Yesterday, several white nationalist groups descended on Portland, Oregon. The idea, it would seem, was for these heroic specimens of Arian perfection to bait the anti-fascist counter-protestors who had gathered in response into some kind of violent confrontation, in hopes that right-wing “journalists” like Andy Ngo might be able to get a few photos of the poor, helpless, peace-loving white patriots being besieged by lawless hoards of aggressive people of color. Sadly for the white provocateurs, the anti-fascists, for the most part, didn’t give them what they wanted. [Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler described the day’s events as “largely peaceful” and only 13 people were arrested.] But, all was not lost. According to Proud Boys organizer Joe Briggs, the event was a success because Donald Trump had weighed in on their side. When a reporter from The Oregonian asked Briggs to elaborate on why he thought the event was a success, he said “Go look at President Trump’s twitter.”
Here’s the tweet that Briggs’s was referring to.
Donald Trump did not condemn the so-called Proud Boys, or the other white nationalist hate groups that came together in Portland. He did not take the opportunity to appeal to our nation’s higher self, as Obama and other presidents have done. He did not even pretend to pray for everyone’s safety. No, less than two weeks after a white, racist gunman took the lives of 22 in El Paso, the President of the United States deliberately chose not to note the rise in racist right-wing violence in America. Instead, he chose to call the anti-fascists standing up to these men an “organization of terror.” [To my knowledge, anti-fascists have yet to kill anyone, whereas white supremacists have claimed the lives of at least 62 people since Trump came into office.] This is the point we’ve now come to. Racists are rallying in broad daylight in the streets of America, and the President of the United States, instead of standing up to them, is threatening those who do, labeling them terrorists.
We’re at a very dark place in American history, and I’m afraid it’s only going to get worse. With a recession looming, an increasingly desperate Donald Trump, I suspect, is going to be left with no choice but to double down on racial grievance, and the politics of fear. What else does he have in his bag of tricks to keep the MAGA base energized and hold onto Wisconsin? He can keep telling people that the economy is better than it’s ever been, but at some point they’re going to figure out the truth. And, without the economy to prop him up, he’s not only going to need the vote of every cereal-loving incel Proud Boy in America, but he’s going to need to push more non-college educated white males into their ranks.
Donald Trump knows that, if he loses the election, he’ll likely face prosecution for his crimes, and he’s not about to let that happen. He doesn’t want to go out in a federal prison like his friend Jeffrey Epstein, and he’s going to do whatever he can to ensure that doesn’t happen, regardless of how many people may be hurt in the process, or how much damage may be done to our already fragile democracy. As we know, he doesn’t care about anyone other than himself, and he’d rather take us to the brink of civil war than face responsibility for a life of criminal activity. And, sadly, it’s non-white Americans that are going to pay the price, as he attempts to build a winning coalition of terrified and angry white people struggling to make ends meet. He may try to juice the economy for a bit by bullying the Federal Reserve into dropping interest rates again, but that won’t get him to November. And, in the end, he’s going to have to do what every other fascist leader has done, and fully embrace hate and fear.
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Obviously you didn’t fuckin’ watch it. I saw a number of faces you would call colored among the Proud Boys attending. Not too many “coloreds” as you say with antifa. Hard to tell what color a communist ninja is but sometimes you get a glimpse behind the mask.
Mark never referred to people as “coloreds.” What are you talking about?
Isn’t People Of Color another iteration of Colored People?
As I understand it, “Antifa” has no formal leadership, nor any specific organizational hierarchy – rather, it mostly exists as an informal banner for set of loosely-affiliated groups and ideologies.
Still, that hasn’t stopped the right-wing from using the “A”-word as a powerful propaganda tool. To read some alt-right blogs (and especially the comments), one would think Antifa represents a powerful, well-organized, and growing army of left-wing radicals, preparing to undermine the very fabric of American democracy.
Once Trump is able to label Antifa a “terrorist” organization, it will be easy for him and his fascist friends to label virtually anyone who doesn’t support MAGA 100% as a member – and thus a terrorist (or at least a terrorist sympathizer).
I don’t think Trump’s tweet is all that surprising, nor do I think it was random. More likely, just one small part of a larger, orchestrated plan.
If a number of people commit crimes is it much less of a problem if they are loosely organized? I don’t see how that is supposed to be any kind of defense.
Antifa very much fits the definition of terrorism: the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims. Time’s up for the commie ninjas.
“Antifa represents a powerful, well-organized, and growing army of left-wing radicals, preparing to undermine the very fabric of American democracy.”
I think it is waning and not that powerful but they are organized enough to all show up when and where they are supposed to. The many physical attacks by antifa, often with weapons are proof they are dangerous though. Certainly if they had their way the fabric of society would be toast. You don’t think adopting Soviet-style Communism would be much of a threat to our way of life?
“I saw a number of faces you would call colored among the Proud Boys attending.”
Please provide links. All my search attempts for “black proud boys” have come up empty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESyZDnJAy5k
Ope, guess you were right. OMG I’m screwed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s02epJICGM
Diamond and Silk cash their checks, therefore there’s no racism on the right.
Someone made a visual for you, HW.
https://twitter.com/markjam92731126/status/1162931573215379456?s=21
Keep your powder dry. Don’t tip over trash cans with Antifa and give the fascist their justification to fash. Fights still in the political realm for now. But if that fails, be ready to fight to defend the Constitution.
Here’s one of Agent Oranges “fine people on both sides” from Charlottesville. He’s clearly very proud of himself. What a perverted version of America we’ve become. My greatest generation Nazi fighting Gramps and Great Uncles would be appalled by these HW type bootlickers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/08/18/self-described-white-nationalist-with-large-arsenal-arrested-threatening-jewish-center-police-say/
You don’t think there are consequences in this universe for doing things like trying to smear someone as a nazi? You don’t believe for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction?
“John Galt
Posted August 19, 2019 at 5:47 am | Permalink
Diamond and Silk cash their checks, therefore there’s no racism on the right.”
I never said there is no racism “on the right.” There is racism on the left and the right. Here for example is a hotbed of anti-white racism. The left/right paradigm is a joke. Why limit oneself to a single dimension?
“John Brown
Posted August 19, 2019 at 6:23 am | Permalink
Keep your powder dry. Don’t tip over trash cans with Antifa and give the fascist their justification to fash. Fights still in the political realm for now. But if that fails, be ready to fight to defend the Constitution.”
Why do you suggest other people do things that you are afraid to do? You said you don’t want to get into any fights.
‘Isn’t People Of Color another iteration of Colored People?’
No.
People of Color is a name adopted and promoted by the broad demographic signified by that name. It’s intention is to incorporate in one term the many races facing discrimination by the white majority in this country. ‘Colored people’ and, worse, ‘coloreds’ is a term created by the white majority and so imbued with the racist connotation of white supremacy.
Any good conservative or libertarian should honor the right of any group to name themselves and their interests.
Outside of lefty circles I have rarely heard a black person say it. It’s mostly people like you who use it. Many would find it patronizing I’m sure.
It’s fascinating to me you see much of a difference between ‘colored’ and ‘of color’. It’s about as close as you can get I’d say.
Why don’t you ask your Black friends how they feel about your use of the term ‘colored.’ As for me personally, when I’m referring to Black Americans unique experience/situation or individuals, I use the term Black. When I’m referring to the experience of the larger group of non-White Americans I use POC. I’m following the lead of the groups identified in all these cases. I try to avoid terminology imbued with racist history. ‘colored’ is the word used in signage demarking segregated public and private facilities. There was good reason to move on. Words don’t make the necessary changes but they can prevent it when used carelessly.
HW- I’m not making up the distinction. I’m being respectful of the wishes of the groups referred to. Take your concerns up with those groups directly.
Who says the groups decided on PoC?
You are making my point for me. Colored has racist connotations so maybe it’s not the best idea to foist a variation of it on African Americans and others.
I didn’t make up the term. They did. They can correct it if the choose and I would follow. It’s remarkable that you are trying to double down on the ignorance already displayed by insisting they had no agency. If you have a problem with the use of the term ‘colored’ then I suggest you personally refrain from using it going forward.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color
It appears you are not alone in your discomfort with the term. Some other white people object to the term becUse it singles them out as the only race excluded. That’s your company.
Why do you say they chose it as a group? You can keep repeating it but I don’t see the point if you can’t support it.
“Some” Americans of African origin don’t like it either so maybe you ought to reconsider labeling people with such terminology.
Bonglicker,
Not wanting to fight and being unwilling to fight are two different things. Courage is overcoming natural fear and doing what is required when it’s required. This was something that real Americans like the Nazi killers of the Greatest Generation understood.
Wanting to fight and kill like your Nazi political brethren do is a sickness that will be dealt with one way or another.
Morris Day and The Time – Donald Trump: Black Version
Music and Lyrics: Prince
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=235&v=H3SG2ZQ9trE
But you are the one always talking about gunning up for the big fight against Americans.
HW— when one actively listens to what POC have to say and reads what they write, one can observe their use of the term in self-reference. When that stops being the predominate term of self-reference in group context, I’ll stop using it. I don’t make these choices because I’m afraid of offending anyone. That’s not the point at all. I’m respecting the agency of the group.
Repeating your baseless claim still without evidence. Who says they decided as a group? Do you think the term People of Color is what most black people in a town such as, say…Ypsilanti use?
Look at this dude, he can’t argue with what Mark said so he tries to create a strawman.
Proud-boys are about the most cowardly cry-bully group I have encountered. I went to a community for a peaceful protest in a flack jacket and full riot gear and a club got hurted. Waaaaaaah. They are essentially a cowardly version of the Klan, hiding behind the words of the segregationist south like culture. They don’t have the courage to actually talk about what they believe in. They don’t have the courage to own the violence they intend to instigate. Just generally soft and cowardly.
What strawman? That’s a lie about antifa being peaceful. There is no way to defend that. All you have to do is search antifa violence.
Antifa soy boy with a stick gets knocked into another dimension
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHsk7EuX4K0
Gotta sign in to witness such goodness today. Like how that url ends in KO hahahaha!
Oh! I thought anti-fa were the dangerous ones. You like to hit people, huh? Very peaceful, I don’t know what people’s problem is, or why we associate you with mass shooters, or the murder in Charleston weren’t ya’ll hanging out? Dude, I am like forty with kids and don’t jack off to violence. Come on let’s talk about your ideology tough guy.
I laugh and enjoy watching weapon-swinging antifas getting wasted but there is a dark side to it I am extremely serious about. That kid might never be the same for the rest of his life. I heard he was in a coma from that knockout blow/head slamming onto the street. This is not a game, people; not the kind of game that is always fun to play. Everyone ought to know there can be consequences to behaving badly. Equal but opposite reactions.
When did I say I like to hit people? I have no problem with self defense and might enjoy kicking the shit out of someone trying to attack me though. Do you think that is wrong? Do you think it is wrong that someone has threatened here on markmaynard.com to kick my ass?
Is self defense bad, whateveryournameis?
You are the one posting all this violence. Again defend your ideology. That’s the game right? You can’t talk about that, because it is inherently violent.
Like I said I have no problem with violence in self defense. Why don’t you have a problem with antifa attacking with weapons that could maim or kill someone? You criticize someone defending their self with fists against a tactical baton. I don’t see how that is justifiable.
A large group of them were taking on two (2) Proud Boys, a Pacific Islander and an African American. They put the black Proud Boy in the hospital when they cracked him over the head with some weapon. Good stuff there.
We aren’t talking about that, we are talking about why you are showing up in our communities with weapons and what you are trying to promote. The other stuff is a strawman argument. Your group got doxxed on how you cause violence, you can use google but I think you already know. So I want you to explain you ideology and why you want to bring guns and weapons to communities at peace.
When your group is known for hanging out with white supremacists who have murdered so many people in the last year, isn’t that terrorism?
I’m not a Proud Boy so that is an odd way to word it. Why don’t you have a problem with antifa attacking people but you have a problem with the self-defenders? Why is antifa showing up in our communities with weapons and committing assault and battery and a whole bunch of other shit? I don’t see Proud Boys doing shit but knocking out suckers who physically attack them.
You might as well be specific and say who you are talking about and who hung out with them.
Or using your logic should I say why are YOU showing up in our communities with weapons and ill intentions towards those they capriciously deem nazis (anyone who doesn’t agree with their communist goal)?
“We aren’t talking about that”
You might not be talking about it but I am. I think you have to in order to justify your comments but whatever. I guess not all of us feel what we say needs to be based in reason. That one is hard for me to accept. I haven’t yet been able to understand that in this life.
Do you feel angry man, you okay? You keep glorifying violence almost like it is your agenda. Let’s talk about Charlottesville, how did the Pround Boys find themselves there and why? Nap time is almost over so I guess I will leave it there?
