Random Politics & Religion #14

Days of heavy airstrikes have left Syria's rebel-held eastern Aleppo without a single hospital operating at full capacity says the Syrian American Medical Society.
The sobering news, following a week of intense airstrikes, came the same day that more than 60 civilians were killed in eastern Aleppo, according to a volunteer search and rescue organization.

A number of major trauma hospitals were knocked out of service during recent attacks, according to the medical society.
However, activists working in the city said up to five other hospitals in eastern neighborhoods are still functioning.
"For the first time, eastern Aleppo is out of hospitals operating at full capacity," said Dr. Mazen Kewara, director of the medical society's Turkey office. "There are remaining medical facilities, but they are not operating at full capacity."
One of those hit was a children's hospital, forcing staff to evacuate babies to safety.

Hospitals are desperately needed as an estimated 250,000 people remain trapped while the Syrian regime bombards the city's rebel-held east, which faces dwindling reserves of food, fuel and medical supplies.
On Saturday, at least 61 civilians were killed by the bombardment of eastern Aleppo, according to the Syrian Civil Defense, a volunteer group also known as the White Helmets. The barrage included 250 airstrikes and more than 2,000 artillery rounds.

Preliminary reading on the alt right -- which I admit I've done little true research of -- paints them in a not awful light. In their own words, at least.

While I still disagree pretty seriously with the sentiments I'm seeing expressed -- I think they're old-fashioned and impractical in today's word, however great they may be as an ideal, and they are exceedingly condescending in their self expression -- I am willing to concede that not all alt right believers should be dismissed out of hand as some of them appear to merely be idealists of a different stripe and not necessarily racists/etc.

There is a bit of xenophobia inherent in their beliefs, but that's true among a lot of people and places on all sides of the political spectrum.

Preliminary reading on the alt right -- which I admit I've done little true research of -- paints them in a not awful light. In their own words, at least.

While I still disagree pretty seriously with the sentiments I'm seeing expressed -- I think they're old-fashioned and impractical in today's word, however great they may be as an ideal, and they are exceedingly condescending in their self expression -- I am willing to concede that not all alt right believers should be dismissed out of hand as some of them appear to merely be idealists of a different stripe and not necessarily racists/etc.

There is a bit of xenophobia inherent in their beliefs, but that's true among a lot of people and places on all sides of the political spectrum.

Uh, I hate to break this to you, but you're doing it wrong. It's really, really simple. You just have to follow the three-step program for handling people whose views differ from yours.

1. Demonize
2. Deride
3. Dismiss

Just remember: Triple-D. Now try your post again.

Also, Drac, I want to be clear, I don't think your posts aren't important or worthy of attention, I just have very little to say in the face of actual tragedy.

If I can't glean dark humor or at least a little derision for the opposition out of it my brain goes into "well ***, that's really shitty and you can't do a thing about it, ***" silent mode.

Far, far too many people took Trump's words literally as promises they wanted to see kept and are likely to be sorely disappointed when he doesn't built a literal brick wall spanning the entire length of the border, and when he doesn't just start bombing the living ***out of every country that disagrees with us.

I just think it's important to post about something else than US politics all the time, no need to comment on it really

The idea that we weren't supposed to take his words literally is god damn motherfucking insane.

The idea that we weren't supposed to take his words literally is god damn motherfucking insane.

For those wondering why the US has the Electoral College system.

Eh, it'd be pretty relevant for about a dozen of my idiot friends on Facebook.

So you are talking to nobody, ok. Long post that nobody needs to read.

Washington (CNN)Steve Bannon has no regrets.
The ex-Breitbart executive, who serves as Trump's chief strategist for the new administration, told The Hollywood Reporter that "darkness is good."
"*** Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. It only helps us when they (liberals) get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're doing," he said in an interview published Friday, his first outside of Breitbart since the election.
Briebart News, which Bannon has been associated with since its start in 2007, has been vehemently pro-Trump throughout his presidential campaign, and is also known for pushing nationalist policy positions, as well as conspiracy theories, and has been criticized as being racist, sexist and anti-Semitic.
The interview largely didn't address Bannon's previous controversies, though he denied being a "white nationalist."
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"I'm a nationalist. I'm an economic nationalist," he said in the interview. "The globalists gutted the American working class and created a middle class in Asia. The issue now is about Americans looking to not get f---ed over. If (the Trump White House delivers), we'll get 60 percent of the white vote, and 40 percent of the black and Hispanic vote and we'll govern for 50 years. That's what the Democrats missed. They were talking to these people with companies with a $9 billion market cap employing nine people. It's not reality. They lost sight of what the world is about."
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Bannon also said he wanted to scrap the establishment Republican Party and start anew with Trump's movement.
"Like (Andrew) Jackson's populism, we're going to build an entirely new political movement," he said. "It's everything related to jobs. The conservatives are going to go crazy. I'm the guy pushing a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. With negative interest rates throughout the world, it's the greatest opportunity to rebuild everything. Shipyards, iron works, get them all jacked up. We're just going to throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks. It will be as exciting as the 1930s, greater than the Reagan revolution -- conservatives, plus populists, in an economic nationalist movement."
He also said he was a strong follower of Trump's leadership, adding that the way h "He gets it; he gets it intuitively," Bannon said about Trump. "You have probably the greatest orator since William Jennings Bryan, coupled with an economic populist message and two political parties that are so owned by the donors that they don't speak to their audience."
He said he always knew that former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton would lose the election.
"I knew that she couldn't close," he said. "They outspent us 10 to one, had 10 times more people and had all the media with them, but I kept saying it doesn't matter, they got it all wrong, we've got this locked." speaks helped his message and to get him elected.

Considering he's been part of legislation specifically designed to discriminate against the lgbt community, it's not an assumption knowing how he feels so nothing they said was out of line.