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After a recent Berkley rally in which everyone who wasn't Antifa was beaten and harassed, including other liberals who didn't approve of their use of violence, and reporters who refused to follow their orders to stop filming in a public place, liberals are now Ramsey Snow tied to a chair being encircled by starved dogs.

http://leightonwoodhouse.com/the-ugly-side-of-antifa/

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-far-left-violence-20170829-story.html

All antifa does is create the best advertising possible for Republicans running for election next year.

https://www.philadelinquency.com/2017/08/29/enjoy-protests-going-get-awkward-soon/
Ruin said:
Add this to the OP.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...nstrators-in-berkeley/?utm_term=.00a9858f79db
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AnOminous said:
To be honest, I don't actually even care if they orchestrated this on purpose in response to that. Serves them right it took them getting bitchslapped themselves to wake up, but so long as they have, it's a good thing.

Considering how stupid and reactionary antifa is, this will accelerate their chimping out and they will probably amp up the assaults on journalists and make shit even worse for themselves.

Note: even BLM has turned on antifa now, because antifa is bad for their reputation.
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BLM was already a violent group of idiots who were out of control and basically paved the way for these antifa nuts, so I find that very, very hilarious.
 
Goofy Logic said:
I likened them to the Nazi brownshirts in a previous thread, but they can also be compared the Chinese Red Guards as well - basically a mob that attacked anything that wasn't communist and needed to be dismantled by the military.
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The Brown Shirts, SA and Red Guard where useful tools for their ideologues because they could be managed and listened to some kind of authority even if they had to be dismantled later for the period of time they were useful could be pointed in the right direction and left to do their thing but anti-fa is different. They are nearly totally leaderless and only seem to have poorly constructed ideas that they unify around seemingly for an excuse to act like thugs that until recently seemed to get a free pass from the media.
 
AnOminous said:
It seems pretty unlikely for them to get a majority with current tactics, but taking a clear stand against the maniacal elements of the left has the potential to be a Sister Souljah moment when they can get this albatross off their neck.

Sister Souljah was a militantly vile rapper who Bill Clinton called out by name during his campaign, clearly distancing himself and his campaign from the more reprehensible elements of his side and probably picking up a couple percentage points by doing so.

I had predicted early in the campaign that Hillary would do something of the sort during her campaign for precisely the same reason, but she bungled every opportunity to do this and instead married her campaign to the dumbest elements of the left, including the loons who were ranting about cartoon frogs and other trigger bullshit.

Shocking nobody who paid any attention, the fat tumblrina wing of the party, that never shows up to vote or do anything remotely useful, didn't show up to vote, thinking reeeeeing about Trump on tumblr was going to somehow count as voting, and the campaign drove moderate working class elements directly into Trump's arms.

Unequivocally condemning antifa terrorists removes the political obstacles to the cops actually doing their jobs in the future. They've been allowed to run amok largely because of useful idiot politicians running interference for them.

It is no longer just the "Nazis" who have had it with this bullshit. Anyone who wants to have a peaceful demonstration has had it with these psychos turning everything they show up to into a bloodbath.



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They were already silent or outright supportive since Antifa entered common parlance around this time last year. I'm not sure people will forget that when things have taken such a vindictive turn.
 
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Ravenor said:
They are nearly totally leaderless and only seem to have poorly constructed ideas that they unify around seemingly for an excuse to act like thugs that until recently seemed to get a free pass from the media.
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They got a free pass much for the same reasons as the Maoists of the Revolutionary Communist Party and other Avakian personality cult front groups, like World Can't Wait, still get a free pass. They were seen, like these RCP-affiliated groups, as radical and rather unreasonable, and did annoying things like trying to turn every single anti-war protest group into a pro-Palestinian rally, often pissing off and alienating Jewish activists and, for that matter, others with more moderate positions on Israel.

However, their people are really energetic and willing to put hours of work into organizing and putting materials together and other shit, so they're mostly tolerated on the left.

Antifa was seen this way fairly recently, too. They were generally viewed as kind of nuts, but "on our side" by the kind of people who were, themselves, in a nearly insane state of rage against Trump. It also seems, at least at first glance, that anyone who is against Nazis can't be all bad, but they didn't realize they were also "Nazis" to these lunatics. They didn't really endear themselves with murderous "liberals gets the bullet too" bullshit, especially when they're a bunch of useless fucking fringe lunatics who couldn't deliver a pizza.

Repeatedly turning what were intended to be peaceful demonstrations into bloodbaths was what finished it off.

There is a lot of room in the left for tolerance of ludicrous, kooky fringe bullshit and goofy ideologies, but not too much for idiots who turn everything they touch into a total shit show.
 
Ruin said:
I can't confirm 100% that it's related but a few days ago a video showed up on social media of half a dozen or so ANTIFA faggots beating an elderly Hispanic man who clubs and ironically enough homemade shields with "no hate" written on them. The articles condemning ANTIFA started showing up shortly after so I think even the most radical Democrats realized that supporting a group of largely white thugs beating up minorities wasn't going to go over well with them.
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That's probably fuelled the fire, but I know a few weeks back a left leaning publication put out a news story on how antifa put the journalist in hospital. Looks like that may have been the catalyst for them to wake the fuck up.

Also on the subject of antifa now being called out as cunts, how many journalists are going to backtrack when trump called out the charlottesville riots being the fault of both sides? Or am I just being incredibly optimistic lol.
 
captn_kettle said:
That's probably fuelled the fire, but I know a few weeks back a left leaning publication put out a news story on how antifa put the journalist in hospital. Looks like that may have been the catalyst for them to wake the fuck up.

