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Blogger Who Revealed GOP Leader's KKK Ties Had Home Internet Lines Cut
blottsie writes Last month, Lamar White, Jr. set off a firestorm in Washington when a post on his personal blog revealed that House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, the third most powerful Republican in the House of Representatives, was a featured speaker at a white nationalist conference put on by former Klu Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke. Then someone climbed in his back yard and severed his Internet cables.
Gee, they fight for their second amendment rights but stop someone else from using their rights under the first.
"My rights are for me and me alone."
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maybe more to come. sometimes a crime is faked (Tawana Brawley?)
Blogs are on the internet.
...but it's being eaten...by some...Linux or something...
Why wait for any more details? Clearly this is all the information we need.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Providing secular laws and education seems to be the key in blunting the effect of religious zealotry
We can easily identify those leaders who fight against secularism as the promoters of religious radicalism and refuse to vote for them
Wherever You Go, There You Are
Shhh... This is /. Facts don't matter when you can pretend the republicans are participating in the democrat created and controlled kkk.
Truth rarely matters in these things.Once the Narrative is set, all other stories contrary to the narrative are shut down and censored. Nothing else matters but the narrative.
And being part of the KKK doesn't really matter to Democrats, Robert Bird served in the Senate until he died having been in the KKK. But he was liberal, so it was excused. It only matters to Democrats if it is a Republican. The hypocrisy is thick
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Republicans do terrible things every single day. it's not hard to find an instance of wrongdoing from a party that offers nothing but theocracy and right-wing authoritarianism, so don't act like these toxic, regressive assholes are somehow being picked on. It's certainly not just a matter of "basement dwellers" "disagreeing" with evil. Why do the Republicans always claim that their evil is something to be agreed or disagreed with?
Face it, the losers who still haven't abandoned this insane, racist, far-right, deeply superstitious, reality-denying Republican party are terrible people. All the smart, well-meaning people bailed years ago when the wingnuts took over. Nixon and Reagan made huge mistakes in pandering to racists, homophobes, and superstitious people.
The hypocrisy is thick alright.
About as thick as that pile of BS you just spouted.
The dude admitted he spoke to them.
That's your narrative.
Case closed.
As for Robert Byrd, he repeatedly said he quit and left, and repeatedly apologized for the year he was a member, and repeatedly spoke against discrimination and in favor or tolerance. Yes, you got him: he started a local chapter and though it was a good thing, for about a year. And then spent the rest of his life apologizing for and denouncing it.
But as you said, the narrative has been set, and the facts don't matter.
The only think you left out is that you were speaking about yourself.
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
It's David fucking Duke. You can't be a politician from Louisiana and NOT know who he is. How do you go speak at a group and not do even a little bit of research on what they stand for? He may not be a neo-Nazi, but he's completely ignorant when it comes to political appearances. How does a guy like that make it to a leadership position in the Republican party?
They have lynched, raped, blown up churches, intimidated etc. Why are they not considered a terrorist organization?
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
So what do you prefer to call the coax cable that carries the internet connection? "The network frobnication string"?
The "coaxial cable", or the "cable television connection".
What's particularly stupid is the claim that it took a "power tool" to cut this line. Cutting standard 75 ohm cable TV cables takes all the power of ... a knife. At worst, a pair of dikes.
Now, maybe this guy was special and the cable company used hardline into his house, but even then a simple bolt cutter would make quick work of it.
Let's see if we can summarize this tempest over this awful event. A politician organized and led a chapter of the KKK. He sent a letter to senator saying:
He was interviewed in 2001 and said:
His bigotry extended to gay rights, where he:
This Scalise guy is clearly ... oh, wait. He didn't do any of that. That's all stuff that the highly respected Senator Robert Byrd did.
So what did Scalise do that shows he has "KKK ties"? He was invited to and spoke at a conference that he didn't know was organized by someone involved with the KKK. He talked about economics. Afterwards, the KKK organizers blogged about all the useful information about slush funds he gave them, as if his intent was to teach the KKK about how to use slush funds for evil things.
Scalise no more has KKK ties than Barack Obama has KKK ties because Obama spoke at Byrd's funeral and said good things about him.
Why do you equate gun-rights advocates with KKK members?
When your hash table only has two buckets, you either hash into bucket 'A' or you hash into bucket 'B'.