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New filings reveal FBI authorized use of DEADLY FORCE when they raided Mar-a-Lago

reddthat.com/post/19413014

But hey, those records Joe never had the authority for were sitting in his Vette.

Ffs the hypocrisy and lies.

“Frame Trunp” lol

It’s hard not to feel like most of his fanboys knew nothing about him before he ran for president. He’s a lifelong conman and proud of it. Did no one read his book? I did in the 90s and could tell this dude is the Steven Seagal of business.

Why defend this guy? There are plenty of conservative politicians who aren’t total pieces of shit with awful track records. It’s surreal that you elected a reality TV star to the highest office in the country and now you want to do it again.

@glimse @BearOfaTime Let's not pretend that the would villainize any conservative republican who won the nomination. If , , , heck anyone other than or would have won, you'd be saying the exact same thing today about that person.

Not to say that is 100% innocent BTW, if should be prosecuted for illegally having classified documents, so should . It goes both ways.

First off, what’s up with all the hashtags? Your comment looks ridiculous and it’s harder to read with links every other word.

Second, MSM would not be villainizing other candidates to this degree because Trump IS a villain. He’s the poster child for scummy businessmen…a caricature, really. I would not be saying the same things because I’ve been well aware of what a selfish asshole Trump is for 20 years…and he’s only gotten worse. Did you even read Art of the Deal? He’s an embarrassment to the country beyond his status as a disgraced politician.

You’re also forgetting that Biden handed those documents over willingly and without delay whereas Trump claimed he didn’t have them and then, when pressured, admitted he did have them but claimed he was allowed to. This isn’t even getting into the likelyhood that he was selling said documents to foreign actors. Now there’s mounting evidence that he tried to cover it all up. That’s your man? That’s who you think should run the country?

@glimse

> MSM would not be villainizing other candidates to this degree because Trump IS a villain.

You're just parroting talking points here, not proving that I'm wrong.

> He’s the poster child for scummy businessmen…a caricature, really. I would not be saying the same things because I’ve been well aware of what a selfish asshole Trump is for 20 years…and he’s only gotten worse.

Then why was he so well liked while he was a businessman? Nobody hated him until the criticized him.

I’m not parroting shit. Like I said, I’ve been following Trump’s shady dealings for 20 years. Clearly you haven’t.

He’s well-liked among two groups: the ultrarich because he makes them money with his schemes and the wannabe rich because they are willing to do anything to get ahead. He was never well-liked by other groups.

@glimse

> He’s well-liked among two groups: the ultrarich because he makes them money with his schemes and the wannabe rich because they are willing to do anything to get ahead. He was never well-liked by other groups.

Do you have a source for this?

A source for what exactly? Public opinion?

You don’t have to @ me every time.

@glimse Yes. If it was public, you should be able to find, say three instances of that opinion being espoused.

Unless it was like a super secret public opinion that nobody said out loud?

@realcaseyrollins @glimse

Like... the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Ziyon?!!

@amerika @glimse Pretty sure that was pretty popular in , and served as the origins for the modern antisemitic conspiracy theories we see today.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prot

en.wikipedia.orgThe Protocols of the Elders of Zion - Wikipedia

You’re talking to a white supremicist.

Their site makes it clear.

That’s the reason they’re citing a racist conspiracy theory.

The mods won’t ban him though, because that’s the kind of user they wish to court.

@LookBehindYouNowAndThen I'm not sure if he's a supremacist, more likely a racial separatist/"race realist". Wouldn't be shocked if he's racist, but yeah is quite the deep cut, and his alt-right views are probably the only way he even knows what that is (I only know what that is when I started researching the origins of the v. conflict and it came up as I was skimming )

I don’t make excuses for white supremicists.

Guess you do.

How the fuck is a “racial separatist” not a racist?

Gotta love how this community puts the full depravity of conservatism on display for everyone.

@LookBehindYouNowAndThen

> I don’t make excuses for racists.

I don't either! I do try to understand them though. They walk among us, after all.

> How the fuck is a “racial separatist” not a racist?

They're still racist; the difference is that a white supremacist thinks that white people are better than other people, and racial separatists think that all races are equal, but should be segregated from each other.

Funny how you’re more charitable to this white supremicist’s views than you are for anyone to your left.

Last time we were having a discussion you misrepresented my views with every reply, but you’ve really dialed in the various flavors of racist, because those nuances are so important to understand.

Conservatives will ally with racists and fascists before they compromise with a lib.

@LookBehindYouNowAndThen

> Funny how you’re more charitable to this white supremicist’s views than you are for anyone to your left.

This is an interesting take. You must not know me very well.

Have you seen my political commentary blacklist of bad faith actors? It's mostly people on the right.

social.teci.world/objects/a591

> Last time we were having a discussion you misrepresented my views with every reply

Which convo was this?

social.teci.worldrealcaseyrollins ✝️ (@realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world)Political wonks I used to follow but stopped following, and why:#ElijahSchaffer - Neo-Nazism#MiloYiannopoulos - Antagonistic, unhinged and potentially bad faith#StevenCrowder - Factual inaccuracies...

@LookBehindYouNowAndThen

> Conservatives will ally with racists and fascists before they compromise with a lib.

Part of me wonders if I'm even a anymore. I hate big government and a lot of them don't, and the people are pretty embarrassing to boot.

@realcaseyrollins @LookBehindYouNowAndThen

Conservatism is a philosophy, not a party. We are realists, the Left are anti-realists.

@amerika @LookBehindYouNowAndThen

> Conservatism is a philosophy

Fair enough; Conservatism is pretty broad so it can be as libertarian as it can be fascist.

I care too much about supporting small government and principles over people to want to associate too closely with the modern right, who I feel is increasingly okay with authoritarianism (look at their support of for example)

> We are realists, the Left are anti-realists.

That's kind of a childish way to view things.

@realcaseyrollins @LookBehindYouNowAndThen

I disagree; egalitarianism is an anti-realist philosophy.
@realcaseyrollins @LookBehindYouNowAndThen

Egalitarianism is the root of the Left; it is an ideology. Conservatism is a folkway, which means we prefer time-proven solutions, which requires measurement by reality not human judgment. This naturally leads to a need for social order on a case-by-case basis anchored in a few general principles instead of One Big Idea.

@amerika @LookBehindYouNowAndThen

> Egalitarianism is the root of the Left

Are you sure about this?

@amerika @LookBehindYouNowAndThen Imagine a horse with two legs. Doesn't mean that four legs are what makes a horse a horse. That's a parts-to-whole fallacy.

@realcaseyrollins @LookBehindYouNowAndThen

The core philosophy of the Left is egalitarianism; this is inherent in their origin both in the ancient times and in Revolutionary France.

"left, in politics, the portion of the political spectrum associated in general with egalitarianism and popular or state control of the major institutions of political and economic life."

https://www.britannica.com/topic/left
Encyclopedia BritannicaLeft | Definition & FactsLeft, in politics, the portion of the political spectrum associated in general with egalitarianism and popular or state control of the major institutions of political and economic life. Leftists tend to be hostile to the interests of traditional elites and to favor the interests of the working class.
@realcaseyrollins @LookBehindYouNowAndThen

A couple more links:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/egalitarianism/

https://iep.utm.edu/egalitarianism/

These are about the philosophy, but you can see the divisions in Leftism from classical liberal through Communism play out in these arguments.
plato.stanford.edu Egalitarianism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

@amerika @LookBehindYouNowAndThen I do know about because it has influenced some denominations of unfortunately