Proud Boy tactics for those interested. We aren’t saving any souls today.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/proud-boys-chat-logs-premeditate-rally-violence-in-leaked-chats_n_5ce1e231e4b00e035b928683
Sure, violence in self defense is fine. That’s what I like. You don’t like that but you like antifa using weapons on people who are merely daring to disagree. How is Professor Bike Lock doing? Don’t know what I mean? Maybe you should educate yourself before you type.
So what ideology are you trying to defend?
I don’t know if it’s an ideology but it’s the same thing I always defend: the truth. Tell the truth and destroy the lies. That’s my philosophy if you will.
Dude that isn’t an answer, what is the Proud Boys agenda? Have a little courage in your convictions! I believe in you! You can do it! You must have been so proud when you thought of that duck.
How about you? Do you like Soviet Communism like the hammer ‘n’ sickle brandishing antifa? Do you want to smash the ones in the way of that (sweet?) dream?
Again dude ducking that question. Keep trying, getting mad, come on! What are the Proud Boys all about? What are you scared of?
Bet you he doesn’t answer.
“Courage of your convictions” – that’s a Jean Henry phrase. It’s Jean’s twin yay!
I don’t have any attachment to the Proud Boys. It could be a limited hang out for all I know. Have you considered that in concert with stunts like the Smollett lynching hoax antifa and the patriot groups could have been both created to fight each other to try to inflame a cultural war? I have no way of knowing that so I am responding to claims here based on what I see and hear.
I get to keep my twenty! Whooo hooo! Remember how I talked to you about the cowardice of these groups. Case in point SOOOOON Case in point. Out! But I will answer yours, my family is actually half conservative and half liberal. I believe in free speech but I believe showing up with weapons in a peaceful community is yelling fire in a crowded theater. I believe that a rally like that needs to be held behind a barricade paid for by protestors. My parents guaranteed peace in these circumstances and I was proud of them. I think the Proud Boys agenda is just warmed-over segregationist talking points. Cultural supremacy is just valuing the values of one people over another. In the end, it is just a cowardly version of white supremacy.
To extend cultural supremacy is what you see in China today, or attempted in Ireland where the government disallows language or practice of religion.
I don’t see your point. Are you trying to say if I don’t I identify with the Proud Boys I am a coward? I don’t think you understand cowardice vs. personal integrity. I am my own person and not responsible for the actions of others. By your logic you are responsible for antifa’s violence.
You did not answer my question. Do you think communism is the way to go like the weapon-swinging, incendiary-throwing, rock-hurling antifa?
Antifa is loosely organized but funded by Soros.
https://capitalresearch.org/article/origins-of-antifa/
French colonists used the term gens de couleur (“people of color”) to refer to people of mixed African and European descent who were freed from slavery in the Americas.[6] In South Carolina and other parts of the Deep South, this term was used to distinguish between slaves who were mostly “black” or “negro” and free people who were primarily “mulatto” or “mixed race”.
No “group” speaks in a monolithic voice. Various persons, who some call POC, prefer to be called Black, African American, Asian, Pakistani, Indian, Native American, Hispanic, Latino/Latina, Chicano and many others. Many prefer to be identified by their country rather than their race or ethnicity. Some are proud to be Chicano, while others detest the label and consider it derogatory.
To say all individuals of any group prefer the exact same thing is racist or sexist or another discriminatory label. Why can’t we let individuals speak for themselves.
It appears that Jean (and her alias’s) is again ruining any chance of discussion with her animosity. SMH.
Warlord is a proud boy
Warlord is a racist
Warlord calls folks colored
When white isn’t what their face is
Warlord hates antifa even though it means “anti-fascist”
He defends the one percent cuz he goes where the cash is
And even though he has none and lives down in mom’s cellar
He’s got his sock and meatloaf so he’s a happy feller
Hi, EOS. Hope you are enjoying this beautiful day.
Let’s be real. Antifa is communist. I don’t support Fascism or Communism. When you defend the indefensible antifa you do though.
They wave the same (verrry similar) flag as the paramilitary wing of the German Communist Party 1922-33. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifaschistische_Aktion
So you are in favor of a group that professes to be descended from the Communist Party, carries the hammer ‘n’ sickle and attacks Americans who disagree. Nice people you are.
I think it is an understandable reaction to having a violent white supremacist organization show up armed in your community. There is an inherent threat there. Seeing no argument from you on ideology that is what we will agree the Proud Boys are. Thus Anti-fa is really people running for the exits when someone has yelled fire, a natural reaction to aggression. My goal would be to protect the community from these groups interacting. Keep protests to one area cordoned off and arrest anyone who does anything as we did with the Klan. The Proud Boys are about violence and menacing people I don’t see them being interested in coming to a place with a guaranteed peaceful protest.
Okay, so you think those conditions have been met in today’s world, right? “…having a violent white supremacist organization show up armed in your community…” You already said it has been. Then you agree with antifa communism is best for the currently white supremacist USA besieged by Proud Boys.
Existential question: in your mind do your comments under one name carry over to the others or is it all just a collection of characters whose statements are not applicable to the others?
I mean Proud Boy White Supremacy vs. blood and bones communism? Those are my choices? I think not.
“Seeing no argument from you on ideology that is what we will agree the Proud Boys are.”
I’ve said plenty of things to the contrary. I put up a vid in this thread that I consider strong evidence. Two vids actually and referred to more. There are Proud Boys of many genetic backgrounds and I have yet to see them speaking or behaving in a racist manner. All your side can say is blacks who don’t buy your line are either paid off or plain Uncle Toms. I’m pretty sure you would be easily verbally dismantled if you tried to say that face to face to a black Proud Boy or a regular black MAGA supporter for that matter. I’ve seen many try and get schooled
Dude, explain the Proud Boy ideology then. There is a reason you won’t.
This is your problem, Jean: You habitually make extreme assumptions about things you don’t know about. Your ego is so fragile you can’t even consider that there might be evidence in your face you are wrong so you have to use your innate lawyerly ability to influence via degradation, insinuation and unsupported claims.
Explain it as I understand it? To join you have to say you are a Western Chauvinist and you do not apologize for creating the modern world. I guess that about sums it up. I don’t think they say everything about the West is good. They are saying to people like Baynard and Lynne and all of you they are not going to take any shit for being who they are: Western men of all colors who don’t believe in Communism.
If you oppose communism so strongly, how do you justify your support of Trump and his overlord, Putin?
Did you get that out of the last two and a half years of garbage, Blob?
You do know Chauvinism is a synonym for ethnocentrism. The idea dead ends in white supremacism. It is why you find the lot in the same places. It is cultural supremacism and ignores the massive contributions of people of all colors who helped create the world we live in.
But there are all races in the West and all have helped build the modern world. Based on their words and behavior and the diversity of their membership I don’t see how it is ethnocentric.
Western Chauvinist “ideology” is a fraud. Modern western culture is and has been for a very long time an amalgamation of all the best stuff of all the worlds cultures. Western culture rips off everyone else’s intellectual property. Arabic numerals, Chinese gun powder, Socialized medicine/fire/police/education, potatoes, etc. Sounds like its really just a celebration of all the great stuff stolen through colonialism. So, Supremacy in other words. Got it.
So then we should apologize for slavery, because it was something that western people did to western people, and internment and stalinism and fascism and racism.
No one said it’s the only culture or others haven’t contributed greatly. It’s funny you highlight Western culture as ripping off intellectual property considering the opposite problem with China has been fucking up the USA for a while and Trump is focused on fixing it.
How is it supremacist to say you won’t apologize for being who you are? That should go without saying. It says a lot that anyone feels a need to do declare it.
This isn’t to say that the west deserves anything close to full credit for the modern world as it just doesn’t. Historically we are a blip and owe a lot to eastern culture, although I never know where people are dividing the world up.
So you want to go to communities to tell them you aren’t sorry about the sins of our forefathers? Not that you agree with them, you just aren’t sorry they created a world that hurt people
You need to get armed and march down the street to do that?
I am extremely interested in world cultures throughout history and beyond. Again I don’t think they are saying nothing came before the Industrial Revolution but you admit that is Western, right? Automobiles, trains, planes, skyscrapers, computer technology…lots of useful things have been created in the West that are used all over the world now.
Hurting people certainly isn’t confined to the West, is it? Pretty sure they have rallies to assert their right to be who they are. If antifa wants some they can come get it. It’s always antifa who starts the violence. Too bad it ends like it (almost) always does for them.
The only time antifa does alright is when they vastly outnumber lone patriots. Then they can kick the shit out of someone finally. Very honorable.
Or knock ’em in the head with a metal bar from behind or a swing a bike lock out of nowhere and crack their skull. It’s good stuff.
It’s okay because they are all white supremacists. Hundreds of millions of ’em in fact. They are everywhere. Almost every white person you meet for sure is one. Only safety pin wearers can be tolerated and then only if they maintain their groveling position.
You think fascism is bad for America and communism is good.
I think fascism and communism are bad but you think I am a fascist. That is directly out of the Communist Party playbook: no matter the truth call anti-communists fascists and racists.
This is the most reductive but somehow long-winded set of arguments I have ever witnessed.
Why do you do it then? Do you not think my writing is concise especially in comparison to your own?
“beatlebaily
Posted August 19, 2019 at 1:10 pm | Permalink
So then we should apologize for slavery, because it was something that western people did to western people, and internment and stalinism and fascism and racism.”
They would probably say it was the USA that ended slavery. Not that it no longer exists but following it’s abolishment in the USA it became no longer tolerated by law in most of if not the entire world.
Americans discuss Donald Trump’s racism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=118&v=aYYthxbswuM
Oh. also, BeatleBaily, n’est pas moi, HW. I’m old enough to know it’s Beetle Bailey. I would have chosen Beetle Bialy.
It is your twin though.
Your ability to twist reality to support your assumptions is impressive.
What assumption? It’s your twin. You both say have the courage of your convictions. The explanation of your problem I gave applies to Jean Henry and Beatlebaily both whether you are doing both or not. It doesn’t matter.
‘Nother informative vid on Trump racism from someone you call an Uncle Tom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gmRqEPokpQ&feature=youtu.be
So ignoring all that because that was crazy. While I don’t think anyone would confuse me with a communist I did study history. The problem with one culture taking credit for anything in modernity is we stand on the shoulders of others. The west was a cultural backwater before 400 years ago, this is a shorter period than several Chinese dynasties that were the most developed in the world at their time. America’s time in the sun has been even shorter. We stand on the work of thousands of cultures that came before us. We have been a cultural backwater through much of history. Are the Mayans and Aztecs western? Who is west? The other problem with the argument is it argues things are great which aren’t really settled. The industrial revolution will mean nothing if global warming devastates human life and causes societal collapse, in fact it could be seen as a negative. We almost ended the world twice in my lifetime with nuclear weapons. We mechanized murder, killing millions. We may just be lucky we haven’t destroyed ourselves yet.
Warlord, personally I would have a lot more respect for you if you just admitted you were a racist piece of shit instead of double-talking your way around it. Own it dude. We all think you’re a dick anyway. You got nothing to lose. Did anyone kick your ass yet?
I mean I have enough problems finding childcare to worry about finding a bunch of incels who have latched onto an ideology somehow supposed to make appealing somehow? I dunno. All edgy and ashamed because they aren’t allowed masturbate but half of them did three times this morning so now they are all upset because now it will never happen. They are coming to my town with guns and weapons to tell us they aren’t sorry? naaaaah I’m good.
If you knew me you would know I am in no way racist. Same with the Proud Boys as far as I can tell. Why don’t you tell the PBoC (Proud Boys of Color) what you think and see what they say? It’s like “Oh if I renounce Trump you’ll stop calling me names? Okay then, derp de derp I’m a liberal now.”
Yuck, beatle. Why do you try to degrade people just like Jean and these other derps? What is wrong with you people that you think this is how to act? All this shit fits with that na na nana na shit antifa does. It’s such low level mucky shit. If that’s all you got you are done. You have been for a while actually but are too slow to realize. I know it’s creeping up on you as more of what I have said comes to be.
As his buddy told us dudes used to follow Gavin around and ask Gavin please tell us how to get laid! Then his buddy said don’t spank it, like ever or just once a month cause “ya’ll need to get off the couch and meet women.” Just going to point out that life’s winners don’t arm themselves and go to faraway places to tell people they aren’t sorry for racism. Like most of us have shit to lose.
Not worried about that. With porn being ubiquitous today it seems fewer people think it is worth the effort to…actually have sex.
Do antifas have sex with each other? How does that work?
How could you tell who is who with everyone in that dumb ninja getup?
