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Tom's avatar

These guys need to watch The Big Lebowski.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNChSF5nqJs

Are they Nazis?

No Donnie, these men are nihilists, there's nothing to be afraid of.

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McDuke's avatar

“Say what you want about the tenants of national socialism, at least it’s an ethos.” - our national security apparatus, currently.

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DANA's avatar

So, by this definition, Trump is an NVE? He is certainly motivated by (“ … goals that derive primarily from a hatred of society at large and a desire to bring about its collapse by sowing indiscriminate chaos, destruction, and social instability”).

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Tom's avatar

Yep. Trump is an NVE: Narcissistic Violent Extremist.

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RealNoDeuces's avatar

Every acronym is funding and power. With that in mind, I am proposing the HHTF. The Hunter’s Hawg Task Force will tirelessly find all the pictures of Hunter Biden’s penis and…Ukraine stuff? Please give me $50 million and limited oversight.

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Ken Klippenstein's avatar

lmao

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Jim's avatar

They should arrest the guy who crashed the markets.

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Andrew Akason's avatar

Can't wait for the courtroom drama as the prosecution describes how the accused practices Nihilism while the defense shreds the witnesses as Carthusian Rortyites.

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Ken Klippenstein's avatar

lmao

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Dierk Groeneman's avatar

I appreciate this reporting. I agree the dots are not connected. I also think government efforts to sell us a grand unifying theory betray their desire to control our thoughts and actions.

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Ken Klippenstein's avatar

Yes, and that they’re in denial about the contempt many in the country feel toward them

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Ak's avatar

I've heard about the concept of elite panic which seems applicable to how much they seem to try to control the narrative.

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StanleyTwoBrix's avatar

Pretty sure if you look up "nihilist" in the American Taliban dictionary, it would be anyone who thinks the Earth is older than 6000 years.

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Rob Bird's avatar

"We belief in nussink!"

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JennyStokes's avatar

I spent some time when I was first on substack: asking for these Acronyms to be spelled out because all they do is confuse people which is the reason why they are used. I got a lot of remarks from very dumb hateful people.

It made me realise that the US think they are the only country in the world.

There are many foreigners on substack.

Matt Taibbi was the only one who apologised and has since spelled out Acronyms in the first paragraph of his editorials.

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lee levin's avatar

Satire is dead. Also, just to state the obvious, the alleged arsonist in PA is bat shit crazy. How do you spell Sieg Hiel?

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Ak's avatar

Crazy and only achieved costing us taxpayers money to repair that shit.

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Cécile Stelzer-Johnson's avatar

Well, Cody Balmer has all kinds of problems with the Law. I guess the term Nihilistic Violent Extremist could also apply to him...

Also to Elon Musk.

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Madeline's avatar

To me the apparent existence of Nihilistic Violent Extremists implies the existence of an opposite which I suppose would be Optimistic Violent Extremists, or Optimistic Pacifist Extremists, and like, who are those people I would totally watch a Netflix docuseries about the inverse

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Carolyn Bakula (Madison, WI)'s avatar

Wow! In reading your definition of NVE's it occurs to me that it's definition is the mirror image of what the T administration is doing in real time!

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Jackie Syrop's avatar

OMG Liebowski is real!

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Lois Brooks's avatar

Call me crazy but it seems to me that Trump fits the definition of Nihilistic Violent Extremist perfectly

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