The reason the alt-right exists...

[sledger]

...is because of people like grecian.

Discuss.

 

[Spikey]

video games are truly to blame

 

[Athlai]

They had to do it to respond to the alt left and the fake news media.

 

[Athlai]

They had to do it because Obama is turning the frogs gay.

 

[StephenZA]

Because people really are that stupid... and probably always will be.

 

[Spikey]

no it's the video games and the weird nerds

 

[Athlai]

I don't mean to alarm anyone, but the term alt-right was coined the same week as the movie Twilight was released in cinemas.

 

[StephenZA]

no it's the video games and the weird nerds

As a nerd, ex-video, board and card gamer I take offense at this....

 

[Magrat Garlick]

no it's the video games and the weird nerds

checks out

 

[Gnske]

Because a Kenyan became president

 

[Munificent_Fool]

The conception of the alt-right is much like the tea party imo. It started out with respectable motives and intentions but has mutated into extreme immaturity and browbeating. I rejoice in their disposition to be cynical towards the moronic, naive clowns on my side of the political spectrum but they're scraping the bottom of the barrel by now.

And the prognostic parts of their criticisms are beyond laughable.

 

[Spark]

This seems like a good read on the issue:

Libertarians Sometimes Become Fascists. Here?s Why. | National Review

Like religion, politics attracts kooks and grifters because it is a field where results have a mysterious and hard-to-trace relationship with the time, effort, and cash invested in them. Grifters use this to create lucrative and low-effort consulting jobs. For kooks, the comfort is more psychological. If a kook can convince himself — or better yet, others — that Freemasons, Jews, or Cultural Marxists run the whole world, he’s suddenly relieved of the burden of explaining to himself and others the shipwreck of his own talents and ambitions. And speaking of grifters, if kooks start digging into the crack in their minds and sometimes end up with a cracked will, grifters start with a cracked will and usually end up with an empty mind. Anything like a conviction could get in the way of the money-making.

 

[grecian]

yeah, I invented Nationalism, and being a dick. not that it's a base feeling, for inadequate's and saying it's a reaction is the most pathetic excuse for their own vileness, or owt.

Evil people have never owned up to what they do, they always blame others for behaving appallingly, the Alt-right is a seething cauldron of victimhood based on a ridiculously wrong premise that the most privelleged in society are somehow disadvantaged.

So yeah they have to blame the Liberals, Socialists, Feminists, Jews, Blkacks, Mexicans and every ****ing one else, but themselves, because secretly even they know those and the ones appeasing them are, of course, the only ones to blame for this mass distortion of any reality in this World.

None of it's new, the Alt-right is just another name for it, with different targets, and it existed before Hitler throughout history.

 

[straw man]

wtf is with all these crap threads popping up?

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Hard to argue with this thread. Especially considering grecian's reply.

 

[Bahnz]

Yep, may is well lock the thread now. grecian's reply has rendered any further discussion totally redundant.

 

[Gnske]

Someone had to grab the low hanging fruit

 

[straw man]

yeah, I invented Nationalism, and being a dick. not that it's a base feeling, for inadequate's and saying it's a reaction is the most pathetic excuse for their own vileness, or owt.

Well I mean I struggled to interpret this.

But the bit below seemed nothing but fair, accurate, balanced and nay, even generous, to those it criticises.

Evil people have never owned up to what they do, they always blame others for behaving appallingly, the Alt-right is a seething cauldron of victimhood based on a ridiculously wrong premise that the most privelleged in society are somehow disadvantaged.

 

[StephenZA]

yeah, I invented Nationalism, and being a dick. not that it's a base feeling, for inadequate's and saying it's a reaction is the most pathetic excuse for their own vileness, or owt.

Evil people have never owned up to what they do, they always blame others for behaving appallingly, the Alt-right is a seething cauldron of victimhood based on a ridiculously wrong premise that the most privelleged in society are somehow disadvantaged.

So yeah they have to blame the Liberals, Socialists, Feminists, Jews, Blkacks, Mexicans and every ****ing one else, but themselves, because secretly even they know those and the ones appeasing them are, of course, the only ones to blame for this mass distortion of any reality in this World.

None of it's new, the Alt-right is just another name for it, with different targets, and it existed before Hitler throughout history.

I agree 100% with all this but would like to add.... all the bigoted left wing extreme socialist types who are just as power hungry no less selfish who blame anybody who has money or power for being evil far right bastards and getting that money power off illegal activity, stepping on the bones of the underprivileged and pretty much the cause of all bad things in the world... which is also not true.

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

Terry Pratchet and Neil Gaimen, Good Omens

We can only hope that people on avg can become better people..... my little Utopia wish.

 

[hendrix]

Yeah the European neo-nazis have probably just as much in common with the left as they do the right