Well I am the product of four pretty profoundly anti-fascist grandparents so I guess? I think my great uncle killed several fascists in Yugoslavia. But in all seriousness haven’t you noticed how ya’ll have to travel to where they are and that they don’t play a lot of away games? I think they are college kids or local dudes just looking to hit a Nazi. Like there isn’t an ideology there, the dudes that hurt the Proud Boys in Oakland were anarchists from Black Bloc I believe and those dudes suck as much as the proud boys, but a lot of people hate fascism, it is pretty unpopular in the US. We fought a war with it.
That’s right, then there was the Cold War with the expansionist Soviet Union. Only problem is neither the Proud Boys nor I espouse fascism but antifa is communist like you.
Were your grandparents Communist Party members? Mine weren’t. Neither were they fascists.
I grew up in quite a leftist household but the old-fashioned, reasonable kind so I know that world inside and out. I do not proceed from ignorance, something I cannot say for many here.
Now I see why you like antifa. How do you know your Communist Party member grandfather didn’t kill someone who was merely anti-communist? Their (your) game was (is) to call all anti-communists fascists and racists so that would not be suprising.
To me it’s horrifying to imagine not being able to think beyond one dimension. I look at fascism and communism and think why do certain people buy into either one? There is an unlimited number of possibilities but you are stuck on the idea that the choice in life is either communism or fascism. If you are not communist you must be fascist. Nice reasoning there.
He won the Bronze Star for it baby. Shit my kid is named for him. Killing fascists is as Red White and Blue as it gets in the 40s baby. His picture is on my wall, you think the dudes he sent on are remembered as heroes?
Damn I triggered you there, I have to admit I knew I would cause I see you dawg. Shit he won Bronze Star, it was a war against fascism. Don’t get in a twist. No one gave that option that was you. You going on and on about anti-fascism just made me giggle.
Talking sense does not equal triggered. Funny you can’t just say you are communist. You have to couch it as “anti-fascism”. Maybe that’s because communism is distasteful to the vast majority of Americans.
Your grandpa fought and killed for Tito, the communist dictator? Neat. You could probably be initiated as a high level ninja right off the bat.
I think we’re all so worn down by the Warlord that we let a lot of his shit slide. It’s good to see someone like Beatle Baily jump into the fight and remind us what’s possible.
Anti-fascists don’t have any ideology they are just college kids and dudes offended by Nazis, and I guess the pock-marked non-masturbating incels marching with them to say they aren’t sorry and won’t take any shit for it. I know I am not coming from a place of compassion like the proud boy Pope but we god fearing patriots are tired of these cry bullies. We know who the proud boys from Charlottesville which a proud boy organized and a person was murdered. That is something Anti-fa has yet to be a part of. sourced. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/626/transcript
Are you being a meanie to HW?
Dude triggering this dude is fun, he is now on the side of Nazis I guess? He just keeps gettng himself worked up. Like my man needs to relax… you know take a load off.
Hey dude you know who was on the same side as the Nazis too? That Proud Boy who organized unite the right in Charlottesville. Didn’t they murder someone there? https://www.thisamericanlife.org/626/transcript
Pretty sure they disavowed any of that nazi shit. Without reading the article does it talk about Kessler? What an obvious agent provocateur. Trying to cast the right as fascist by pretending to be that? Nice.
Why does the left believe any POC can march down Main Street announcing their pride in their heritage, but any white individual who does likewise is a racist that should be beaten and attacked by Antifa. Why does the left idolize Antifa protesters who attack those with different political beliefs, break laws and destroy the property of innocent bystanders – all because a group of white people aren’t ashamed of their heritage and their culture? How is it that the vast majority of those on the left, who are white themselves, come to harbor such self hatred?
Why does the left think it is OK for U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar to visit Israel with the intent to interfere with that nation’s politics? BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) is a strategy to destroy the economy of Israel and throw the country into disarray. Isn’t this a far greater level of interference than anonymously posting Facebook posts? And when Israel told Tlaib she could visit her grandma but not engage in politics that would weaken their nation, why is the left even the least bit outraged? Don’t they have a right to control activities in their sovereign nation?
Why does the left support Elizabeth Warren who is paler than 99% of all whites to be lauded as the first woman of color hired as a law professor at Harvard? Why is it OK for this privileged white woman to steal the voice of the oppressed in our nation? And how could you consider this subterfuge as something to be overlooked as she seeks the highest office in our country?
Does the left really think it is politically expedient to hide behind minorities who can do anything without any repercussions, calling the right facists and racists while they do the same thing. Hilliary made a gross error by calling 50% of the American population deplorables. So why does the left think it is politically advantageous to call 50% of the American population racists and fascists?
And why is the left apparently so blind to their double standards?
Wait, is this now a site for klan members?
You attack people who would never vote for a candidate with a KKK mentor.
So I guess it is. You are honorary klansmen.
You even want to punish black people for getting off the reservation. Some are making a daring escape but you call them “House *******” to try to shame them back into submission to the dems.
Identity politics will always blow up in the practitioners face. There just aren’t enough dumb people in the world to support such a stupid strategy over the long-term.
#mmdotcomelite
Identity politics is a white man’s way of saying “politics that advocate for anyone other than white men” and while unfortunately a lot of white men are still not ok with other groups having a voice so they say bullshit things like “Identity politics will always blow up in the practitioners face”, the actual truth is that identity politics will be necessary until such time as there is actually equality. And no, it will not always blow up in anyone’s face. There are enough people with good wholesome moral values to ensure that we will keep moving towards equality.
No, Lynne. We have gone through this discussion many times. You have never shown any sign that you are willing to break free from your own bigot-logic. Identity Politics is not people coalescing around a common cause and fighting to further their shared cause–that is just normal politics. Normal, necessary, and natural.
Likewise the people who reject identity politics are not trying to keep other people down.
If you want to know what identity politics is just look at your own writings and the writing of many people in this thread. Figure it out. All the clues you need for figuring out ‘what it is’ are in your writings.
I love that Warlord demonstrates his complete racism on a daily basis but doesn’t have the guts to write nigger when he’s throwing the term out at us. He just types asterisks to demonstrate he’s not only racist, but gutless. Own your racism, dude. At least David Duke is completely transparent. You’re just a total bedwetting coward.
Bull shit. I have never said one racist thing. I put that in quotes because that’s the equivalent of what you say. You can’t put that on me just because I point it out. You are the ones who say “Uncle Tom”.
You excuse your dem candidate who you attack people for disliking from CHOOSING in this life to be mentored by a KKK Grand Cyclops or whatever title Byrde had and never disavowing him. Then you call other people who aren’t racist one bit KKK. What did they do to your mind? What did you let happen to it?
HW, what it is about the Proud Boy philosophy that resonates with you? I’m truly curious.
I am my own man. I don’t espouse organizations much. Why does pointing out the glaringly obvious flaw in Baynard’s write-up indicate that to you? I do appreciate it when weapon-wielding commie ninjas get wasted by Proud Boys or anyone I admit.
How do you feel about antifa?
I imagine fighting antifa would be like mowing down stick-figures in one of those kung fu animations from about fifteen years ago. Stick-figure commie ninjas coming at you from all directions only to get easily wasted.
Buncha one shot wonders chiming in. I answer a lot of insinuating questions and never hear a peep about the answer. It’s like “wull I’ll just slink away and pretend that didn’t happen…” Where is Eel for example? Eel challenged my original statement about black proud boys but when I posted strong evidence they evaporated.
That’s interesting Baynard would put ‘journalist’ in quotes when referring to Andy Ngo, the gay Asian man brutally attacked by antifa. Sounds like a solid journalistic resume to me:
“Andy Cuong Ngo is a conservative American journalist best known for covering street protests in Portland, Oregon. He has written columns in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and National Review, amongst others, and is an editor for Quillette.”
In a Daily Beast article, Alex Leo described Quillette as “a site that fancies itself intellectually contrarian but mostly publishes right-wing talking points couched in grievance politics”.
So, yeah, “journalist” sounds generous.
You can bloviate every five minutes, Warlord, and you do, answering your own posts with more posts. The fact remains, if you support anything about the Proud Boys or continue to defend Trump, you are just a racist piece of shit. It’s crystal clear. You can be a conservative, republican, libertarian, “your own man,” whatever that means. Do you even know? Your train of thought is impossible to follow and doesn’t add up. Mostly what you are is just a blowhard. And a racist piece of shit.
HW– Beatlebaily and I have one thing in common– both our grandfather’s we’re awarded bronze stars. My grandfather ran logistics for the Battle of Normandy, back when being anti-fascist wasn’t something people derided.
Hyborion refuses to say what he likes about the Proud Boy philosophy, but admits, “I do appreciate it when weapon-wielding commie ninjas get wasted by Proud Boys.” It’s hard to know where to start, but here are a few initial thoughts. 1. I don’t know that being anti-fascist makes one a “commie”. 2. the only weapon I know of – a hammer – was brought to the rally by the Proud Boys. And 3. I don’t know that any anti-fascists were “wasted” by the Proud Boys… Regardless, it seems as though you’re saying that you don’t accept the Proud Boy ideology, but just enjoy their violence toward people whose opinions you disagree with. Is that pretty much it?
They copy the flag and name of the Communist Party of Germany. It’s true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifaschistische_Aktion
They wave the hammer and sickle. I don’t know how you do it but you have no understanding of any of this shit.
When you say “they” you make it sound like ant-fascists are an organization like the Proud Boys, with rituals, secret handshakes and flags. They do not. There’s not an organization to speak of.
The link you provided was to a 1932 German flag for the anti-fascist organization that rose up in response to the very real fascist threat they were seeing, a threat that would eventually claim the lives of millions. If you’re taking the side of the Nazi’s because their adversaries aligned with communists, you’re very much on the wrong side of history.
If they aren’t organized why do they all show up and commit crimes together?
I consider fascism and communism both to be threats. Because I am against communists taking control of the USA does not mean I am fascist. That is a communist tactic to say that as I have noted before.
Not an organization? Of what?
They are openly communist. I can’t believe someone writing about them would not know that. I wouldn’t give one shit about it if they didn’t go around attacking people.
More accurate revision of what you said, anonymous:
The link you provided was to a 1932 German flag for the Communist Party that rose up in response to the very real fascist threat they were seeing, a threat that would eventually claim the lives of millions…as would…communism…
“I don’t know that being anti fascist makes one a commie”–Mark
Antifa is made up people who are mostly not anti fascist despite their attempts to define themselves as such and they are comprised mostly of self-described communist. Jesus man. Are you trying to claim that antifa is not comprised of people with communist ideals?
“Hyborion refuses to say what he likes about the Proud Boy philosophy”–Mark
Why would HW have any burden to say what he likes about the philosophy of some group, which he has said he is not a part of? As far as I can tell HW is saying he does not like the antifa because they have a pattern of using violence and physicality against people who have ideas that are different from their own. Do you want to defend antifa? I wouldn’t do it unless you are willing to do a little homework. There is tons of video to analyze. You might want to take a few days off from consuming/ parroting the narratives of your favorite “journalists” to turn your attention to many of the first-hand-pov-videos out there to educate yourself on antifa before you even think about trying to defend antifa….
To the tune of “All Cops are Bastards” by antifa (you remember the tune from kindergarten):
“Communist Ninjas
Communist Ninjas
Communist Ninjas
Communist Ninjas”
Damn, Barky. Dafuq yo. Everything you write I easily take apart. Then your little goons come after me with all that degrading shit that never sticks and end up looking psychotic. Sup wit dat.
The not organized antifa secretly recorded in meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOOCUlP1ssE
Highlights include:
11:45 details about Kevin Woodrow
18:54 Begin made up canadian pronoun roulette (attendees introducing themselves like a support group for AA for NA)
25:23 introductions are over (Did not pay attention to any “New” pronouns that were made up)
26:20 Talking about the laugable numbers in attendance: 10 to 15 so far.
27:10 Planning for the 30th, wanting to work with already established political people.
28:45 Describing Antifa as anti-capitalist explicitly
30:00 FASCISTS DONT CARE ABOUT IF YOU ARE GAY OR WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE (Woman semi-admits she’s racist)
33:30 Speaking against individuality and exploiting oppressed groups for their purposes
35:00 Hate your boss instead of illegal immigrants and criminals
37:35 Antifa admits they are on the same page as white nationalists
41:00 Common people are too stupid to understand racism
43:30 People don’t believe racism exists because they don’t experience it
48:57 Planning against counter-protestors
49:35 Discussing plans for upcoming rally in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
55:30 MONITORED WHITE SUPREMACY SITES AND STORM ALLIANCE SAYS 11 OTHER RALLIES ARE BEING HELD ACROSS THE COUNTRY
58:40 Discussing ‘professional protest groups’ (aka paid) to join them
59:10 This Wednesday press conference
1:00:00 strategies
1:01:20 aiming for 200 people this Saturday
1:03:18 JDL MENTIONED, AND SAID THEY MIGHT SHOW UP
1:06:33 Laughing at the idea of getting a permit
1:07:46 FASCIST SOCIALISTS HAVING A DEMOCRATIC VOTE.
