Sometimes you might meet someone you've never known before, Karl.
Maybe someone else already knows this particular individual you just met (that you might actually even erroneously think is A Genuine Cool Sincere Person) and They Have Witnessed Enough Of That Person's Sinister Actions In The Past (Vicious Online Racist Statist Rants, habitually-disrespecting his Real Life Girlfriend apparently by flirting heavily with other girls; who evidently don't even welcome it, maliciously-flaming Overweight People in websites periodically etc...just Very Malevolently Immature, sadly.).
Then: the jerk-in-question later meets someone else somewhere who does not know him. He quickly can easily tell who might be a more Naive, Less Experienced Well-Meaning Person, and so then they figure that they can easily Manipulate (GasLight) this person (because they might probably already have Years of getting better at doing such Unconscionable Things; a lowlife gaslighting fuckhead like Trump, for example. He managed to "Jonestown" millions into his disturbingly-horrendous, treasonously-subversive cult, as you can empirically-see).
This gaslighter type can, in time, somehow Bend Your Will, even when in the beginning you already are Damn Certain Of Certain Irrefutable Timeless Truths Of The Universe.
It's embarrassing once you find out you maybe have been Getting Played, if ever you've been there.
Some people choose to Learn from such experiences, and others clearly Don't. Or maybe they just Can't.
QUESTION: "Can You Quickly Spot/Notice A Malevolent (Racist, Misogynist, Etc.) GasLighter? Are You Yourself Admittedly Easily-Manipulated And Hyper-Suggestible? Does It Matter To You If Smarter, Wiser, And More Experienced People Notice Your Own Personal Naiveties And Possibly When You're Being Played?"
I sense a LOT of shitbrained Malevolent Racist Agitators (covertly-posing as Floyd Sympathizers) within the protest crowds nationwide are fucking disappointed today at The Lack Of Violent Raging Anarchic Riots.....
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20 Apr 21 8:34 am
+ Oath Keepersâ blithe interview demonstrates how little we have learned since Oklahoma City
Apr 19, 2021 4:35pm Central Daylight Time by David Neiwert, Daily Kos Staff
Today marks the 26th anniversary of the dayâApril 19, 1995âthat a far-right âPatriotâ extremist with military experience named Timothy McVeigh blew up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and maiming hundreds more. It should have been a moment that permanently discredited his belief system as well as confirmed it as a major source of domestic terrorism and a top concern for law enforcement.
Yet on Sunday, CBSâ 60 Minutes showed us how the twisted beliefs of the âPatriotsâ who form the Oath Keepersâan organization devoted explicitly to recruiting military and law enforcement veterans, all potential McVeighs in the makingâcontinue to assert their presence in the American political landscape by portraying their seditionist âconstitutionalâ worldview as normal, and describing how actively serving law enforcement officers help train them in weapons and tactics. That despite their leadership having played leading roles in the attempt to prevent the peaceful transfer of power by armed insurrection on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol.
Jim Arroyo, an Oath Keepers leader from Arizona, boasted to the CBS reporters that they receive top-flight paramilitary training because of their affiliations.
âOur guys are very experienced,â he said. âWe have active-duty law enforcement in our organization that are helping to train us. We can blend in with our law enforcement and in fact, in a lot of cases, our training is much more advanced because of our military backgrounds.â
While Arroyo seems to think that this will help make the public feel more comfortable with giving a law enforcement role to unaccountable vigilantes like his group, what it actually does is raise yet more bright red flags about the extent to which our law enforcement organizations have been infiltrated by and blithely staffed with right-wing extremists.
That problem became self-evident when it emerged that some 31 law-enforcement officers in 12 states have been linked to the Jan. 6 Capitol siege. Itâs become a paramount issue as the connections between law enforcement and the far-right Proud Boys street brawlersâwith whom the Oath Keepers at various times have linked armsâbecame better known after the insurrection as well. These issues are why the FBI sent out a bulletin to law enforcement advising them to be on the lookout for infiltration by such far-right groups.
This, as I explained well over a decade ago, is exactly what makes organizations like the Oath Keepers so potentially dangerous to our democracy:
Inevitably, there are going to be competent killers either joining the far right from our military ranksâespecially if they've been recruited into those beliefs either before or during their serviceâor enacting far-right "lone wolf scenarios," and they are going to have the ability to wreak a great deal of havoc.
