***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[EddieDoyers]

Lol Comey

 

[whywesteppin]

Yuk yuk yuk

your status bar is a mess.

 

[RustyShackleford]

Comey need to get his *** out the paint.

I hope dem HU students give him the work again.

 

[gry60]

your status bar is a mess.

Not mine.

 

[Nike Jordan]

No ****, Sherlock.

The Military Has a Serious White Nationalist Problem

A study published on Monday presents alarming new evidence about something that has, so far, been anecdotally reported: the U.S. military has a white nationalist problem, and it’s getting worse.

For more than a decade, reports have linked high-profile racist extremists to veterans organizations and the military. This latest study suggests there’s a problem more far-ranging than the occasional “bad apple” or enlisted figurehead.

In September, about a month after white supremacists descended on Charlottesville, VA, for the “Unite the Right” rally, Army Times conducted a confidential online survey of more than 1,000 active-duty troops. The publication released the results of that poll late Monday afternoon.

The Times found that nearly one in four survey respondents had witnessed concrete instances of white nationalism among fellow troops. Unsurprisingly, the number of “non-white” troops who witnessed such behavior was much higher, at around 42%. Among active-duty troops at large, however, homegrown white nationalism was ranked as a more pressing national security threat than Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, “U.S. protest movements,” and “civil disobedience.”

Perhaps more troublingly, while the majority of service members did recognize the threat of white nationalism in the service and the nation at large, a fringe faction (around 5%) wrote comments disparaging the methodology of the poll and complaining that groups like Black Lives Matter weren’t included as an example of an encroaching extremist threat. (To its credit, the Times refers to BLM’s goal as being to raise “awareness of violence and discrimination towards black people.”)

In these written responses to the survey, anonymous members of the command reflected opinions of white nationalism typically only held by, well, white nationalists:

“White nationalism is not a terrorist organization,” wrote one Navy commander, who declined to give his name.

“You do realize white nationalists and racists are two totally different types of people?” wrote another anonymous Air Force staff sergeant.

The oddly pervasive belief among white people that they’re being actively discriminated against aside, the military’s white nationalist problem has troubling consequences for nearly every other major fissure in America today. For example: While some military commanders went on the record to counter Trump’s “nice-people-on-all-sides” apologist whimper in Charlottesville’s wake, it has become clear over the last year’s violent protests how much white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups rely on former service members for protection, tactical advice, and recruiting. This has been the result of a long-term, intentional campaign.

As far back as 2009, the Department of Homeland Security warned of right wing extremists targeting “disgruntled” former service members. These people “will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat,” DHS wrote. So we shouldn’t have been surprised when leaders of white supremacist groups in Charlottesville were later identified as former Marines—and one, even, as a Corps recruiter.

Nor, as these trends intensify, should we be surprised when Charlottesville cops stand and watch a white supremacist shoot a gun into a crowd. Those same 1-in-20 Military Times respondents who espouse white nationalist thought are very likely, once they leave the service, to find themselves as members of the increasingly unregulated, militarized power structure in this country.

As ICE and Border Patrol struggle to keep pace with their Trump-era hiring mandates, the agencies will continue to aggressively recruit military veterans, waiving some requirements in order to fast-track them; the American Law Enforcement Heroes Act, signed by the president in June, incentivizes local police forces to hire even more veterans, though by some estimates one in five officers are already coming into the force from Afghanistan, Iraq, or another military assignment.

White nationalist groups, neo-Nazis, and the so-called “alt-right” have recently bragged of infiltrating academia, politics, the media, even the tech industry. But in infiltrating the military, they’ve acquired much more terrifying means.

 

[rolaholic]

Service members said they believe it's a graver threat to national security than ISIS but we know what we're not gonna hear about in the news or from the regime

You can bet not a damn things gonna happen about that and the infiltration of law enforcement by WS's either with grand wizard sessions heading the DOJ...

If anything,they've got a green light right now

In other news...

 

[deuce king]

if only people had voted instead of staying home, we wouldn't be in this mess.

@maximus meridius
@TariqNasheed

 

[frink85]

In other news...

Translation: free money for white christian groups

 

[EddieDoyers]

Didn’t one NTer come in here and say “Republicans don’t take handouts”

 

[RustyShackleford]

@maximus meridius
@TariqNasheed

Don't vote.......what you need to do is go see my new movie 1804, the Hidden History of Haiti.

 

[IATT]

 

[IATT]

 

[whywesteppin]

JFK documents get released tomorrow, unless trump blocks it for whatever reason.

I wouldn't expect any real answers to come about. just more conjecture and innuendo.

 

[elpablo21]

 

[IATT]

 

[whywesteppin]

 

[whywesteppin]

David cop-a-feel?

I'll give him a B+ though for his excuse:

 

[tego calderon el abayarde]

So which one of y'all is going to try that "joke" to see if it works?

 

[frink85]

So which one of y'all is going to try that "joke" to see if it works?

Try it on Jenna Bush at Thanksgiving dinner

 

[rexanglorum]

Ted does like doing things in secret, like secretly watching two consenting adults doing what he wishes he had the courage to do himself.

Say what you will about Rafael, he is a modern day Atticus Finch. Except instead of defending the incconence of a black man, he prosecutes the lasciviousness of dildoes in a small Texas town. (not even kidding on this one)

Comey need to get his *** out the paint.

I hope dem HU students give him the work again.

Ya know, sometimes a feel like a missed out going straight PWI in my schooling.

Don't vote.......what you need to do is go see my new movie 1804, the Hidden History of Haiti.

Tariq is funny, he raised some good points about hurdles faced by black men trying to enter the professions and his drug dealer-banker-2008 crash allegory was priceless. However, the dude passes off 6th, 7th and 10th grade World History as revolutionary.

I went to bourgeois, suburban, white bread schools and knew about the subject matter of Hidden Colors and 1804 before I was old enough to buy cigarettes.

 

[elpablo21]

But her emails dossier funding

 

[iamdef]

So which one of y'all is going to try that "joke" to see if it works?

I don't make enough or throw a ball well enough

 

[leavemeglazzies]

 

[AEA18]

No ****, Sherlock.

The Military Has a Serious White Nationalist Problem

You would have to have rocks in your head to wanna insult some guys that are gonna potentially save your life one day.

Racist people in the military, fire departments, and police departments. This is not some rare occurrence.

From the "Firefighter fired over a gifted watermelon" thread

 

[iamdef]

Who was that in that thread that was tryna act like you couldn't be racist and have them jobs?