1:11:20 PEACE ISN’T GOING TO DO MUCH, ADVOCATING FOR VIOLENCE. NEED TO USE FEAR TO RILE UP SUPPORTERS. EVIDENCE FOR INCITING A RIOT.
Another presidential hissy fit. This time towards Denmark (those commies!) because they told Trump Greenland is not for sale… “A stable genius…like our HW’
It will be interesting to see how Q spins this one.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/world/europe/greenland-denmark-trump.html
Q isn’t spin. How would you even know what Q said if I didn’t tell you?
Looks like I fucked you up for the millionth time. This time it’s your repeated claim they are not an organization. If you have votes at your meeting I think it is good evidence you are organized.
I guess Trump never watched Borgen. The Danish know that the people of Greenland are all drunks and pedophiles. Watch around 1 minute mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZIeHam4vvw
OK – I don’t have any direct knowledge of this, but found it humorous that the series repeatedly referenced Greenland with these type of derogatory remarks. Wouldn’t happen on American TV.
Hissy fit
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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2h
Denmark is a very special country with incredible people, but based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s comments, that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, I will be postponing our meeting scheduled in two weeks for another time….
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
….The Prime Minister was able to save a great deal of expense and effort for both the United States and Denmark by being so direct. I thank her for that and look forward to rescheduling sometime in the future!
6:51 PM · Aug 20, 2019
If you are not antifa you are a nazi and you will pay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6QUaFsou9E
Own goal by antifa attacking and alienating one of their supporters
I guarantee antifa would think maynardites are idiots for not knowing antifa is communist. Useful though…
I invite people to listen to as much of the audio of the antifa meeting they can stomach. These young people have been totally brainwashed by dipshit Marxist professors preying on college students who lack self esteem and who lack a sense of purpose in their lives.
#like
#totally
#brainwashed
Communist ninja mob chases man and daughter and pepper sprays ‘n’ punches someone in the face. Very brave when they are 100 to 1. It’s just like I said yesterday. The only time they get their jollies is when they catch someone alone. A sadistic terrorizing mob mentality takes over; ill shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM5MDOIAp0k
“I guess Trump never watched Borgen. The Danish know that the people of Greenland are all drunks and pedophiles.”
This is vile. I would assume that you would know how vile it is. There are 56,000 people living in Greenland, a place that you will never go, but you revel in spreading disgusting ideas of who they are, despite not knowing a single one of them.
Perhaps they do have social problems, what are you going to do to help them fix it? What are you going to do to help the people in Greenland who are working to fix it?
I am just going to assume that you will do nothing at all.
Gross. You can do better than that.
EOS showed how Danish television portrays the native people. Sounds like they wouldn’t care if they fell off a cliff; like it is an insufferable burden to have to bear the cost of those pesky people living on Denmark’s island.
Anonymous,
In case you missed the nuance, it was a slam against the Danish. However, it’s a drama, not a documentary. Don’t get your panties in a bunch.
“[T]he only weapon I know of–a hammer–was brought to the rally by the Proud Boys”–Mark
Mark might have actually assembled a true a statement but its truth is dependent upon his ignorance.
https://youtu.be/NfjBqNS8E7k
It’s not true. The incident with the hammer was not the Proud Boys. Why would Barky think he should have a handle on how many weapons were there anyway? Like “Well if Bark Baynard doesn’t know of any then I guess there weren’t any there! Bark Baynard knows everything!!!”
FF please explain the comment above. The link is not clarifying.
Do you have evidence there were more? If they were used, we’d have evidence right? How many cameras we’re on the scene?
This full throated and very selective dismissal of evidence is fascinating.
The live stream I watched noted that there were weapons on the antifa side under the bridge. Antifa always has weapons. At a potential major rumble with the Proud Boys? Are you serious? Again I am sure antifa would enjoy seeing your idiotic but useful comments.
I don’t know what you mean about full throated very selective dismissal. How do you figure? It’s a fact that was not the Proud Boys. I don’t know who they are but they kind of look like rent-a-nazis in the pic I saw.
The American Guard were the nazis who thought a hammer would come in handy at a protest march. Another flavor of Agent Orange nazi supporters undermining the USA’s national security and global standing. Nice job all you magat assholes.
https://www.adl.org/blog/behind-the-american-guard-hardcore-white-supremacists
‘Do you have evidence there were more? If they were used, we’d have evidence right? How many cameras we’re on the scene?”
Learning moment, Jean: That is what is called a Straw Man argument. I didn’t say there were weapons used or even that there were any there. I do think it would be extraordinarily naive to think that antifa would not have concealed weapons at a Proud Boys rally but that is not what I said.
So that tiny group slimes all MAGA people. Wow they have a special power to transmogrify millions of human beings. Scary shit!
“Another flavor of Agent Orange nazi supporters undermining the USA’s national security and global standing.”
You know from a Zen Buddhist perspective you are really doing a beautiful job of being all that you are. You embody the spirit of ignorance and hate near to perfection.
For Jean and Mark: The way you talk about the Antifa/Portman’s situation reveals to me you are not the least familiar with the subject which you nevertheless seem all to willing to talk about.
Not proud boys.
Yes, there is of course a shitload of evidence of antifa having and using weapons–even within the links within this thread.
I am sorry if you don’t understand the “people who have never been in my kitchen” joke.
#complicitbecausenotpayingattention
#parrots
You know those actual white supremacists who have been chirping about a coming race war in the USA for decades? Baynard and Herny and Dirty or whoever it is are doing the same work though they think they are on the other side. They are opposed but aligned in wanting the same thing: civil war in 21st century America drawn on racial lines.
I don’t care if there are Americans who are communists or nazis or satanists or anything. Believe what you want. Just don’t go around attacking people or intimidating them and by intimidating I don’t mean merely existing.
Aloha. It is perfectly obvious from the comments by the MAGA folks that the only thing that matters to them is engaging in culture wars. They live in an artificial world where issues like war peace foreign relations economy civil rights are only relevant as it relates to the culture war they are engaged in. They are the poster children for situational ethics and policies. They have no interest in dialogue because they are “right”. They practice the Trump method of negotiations ie. I bully you into submission. EOS is a perfect example of this situational morality.
Here’s a great headline: “Fox News Airs Selectively Edited Clip to Blame Antifa For Hammer Fight With Proud Boys”
“Fox & Friends aired a selectively edited video of violent street clashes in Portland to accuse anti-fascist protesters of “trying to hit people with hammers.” The weapon in question, as revealed by a longer video, was initially brought to the protest and used by a far-right demonstrator against Antifa.”
Thanks for playing, HW.
Hw– see Anonymous post above. That’s what I mean by your “full throated very selective dismissal” of evidence contrary to your views. That propagandists do the disinformation work for you does not excuse your commitment to the bullshit you peddle Same goes for FF who love to claim to be more fair and balanced and reasoned than anyone else while making ample demonstration of his own cognitive bias. Anyone who claims to hold reason on their side is reliably a one dimensional thinker.
“They are the poster children for situational ethics and policies.”– Yep.
I don’t have any association with those people though. They profess to be white supremacists. You are the one who needs a handful of people like that to show up to try to weakly justify what antifa does to people who are not racist at all. I’ve shown strong evidence of them physically attacking people among other things in broad daylight who don’t seem to be in any way racist or fascist or anything. Even people who support them are battered because they are so paranoid and psycho. I don’t think “being racist” is a reason to beat someone. If that was the case a bunch of people around here would be in trouble.
It’s another straw man anyway. Why do you all do that? You don’t understand how it works? I never said the hammer in question wasn’t owned by the white supremacist group in the van.
Got a better vid? Antifa throws bricks first, vid cuts to them rushing someone on the bus, hammer appears in antifa’s hands, antifa throws hammer into bus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPLw_ez4aMA
“I don’t care if there are Americans who are communists or nazis or satanists or anything. Believe what you want. Just don’t go around attacking people or intimidating them ”
Gid I hope that means you are leaving this forum then, HW. Too good to be true. That you can’t see your own behavior here as in any way in conflict with that statement is testimony to your narrative bias.
The ‘you started it’ justification for your animous here is getting a little old isn’t it? You don’t allow the marginalized that argument, but you allow it for your own use. Maybe you should just get over it.
“Believe what you want. Just don’t go around attacking people or intimidating them”
Copy/paste as standard response to all HW posts.
I wish those people would fuck off but there they were, some human beings who do actually have a right in the USA to believe what they want. Disregarding my own and many others’ opinion about them because it doesn’t matter: to prepare to defend oneself against a brick-throwing mob trying to get inside or drag one out by clutching a hammer inside one’s vehicle, if that is indeed what happened seems reasonable. I don’t like racists. I don’t think it is alright to throw bricks at them by yourself or in a mob when you see them. Do you think that is a contradiction?
I can’t even figure out what you are trying to say there, Jean. It’s you psychos that try to do that to me. If you stacked up all the ill shit many, many people here have said to me and analyzed it’s severity then compared it to what I have said in reply the ratio would be lopsided in the extreme and it wouldn’t be weighted to my side. I say things that are more effective because they are true but I do not stoop to the psychotic depths some of you have. Not even close.
Andy Ngo, the Journalist who Barky could never hold a candle to if he tried with an exclusive angle. Very brave considering what they did to him recently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv47J4jMBDA
Mr Ngo reports:
On 17 August, 2019, antifa-allied protesters in Portland rushed two buses when they saw that right-wingers were inside. The busses couldn’t leave the area because traffic had been stopped by demonstrators. Some masked people opened a case that contained cement, which they used as projectiles. When the bus door was opened, a fight broke out.
Andy Ngo is a fascist agitator, not a journalist, and so is HW for regurgitating his bullshit. But we already knew this…..
“The emergence of the two narratives based on the same facts, each with some grounding in reality, tells us a great deal about what’s going on in modern politics.
The right and some parts of the center need there to be a thuggish left, something that allows them to say that “both sides” are equally extreme in the Trump era even though that’s plainly untrue. Meanwhile, there’s a hunger among some parts of the left for a more radical and aggressive politics beyond the ballot box — a sense that the surge in racism and bigotry is so threatening that there’s no choice but to take to the streets and physically confront the pro-Trump right.
The debate over the attack on Andy Ngo, then, isn’t really a debate over press freedoms. It’s an expression of two divergent visions of where American politics is at right now — and who the biggest threats to its security are.”
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/3/20677645/antifa-portland-andy-ngo-proud-boys
This entire comment section is simply repeating our own narratives. None of us have learned anything here in ages. None of us will. Not here anyway. Politics right now is both dangerous and boring. It’s impossible to have a serious discussion about anything. I hope this is all worth it. I think the Chinese had it wrong when they called such historical moments ‘interesting times.’ Or maybe we just don’t have enough distance yet.
At any rate, there is no reasonable defense of white supremacists or white supremacist protestors. (And the Proud Boys meet HW’s own definition of white supremacists) It really doesn’t matter whether Antifa is excessively violent or not.
That’s your opinion. Whether he is or not you can’t throw cement inside a milkshake container at him. That’s ill.
I had never heard of him until he got attacked. He was handing out soy milkshakes to poke fun at lefty/antifa soyboys. Oh no! Smash his fucking head in!!!
I’m not defending white supremacists. I’m being real about antifa’s behavior. It’s you who are defending that and that is a losing proposition.
Antifa attack on ICE detention facility footage. Are you sure you want to align with this? The old feller bit it presumably when you hear the shots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Iy5u9hDcM
I’ll take on your best ninja on top of the old grain silo at midnight. Lights out, no disqualification match. No weapons but you can use whatever is laying around. Old farmer from the market as special referee. Win by KO or submission only.
https://www.projectorsuperstore.com/projectors/large-venue/
You do plenty enough projecting without one of those bad boys.
“I’m not defending white supremacists. I’m being real about antifa’s behavior.”
Remind me again how many people antifa have killed.
Oh, right.
“Gid I hope that means you are leaving this forum then, HW. Too good to be true. That you can’t see your own behavior here as in any way in conflict with that statement is testimony to your narrative bias.
The ‘you started it’ justification for your animous here is getting a little old isn’t it? You don’t allow the marginalized that argument, but you allow it for your own use. Maybe you should just get over it.”
How do I not allow “the marginalized” an argument? In what way do I disallow anyone from saying anything?
