• Leftist rioters

    From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Al on Sat Dec 12 19:11:50 2020
    Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Al to Dumas Walker on Sat Dec 12 2020 12:24 pm

    Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Dumas Walker to AL on Sat Dec 12 2020 10:30 am

    It usually is. Union riots, Bolshevik riots, anti-capitalism riots, that-group-that-doesn't-exist-but-somehow-riots riots....

    That group doesn't exist in any real big way, except in Donald Trumps tweets

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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    It is certainly a movement. There used to be lots of stickers with the antifa flags around. If you visit certin bars near here you'll find lots of people with those flags tattoed or stamped on their shirts. A lot of people identify themselves as antifa and I don't think such fact is open to discussion. What could be open to discussion is if there is an antifa board calling the shots.

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Arelor on Sun Dec 13 00:31:15 2020
    Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Arelor to Al on Sat Dec 12 2020 07:11 pm

    That group doesn't exist in any real big way, except in Donald Trumps
    tweets

    It is certainly a movement. There used to be lots of stickers with the antifa flags around. If you visit certin bars near here you'll find lots of people with those flags tattoed or stamped on their shirts. A lot of people identify themselves as antifa and I don't think such fact is open to discussion. What could be open to discussion is if there is an antifa board calling the shots.

    It is not here, it's unheard of. The KKK or the Proud Boys are well known. There is a proud boys organization near me but I don't know what they are all about and they have not been a problem here.

    There is an antifa sign up at joinantifa.org, there is nothing there to join or be a part of.

    There are those who call themselves antifa but there is no antifa leader or organization. These people do not represent the left.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Dennisk@VERT/EOTLBBS to Dumas Walker on Mon Dec 14 00:41:29 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Dumas Walker to DENNISK on Sat Dec 12 2020 10:31:00

    And something that was part of reality before Trump was President. That is an old leftist move that has been used many times before.

    Leftist logic works like this.

    * I don't like you, so I will beat people up. Because you are saying what you >are saying, these people are getting beat up. Therefore you are responsible >for their injury. See what YOU caused? We need to remove you to prevent the >violence that I am inflicting on people.

    I have noticed some logic here that goes a little similar to that... they themselves aren't beating people up, but they do believe people are getting beat up because of what Trump was saying, and he is responsible instead of the unruly dumbasses doing the beating.

    Trump didn't go hard enough crushing these fascist wannabe's.

    Agree 100%. Obama never did anything about them, either, although they
    were not nearly as unruly when he was around.

    I believe it is more difficult in the US to go too hard on them, however.
    I think other countries have a few more liberties at crushing uprisings,
    but that is the price of more freedom here. This Summer was the first time in quite a while I have questioned that price.


    The work by making threats of violence, mostly. There is a tactic if warning that if event X goes ahead, there could be violence because of controversy, so to prevent the potential violence, they should remove the controversial speaker etc.

    I think there is good basis to label them a terrorist organisation, as they use violence, and threat of violence to achieve political goals. Declare them the criminal organisation that they are.

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  • From Dr. What@VERT/DMINE to Al on Mon Dec 14 08:35:00 2020
    Al wrote to Arelor <=-

    There are those who call themselves antifa but there is no antifa
    leader or organization. These people do not represent the left.

    Lefties believe that, if they repeat the lie often enough, it becomes truth.

    I have bad news for you: We are on to your lies and no matter how many times you repeat the lie, it will never be true.


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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Dr. What on Mon Dec 14 07:27:15 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Dr. What to Al on Mon Dec 14 2020 08:35 am

    There are those who call themselves antifa but there is no antifa
    leader or organization. These people do not represent the left.

    Lefties believe that, if they repeat the lie often enough, it becomes truth.

    Where is the antifa headquarters?

    I have bad news for you: We are on to your lies and no matter how many times you repeat the lie, it will never be true.

    That is true for left and right.

    The right today repeats the election fraud lie day after day but it is simply not true, regardless of how many times it is repeated.

    Ttyl :-),
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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to DENNISK on Mon Dec 14 10:25:00 2020
    The work by making threats of violence, mostly. There is a tactic if warning t
    at if event X goes ahead, there could be violence because of controversy, so to
    prevent the potential violence, they should remove the controversial speaker et
    .

    That is a common tactic on college campuses, for sure. They only want the views of one side represented.

    I think there is good basis to label them a terrorist organisation, as they use
    violence, and threat of violence to achieve political goals. Declare them the >riminal organisation that they are.

    I agree here also. Those that don't agree declare that there is no organization to declare criminal because they don't exist. Public property destroys itself.


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  • From deepthaw@VERT/CORTEX to Al on Mon Dec 14 13:43:03 2020
    I know people who considered themselves "antifa" before it blew up as a bogeyman term. They are typically far left individuals who are also anticapitalist and believe that fascism must be stopped via force before it can take hold. They mostly started chattering amongst themselves when Trump was elected.

    They did not have any form of organization, and used it more as a tactic or ethos. You'd have small groups organizing in towns and possibly coordination between those groups from time to time, but there wasn't any kind of national organization.

    I largely lost touch with them because a lot of them were conspiracy nuts (they didn't like getting called out and accused me of being a Trump supporter, which was bizarre if you know my particular political leanings) and I'd jokingly accuse them of wanting to burn down a Starbucks everytime they didn't get their way.

    I think one of them showed up for protests after moving to Seattle, but the rest didn't do jack-squat.

    (This is speaking as a democrat-socialist type of guy who thinks the most vocal progressives make a bad name for the rest of us.)