One of the experts CBS consulted for the piece, ex-NSC Senior Cirector Javed Ali, noted: âI think what makes the Oath Keepers unique and challenging, beyond the fact that they are a formal group with chapters all over the country, is that a large percentage have tactical training and operational experience in either the military or law enforcement. That at least gives them a capability that a lot of other people in this far right space don't have.â
One of the ways the Oath Keepers, like all would-be vigilantes, have always avoided accountabilityâas they have from their origins, when a prominent Oath Keeper speaker was arrested for sexually abusing his young daughterâis to claim that anyone causing trouble or breaking the law wasnât really a member of the organization. This lets them fob off the violent, black helicopter paranoia and outright incompetence that swirls around their activities (including the moment, at the 2014 Bundy Ranch standoff, that Oath Keepers and militiamen were drawing down on each other) as the mere side effect of the occasional irresponsible nonmember using their name
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18 Apr 21 8:33 am
+ WATCH: Bill Maher Once Said N-Word 11 Times and Told a Black Woman He Couldnât Tell She Was Black â And Didnât Get Canceled
TOMMY CHRISTOPHER APR 17, 2021 11:46 AM
Comic and political pundit Bill Maher hosted Sharon Osbourne for an extended complaint session about âcancel cultureâ on Friday night, partially because Maher was able to survive cultural cancellation himself after he said the n-word 11 times on the air in a segment of his old Politically Incorrect show.
On the latest episode of HBOâs Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher commiserated with Osbourne over her exit from CBSâ The Talk following an on-air meltdown during which she berated a co-host and demanded she not cry.
But for all of his complaining about âcancel culture,â Maher has managed to cultivate an immunity to the alleged phenomenon that would make Pfizer and Moderna jealous.
Lots of people probable remember the flap surrounding his invocation of the term âhouse niggaâ during an interview with Ben Sasse. Maher was moved to release a brief statement of apology that time, which was followed by a lengthy schooling from Professor Michael Eric Dyson and some professional counseling from Ice Cube and Symone Sanders.
But long before that, during the run of his ABC show Politically Incorrect, Maher took some truly atrocious liberties during a discussion of racial slurs with Black actor and activist Anne-Marie Johnson.
During that segment, while advancing the even-in-2001-tired-as-hell argument that white people can say the n-word because Black people say it, he blurted out âniggaâ 11 times â including the claim that people regularly walk up to him and say âBill, you a nigga!â â and told Johnson heâd never know she was Black if she hadnât alerted him to that fact.
The segment included some other pretty sickening moments, such as David Spade explaining how much the mockery of white people by Black comics hurts him and Sarah Silverman defending her assertion that activist Guy Aoki wasnât really offended by her use of the word âchinkâ in a joke, and was just trying to get attention for himself.
She concluded the segment by telling Aoki, to his face, âYou know what? There are only two Asian people I know that I donât like. One is you, and the other is my friend Steve, who actually went pee pee in my Coke.â
That episode aired on August 22, 2001, and it was not followed by any outcry, and Maherâs show stayed on the air for nearly a year after that, even after he said something that actually did eventually get him canceled â at least from ABC.
But Maher landed on his feet quickly, and has since thrived on HBO, where he consistently rails against the âcancel cultureâ that he mysteriously seems to escape time after tine. How about that?
Watch the full segment above.
Tags: Anne-Marie Johnson, Bill Maher, David Spade, Guy Aoki, Ice Cube, Michael Eric Dyson, Politically Incorrect, Real Time with Bill Maher, Sarah Silverman, Sharon Osbourne, Symone Sanders, The Talk
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17 Apr 21 10:01 am
+ They're the military's most elite. In secret online groups, some spew racism, conspiracies.
Carol E. Lee and Anna Schecter
Fri, April 16, 2021, 3:30 AM
WASHINGTON â They're the most elite, lethally trained members of the U.S. military, widely considered the best of the best. And yet in secret Facebook groups exclusively for special operations forces that were accessed by NBC News, they share misinformation about a "stolen" 2020 election, disparaging and racist comments about America's political leadership and even QAnon conspiracy theories.