I don’t know if you know this but the way the laws in this country work if you are attacked you have justification to defend yourself. It might be an old principle but it is a good one and it still applies today.
You know what you and others have said on here about me and it is a mountain of ad hominem shit. If I respond in kind why should you be surprised? It happens constantly. I’ll be commenting on something and one of the psychos comes on and starts trying to rip on me with the most puerile, infantile shit imaginable. You are out of your mind to try to act like I am some bully. I stand up to all of you on my own and mop up with you every day.
How do you feel about antifa’s victims getting their head cracked open bad enough to be hospitalized, eel? It didn’t kill ’em so it doesn’t matter.
I think HW switched from weed to crack. Only a die-hard fascist agitator would still be trying to push the cement milk shake lie.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/milkshakes-thrown-in-portland/
I gave 4 very specific examples of how the left is using double standards. The only reply was akin to “Not me – you are”. If you think I am applying situational ethics, please give specific examples. I think I am among the most ideologically consistent persons on this blog. But it would be helpful if you could specifically reference the times where my posts were inconsistent with a conservative political view.
There are many here that have voiced support for Antifa. There is no one who has voiced support for white supremacists. I sincerely hope no one here would consider using violence to support a political viewpoint.
EOS, I don’t support Antifa. They are being used as pawns in the fascist manipulations of alternative facts. But I am virulently anti-fascist, so I understand their reaction. And I support all Americans willing to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign or domestic. You have the freedom to be as holy rolling batshit crazy as you want in my view, until you or your political affiliates violate the Constitution. Then you’re asking for it.
I hear you JB. I’m glad you don’t support fascists. Neither do I.
Unfortunately the Constitution has not been adhered to by either party for my entire life.
When was the last time Congress declared war? Or regulated our money supply? Where is the constitutional amendment that allows for massive numbers of federal bureaucrats dictating new laws by transcribing unlimited volumes of new regulations into the Congressional record? Where is the authority in the constitution for judges to abandon the written laws and fabricate laws of their own choosing? Which part of the Constitution gives supranational authority to the United Nations?
After WWII they decided it was too difficult to amend the Constitution – so they began to ignore the parts they didn’t like. I would like for us to return to a Constitutional form of government but don’t think it is likely.
Portland Police are on crack too.
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Police have received information that some of the milkshakes thrown today during the demonstration contained quick-drying cement. We are encouraging anyone hit with a substance today to report it to police.
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They throw concrete in the fuckin’ video. Why would they not throw a milkshake shaped one? You have no idea what they have thrown at people in years past because you are a moron who says a lot of ill shit about things you can’t understand. You can’t understand because you don’t pay attention. Even an actual moron on the intelligence scale could understand it but you refuse.
I don’t give a shit if you side with antifa. Just don’t fuck with me and you’ll be alright. You’ve been trying for a while but you are so pathetic it is no kind of threat either physical or verbal.
I can’t believe you think hundreds of millions of Americans deserve to be beaten or shot or jailed or whatever it is you are obsessing on. The scale of your insanity is staggering. I never expected this from…anyone let alone people I have met.
Here’s the latest truth on PBs from the horses mouth. (for all the maynardites not experiencing a manic episode). For HW, fuck off fash.
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5d5e9882e4b0dfcbd4893ee5
Who are you, Stalin? Are you going to realize your misanthropic dream do you think? Or are you going into the dustbin of history labelled ‘Losers’ like the handful of other psychos like you?
What’s wrong with looking good and not fighting and making Portland pay for the antifa problem they have turned a blind eye to? I see that website claims they wanted to start fights but it’s belied by a quote they use in the article! Garbage
“This is a pure optics operation. If you’re looking for your fourth degree [rank for assaulting someone], this is not the event to do it.”
Enrique Tarrio, Proud Boys leader
“I’m not defending white supremacists. I’m being real about antifa’s behavior.”
Remind me again how many people antifa have killed.
Oh, right.
You already said that and I already replied. Didn’t answer did you? How many have the Proud Boys murdered by the way?
Anonymous
Posted August 22, 2019 at 12:07 pm | Permalink
Here’s a great headline: “Fox News Airs Selectively Edited Clip to Blame Antifa For Hammer Fight With Proud Boys”
“Fox & Friends aired a selectively edited video of violent street clashes in Portland to accuse anti-fascist protesters of “trying to hit people with hammers.” The weapon in question, as revealed by a longer video, was initially brought to the protest and used by a far-right demonstrator against Antifa.”
Thanks for playing, HW.
Jesus. What point do you think you are making? I thought we all knew that antifa took the weapon from the anti-antifa group that was on the bus.
Did anybody challenge that truth claim? I don’t think so.
Believe what you want, HW. Just don’t go around attacking people or intimidating them.
My conscience is clean.
“Fox & Friends aired a selectively edited video of violent street clashes in Portland to accuse anti-fascist protesters of “trying to hit people with hammers.” The weapon in question, as revealed by a longer video, was initially brought to the protest and used by a far-right demonstrator against Antifa.”
No accusation needed on that point. Antifa in fact used the hammer as a weapon. It’s in the video. Did the white supremacist attack with it or merely brandish it?
What is life like for you walking among all those white supremacists around here? Millions in Michigan alone…Do you want to hurt them when you see them? Some torture maybe when you are in a bad mood for a lil pick-me-up?
HW goes around town blocking people from walking freely, intimidating people by yelling things like “get the fuck out of here”, while physically assaulting people?
Why do you talk Jean?
“Believe what you want, FF.. Just don’t go around attacking people or intimidating them.”
Just yesterday Strange Fruit sung by Billy Holiday was playing on the radio as I trailed a pick-up truck with Confederate flag and WHITEY bumper stickers. It was a moment.
The Whitmore Lake area is full of great people and an awful lot of White Supremacists (who do not qualify for the former category). It’s also increasingly diverse as it’s the cheapest place to live near Ann Arbor jobs. There are few problems but one has to wonder how my Black, Latinx and Jewish neighbors feel following behind trucks like that, or standing in line at the Speedway behind someone with an Iron Cross tattoo and a “Welcome to America now learn English” shirt. (Both happened to me yesterday)
This is worth a listen:
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/20/752909807/strange-fruit
I have made clear here that I don’t think condemning outright white supremacists constitutes being anti-racist. It’s way too easy. And it lets us all off the hook for the systemic and cultural racism for which we are all responsible and about which we do far too little.
BUT
Open White Supremacists are distinct precisely in that their existence in public constitutes reasonable, palpable physical threat to many. Please imagine what that might feel like if you were a member of one of the targeted demographics.
“My conscience is clean.”
So clean it’s white. Sparkling white.
It’s white supremacist to have a clean conscience for not doing wrong to others. If you support Donald Trump everything you do and say is automatically white supremacist.
HW– A vote for Donald Trump means you have done wrong to others.
Check the headlines.
Your conscience is clean because it’s dense to the impact of what you support. And yes, that’s our White Supremacist culture in action.
So maybe your conscience is clean but your hands are not.
That’s only your opinion though. Actually read my replies to just about every point you make. Using your standard you did wrong by voting for Obama.
“Jean Henry
Posted August 23, 2019 at 8:56 am | Permalink
HW– A vote for Donald Trump means you have done wrong to others.
Check the headlines.
Your conscience is clean because it’s dense to the impact of what you support. And yes, that’s our White Supremacist culture in action.
So maybe your conscience is clean but your hands are not.”
You just make this shit up to support your assumptions. Nothing real about it.
First Step Act: discuss.
I think it would be odd for a white supremacist to enact it. I learned in one of the videos I posted that the President asked NFL knee-takers to give him names of people they know or know of who have been treated unfairly and if it is found to be true they will be released if not get a presidential pardon.
The Racist, Racist, Racist label for Trump is no more accurate than the Russian, Russian, Russian collusion was accurate. It’s a tactic advocated by Saul Alinsky in Rules for Radicals that has been so overused it is ineffective and has the opposite effect. MSM may never recover their credibility. Those who have been throwing shade on Trump will soon realize it has been misdirected.
A vote for Hillary was a vote for corruption and her election would have been far more harmful to the country. The FBI’s gift of immunity for Cheryl Mills is being investigated by the current IG and DOJ and will be part of the evidence against Comey, Clapper, and Brennan and their attempt to blackmail Clinton, Rubio, Cruz, and Trump. It’s ironic that because she has immunity she is revealing everything.
I agree with HW in that the shoe is going to drop soon and many here will have egg all over their faces.
Everyone can see there is a co-ordinated move from Russia to Racism. Problem is they screwed themselves over Russia and information on the positive things the President is doing is accessible on the web. They can bury it on CNN and the others but they are losing relevance fast as evidenced by their ratings. Who could stick with propagandists like Maddow after those years of lies?
What a strange corner they have painted themselves into. Hundreds of millions of Americans they believe must be subject to all manner of abuse and worse. I believe we have exposed them as communists in the classic mold with dreams of wiping out everyone they think is in the way of their goal. They don’t even think about the smearfest they have every day because it is nothing compared to their dream. I never expected this.
Yep. And now we get daily reports of how bad Trump is doing in the polls. As if we can’t remember that their polls said he didn’t have a chance in 2016 either. I never respond to polls. They call you on the phone and tell you its anonymous. Right, they called me and know my number. How anonymous is that?
And maybe if you tell the caller that you support Trump, they’ll publish your address and ANTIFA will show up at your door. Their tactics themselves suppress the accuracy of their polls. I can’t believe anyone in their right mind would vote for the Green New Deal. They get to choose between Biden who is afflicted with CRS or a communist. Some choice.
“I think it would be odd for a white supremacist to enact it” –HW I assume you mean act on it, as in be violent?
https://www.businessinsider.com/extremist-killings-links-right-wing-extremism-report-2019-1
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/03/world/white-extremist-terrorism-christchurch.html
On Trump’s racism, a deep dig: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/trump-racism-comments/588067/
1973: The US Department of Justice — under the Nixon administration, out of all administrations — sued the Trump Management Corporation for violating the Fair Housing Act. Federal officials found evidence that Trump had refused to rent to black tenants and lied to black applicants about whether apartments were available, among other accusations. Trump said the federal government was trying to get him to rent to welfare recipients. In the aftermath, he signed an agreement in 1975 agreeing not to discriminate to renters of color without admitting to discriminating before.
1980s: Kip Brown, a former employee at Trump’s Castle, accused another one of Trump’s businesses of discrimination. “When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” Brown said. “It was the eighties, I was a teenager, but I remember it: They put us all in the back.”
1988: In a commencement speech at Lehigh University, Trump spent much of his speech accusing countries like Japan of “stripping the United States of economic dignity.” This matches much of his current rhetoric on China.
1989: In a controversial case that’s been characterized as a modern-day lynching, four black teenagers and one Latino teenager — the “Central Park Five” — were accused of attacking and raping a jogger in New York City. Trump immediately took charge in the case, running an ad in local papers demanding, “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!” The teens’ convictions were later vacated after they spent seven to 13 years in prison, and the city paid $41 million in a settlement to the teens. But Trump in October 2016 said he still believes they’re guilty, despite the DNA evidence to the contrary.
1991: A book by John O’Donnell, former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, quoted Trump’s criticism of a black accountant: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.” Trump at first denied the remarks, but later said in a 1997 Playboy interview that “the stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true.”
1992: The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino had to pay a $200,000 fine because it transferred black and women dealers off tables to accommodate a big-time gambler’s prejudices.
1993: In congressional testimony, Trump said that some Native American reservations operating casinos shouldn’t be allowed because “they don’t look like Indians to me.”
2000: In opposition to a casino proposed by the St. Regis Mohawk tribe, which he saw as a financial threat to his casinos in Atlantic City, Trump secretly ran a series of ads suggesting the tribe had a “record of criminal activity [that] is well documented.”
2004: In season two of The Apprentice, Trump fired Kevin Allen, a black contestant, for being overeducated. “You’re an unbelievably talented guy in terms of education, and you haven’t done anything,” Trump said on the show. “At some point you have to say, ‘That’s enough.’”
2005: Trump publicly pitched what was essentially The Apprentice: White People vs. Black People. He said he “wasn’t particularly happy” with the most recent season of his show, so he was considering “an idea that is fairly controversial — creating a team of successful African Americans versus a team of successful whites. Whether people like that idea or not, it is somewhat reflective of our very vicious world.”
2010: In 2010, there was a huge national controversy over the “Ground Zero Mosque” — a proposal to build a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan, near the site of the 9/11 attacks. Trump opposed the project, calling it “insensitive,” and offered to buy out one of the investors in the project. On The Late Show With David Letterman, Trump argued, referring to Muslims, “Well, somebody’s blowing us up. Somebody’s blowing up buildings, and somebody’s doing lots of bad stuff.”
