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Are far-right groups taking over small-town America? (abcnews.go.com)

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Taking?

Here in Oregon, militia groups have been a problem in small rural towns since the 80s.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Have you been to battleground, wa? 😅

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh, yeah, I helped a school there re-build their library.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They have schools? I thought everyone was homeschooled up there!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, that was like 30 years ago... ;)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

They must not have built a door on the library 😇

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

80s?

Southern Washington and the majority of Oregon were hot spots for white supremacist "utopia" migration dating back to before the Civil Rights movement.

As a white dude, it's fucking scary visiting some of those small towns in both states. My wife will even suggest not going to areas due research she's done to verify that were not stepping into a social trap.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I was coming back from Eastern Oregon and stopped for lunch in Umatilla:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umatilla,_Oregon

Bar food, fine, enough to get back on the road. Hit the mens room on the way out.

I shit you not, white power graffiti all over the bathroom. 1" from the floor to 1" from the ceiling.

That's not an accident.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Bruh there's like weirdo secret fighting/fitness/combat groups specifically for right wing white folks popping up where I live and it's so bizarre. Literally none of them are run by anyone who's fighting fit and they're basically a glorified social club for people who just want to be crazy bigoted while feeling like they're part of some master plan.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Anybody read the book from this article? Wondering how it is.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago

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[+] [email protected] -93 points 3 months ago (8 children)

You guys do realize that the left moved farther left, and the right is just lagging behind. That's about it.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We're going to keep demanding equal rights for everyone despite your fascist bullshit.

Why don't you light a tiki torch about it?

[+] [email protected] -13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You have equal rights. What right do you not have that everyone else does?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Why do you assume I'm talking about myself?

We're not all as self-obsessed as conservatives. You just can't help but tell on yourself, huh?

Why don't you storm the capitol about it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How is equal rights relevant in say, a discussion about abortion between a man and a woman?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Isn't it fun that conservative takes are indistinguishable from those of trolls or fascists?

[+] [email protected] -12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, the equal in a man would be a legal/financial abortion, where the man forfeits all parental rights, and doesn't have any of the responsibilities.

You're right, men have less rights than women in many states, since men don't have reproductive rights.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You’re right, men have less rights than women in many states, since men don’t have reproductive rights.

That's not at all what I'm saying and it's creepy as fuck that you're putting words in my mouth so it seems someone here agrees with your weirdo take. There's no equivalent of an abortion for a man and insisting that there's such thing as a "legal/financial" abortion is just straight delusional. Good lord...

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We can’t realize because it is objectively untrue. Like, the right just keeps moving right and has been doing so for many decades. They’re not just lagging behind but actively doing as much as they can to obstruct progress and even undoing as much of it as they possibly can. It’s pushed even the very idea of “the left” towards the middle so when you get someone even slightly left who hasn’t changed their views at all speaking up people think they’re “moving further left”.

Again, there’s nothing there to realize because you comment is just completely and easily fact-checked to be wrong.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

I wish the left was as far left as it used to be. Roosevelt or even LBJ would be a welcome shift from the corporate Democratic party that Clinton thought he needed to counter Reaganism.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

What left? All the US has in its major parties is center-right or far-right.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Cool! So tell me: who in the American "left" are advocating for the abolishment of private property and armed uprisings against the ownership class? You know, the things a real leftist would advocate for?

[+] [email protected] -12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's economic left. There's social left too, which is what I was referring to. Unfortunately, the single axis left-right isn't very descriptive.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The movement left that you’re referring to, if whining about the social left, is that we’re finally able to acknowledge large groups of people that were oppressed for fucking ages. And when I say able I’m breezing last the fact that people still find themselves in dangerous situations all the time. Yes, things get more complex as each step forward reveals new layers but accepting trans people and realizing that you need to force business owners to not be hugely racist is not “moving left” it’s “being a decent fucking human being”.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Go on mate, pull the other one!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Left coast is best coast.

[–] pizza_the_hutt 4 points 3 months ago

Let me know when the "left" tries to take away women's bodily autonomy, significantly weakens unions, makes child marriage OK, makes child labor in dangerous conditions legal, or tries to overthrow the government. Last time I checked, only conservatives supported all of the above.