Bill

https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/california-big-game-hunter-ernie-dosio-dead-elephants-africa-hunt

Whether far right or far left it is follow the leader and a descent into violence and debauchery is within the scope of real possibilities under the right circumstances.

I find this illustrative of how easily led and stupid the great majority of humans are. Berkley law students. That should mean something,…[Read more]

Jake and Simon:

All of this is further complicated by shifting allegiances and overlapping interests.

I recall hearing an interview in the Nineties and with Alan Handleman of a Michigan Militia head who said that the membership included Muslims. Guess somebody was doing dress rehearsals.

Right-Winger Tucker Carlson also has waxed glowingly…[Read more]

Simon:

There were 2977 deaths of victims from the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks. Any comparison of terrorist deaths between Islamist terrorists and any other terrorists from 2001 onward that doesn’t account for these victims is an absolutely crummy study, either on setting parameters or counting. And if this is the best PBS can do, it’s a small…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
i did not notice anything about Islamic terorism.

Based on government and independent analyses, right-wing extremist violence has been responsible for the overwhelming majority of fatalities, amounting to approximately 75% to 80% of U.S. domestic terrorism deaths since 2001.

Illustrative cases include the 2015 Charleston church…

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Jake:

Another story with more detail on the SPLC. “Forward” was a favorite word of You Know Who Else:

After Allegations Of Toxic Culture, Southern Poverty Law Center Tries To Move Forward
April 17, 20195:01 AM ET
Heard on Morning…[Read more]

Read it quickly Simon but i did not notice anything about Islamic terorism. And i am not sure how that would be categorized. Belongs on left not right. But i don’t see any reckoning. No doubt the wack job right wing racists are dangerous. Hard core Maga fuckerz will kill a bitch. And yet i don’t think they are any kind of existential threat or…[Read more]

Jake,
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/right-wing-extremist-violence-is-more-frequent-and-deadly-than-left-wing-violence-data-shows

Jake:

The SPLC isn’t good at “living the Dream.”
Famous civil rights group suffers from ‘systemic culture of racism and sexism,’ staffers say
By Nick Valencia and Pamela Kirkland, CNN
6 min read
Published 6:12 AM EDT, Fri March 29, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/29/us/splc-leadership-crisis/

Thanks Enco.

Politics should be divorced from this shit but good luck with that. I wonder how the far left attacks/violence line up with far right. Right has Waco wack job Branch Davidians and Timothy McVeigh and idk how many lone wolves and some other major incidents. Not sure how the shootings in schools are even categorized. Obviously…[Read more]

Jake:

The Hate Map of the the Southern Poverty Law Center (SCLP) has several categories of ideologies that are mostly considered Far Right, including Anti-Muslim–but has no category for Muslim-Identifying Hate Groups or for Pro-Palestine Hate Groups, even though those would probably be about as numerous as the other categories:

Hate…[Read more]

Enco,

Seems like a weird indictment…for paying informants? Stoking racial hatred? How did the informants do that?

Some years ago i read a book written by one of the top dogs in Southern Poverty Law Center. I don’t remember a lefty bent. Maybe i just wasn’t hip to it. Is there some indication they only want to uncover far right hate groups?…[Read more]

Jake:

It never helps when those who proport to fight hateful, deadly ideologies turn around and assist them. Or when the Department of Justice is run by a drunk frat boy:

Civil rights organization indicted for paying informants in hate groups
Apr 21, 2026 at 01:33 PM EDT
Updated Apr 21, 2026 at 06:48 PM EDT
Eva Fedderly, Ally…[Read more]

Jake:

It never helps when those who proport to fight hateful, deadly ideologies turn around and assist them. Or when the Department of Justice is run by a drunk frat boy:

Civil rights organization indicted for paying informants in hate groups
Apr 21, 2026 at 01:33 PM EDT
Updated Apr 21, 2026 at 06:48 PM EDT
Eva Fedderly, Ally…[Read more]

Enco,

Funny stuff on cult/religion. Funny cuz of its accuracy. And as i’ve indicated here a discreet cult of say 500 carrying on precisely as hard core Muslims would be viewed as a departure from any form of decent way to live. Cult members would be seen as victims who outside world helps to deprogram.

The deliberate entanglement in the…[Read more]

Jake:

How many 10s or 100s of millions have died as a direct result of beliefs? Without looking at a search engine a group of educated people could come up with the goods to back the numbers i have given. Pol Pot was not a Scot.

There was one scholar who compiled the numbers of people murdered by their own government, not including warfare, in…[Read more]

Can you imagine the opposition to critical thinking as a key aspect of curriculum K through 12 and into higher ed? The opposition to opposition of the imposition of reason would be viewed as treason. Parents having little Johny and Jane asking questions about the bs in the temple, mosque or church? They would freak. Magas would go wild. Obviously…[Read more]

By 1st grade our critical thinking students ought to be leary of hero worship, of any system of thought that requires faith. Oh my aching back latch. How stupid to drop your guard and accept on “good authority” the BS that follows.

If ya ain’t got the goods shut your fucking mouth or sell it to somebody who is no brighter than a rock baking in the sun.

Yeah man, Enco.

Beliefs. How many times have i heard sentiments along the lines, ‘i don’t care about other’s beliefs as long as it does not affect me.’ Fooling a human is no more difficult than a dog that we train. There is nobody home in the majority of cases in which humans are hoodwinked by you name the ideology: communism, palestinianism,…[Read more]

Fullermingjr:

You wrote:

You asked where I work. I have worked in higher education for over 35 years as staff and recently as faculty, and I have watched the broader culture change. The changes in culture and law involve gender, pronouns, marriage, and related, and thus these changes impact corporate environments including policy.

I see.

Are…[Read more]