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The president also blasted a pair of lawmakers from his own party in morning tweets.

Richard Dawkins wrote, "I think it's important to realize that when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them.  It is possible for one side to be simply wrong."

After yesterday's unhinged press conference, this is the situation we are in with respect to Donald Trump and his supporters.

The subject of his speech was the violence between white supremacists and protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a young woman was killed when an angry young man with neo-Nazi leanings drove his car into the crowd.  The violence, Trump said, was the fault of both sides:

What about the 'alt-left' that came charging at, as you say, the 'alt-right,' do they have any semblance of guilt?  What about the fact they came charging with clubs in hands, swinging clubs, do they have any problem?  I think they do...  You had a group on one side that was bad and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent. nobody wants to say it, but I will say it right now.

The "club in hands" reference is to a photograph of an Antifa member allegedly striking a police officer with a club -- a photograph that has since been shown to be digitally altered.

That is, a fake.

What is grimly ironic about this is that Trump defended the two-day delay in condemning the white supremacists and neo-Nazis by saying that he wasn't sure of his facts:

I wanted to make sure, unlike most politicians, that what I said was correct, not make a quick statement... What I said was a fine statement.  I don't want to go quickly and just make a statement for the sake of making a political statement.

Besides the fact that even after the delay, he still got the facts wrong, it bears mention that it took him only an hour to respond when Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier resigned in protest from the President's Manufacturing Council.  Trump's ego was stung by the resignation -- something which evidently moves him more than seeing people marching in Nazi regalia does.  "Now that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from President's Manufacturing Council," Trump sneered via Twitter (of course),  "he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!"

But apparently it takes way more time to decide whether to condemn white supremacists who had not only killed a young woman for protesting, but who had said, on a website affiliated with their cause, "Despite feigned outrage by the media, most people are glad [Heather Heyer] is dead, as she is the definition of uselessness.  A 32-year-old woman without children is a burden on society and has no value."

This is the ideology that our president thinks is so morally ambiguous that it took him 48 hours to decide whether it was worth condemning, and then afterwards claimed was actually no worse than the beliefs of the anti-Nazi protesters.

Most media were quick to condemn Trump's speech, but as soon as it hit the news, the apologists started in with equal speed.  Within a half-hour of the story breaking, I saw the following comments posted:

• All he's saying is that white people shouldn't be ashamed of being white.
• I'd take the people in the march before I would the leftist whiners who are trying to tear America down.
• The people in the march aren't responsible for what one crazy man in a car did.
• For crying out loud, shut up and give the President a chance!

This last one is, of all of them, the one that galled me the most.  You know what?  Trump has had seven months of chances.  He has shown himself to be a dishonest, racist, misogynistic prick over and over.  The most surprising thing, in fact, is how unsurprising this last speech was.  It was totally in keeping with his prior words and actions.  All he did here is clarify his own ideology in such a way that there is no doubt any more where his loyalties lie.

So the chances are over, not only for Trump but for his followers.  It's no longer conservative versus liberal, Democrat versus Republican.  This is about deciding whether you side with a man who has allied himself with people who wear swastikas on armbands and chant, "The Jew will never replace us!"  There is no moral ambiguity here.  If you don't repudiate him, now, you are complicit in his actions and those of his followers.

I try my hardest to listen to the people I disagree with, but at some point, there is no compromise, no way to find common ground.  After that, there is no choice but to commit to every effort necessary to stop people who are violent, amoral, and so convinced they are in the right that there is no possibility of discussion.

You might be saying, "Well, aren't you equally convinced that you're right?"  Perhaps.  But I'm not the one calling for violence against people of different races, religions, or sexual orientations.

This is the point where moral people have to stand up and take a hard look at what is happening here, and realize that neutrality is no longer an option.  We are fast approaching something very like the Weimar Republic of the 1930s -- waiting only for our own Reichstag Fire to plunge the nation into darkness and bloodshed.

