Good news, ish.

I missed a day of posting, that is a bummer but whatever.

Surprisingly decent news out of the last couple of days, it turns out that while President Toddler might be willing to ignore the judiciary, DHS is somewhat more reluctant to do so, and as of now the "Muslim ban" has been halted, with travel reverting to the previous restrictions. This could be subject to change in the future, as the orange Fuhrer has vowed to fight it, but at the moment sanity has taken a tenuous lead in that department.

Also encouraging are the numerous and persistent organized protests around the country, and the world, I realize it has only been two weeks in office, but I will be honest, after the Women's March I basically expected the left to declare a moral victory and just go back to normal, which hasn't happened as yet and shows no signs of doing so.

Speaking of victories, lets talk about Milo Yiannopoulos, for those who don't know, Milo is a British "journalist" who words as an editor or something for Brietbart, you know, the same place Steven Bannon comes from. Milo is a piece of shit Nazi apologist and routinely outs trans people at his speeches, among other things. The Alt-Right like to point to him as an example of how inclusive they are because he happens to be gay, but they are only showing how far you have to go to be considered "one of the good ones" by that group. Yiannopoulos would send anyone to the camps at the slightest provocation, and that isn't an exaggeration at all.

Anyhow, he was supposed to speak at UC Berkeley and after months of letter writing, meetings, and protest, things finally got out of hand at the college and some property damage happened at the hands of protesters, and suddenly the school canceled his event.

This is a great example of how noncivil disobedience can be a useful method of protest, UC administration ignored countless attempts to have his event canceled through every possible avenue, leaving what many might consider only one option. I am sure the groups who opposed him did not plan on violence breaking out, but I am also sure they aren't unhappy that it did. Milo's talks are hate speech pure and simple, and they often have specific targets, individuals, students or commentators, that he directs his followers to hassle, to let him speak is to run the risk of several students literally having their lives put in danger, to say nothing of the fact that tolerating Nazis has historically never worked well.

Let's go over this again, the actions of private citizens or organizations to prevent people they object to from spreading their message do not constitute a violation of the 1st Amendment, those acts themselves are an expression of the freedoms that amendment grants. The government isn't allowed to do these things, but we are, and those at UC Berkeley who did so are fucking patriots.

Nazis do not deserve a public platform, they are to be shamed and fought and forced into the dark corners of the world at every turn. Milo is a particularly odious variation who uses his sexual orientation as a form of shield against attack while simultaneously making the exact same assaults against others.

Anyway, dude isn't bringing his shit to that particular campus, and that was the last stop for his current tour, with any luck he'll go out in public unprotected and get punched in the face sometime soon, which will hopefully keep him from doing it again.

Like I said, we can't change their minds with words, they are fucking Nazis, and any so-called "moderate" who is inspired to join them after seeing them get their asses kicked was never a moderate anyway, just another fascist looking for an excuse, we can scare them though.

So there is one very good reason why the left shouldn't exactly be decrying their more violent members, broken windows and burned buildings get attention in a way that peacefully chanting does not, see, being peaceful doesn't scare those in power, and we want them scared in many ways, yes scared people react poorly, leading to police brutality and unnecessary arrests, but what the fascists haven't realized is that protesters being treated poorly by the cops is not something new, nor is it terrifying anyone into submission, it is just inspiring more resistance.

The possibility of violence, of rioting, needs to be something our government must consider, protesters are also voters, and the government is still elected by voters, and like I said before, they have a choice between responding to the anger now, or losing their jobs next election cycle as their cities burn.