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The Phantom Menace: Antifa

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Sweet Lou 4 2, Jun 6, 2020.

  1. CometsWin

    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    They're literally anti-fascists. Editorials aren't facts.
     
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    Where have I expressed disregard for "right wing killers and terrorists"?
    All violent groups need to be disbanded, including white supremacists.
    Please show where they are Maoists.
     
  3. Wattafan

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    Then disprove it.
     
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    Somebody went deep cuts for a alt account.
     
  5. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    A) that's an opinion piece - not a news article or a factual piece of information
    B) There's a lot of misstatements in here. I have never head of Antifa being at Trump's inauguration - there were protests and riots, but why do you attribute that to Antifa?
    C) Where is the evidence that antifa shuts down anyone they disagree with? From my understanding they target white nationalist groups.
     
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    The President of the United States and conservatives generally disregard them. Hell the President has retweeted white supremacists many times.

    These Austin terrorists have a web site, like terrorists do.

    Red Guards Austin is a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, principally Maoist collective based in Austin, TX. Working to build the Communist Party alongside Red Guards Los-Angeles, Red Guards Kansas City, Red Guards Pittsburgh and Red Guards Charlotte.
    https://redguardsaustin.wordpress.com/about/
     
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  7. Wattafan

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    Your flippant disregard is irresponsible.
     
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    How do you disband a group? Even hate groups have rights under the first amendment. There's a reason the KKK has not be determined to be a terrorist group in the US. To cross that line, which Trump did with Antifa, is to go in a direction of totalitarianism. If you can say it's illegal to be part of a group, then you can go around accusing anyone of being part of that group as a form of suppression.

    Be careful of what you ask for. While today you have a right-wing guy in office, someday it might be a leftist.
     
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    Disprove what? That Antifa are anti-fascists or that your source is an editorial?
     
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    Trump wants to have them branded as a terrorist org. But that won't fly.
     
  11. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    Funny, that's what I would say about you
     
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    Team Alt Right -- let's go to Antifa turf (Berkeley) and have a provocative march with MAGA hats, Confederate flags, and tiki torches...

    THE LIBERALS ATTACKED OUR PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION!!!

    Why doesn't the alt right ever head down to Compton and have the same demonstration on Bloods or Crip turf?

    Why doesn't Antifa ever stage any 'civil disobedience' in Vidor?

    I think I'm seeing a pattern.
     
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    Lara Logan has done a few stories on AntiFa. They are pretty sophisticated.
     
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    These guys are smart and good. The Justice dept haven’t been able to catch them. How can this be? How can our fed not track down terrorist on our soil!

     
  16. Wattafan

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    No prizes for second place.
     
  17. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    conspiracy theories usually are.
     
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  18. CometsWin

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    The lying Benghazi chick from 60 Minutes? Mkay.
     
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    Meanwhile (and seems three suspects makes it a national priority)... here's an actual example of the FBI capturing domestic terrorists...

    Report: FBI found weapons, booby traps after arrest of 3 Las Vegas men
    https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2020/jun/08/report-fbi-found-weapons-booby-traps-after-arrest/
     
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    You mean like the ones posted by those in this forum?
    To be frank, I don't trust the amount of "editorials" being foisted on us ad infinitum ad nauseum on TV, radio, online, you name it.
    I agree there must be a better way of screening out bad cops, but it will only take one instance where a black person is thought to have been accidentally killed and voila - the whole media circus starts all over again.
    Please keep in mind white people can be accidentally killed by cops as well.
    I would love to hear your solution to this problem.
     
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