world at war.”"" TRANSLATION: we've been here before, at least twice https://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/books/17knox.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/books/17knox.html

losteric 9y ago

No, that's just the media inciting tribalism for profit. People across the political spectrum are sick and tired of our absurdly expensive and destabilizing foreign wars and international policing. Republican politicians are escalating the war. We've actually increased the number of lives and dollars being sent to this war since Trump came into office. None of the Republican governing factions are seriously opposed to the Middle Eastern war. Democrat politicians aren't really trying to stop it either. Obama de-escalated relative to Bush, but there was never a serious push to withdraw. Some of the progressive governing factions are in favor of moving foreign war spending to domestic investments, but I don't really hear the drums beating for ending the war purely for the sake of it. There's a disgusting discrepancy between voter priorities and politicians.