2011: Trump played a big role in pushing false rumors that Obama — the country’s first black president — was not born in the US. He even sent investigators to Hawaii to look into Obama’s birth certificate. Obama later released his birth certificate, calling Trump a ”carnival barker.” (The research has found a strong correlation between “birtherism,” as this conspiracy theory is called, and racism.) Trump has reportedly continued pushing this conspiracy theory in private.
2011: While Trump suggested that Obama wasn’t born in the US, he also argued that maybe Obama wasn’t a good enough student to have gotten into Columbia or Harvard Law School, and demanded Obama release his university transcripts. Trump claimed, “I heard he was a terrible student. Terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?”
Trump launched his campaign in 2015 by calling Mexican immigrants “rapists” who are “bringing crime” and “bringing drugs” to the US. His campaign was largely built on building a wall to keep these immigrants out of the US.
As a candidate in 2015, Trump called for a ban on all Muslims coming into the US. His administration eventually implemented a significantly watered-down version of the policy.
When asked at a 2016 Republican debate whether all 1.6 billion Muslims hate the US, Trump said, “I mean a lot of them. I mean a lot of them.”
He argued in 2016 that Judge Gonzalo Curiel — who was overseeing the Trump University lawsuit — should recuse himself from the case because of his Mexican heritage and membership in a Latino lawyers association. House Speaker Paul Ryan, who endorsed Trump, later called such comments “the textbook definition of a racist comment.”
Trump has been repeatedly slow to condemn white supremacists who endorse him, and he regularly retweeted messages from white supremacists and neo-Nazis during his presidential campaign.
He tweeted and later deleted an image that showed Hillary Clinton in front of a pile of money and by a Jewish Star of David that said, “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” The tweet had some very obvious anti-Semitic imagery, but Trump insisted that the star was a sheriff’s badge, and said his campaign shouldn’t have deleted it.
Trump has repeatedly referred to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) as “Pocahontas,” using her controversial — and later walked-back — claims to Native American heritage as a punchline.
At the 2016 Republican convention, Trump officially seized the mantle of the “law and order” candidate — an obvious dog whistle playing to white fears of black crime, even though crime in the US is historically low. His speeches, comments, and executive actions after he took office have continued this line of messaging.
In a pitch to black voters in 2016, Trump said, “You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?”
Trump stereotyped a black reporter at a press conference in February 2017. When April Ryan asked him if he plans to meet and work with the Congressional Black Caucus, he repeatedly asked her to set up the meeting — even as she insisted that she’s “just a reporter.”
In the week after white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, Trump repeatedly said that “many sides” and “both sides” were to blame for the violence and chaos that ensued — suggesting that the white supremacist protesters were morally equivalent to counterprotesters that stood against racism. He also said that there were “some very fine people” among the white supremacists. All of this seemed like a dog whistle to white supremacists — and many of them took it as one, with white nationalist Richard Spencer praising Trump for “defending the truth.”
Throughout 2017, Trump repeatedly attacked NFL players who, by kneeling or otherwise silently protesting during the national anthem, demonstrated against systemic racism in America.
Trump reportedly said in 2017 that people who came to the US from Haiti “all have AIDS,” and he lamented that people who came to the US from Nigeria would never “go back to their huts” once they saw America. The White House denied that Trump ever made these comments.
Speaking about immigration in a bipartisan meeting in January 2018, Trump reportedly asked, in reference to Haiti and African countries, “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” He then reportedly suggested that the US should take more people from countries like Norway. The implication: Immigrants from predominantly white countries are good, while immigrants from predominantly black countries are bad.
Trump denied making the “shithole” comments, although some senators present at the meeting said they happened. The White House, meanwhile, suggested that the comments, like Trump’s remarks about the NFL protests, will play well to his base. The only connection between Trump’s remarks about the NFL protests and his “shithole” comments is race.
Trump mocked Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign, again calling her “Pocahontas” in a tweet before adding, “See you on the campaign TRAIL, Liz!” The capitalized “TRAIL” is seemingly a reference to the Trail of Tears — a horrific act of ethnic cleansing in the 19th century in which Native Americans were forcibly relocated, causing thousands of deaths.
Trump tweeted that several black and brown members of Congress — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) — are “from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe” and that they should “go back” to those countries. It’s a common racist trope to say that black and brown people, particularly immigrants, should go back to their countries of origin. Three of four of the members of Congress whom Trump targeted were born in the US.
And his actions in office speak louder than his words.
All the extremist killings in 2018 were perpetrated by right wing extremists? I call bullshit.
The left doesn’t identify anyone as a left wing extremists, yet more murders are committed by Democratic voters in Chicago in one weekend than all the “right wing extremists” combined in the entire country for the entire year.
” I never respond to polls. They call you on the phone and tell you its anonymous. Right, they called me and know my number. How anonymous is that?
And maybe if you tell the caller that you support Trump, they’ll publish your address and ANTIFA will show up at your door. ”
EOS — your truly bizarre fantasy that polling organizations conspire with Antifa to target Trump supporters in their homes rivals HW’s conspiracy imaginings. Bullies playing the victim of those fighting for equity is a very old story. Like a good Conservative Christian, you have scared yourself silly with fairytales.
In other news, closer to home:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michigan-city-council-candidate-jean-cramer-wants-to-keep-community-as-white-as-possible/
“(A) husband and wife need to be the same race. Same thing with kids. That’s how it’s been from the beginning of, how can I say, when God created the heaven and the earth. He created Adam and Eve at the same time. But as far as me being against blacks, no I’m not.”
I think I’ve found EOS true identity! Quick someone call Antifa and send them over!
“Jean Henry
Posted August 23, 2019 at 11:50 am | Permalink
“I think it would be odd for a white supremacist to enact it” –HW I assume you mean act on it, as in be violent?”
I don’t understand your assumption. Acting on The First Step Act which President Trump signed into law would be violent how? I have completely short-circuited you. Your gibberish makes no sense.
Some fantasy…
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/8/7/20758533/joaquin-castro-tweet-trump-donors-texas-san-antonio
Anyone can fabricate a poll.
Yes, I agree, her gibberish makes no sense.
Ah I misread because you split tow related posts. HW. I have no issue with the First Step Act. I don’t know what that has to do with Trump’s racism or his support for and from violent White supremacist organizations. Is it that you think all prisoners are Black?
Oh whoops! Looks like the First Step Act is bullshit:
https://civilrights.org/resource/vote-no-first-step-act/
First Step Act is an unfunded mandate among other issues.
“relying on a risk assessment tool for earning time credits could amplify racial disparities and perpetuate other injustices in the criminal justice system. Studies have shown that these tools can produce results that are heavily biased against Black defendants and have a disparate negative impact on African Americans” — doh!
I thought the white supremacist power structure punished blacks disproportionately. Anyways, see how easy it is when you educate yourself before you speak like I do?
https://blackpressusa.com/report-black-men-are-biggest-beneficiaries-of-the-first-step-act/
“More than 1,000 individuals incarcerated in federal prisons were granted sentence reductions in the four months since the First Step Act was signed into law, according to the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC)…
…Over 91 percent of the individuals whose sentences were shortened were African American and 98 percent were male, the USSC said.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/trump-declared-he-was-working-on-a-second-step-act-the-proposal-doesnt-exist
“A White House official said that Trump “wants to bring more fairness” to the legal system and “you can expect more legislation to address the second steps in the future,” but that the First Step Act “will take a year to fully implement,” diverting focus from additional legislation.”
What’s wrong with that? A year to fully implement the First Step then Second Step legislation. Sounds reasonable and good.
So Jean, since I cannot assume you understand the significance of any particular thing the quote about 1,000 individuals and 91% being black answers your question about what First Step has to do with Trump and racism. He is rolling back discriminatory sentencing implemented in the past by repubs and dems alike. It is a fine gesture that begins a process of reconciliation. Certainly it is anti-racist.
I love the sound of crickets in August.
I hereby order you to enjoy the outdoors this evening.
And don’t forget about the gun buyback coming up in case you have any irresponsibly possessed firearms.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/08/23/ypsilanti-gun-buyback-the-cream/2098117001/
I don’t know about anyone else but I don’t take orders from pinheads or anyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpK_3e5E42o
I was working. Also you bore me, HW.
I’m sure since Trump is such a great friend to Black Americans, this time he’ll get more than 10% of their votes.
I have never claimed that either party has treated Black Americans well. Quite the opposite. The Dems only have their support because they aren’t out an out racist like Republicans. Many Black people are socially conservative. It amazes me that the GOP hasn’t figured out how to gain their support. Maybe Trump is onto something with this half assed measure. It was the only bi partisan legislation he was able to pass. Weak sauce given the scope of the problem but welcome nonetheless. Let’s see if he funds the programs.
It’s good to hear you acknowledge that Black Americans have been treated differently and unjustly by the judicial system, HW.
Democrats have failed African Americans. Look at the result of decades of dem control of cities like our beloved Detroit. The plantation era is ending. Many, many black people are discovering that people like you lie about the President and everything else.
I agree that Dems have failed Black Americans. I even agree that a lot of liberalism smacks of plantation thinking– more pity than empathy or meaningful action. In light of that, it’s amazing the GOP has fucked up so badly. I haven’t seen the GOP do much at all to gain their support. The bar is very very low. They actively alienate them. There’s no other possible explanation for their inability to attract Black voters. White liberals ‘lying; to them isn’t explanation enough. Black Americans aren’t without critical capacity. They have many criticisms of white liberalism but still have never voted GOP in decent numbers ever. I guess we’ll see if “many, many black people” are willing to vote GOP in 2020…
You think dem welfare policies might have anything to do with that? Plantation owners had to feed the slaves enough to live. I guess that combined with the danger of attempting to escape were enough to keep them in line; kind of like now.
Eel
Posted August 22, 2019 at 4:28 pm | Permalink
“Remind me again how many people antifa have killed.
Oh, right.”
Connor Betts was antifa. If I were you I’d be alarmed by the similarity with what certain people on here say.
https://nypost.com/2019/08/06/dayton-shooter-may-be-antifas-first-mass-killer/
Betts had long expressed support for antifa accounts, causes and individuals. That would be the loose network of militant leftist activists who physically attack anyone to the right of Mao in the name of “anti-fascism.” In particular, Betts promoted extreme hatred of American border enforcement.
“Kill every fascist,” the shooter declared in 2018 on twitter, echoing a rallying cry of antifa ideologues. Over the next year, his tweets became increasingly violent. “Nazis deserve death and nothing else,” he tweeted last October. Betts frequently flung the label “Nazi” at those with whom he disagreed online.
Ok HW– Assuming Betts was Antifa (not established), please provide your side by side comparison of Antifa acts of violence v right wing extremism. I want to see a tally. thanks.
HW– No I don’t think Dem Welfare policies have to do with that. Last I checked welfare was available to all US citizens and primarily utilized by White families.
HW, I hate to expose your extreme stupidity yet again. Please quote ANTIFA propaganda which expresses hatred of minorities which would incite Betts seemingly indiscriminate murder of people hanging out at bars. You should also be sure to find the ANTIFA propaganda which incited him to murder his sister. Your STUPIDITY is simply outstanding. Historically, the Nazi and then our CIA utilized mass murder (bombings usually) to provide the State with the justification for rounding up leftest and minorities. Please note the Leaders rhetoric at his New Hampshire campaign event (I know you never bother to actually listen to the Leader–only following him blindly) he advocates selective gun seizures from the “mentally unfit”. The Leader is following the Nazi program of first demonizing minorities, and then actually begin stripping citizenship rights from the “mentally ill”. The first Nazi concentration camps were in fact used to house the “mentally ill”. The first extermination experiments were used on the “mentally ill”. You and your Nazi pals are just stupid willing dupes. You know nothing but the propaganda that Q dribbles into your mind. Again find ANTIFA propaganda that incites the killing of minorities. The one ANTIFA activist who actually took up arms was, Sporson murdered by private security guards hired by ICE when he attempted to burn the ICE Vans. If Betts was in fact an ANTIFA inspired terrorist he would have gunned down Miller. Leftest know who the enemy is, and it is not our fellow citizens.
“Please quote ANTIFA propaganda which expresses hatred of minorities which would incite Betts seemingly indiscriminate murder of people hanging out at bars.”
I didn’t say they did. He posted pro antifa shit for years. “You disagree with me? You’re a nazi”…”Kill the Nazis” I am no nazi. That’s ridiculous and weird to say. You are in fact a useful communist idiot.
You think hatred of minorities is the only form of racism. I use the proper definition: Discrimination based on race.
