re: Southern poverty law center indicted by grand jury. Laundered $ to white supremacy groups

My educated friends don't vote for Trump for reasons having nothing to do with Charlottesville. I doubt most of them even know/remember what that was

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This is a self-selecting group that only confirms what is known about you.

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THAT was much more the point of the actual comment than anything to do with Charlottesville

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So the SPLC sent millions to the kkk and other racist groups

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Did they?

Do we know the breakdown of how much money the snitches kept and how much flowed to their racist groups?

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You mean your fellow Liberals

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No. I didn't say that.

2 of these particular people have been Republican longer than I've been a non-DEM.

My educated friends did vote for Trump.

You are right now that I think back on it. I did have an incorrect retelling. Your Charlottesville comment wasn’t about your professional friends voting for Trump.

What you said was that supporting Trump could never be “cool” because of Charlottesville.

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This is a self-selecting group that only confirms what is known about you.

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What do we think he’d estimate his own IQ at? 130? 135?

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What do we think he’d estimate his own IQ at? 130? 135?

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Well that group has a min IQ of 130 (we are all identified gifted in Louisiana, which has a minimum 130 IQ). I'm considered one of the smarter ones in the group.

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There was momentum for Trump support from places where we hadn’t seen it. Podcast bros, Sydney Sweeney, pro athletes, etc.

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Someone posted about it saying it’s become cool to be a Trump supporter. You came in with the typical awcktually and said Charlottesville would prevent it.

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You're half remembering. I said what the Democrats feared was the non left becoming the counterculture because the left has primarily occupied that sphere for decades. What the left feared was a fun new version of the right that became attractive to young people as the counterculture. Proper people do not want to be associated with racists. That's why I've always argued that attacking and marginalizing these groups is so important, to not give them a platform to infect and disenfranchise legitimate anti-lift groups and messaging. Instead people coped by claiming it was fake and not real and ignored why it was important to marginalize them. We see that continuing literally to this day with this story.

Charlottesville did completely kill that momentum. This is kind of like the concept of the alt-right changing from people like Milo, Ben Shapiro, and Dave Rubin to legitimate racists. It completely derailed that momentum of a legitimate counterculture.

Now this counterculture has re-emerged but with people like Nick Fuentes and nihilistic online groups that young people are flocking to. Their positions are not specifically anti-left however, as we can see with all the discussions about Jewish people and Israel that have become popular the past couple years. This new counterculture is both anti - left and anti- Boomer right.