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Initech

(100,028 posts)
Fri May 17, 2019, 11:44 AM May 2019

I was looking up articles for next week's Top 10. Saw this one. OMFG.

I know it's Breitbart, but this is really a classic example of conservative hypocrisy, especially coming from that of young conservatives and neo nazis. I want to show this because this is how they think and this is what we are up against. They really are getting nuttier, and they really can't let go of Antifa. Wow.

Turning Point USA Chief Creative Officer Benny Johnson joined host Alex Marlow in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily for the weekly TPUSA campus report. Johnson talked about the students he has met during his time at TPUSA, many of whom have talked about the different ways in which they have been subjected to leftist hate, and that it is important for students to know they should not allow leftist intimidation tactics to silence them.

“The most dangerous place you can be out on a college campus is at a Turning Point [recruiting] table,” said Johnson, “because the left has warped into a violent movement, this has been seen across the country, Antifa has seen dozens and dozens of arrests, and oftentimes, the easiest person to target on the right is a young student.”

Johnson also spoke about members of Black Lives Matter, who showed up at one of his campus appearances to protest his speech this past semester. Johnson noted that he was able to have a productive dialogue with the student protesters, who told him that they believed the criminal justice system treats their communities unfairly.

“Do you trust the government? I asked,” said Jonson of his conversation with the protesters, “They said, ‘No, absolutely not, we do not trust the government, we think the government is targeting certain populations of people unfairly.’ I said, ‘Well, most conservatives are principled on the one issue that we really do not trust the government and the people who run it.'”
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/05/15/tpusas-benny-johnson-to-conservative-students-do-not-let-tactics-of-authoritarian-thugs-silence-you/


And we're the hysterical lunatics? GTFO! I think they protest too much.
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ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
2. Those with diminished capacity for rational thought fill in the blanks with consipiracy theories
Fri May 17, 2019, 11:56 AM
May 2019

The nice thing about conspiracy theories is that you can shut the opposition down quickly by calling them part of the cabal.

Initech

(100,028 posts)
3. Why can't conspiracy theories ever be used for good things?
Fri May 17, 2019, 11:57 AM
May 2019

Why do they always have to be bad? I have wondered that a long time.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
4. Because they are dangerous
Fri May 17, 2019, 12:05 PM
May 2019

That's why you often see people here on DU chastising a poster who is starting down a rabbit hole. Conspiracy theories, I believe, are just immature wish fulfillment. Now, if we could just convince these people they can fly if they really try hard enough and deliver them to the top of a very tall building...

Initech

(100,028 posts)
6. Oh yeah I know a few of the type.
Fri May 17, 2019, 12:16 PM
May 2019

But like instead of "liberals are coming to take your guns away!!!!!!1!!!1!", I want to see "Liberals are coming to give you free health care!"

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
7. As far as I'm concerned, Tom Baker is the ONLY doctor
Fri May 17, 2019, 12:17 PM
May 2019

Well, he is tops between Pertwee, Baker, and Davidson. Those three were from the "era" when I began watching.

CrispyQ

(36,413 posts)
8. There was an article a few months ago, maybe longer, about the right wing echo chamber
Fri May 17, 2019, 12:20 PM
May 2019

& how conspiracy theories on the left get bounced back into the main stream media & debunked, but the conspiracy theories on the right never get out of the rw echo chamber & just bounce around getting stronger & nuttier. My rwnj cousin, who I've had to discontinue contact with, believes all this deep state shit. He could never write the word "left" without a derogatory adjective before it. Let's see if I have them all: angry, hateful, hypocritical, lying, outraged, radical, unhinged, and violent. Yeah, that covers it.

Initech

(100,028 posts)
9. Yeah there was the Deep State, then that morphed into Pizzagate, then that morphed into Q.
Fri May 17, 2019, 12:45 PM
May 2019

I don't think it can get any nuttier than Q, but their depths of depravity never fail to reach new levels.

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