So if you're a Trump supporter, I'm sorry if you were misled by his rhetoric.  I understand that it's easy to get swept away by the theatrics of politics, to vote for someone who turned out to be something other than you wanted.  But we've crossed a line, here.  If you still support him, if you are one of the ones crying out "give him a chance," then you and others like you are fully responsible for the horrifying place we seem to be headed.

Helen Pluckrose (@HPluckrose) is one of the many fantastic people I follow on Twitter. She's a secular humanist in London. She also happens to be one of the very few people I follow on Twitter who regularly interacts with people with whom she disagrees without being disagreeable and resorting to name-calling. Yes indeed, she's a rare treasure!

Helen also happens to be responsible for the content of the image above. No, this is not just another mindless meme. Helen uses this image in her interactions with others. I've seen her do it, and it is wonderful. When someone is arguing with her and repeatedly shows that they are unwilling or unable of doing one of the 10 things listed in the image (all of which are in short supply on Twitter), she calmly lets them know by tweeting the image and pointing out where they are failing. And best of all, she then actually withdraws from the interaction.

I give her a lot of credit in that she doesn't do any of this hastily. It would be easy just to slap this on someone at the first sign of a problem, but she does not do that. She tries to interact with the other party in good faith for far longer than I'd have the patience to attempt. It is only after several tweets back-and-forth that she brings out the image and ends the interaction.

This is my new favorite thing on Twitter.

Experts say they pose a major drowning risk.

Two pit bulls are credited with saving two young children from a venomous copperhead snake in Florida

The tweet garnered over 2.5 million likes by Tuesday afternoon

A day after President Donald Trump gave in to political pressure and denounced, by name, the white supremacists and neo-Nazis who rallied in Charlottesville this past weekend, he reversed course and again claimed "both sides" were to blame for the violence in the Virginia city.

The president retweeted the image just days after Heather Heyer was fatally run down in Charlottesville

With violence sparked by neo-Nazis in Virginia raising tensions across the U.S., white nationalists are planning rallies in San Francisco and Berkeley later this month.

Tszani Penn may come across as just a little shy and quiet, but her message on camera is loud and clear

You don’t actually have to be a crazy cat lady to appreciate how fun this ADULT, yes Adult size poncho is. Imagine how cool your children would think you are. Then of course, they grow up in to teenagers and would be mortified. Better wear all that crazy stuff whilst they are still young.  You can grab the free pattern here.

The Wisconsin man made a 12-mile drive to the hospital on his own with the nail sticking out of his chest.

A Virginia family returned home to find a frightening scene: a large amount of blood covering the walls and floors

Kentuckians for Coal is angry that everyone is getting very excited about the eclipse and no one cares about coal.

The father of a woman killed while protesting the presence of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday says he forgives the man charged in his daughter’s death.

An Oklahoma man was arrested early Saturday morning in connection with a plot to detonate a vehicle bomb in downtown Oklahoma City.

The Liberal Redneck is right that the marchers who idolize Nazis and the Confederacy are idolizing two groups who were defeated.So much for "supremacy."

Only someone like Joshua Feuerstein could use a white supremacist rally to whine about his ideological foes and rant against Planned Parenthood.

The officer is accused of "mocking" the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, that killed one person and injured at least 19 others.

Organizer of the white nationalist rally chased away from news conference by protesters.

On last night's episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins was asked why people think atheists are immoral.He responded with a better question: Why do we say people are moral when they do good only because they fear God?

Charlottesville mayor Mike Signer is calling the car-ramming on Saturday a form of 'terrorism.'

It’s unclear if the horses got a treat themselves, but it’s definitely a sweet sight to see on a Saturday morning.

The more I thought about this letter, the angrier I got.

"This is what she wants."

A Christian family of five saw a rainbow-colored equality tattoo on their server, assumed the worst, and left a nasty note instead of a tip.

President Donald Trump condemned the violence, saying it was an egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on "many sides."

Kim Jong Un's regime is still months away from honing in on an accurate missile, but it's "on track" to figuring it out.

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