Holocaust denier runs unopposed in Illinois in GOP congressional primary

sorry but I absolutely do not believe you when you say you care and I am not trolling on that, I fundamentally absolutely do not believe it

*shrugs*. Doesn't matter to me.

Why are nazi's even allowed to run for a political office? In most European countries he'd be thrown in jail.

...you're going to criticize someone using wikipedia when you use infowars as a source?

yes I know that as well. you really do not care about anything and yes..I do believe you are a supporter of nazi ideals

I know those people really exist, I have met them personally

Uh huh.

You would think the Simon Wiesenthal Center would be all over this monstrosity, but something tells me they won't say a word.

Because all forms of authoritarianism are awful.

like the vast majority of businesses?

Think it would be hard to call them authoritarian, but I can happily concede that the overwhelming majority of corporations are fanatically awful.

you can 'concede' that majority of corporations are fanatically awful?

well that is fine but I never said that they were. so not sure who you have been talking to.

so why would you not call corporations authoritarian?

@tryit: because of the dictionary?

I see you need some help figuring out my question.

Companies are Authoritarian.

I don't see how outlawing national socialism is awful.

Authoritarians rarely have an issue with violently enforcing speech standards they agree with. It is what makes them authoritarian.

no that is not a requirement for being Authoritarian

but by all measures a company is an Authoritarian style system.

so its rather precarious for one to take the position that all Authoritarian systems are awful, clearly its circumstantial.

@perfect_blue: antifa stands for anti-fascist. I don’t see how that is a bad thing.

Oh I absolutely agree don't get me wrong.

If you stop at just the name when you judge something you are going to struggle. A lot of the most dictatorial nations have the put democratic in their name.

@kittennose: I’m only commenting on the name. At worst the antifa throw rocks at police and spray paint cars. Hardly on the same level as dictators.

@Baconstrip78: They commonly attack folks and encourage others to do the same.

@kittennose: Yes, but some of them deserve it. KKk and neo Nazis deserve to be beaten.

@Baconstrip78: Congratulations, you sound like a brownshirt. Though I have a funny feeling your opinion about if you deserve to be beaten is going to be radically different.

@kittennose: No, my grandfather had it right, kid. Nazis get the blowtorch or the bullet, not a megaphone and open ears. KKK get the noose, which is what they gave African Americans when they were at their height of power.

@Baconstrip78: It is always sad to see folks use their freedom of speech to advocate violence against other people using their freedom of speech. Particularly when the justification is that they advocate violence.

The only distinction between you and a brownshirt is your target.

I am going to agree with you on this one.

Republicans do not run in this district because it is impossible to win. The guy running is a nut case who claim to be a Republican even though he has no values of a Republican. He is more akin to the Democrats.

Lol. Just lol.

Besides your "Democrats are the true Nazi's" comment. You do realize your boy Trump won states/districts no one thought he would, right? Again, learn nothing from 2016?

My guess is that he wins. It's a majority white district with a LOT of racial resentment. The Democrat currently holding the seat is so conservative as to almost be a Republican himself. No one who supports the Democratic platform is going to show up to support him in the general, and enough of his voters are going to peel off to support the Nazi.

GOP and moral in the same sentence? LOL!

It was the NY Times that made it the far right because they didn't want the communist associated with socialists in Germany. They both have the same doctrine.

sorry no you are over complicating I would assume to support the candidate who is a former leader of an organization called The American Nazi Party which is a party of Nazism.

Just like if a candidate was a leader of the American Socialist Movement whose members where....socialists.

it really is that cut and dry, simple as that.

the question you should ask yourself is why are your marching orders to basically support this person? or at min. deflect attention

It's because we're a free country. At least we are until the nazis actually win political offices.

causes a new kind of 'PC' problem calling people Nazis when they are actually running for office, kinda have to

We will agree to disagree on the assessment of what he is. We can both agree that this man will not win office.

we do not agree on either of those items.

sorry but people on the right will vote for him

He won't win.

he is running against...nobody. literally nobody.

Trump won against someone, he has a real honest to god chance and red votes will be casted for him.

have you not noticed that the only group that is calling him 'not a Nazi' are people on the right? he will get the votes

I wonder what he said to get enough signatures. If he was truthful about his positions, that's rather disconcerting

Ugh, these Nazis man, they keep popping up, like some sick game of wack-a-mole

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@n64dd said:

@joebones5000 said:

The republican party just doesn't make sense...

I am going to agree with you on this one.

*high five*

lol I like how that makes it OK, too. "Oh he just hates jews, he is not an actual nazi"

To paraphrase someone Not all Republicans are Nazis, but all Nazis are Republican

Going to have to agree here my friend. Nazi Germany was actually hyper-state capitalist. The only part of socialism that was involved was that the capitalism was state enforced (Appointed businesses to serve the Govt's causes etc.) Hitler was indeed a big promoter of innovation and private property as long as it was state approved.

Again, learn nothing from 2016?

They've always been there. This guy was out protesting the Illinois Holocaust museum when it opened, I must've passed him on my way there. His district has been dominated by white politicians who have used coded language to take advantage of racial resentment for decades. We just mistakenly thought they were a small minority in a generation that made such visible overtures to equality, we were wrong.

Jonathan Swift.

Disgraceful. republicans need to clean up their mess.

Typical media tactic. Get an extreme moron on so they can use a broad brush on the party they don't like. Fox does it with Antifa and far-lefty loons and CNN does it with Nazi idiots and Alt-Right dipshits. Anyone who thinks this (actual) racist is going to win is a fool.

Also. Don't forget. This is America. Anyone can say anything they want. Don't be a fool and try to take away these creep's right to free speech so they slither away into the dark recesses of the world and fester, grow resentful and strike out. Let them out into the sunlight where their dumb ideas can be made fun of... as they should be. Don't get all frightened and scared and tremble like cowards because terrible people can say terrible, but ultimately limp, things. If you take these dying breed of fools seriously, you give them what they want... to be taken seriously.

@ruthaford_jive: what antifa far left loon ran unopposed in the democrat party?

@toast_burner: I cannot think of any individual. With that being said, the Democratic party is splint roughly along three ideological paths currently, regardless of their collective left leaning aims. The three wings are: Centrists, Bernie-Socialists types, and the Intersectionalists. The Centrists keep trying to get middle America's votes back. The Bernie-Socialist types are focusing on socialist economic policies, and the Intersectionalists are all about social justice. And as much as they get along, given their collective aim, they also fight and bicker. Both the Bernie-Socialist types and the Intersectionalists main ideologies are very much inline with a lot of what Antifa is all about, excepting the Antifa loons that just like the bust shit and use political rallies as a means to that end. So two wings of the party are fully crazy, and they don't even need outlying nuts to represent them... they can do that all themselves.

Beyond that, what does your question have to do with anything? My original points still stand, and you didn't address them, you just changed the direction of the conversation toward whataboutism.