Idiots on the march in Virginia

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by JBS...

31 k in posts....


Get a life or more to the point... a job!

Awww, I have a fan club of one. How sweet.

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank said Monday evening he is leaving President Donald Trump's manufacturing council.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/14/unde...g-council.html

Intel CEO gone, as well.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/14/inte...g-council.html

[bobabode]

Well, this was fucking stupid. Anarchists pull down a statue in Durham, N.C.
http://wncn.com/2017/08/14/protester...ty-courthouse/

[finnbow]

From earlier this year:

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Trump administration wants to revamp and rename a U.S. government program designed to counter all violent ideologies so that it focuses solely on Islamist extremism, five people briefed on the matter told Reuters.

The program, "Countering Violent Extremism," or CVE, would be changed to "Countering Islamic Extremism" or "Countering Radical Islamic Extremism," the sources said, and would no longer target groups such as white supremacists who have also carried out bombings and shootings in the United States.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN15G5VO

[donquixote99]

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[whell]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

I don't think that anarchists fit well into the left, although they are quite distinct from fascists . It is not, however, a huge step from libertarian thought to anarchy. Anarchy is certainly a far cry from the concept of the Social Contract.

Not everyone on the left shares your view of a "social contract".

Antifa, A Friend Of The Left?
The movement’s secrecy makes cataloging its activities difficult. However, since Trump was elected, Antifa has had explosive growth. According to NYC Antifa, the group’s Twitter following nearly quadrupled in the first three weeks of January alone, and by the summer, their following exceeded 15,000.

Antifa is heavily composed of anarchists who place little faith in the state. According to the Atlantic, they consider the state to be complicit in fascism and racism.

According to the Atlantic, if those who Antifa deems as racists and fascists manage to assemble, Antifa’s members try to break up their gatherings, including by force.

The movement prefers direct action, including placing pressure on venues to deny white supremacists a space to meet, in addition to pressuring employers to fire them and landlords to evict them.

Such tactics have elicited substantial support from many of those in the mainstream left. When the masked Antifa activist was filmed assaulting Spencer on Inauguration Day, an article published in The Nation described his punch as an act of “kinetic beauty.”

Also:

In its upcoming September issue, The Atlantic followed AntiFa protesters in Portland, Oregon rallying against fascism and Nazis. The article asks the reader: "If you believe the president of the United States is leading a racist, fascist movement that threatens the rights, if not the lives, of vulnerable minorities, how far are you willing to go to stop it?" It describes the AntiFa movement as violent.

"Since antifa is heavily composed of anarchists, its activists place little faith in the state, which they consider complicit in fascism and racism. They prefer direct action: They pressure venues to deny white supremacists space to meet. They pressure employers to fire them and landlords to evict them. And when people they deem racists and fascists manage to assemble, antifa’s partisans try to break up their gatherings, including by force," The Atlantic writes.

[whell]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Well, this was fucking stupid. Anarchists pull down a statue in Durham, N.C.
http://wncn.com/2017/08/14/protester...ty-courthouse/

More leftist anarchists?

[Chicks]

Trump has attacked just about everyone on Twitter - except white supremacists. Yet he still has his idiot supporters, even here. They must be racists as whell.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/15/politi...cks/index.html

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Trump has attacked just about everyone on Twitter - except white supremacists. Yet he still has his idiot supporters, even here. They must be racists as whell.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/15/politi...cks/index.html

Only hours after finally comdemning racists, President Trump on Monday night retweeted a post by an infamous alt-right provocateur with ties to white nationalist Richard Spencer.

“Meanwhile: 39 shootings in Chicago this weekend, 9 deaths. No national media outrage. Why is that?” read the tweet from provocateur Jack Posobiec.

Meanwhile: 39 shootings in Chicago this weekend, 9 deaths. No national media outrage. Why is that? https://t.co/9Crutnnrp8

— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) August 14, 2017

Posobiec has been an ally of Spencer, a white supremacist who led Friday’s racist tiki march in Charlottesville, Va.

Posobiec and Spencer have joined forces in the past by leading a march for Trump’s now-embattled political strategist, Steve Bannon.

http://nypost.com/2017/08/15/trump-r...esville-rally/

Retweeting the Alt-Right immediately after condemning them? WTF?

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

Not everyone on the left shares your view of a "social contract"...

Antifa is heavily composed of anarchists who place little faith in the state. According to the Atlantic, they consider the state to be complicit in fascism and racism...

With Trump as president, it's hard to argue against this POV. In fact, it would be damned difficult to argue against it.