Also on the subject of antifa now being called out as cunts, how many journalists are going to backtrack when trump called out the charlottesville riots being the fault of both sides? Or am I just being incredibly optimistic lol.
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The professional gossips that constitute the modern press core aren't known for backtracking, and I'm convinced half the time they intentionally publish false information, knowing the future retraction won't have as many eyeballs on it but will still cover their ass legally.
 

MSNBC hits the panic button.

They know the average American does not support Antifa, and see it for what it is. So they are trying to back out, and almost sound like a Skeptic youtube video.
 
captn_kettle said:
That's probably fuelled the fire, but I know a few weeks back a left leaning publication put out a news story on how antifa put the journalist in hospital. Looks like that may have been the catalyst for them to wake the fuck up.

Also on the subject of antifa now being called out as cunts, how many journalists are going to backtrack when trump called out the charlottesville riots being the fault of both sides? Or am I just being incredibly optimistic lol.
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It didn't help when they beat up a black Trump supporter who was well spoken and polite, for no reason at all.

Crisseh said:
MSNBC hits the panic button.
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I don't support antifa because I don't like fascists.
 
And to think, if they'd only said this six months ago, we wouldn't have idiots tearing down statues in public without checking to see whose face is on them first.

For all the pearl clutching over what right wingers allegedly emboldened by Trump's election were going to do, it's telling where the real violence came from and how long it was tollerated
 
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TowinKarz said:
And to think, if they'd only said this six months ago, we wouldn't have idiots tearing down statues in public without checking to see whose face is on them first.

For all the pearl clutching over what right wingers allegedly emboldened by Trump's election were going to do, it's tellingbwhere the real violence came from and how long it was tollerated
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I feel very little sympathy for the left being stuck between a rock and hard place with Antifa, since if the more moderate Democrats would have stopped screaming about how Trump is literally Hitler every time he moved a muscle, they wouldn't have a violent gang that thinks the president is literally Hitler on their hands.
 
Coconut Gun said:
I feel very little sympathy for the left being stuck between a rock and hard place with Antifa, since if the more moderate Democrats would have stopped screaming about how Trump is literally Hitler every time he moved a muscle, they wouldn't have a violent gang that thinks the president is literally Hitler on their hands.
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In essence, I agree, I feel very little sympathy for them, because they shit in the bed and now they've come to the realization they've gotta sleep in it, too.

All it would take the Democrats to regain some sort of lost ground, is to admit they cocked up really badly themselves in the 2016 elections (between sabotaging Bernie's campaign to shill Hillary, and all sorts of other shenanigans), and then cut themselves off entirely from antifa and reiterate at every chance that they don't represent what they stand for.

And to be fair, the Right isn't immune from these kinds of realizations, either: just look at how they've tried to do futile damage control every single time the Cheeto-in-Chief opens his fat mouth and shoves his feet in it every other day. But it's worth acknowledging that the vast majority of Republicans and those right of center have been quick to condemn and distance themselves from the alt-right/White Nationalists and Nazis/KKK types.
 
TowinKarz said:
For all the pearl clutching over what right wingers allegedly emboldened by Trump's election were going to do, it's tellingbwhere the real violence came from and how long it was tollerated
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Antifa has time to be violent because it's mostly college kids who have professors that will let them skip class with no punishment if they're feeling emotional.

Most everyone else has jobs, so they can only take time to get that angry over something important. Even something as dumb as BLM has a point at the core. They're misguided, their anger is misplaced, and they have a toddler level understanding of civil discourse, but at least when you ask what they're mad about they can respond that it's systematic racism. There's a problem that got them revved up.

I couldn't tell you what actually has antifa so angry except that they didn't get their way when they had to vote for what color hat everyone was going to wear.
 
Taily Puff said:
Antifa has time to be violent because it's mostly college kids who have professors that will let them skip class with no punishment if they're feeling emotional.

Most everyone else has jobs, so they can only take time to get that angry over something important. Even something as dumb as BLM has a point at the core. They're misguided, their anger is misplaced, and they have a toddler level understanding of civil discourse, but at least when you ask what they're mad about they can respond that it's systematic racism. There's a problem that got them revved up.

I couldn't tell you what actually has antifa so angry except that they didn't get their way when they had to vote for what color hat everyone was going to wear.
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As if most of Antifa even voted. Antifa is what happens when the mentally ill or retarded subscribe wholesale to media narratives.

The source of their anger is obvious, in my mind. Most antifa are lazy, resentful losers who tell themselves their failures are due to external forces rather than the result of their own lack of effort. The ones who aren't like that are naive children who have been spoonfed an ideology that tells them the United States is an oppressive, bigoted, totalitarian hellhole. This same ideology has proffered the same demographic destiny lie that has taken over the Democrat party and an entire generation of teenagers grows up being told that we're so, so close to the permanent revolution once the old racist hicks who comprise the bulk of Republican voting base die off.

And then, in the span of 18 months leading up to the election, the emperor is de-clothed. Their favored candidate gets dicked over hard by the Democrat party, Trump initially entertains them by making the Republican primary a farce but then starts seriously winning, and no one seems to actually want Hillary as president. Many check out of voting or justify voting for Clinton to stop Trump or because of her identity politics. There is seething resentment that the "Trumptards" are being allowed to speak at all, and that their ideas seem to be gaining popularity. But even in the final weeks leading up to the election, they're certain everything will be ok because their professors and the media told them that Republicans won't ever win the presidency again, there's too many brown people. And then 11/9 happens, and the children join the lazy losers in embracing violence in response to the injustice of their side, which was on the Right Side of History, dont'cha know, losing the election. Because to them, it has to be illegal tampering that caused this. Everyone they know didn't vote this way. Everyone told them that victory was assured.

I'm glad that they're mostly incompetent speds and hate guns, because if they weren't left-wing mass shootings would be even more of a thing and they might actually manage to kill someone.
 
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