Photos surface of Andrew Breitbart, James O'Keefe partying with white nationalists

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28. 'The outgroup is the problem' is a staple of right wing authoritarian thinking

And it leads to a lot of interesting things, such as this time I had a 'discussion' of sorts with a guy who thought waterboarding was justified and doing the whole 'ticking time bomb' scenario.

One thing I noticed with this scenario is that it's always SOMEONE ELSE who is the suspected ticking time bomber, and I said just that and said something to the effect "What happens if the police bust down YOUR door in the middle of the night and say 'Hey, there's the guy with the ticking time bomb, let's get him and waterboard him to get the TRUTH out!'?"

You could literally hear and feel the static in his head as he was trying to think of something, anything, to say in response to that. Eventually he just said I wanted the terrorists to win and then walked off.