Perhaps he was deluded that his sister was a nazi just like you and Dirty and others are deluded about me. Perhaps he thought that his murder “spree” would be the last straw and finally would break the second amendment. Then he’d be doing a heroic thing.
“Ok HW– Assuming Betts was Antifa (not established), please provide your side by side comparison of Antifa acts of violence v right wing extremism. I want to see a tally. thanks.”
That would take too long. Why don’t you respond to the ones I already posted in this thread? You wouldn’t even watch the vids I posted of the many, many attacks on Trump supporters during the election.
“Jean Henry
Posted August 25, 2019 at 6:34 am | Permalink
HW– No I don’t think Dem Welfare policies have to do with that. Last I checked welfare was available to all US citizens and primarily utilized by White families.”
You have heard of something called “per capita” or no? There are poor white people too. That’s true. How does that square with the idea they are born with white privilege? There are also more white people than blacks so you might expect the total number of recipients to be higher. Per capita will be a different story.
By the way the Communist Party of Germany allied with the National Socialist Party in attacks on the Social Democrats who they considered to be the worst fascists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifaschistische_Aktion
The KPD viewed the Nazi Party ambigiously during the early 1930s; on one hand the KPD considered the Nazi Party to be one of the fascist parties, albeit a lesser evil than the SPD, on the other hand the KPD sought to appeal to the left wing of the Nazi movement by using nationalist slogans.[1] The KPD sometimes cooperated with the Nazis in attacking the social democrats.[21] In 1931 the KPD had united with the Nazis, whom they referred to as “working people’s comrades,” in an unsuccessful attempt to bring down the social democrat state government of Prussia by means of a referendum.[22]
In October 1931 a coalition of right-wing and far-right parties had established the Harzburg Front that opposed the government of the Centre Party’s Heinrich Brüning, and in response the social democrats and affiliated groups had established the Iron Front that sought to defend liberal democracy and the constitution of the Weimar Republic; the latter opposed both Nazism and Communism and was viewed by the KPD as a “social fascist terror organisation.”[4]
“Antifa acts of violence v right wing extremism”
I don’t identify with “right wing extremists” so why should I be responsible for what they do? Since antifa is well-loved around here you do have to review their behavior.
Bwahahaha! Working People’s Comrades!!!!!! Comrades with Hitler’s party. OMFG!!!
Barky, I’m buying you out. I got a bag of potato chips from last summer still unopened.
Worth a listen re how the media let’s pass isolationist and xenophobic rhetoric while abhoring the white supremacist, faux- nativist notions that are at its core:
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/understanding-white-power-movement
Daily Beast: “Right-Wing Star Andy Ngo Exits Quillette After Damning Video Surfaces”
Read more:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/andy-ngo-who-became-a-right-wing-star-leaves-quillette-after-incriminating-video-appears
I invite people to disregard the spin of the article and tweets and actually watch the actual video and connect it with the video of the initial contact PP made with Antifa at the Cider Riot bar.
#notmeta
Fuckin’ zombies: they take a lethal finishing move and just keep wading forward.
Not talking about any video.
Aloha FF, pretty boring video but at about the 15 min they start talking about the “great” socialist programs for housing relief in Washington. “Programs for Vets who can’t pay the rent”, “Programs for the elderly who can’t pay their taxes.” “Hey that’s good” “Property taxes are the worst, they are the only ones you can’t avoid”. One guy also seemed to get kinda excited about discovering a strip joint on the way. A more confused group of folks would be hard to find–what is it with the black Gadsen flag? Are they trying to be anarcho-facsist or something (can’t be anymore confused than that except for atheist who believe in Satan maybe)?
All in all pretty stupid, but as such they could hurt either themselves or others badly. Wearing helmets and goggles, carrying bricks, pepper spray, clubs, (all of which were being carried as concealed weapons) just a peaceful group of folks. And of course announcing to themselves that there is going to be a fight.
Looked to me more like a cultural bonding excursion than anything approaching a political parade. The Hell’s Angel’s had more political coherency than this group expresses.
Aloha JH, Here is a very good book on the White Power Movement and the Aryan Nation.
Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism. Durham: Duke University Press. 2003. ISBN 0-8223-3059-8.
Dr. Gardell is a renowned theologian who has spent a life time studying the “spiritual” underpinnings of extremest ideologies. I got to know him when he was working on his first book “Countdown to Armageddon: Minister Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam in the Latter Days.”
Of course as White Power gets main streamed you end up with the absolute confusion that was apparent in the video that FF shared, but the leaders of this movement have a “spiritual” underpinning–
Actually, I do not think they were particularly confused at all. They shared a specific sense that they had a right to walk on public sidewalk without being harassed, they knew they would get harassed/ attacked, and they all seemed willing to accept the consequences of exercising their right.
Antifa, from the outside, gives the group its coherence. These types of clashes are a necessary result of the natural unfolding of identity politics. It’s how bigotry manifests itself in the world. It is stupid, it is unnecessary, it is wrong, but it is real.
Aloha FF, that is a really idiotic comment. I know of no right for you to walk down the street in a parade of hate. You come walk by my house saving you hate me, I’ll meet you with my baseball bat. That was not their community. They didn’t know shit about the neighborhood. If they want to be “protected” in the exercise of their “rights”-then get a parade permit and have the state there to protect you. They were thugs invading some one else’s home. They came there looking for trouble. I would have given it to them to (I keep my bat by my front door and have gone out into the street with it more than once to confront stupid people). I’m sorry you just have no since of real life but live in some bullshit abstraction. ” It is stupid, it is unnecessary, it is wrong, but it is real.” and we should stomp them out. They engaged in a dozen illegal acts. Carrying concealed weapons, marching without a permit, inciting to riot, premeditated assault with intent to kill. Just so you know “Antifa” folks have been charged with all those crimes. Those who protested on inauguration day faced prison terms in the 20 to 30 year range. You seem to be afflicted by the same moral relativity that EOS and JH frequently exhibit.
I am truly unaware of gays, lesbians, queers, transexual folks marching through the streets of white hetro america looking for fights. I am unaware of black or hispanic folks armed to the teeth marching through white neighborhoods looking to provoke fights.
I am really tired of stupid shit, and that was one stupid comment FF.
but being a dolt, I clearly would not know, perhaps your comments were in fact brilliant.
I bet I could disarm you easily. I don’t know what hate march you are talking about but if it’s the Proud Boys that’s absurd. You can go to any neighborhood you like and shouldn’t have to fear for your life. Intent to kill? What the fuck is wrong with you?
I don’t think my comment was idiotic at all, DD. I have not gone too deep into Patriot Prayer but my sense is they are primarily a “freedom of speech” and “freedom of movement” movement that was created in response to the rise of the fascist/illegal/anti-American tactics practiced by the group that calls themselves Antifa.
Groups of people have every right to walk by your house even if you think they are bad people, DD. The fact that you are willing to beat people, with a bat, when you do not like those people,, for walking past your house is an interesting admission. The fact that you just admitted we should practice violence against people who say things we do not agree with makes you at odds with our laws.
You are falsely claiming I don’t want people punished for breaking laws. I am not advocating that the people who willing got into fights should not be prosecuted if they broke a law but happen to be on one side or the other. The leader of PP actually spoke out immediately against someone in his group who attacked somebody–he said it was wrong and that they need to take responsibility for their own wrong actions.
You seem to be holding onto some pretty contradictory notions. PP is not a coherent group on the one hand. PP is a hate group on the other. Which is it? Do you have evidence of specific examples of hate the group has expressed that shows that they deserve to be beaten with a baseball back when they walk past your house, DD? Are you assuming Antifa is comprised of gay people–LOL?
Have you researched any of this? I don’t get the sense you know what you are talking about at all but you sound like you are pretty quick with your stick.
#batty
“pretty boring video”–DD
How does your assessment square with the headline of the article? The theory was that Ngo was somehow “caught” not reporting the happenings that occurred within that video despite his presence within the group. It is a long 18 minute video. It is boring. The person who wrote the article is assuming we won’t watch the supposedly “damning video evidence” and instead just assume the writer of the article is telling the truth.
#notmeta
DD, I think everyone here knows that FF thinks white men should have more rights than everyone else. He is pretty consistent on that point.
Does Lynne know how to read? I just said people should be convicted for breaking laws regardless of which side the law-breaker happens to be on.
Does Lynne speak on things she knows nothing about? One of the main Patriot Prayer members that is being brought up on charges is what race, Lynne? I agree with the non-white PP leader when he admits that one of his non white members did something wrong and that he needs to take responsibility for the wrongful/ criminal act.
How does any of that square with your comment bigot-brain-lynne?
Since you have accused me of being consistent in my belief that white men should have more rights then please offer one example wherein I said something like that. I didn’t. Why would I say something say stupid? I wouldn’t. Why would Lynne accuse me of something so horrible and stupid? Answer: Lynne is a liar.
Prove that you are not a liar and offer one instance where I have advocated for the extension of rights based on sex or race. You can’t because you are a liar, Lynne.
Aloha FF, you have nothing to say about the numerous laws that the video demonstrates the PP folks were engaging in, the reasons why the “journalist” was fired. Your inability to discern what was in fact an illegal invasion with intent to provoke violence is disturbing. I think that it is a purposeful act given your comments a couple of years ago about the counter-protestors in Charlottesville. I seem to recall, (but hey I am old and my mind is swiss cheese at this point) that you used the fact that Antifa showed up with weapons as an example of them being the provocateurs. I make no excuse or apologies for defending my home and neighborhood from stupid people intent on violence. These thugs went looking for Antifa–sent out scouts. They walked through the neighborhood flying their flag for 15 min. of the 17 min. video, and NO ONE GAVE A SHIT they could do it all day and NO ONE WOULD GIVE A SHIT. They then went looking for a fight at the other gangs hang out. Yes your comments were and are IDIOTIC.
numerous law that the video demonstrates they were breaking
sorry my thoughts got ahead of my typing
Antifa does not own the sidewalks on any part of any town, even if they live in the particular town, do they? Do the people at the bar even live in Portland? You keep repeating it is Antifa’s home that is being invaded. What are you talking about? It is not their home and that it may or may not have occurred in their city is irrelevant. Where do the people in PP, who also appear in that video reside?
If someone is found to be carrying a concealed weapon illegally they should be charged regardless of what side they are on. Is that clear?
Regarding Charlottesville: I never argued that Antifa was the provocateurs BECAUSE they possessed weapons. I challenged your characterization of what happened in Charlottesville by asking you questions. I put a spotlight on specific incidents, which you handpicked and asked you who was the provocateur in those specific incidents…I asked you about the chronological order of specific attacks which you were commenting on. You, at every turn failed to provide support for your little fantasy narratives.
We can go back to Charlottesville. You still have not told me what you see happening off camera at 5:33 of the Durst is Worst video. Why not? Why the epic failure DD?
You think Antifa is like a gang. Thanks for admitting that. I agree.
Let me make this easier for you: Patriot Prayer is based in Portland numb nuts.
Aloha FF, my nuts are kinda shriveled up from old age, but not numb. You continue to make idiotic comments. I never said it was Antifa’s home that was being invaded, though it was there meeting place the PP thugs went to. Your, frankly stupid, believe that they were “exercising their rights” while all the while preparing to do battle is just unbelievable. Have you ever watched West Side Story. Who did you like, the Sharks or the Jets?
On a totally different note, the fascist have managed to intimidate our (Ypsilanti) city council.
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2019/08/ypsilanti-removes-pride-black-lives-matter-flags-from-council-chambers.html?fbclid=IwAR3Aqw_TO1a3BRKCnIN7YyBnQST5CkTJsL-6Yz3k0tEixruOcplNn_uLyr0
There are so many different ways they could have addressed this. They could have passed a resolution banning the flying of a political party flags, religious flags and National Flags other than the Stars and Stripes and . If some one wants a Gadsen flag say, no problem. I flew one during the Peoples Bicentennial back in 76. Nazi flags, were the National flag of the 3rd Reich. The Stars and Bars were the national flag of the traitors. SS flags, well those are flags of a political party etc.
aloha FF, In regards to your “You still have not told me what you see happening off camera at 5:33 of the Durst is Worst video.” How do I know what was happening “off camera”? I believe I pointed out to you then (if not sorry) that video’s are not qualified evidence of anything by itself. It is in the nature of hear say. That is why in any legitimate court of law what is shown on a video, must be corroborated by first hand eye witness testimony–precisely because you can not see what is happening out of the field of view of the camera. What I do know is that several of the alt-right demonstrators have been convicted and are now serving time. I also understand that investigations into others are ongoing. Crossing state lines to incite violence is a Federal crime.
