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• #12477
It's all a deflection anyway. What is the largest threat to life in the US today? Homegrown racist terrorism.
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• #12478
It's always the same thing--if any rioting or property damage occurs, certain sections of the media will demonise protesters and delegitimise protests. Not infrequently, riots are caused by agents provocateurs in order to do this. It takes a bit of practice to recognise this. People are overwhelmingly peaceful for the most part.
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• #12479
not being funny but isn't it heart disease?
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• #12480
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• #12481
Human threat to human life.
It's probably drivers, actually. But you can't deny that far right terrorism is much more of a threat to life than antifa.
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• #12482
you can't deny that far right terrorism is much more of a threat to life than antifa
People do, but they really shouldn't, especially as if far right twats fucked off, antifa would go home and have a beer or do their washing or whatever.
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• #12483
Poetry. Sheer fucking poetry.
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• #12484
the first time i ever heard of antifa was at a demo in germany in 2006 where i got tear gassed. i thought that name would never catch on in the english speaking world because of the stressed vowel at the end.
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• #12485
The first time I heard the word used in English was when Trump started going on about it, so I'm not sure that outside of that usage it has caught on? Or has he succeeded in establishing it? I thought anti-fascist groups in the English-speaking world called themselves all sorts of things, but not 'antifa'.
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• #12486
One of the thing that be peddle by Trump is making Antifa sound like an organisation rather than people not wanting facism
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• #12487
Given that Donny complained about voter fraud 4 years ago couldn't he (as the most powerful person on earth) have done something about it? At least secure to his re-election?
Oh, no evidence, right! Déjà Vu, all over again?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/27/donald-trump-scam-recount-jill-stein-hillary-clinton
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• #12488
Rep
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• #12489
i thought that name would never catch on in the english speaking world because of the stressed vowel at the end.
Really, I've always assumed that it was antEEfa. What are you going with anti-FAR?
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• #12490
This is a pretty balanced (but long) report on Antifa from Portland in the New Yorker...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/02/trump-antifa-movement-portland
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• #12492
I thought anti-fascist groups in the English-speaking world called themselves all sorts of things, but not 'antifa'.
There was an active group going by the name between 2004-09 in the UK but it was dissolved after some members did time for confronting some fascists in Welling.
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• #12493
“I can’t say anything real unless there’s a punchline after it.” -D. Chapelle
Powerful.
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• #12494
Or it shows how deep the deep state is and how much power the globalists weald.
You can spin it however you want depending on your bias.
The thing that confuses me is that it wasn't a landside in 2016, and it isn't now. Clinton won the popular vote, yet Trump won by threading together the swing voters in Michigan, Wisconsin and Penn.
The only thing "abnormal" this time is the high turnout. But yet the Republicans also had a high turnout, so again what is unusual?
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• #12495
I chuckled reading that, I do feel a bit sorry for the staff.
They can't be all die hard trump fans, some must just need the job?
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• #12496
to be fair, I dunno how people pronounce it in English! In German and Italian it's like you're saying "anti-fascist" but without the "scist"
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• #12497
some disturbing unsolicited adult images.
In 2020 pretty sure we can all probably guess which image is being sent.
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• #12498
Speaking of Antifa, I am sure the older cunts on here remember the resurgence of right wing extremism in the first half of the 1990s. There are Antifa types who claim that part of the credit for subduing that wave was down to them basically beating the crap out of Nazi skins as and when they found them.
And.... can we be so certain that they are wrong? Would we have had them same amount of nazis today without the occasional baseball bat to a cleanly shaven head?
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• #12499
A lot of today's Nazis and similar get to chat and gestate in safety online before heading out into the real world to be scum.
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• #12500
Or maybe the upturn in the UK economy and reduced unemployment meant you had far fewer young unoccupied men searching for purpose.
See also; football hooligans and provo IRA.
Just found this. https://time.com/5886348/report-peaceful-protests/
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), a non profit that investigates political violence around the world, estimated that the 93% of BLM protests in the USA have been peaceful.