“I never said it was Antifa’s home that was being invaded.”–DD
” I make no excuse or apologies for defending my home…”–DD
“They were thugs invading some one else’s home.”–DD
Dementia? I sincerely hope not because it is horrible disease. I just don’t know how else to explain the inconsistencies. I like you DD I just don’t know if I can spend much more time discussing things with you. My advice: Continue to be you but try to be a little bit more careful about what you say given the new set of life circumstances.
I inferred that something happened off camera based upon observing behavior and hearing noises PRIOR TO SEEING OTHER VIDEOS. 5:33 was the reference point and timestamp of the video we were analyzing together. There was other videos from other points of view which give insight into what was happening off camera at 5:33 of the Durst the Worst video. I shared those videos. You did not offer a comment on what you saw.
Aloha FF, “Groups of people have every right to walk by your house even if you think they are bad people, DD. The fact that you are willing to beat people, with a bat, when you do not like those people,, for walking past your house is an interesting admission. The fact that you just admitted we should practice violence against people who say things we do not agree with makes you at odds with our laws.” You are wrong in so many ways. When groups of people are dealing drugs and prostituting woman in front of my house (the dealers and pimps walked up and down the street all the time) I am going to go chase them away. Never hit anyone with a bat, my experience (a half a dozen times over 30 years) of a crazy white man rushing out of a house wielding a bat has been more than sufficient to drive the bad folks away–at least for a while. Never said we should practice violence against people who say things. You are clearly a young person and have not yet learned that words have meanings and you should use the words that correctly express your meaning. Having been expelled from high school and never completing college I recognize that I frequently use the wrong words to express my meaning. Regardless of that, I have never ever said you should use violence against people who say things. It is really not right to make things up about others.
“They were thugs invading some one else’s home. They came there looking for trouble. I would have given it to them to (I keep my bat by my front door and have gone out into the street with it more than once to confront stupid people).”–DD
I misread you when you said “I would have given it to them too”??? I was supposed to interpret that line as you would have given them a non violent confrontation that happens to involve an illegal brandishing of a weapon??? What?
You brandish a weapon when you BELIEVE someone is doing something illegal in front of your house? Ok. That is likely illegal as you are not law enforcement. If I was your neighbor and I saw you doing that likely illegal act what should I do? Following your own rules of engagement would force me to brandish a weapon and confront you while brandishing a weapon.
Back to reality: You say PP is illegally concealing weapons. Ok. How do the Antifa at Cider Riot know they are illegally concealing weapons if they are concealed? Carrying a baton unconcealed is not illegal in Oregon. Antifa did not object to the legality or illegality of anything that PP was doing. They objected to their physical presence “on THEIR streets”.
Aloha FF, you clearly have no conception or understanding of the neighborhood that I live in. S. Summit was the most police response point for decades. The cops murdered one of my neighbors (two houses away) in error (cost the city 1 million for the widow and child). Drug dealers murdered one of the employees in Brandies parking lot(probably an extortion attempt) three doors down on the other side of my house. Some kids (they were 16 and had been my neighbors when they were 9 or 10) from the projects around the corner from my house ripped off the drug dealer at Brandies and they ended up in a gun fight in my drive way. I had a motorcyle gang living in the house across the street from me. The owners of Brandies beat the hell out of one of them who had attempted to extort protection money, the gang moved. We just had another murder out in front of the party store last June. All the while having to deal with a criminal gangster slumlord living two doors down the street (only person I have heard of imprisoned for malicious polluting of water ways). I’ve had to deal with squatters, drug dealers, pimps, addicts, crack whores, and lots and lots of poor folks all with slow and inadequate police response times. When I see a pimp beating his whore out in front of my house on a Sunday morning, I’m going to do the right thing. What would you do call the cops, who might show up in 20 min. half hour. After 35 years and the slumlord being imprisoned and his property being stripped from him, the neighborhood is beginning to change, but as the murder in June demonstrated, guns, young men with no futures are a very bad combination.
DD,
I have spent decades living in far more dangerous places than Summit Street in Ypsilanti. Who cares?
What does your neighborhood have to do with Patriot Prayer and Portland.
Keep talking. What you say is interesting. You are the one who was drawing parallels to Anitfa and yourself. If you are like Antifa then the guys named Patriot Prayer who wanted to walk down a city sidewalk without being harassed are parallel to murdering drug dealers and pimps. Don’t change the subject. I don’t object to you rescuing a prostitute in a moment of immediate distress. If you are drawing parallels then I am just wondering who in your mind was Antifa rescuing from immediate distress in front of the bar where they told PP they were not allowed to walk?
Aloha FF, I would love to hear stories about those places you lived. Would find it very interesting in understanding how living there framed your life. I have told you what I think about people walking down the street looking for a fight–Who do you prefer the Jets or the Sharks? I don’t change the subject I deal with your concerns head on, while you seem to just want to wonder around in circles. I am getting dizzy. Happens some times when your head moves to fast when your old.
In my impartial opinion, Dogmatic Dolt is more credible than Frosted Flakes.
Who cares about credibility.
A rock is more interesting than FF.
FF is highly interesting and a welcome respite from many of the others who post on this site. He calls out many who make claims without any evidence to support and challenges their mistakes. DD doesn’t bother to do a simple google search when presented with novel ideas. Just expresses skepticism of well known facts.
How is that nuclear bomb I dropped about antifastischiche aktion being formed by the communist party the same year they formed an alliance with Hitler’s national socialists against the social democrats treatin’ ya? ‘Cause it appeared to be a total vaporization from over here.
Antifaschistische Aktion, got to get my German up to speed to talk about the Soviet Kommunist German Fascist allies.
Patriot prayer is terrorizing Portland. My very close friends who live there cant move around freely on the protest weekends and their children are scared. Thanks a lot trumpers for supporting domestic terrorism. Karmas gonna be a bitch.
Show when they ever did anything but self defense.
If you don’t want to be knocked into another dimension by someone’s fist maybe think twice about attacking them with a metal rod or throwing bottles with explosives in them first. That’s instant karma. That’s what has happened in reality, not your ill fantasy.
Aloha EOS, Now that I know you are a chemist I have a renewed respect for you. I do know how to google, but given the algorithms they use I do some times question the results. In any event I have confidence that your commitment to the scientific method and the pursuit of knowledge will ultimately cause you to change your perspective. You being a scientist I understand your conservatism and skepticism. I encourage you to help in this pursuit of knowledge, it is way beyond my expertise.
Aloha, Just came across this little item, seems to be connected to this Portland thread. Do you suppose I should just google the Mussolini quote to confirm its accuracy, or the imagery contained at the end of the Trump campaign video to determine its origins. Should I believe the information that the poster presented? The Trump video seems legit, the post from 2016 seem legit. Oh if I only knew what was true (please see my comments on the press, attribution and credibility.
https://www.joemygod.com/2019/08/trump-lifts-logo-from-white-supremacist-account/
DD,
I am not a chemist. Scientists change their understanding when the evidence provided supports it, not based on a survey of their colleagues. Most climate change supporters always cite that a large number of scientists agree that irreversible climate change is caused by human activity. This is inconsequential without a presentation of the data that irrefutably proves their hypothesis.
There was another individual in years past that wrote about living near Summit and Mich. You must be neighbors…..
Aloha EOS, The banks foreclosed on him and he lost his house during the last depression. Sorry I guess I misunderstood an interaction you had with JH. You do know and understand the scientific method, right? Here is a sight to a scientist utube channel. He spends most of his time presenting the latest in Climate Change Science papers. I posted one recently on “global browning” did you bother to check it out? I thought he was quit skeptical about the results of the study, and acknowledged the need for more inquiry. He has dozens of videos explaining how climate science is advancing. Almost every day he is presenting new information. I like also that he shares the links to those things he is discussing so you can engage in your own inquiry. You might do well to check it out. You could actually see and analysis the data you so desperately want to see.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr546o7ImhGM57qoY0hHvkA
DD,
Not Youtube videos. You have to read the original manuscripts to determine if the analysis is valid. Sorry. This is just propaganda. Though Paul does look hot in those shorts.
DD,
You characterize PP as looking for a fight?
There is a difference between looking for a fight and expecting a fight isn’t there?
How does your characterization square with the way Antifa confronted PP just prior to PP stepping foot on the same block as Cider Riot Bar?
How does your characterization square with the way that the Antifa fighter was treated after he won a fair one-on-one, pre-agreed upon fight against the PP fighter? Hint: PP and the PP fighter lost and shook hands with the very good antifa fighter and they said to the Antifa fighter “very honorable”? Did you catch any of that?
How does your characterization of PP’s supposed intent square with the fact that when one of the members of PP stepped out of line and punched a girl unnecessarily the leader of PP instantly condemned him and said he takes responsibility for wrongly punching the girl unnecessarily? Did you catch any of that?
You miss a lot of details, my friend. I am not at all convinced you understand the dynamics at play in Portland.
Aloha EOS, that is why he gives you the links so you don’t have to simply rely upon him. Much like going to school, information is best absorbed by being exposed to it in multiple mediums. I find him pretty droll, but I am not so superficial as to reject the information because I don’t like the book cover.
I know this is totally inappropriate, but given the discussion about trees, and the fact that some one posted this on my facebook page I just can’t help myself.
https://time.com/79406/now-you-can-help-save-the-environment-by-watching-a-bunch-of-porn/?amp=true&__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR0CAcc50yuyMr_j7j6UkdcrIujQHBWdwoNrmIPxd6O18bRTfkevseFDWYE
To Sad: It is kind of boring for me too. Do you think I enjoy watching these videos that much? Most of the people here are wildly irresponsible with their truth claims. MM.com used to be a safe-space for lies. That time has past. It is tedious demonstrating to the intentionally obtuse people around here that they are obviously wrong about so much. I do it not because I think it is fun or think it interesting but because the Truth matters.
Aloha FF, Have you ever watched “West Side Story”, asked you that once before but you just ignored my question,
“How does your characterization square with the way that the Antifa fighter was treated after he won a fair one-on-one, pre-agreed upon fight against the PP fighter?”
Sounds like they pulled this straight from the screen play. I always thought the Jet’s song was the best, but the Sharks seemed to get all the really pretty girls (except for Natalie Wood, how can you not fall in love with her–her singing “Maria, Maria” in the bridal shop,a classic scene).
Personally I think most people’s lives, under late stage capitalism where everything has been comodified, has become devoid of real meaning, thus the need to create “Drama” in their lives. I thought listening to the PP’s folks conversation as they wandered around Portland looking for the Jets to fight was far more enlightening about their motivations than any professed ideological purpose.
But once again I feel like we are beginning to head in yet another circle.
They specifically intended not to fight. Why do you like the commie ninjas who always wants to “fight” (attack with weapons mostly)? I’ve put up plenty of evidence of that. None of you have put up shit. You are just blowing as much hot air as you can with those old lungs, aren’t ya?
HWs complete lack of empathy for the people and children of PDX is telling. He is the Patriot Prayer of Mark Maynard. Existing only to agitate, contributing nothing of use to society, leaving it poorer and empty like his hollowed out soulless self. So outcast from society that he eagerly seeks negative attention as his only validation. Trying to bringing everyone down to his level, lying about lies.
The only people who benefit from Joey Gibsons terrorism are the cops who are raking in millions in O.T.
Sorry DD.
No, I have only scene a few bits of West Side Story.
Freedom of movement and freedom of speech are pretty fundamental. When fundamental rights are denied or challenged you are going to get “drama” from any good American and rightfully so. I do think there are a lot very lost people on the Antifa side. I also think there are a lot of lost people on mm.com. Pretending to be on the side of good against those evil other people is how they trick themselves into believing their lives have meaning.
Aloha FF, the youth of America are living very deprived lives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7TT4jnnWys
That’s funny you say I’m lying but I can put up video evidence to support what I say and you cannot. If evidence exists Patriot Prayer are terrorizing innocent people (or anyone, mutual combat and self defense excluded) then you should be able to find it.
I fuckin’ nuked you with that antifa history lesson and you still haven’t recovered. You can’t say one damn thing. None of you can. You are communist useful idiots. It’s a fact. You claim antifa is not communist but merely anti-fascist and truly believe it. Now that I finally told you you in an indisputable way you have to pretend the whole episdode never happened. What a strange kind of life.
Aloha FF, just walking down the street–
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxoC5Oyf_ss
DD,
I think the part you don’t get is that although PP is in fact provoking Antifa they are provoking them with their mere presence inorder to expose and document, by way of video, Antifa’s fascist and authoritarian impulses. It is really not that complicated.
Violent impulses too…
Aloha FF, kinda like the Sharks provoked the Jets by walking down the street exposed the Jets natavitism and latent racism (?).
I’m very sorry. I don’t have any opinions about West Side Story whatsoever.