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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Al on Mon Dec 14 17:14:00 2020
    Al wrote to Dr. What <=-

    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Dr. What to Al on Mon Dec 14 2020 08:35 am

    There are those who call themselves antifa but there is no antifa
    leader or organization. These people do not represent the left.

    Lefties believe that, if they repeat the lie often enough, it becomes truth.

    Where is the antifa headquarters?

    Stupid question, and typical Lefty response, attempting to
    divert/distract.

    Where is the KKK headquarters?
    Where is the BLM headquarters?
    Where is the Aryan Nation headquarters?
    Where is the Mafia headquarters?

    Do you deny that any/all of those organizations exist?
    How come you can't tell me where their HQ's are?

    You're a hypocrite, just like all Lefties.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to AL on Mon Dec 14 16:34:00 2020
    There are those who call themselves antifa but there is no antifa
    leader or organization. These people do not represent the left.

    Lefties believe that, if they repeat the lie often enough, it becomes truth.

    Where is the antifa headquarters?

    Their organization is not top-down, it is vertical. They are an
    organization in the sense that they make a call out (on social media, the
    dark web, etc.) for members to assemble and they do. It wouldn't be right
    for an anarchist group to have a single leader.


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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Gamgee on Mon Dec 14 19:36:04 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Gamgee to Al on Mon Dec 14 2020 05:14 pm

    Stupid question, and typical Lefty response, attempting to divert/distract.

    I'm trying to get an answer. I stated that antifa doesn't have any leadership or organization. It doesn't. If I am wrong maybe you can point it out to me.

    Where is the KKK headquarters?
    Where is the BLM headquarters?
    Where is the Aryan Nation headquarters?
    Where is the Mafia headquarters?

    Do you deny that any/all of those organizations exist?
    How come you can't tell me where their HQ's are?

    The existence of those groups is well known. There are some who call themselves antifa but there is no organized antifa group.

    You're a hypocrite, just like all Lefties.

    There is no hypocrisy in anything I have said. I have looked for this group to find out who they are, what they want, what they are doing but I can find no such group.


    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Dennisk@VERT/EOTLBBS to Al on Tue Dec 15 21:50:00 2020
    Al wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Gamgee to Al on Mon Dec 14 2020 05:14 pm

    Stupid question, and typical Lefty response, attempting to divert/distract.

    I'm trying to get an answer. I stated that antifa doesn't have any leadership or organization. It doesn't. If I am wrong maybe you can
    point it out to me.

    Where is the KKK headquarters?
    Where is the BLM headquarters?
    Where is the Aryan Nation headquarters?
    Where is the Mafia headquarters?

    Do you deny that any/all of those organizations exist?
    How come you can't tell me where their HQ's are?

    The existence of those groups is well known. There are some who call themselves antifa but there is no organized antifa group.

    You're a hypocrite, just like all Lefties.

    There is no hypocrisy in anything I have said. I have looked for this group to find out who they are, what they want, what they are doing but
    I can find no such group.

    Antifa themselves identify as antifa.

    I think that is evidence that a group of people called antifa exists.

    There is literally a group of people marching under a banner, with a shared name and ideas, and you're saying the group doesn't exist?

    If you are going to spread lies, at least spread plausible ones.

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Al on Tue Dec 15 07:20:00 2020
    Al wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Stupid question, and typical Lefty response, attempting to divert/distract.

    I'm trying to get an answer. I stated that antifa doesn't have
    any leadership or organization. It doesn't. If I am wrong maybe
    you can point it out to me.

    Where is the KKK headquarters?
    Where is the BLM headquarters?
    Where is the Aryan Nation headquarters?
    Where is the Mafia headquarters?

    Do you deny that any/all of those organizations exist?
    How come you can't tell me where their HQ's are?

    The existence of those groups is well known. There are some who
    call themselves antifa but there is no organized antifa group.

    Right. You didn't answer my question above about where are the HQ's
    for these groups. Try again, without attempting to divert/deceive.

    You're a hypocrite, just like all Lefties.

    There is no hypocrisy in anything I have said. I have looked for
    this group to find out who they are, what they want, what they
    are doing but I can find no such group.

    Sure there is. You ask "where is the HQ for Antifa?", but will not
    answer the same question back at you, regarding other groups, because
    that would remove the entire basis for your claims.

    So, try again. Just straight answers to simple questions.



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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to DEEPTHAW on Tue Dec 15 13:06:00 2020
    I know people who considered themselves "antifa" before it blew up as a bogeyma
    term. They are typically far left individuals who are also anticapitalist and
    elieve that fascism must be stopped via force before it can take hold. They mos
    ly started chattering amongst themselves when Trump was elected.

    They somehow equate capitalism with fascism, no?

    <SNIP>

    (This is speaking as a democrat-socialist type of guy who thinks the most vocal
    progressives make a bad name for the rest of us.)

    Speaking as a non-democrat-socialist, I enjoyed your response. Most of
    what you understand about antifa is what I also understand about it. It
    will be interesting to see if Al responds to your message, and how.


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  • From deepthaw@VERT/CORTEX to Dumas Walker on Tue Dec 15 16:33:52 2020
    On 12/15/2020 2:06 pm Dumas Walker said...
    They somehow equate capitalism with fascism, no?

    Hard to tell. They mostly socialist, but ask a different person and you'd get a different answer. Capitalism was either a gateway to fascism via corporate power, or it was a different evil that they may as well smash at the same time. I do feel like it was two different groups (the socialists and the antifa) who kind of comingled until they were indistinguishable.

    By and large it was disaffected youths who were angry at the state of the world and wanted a revolution.

    The antifa creed of sorts I saw them espousing at the earliest was a basic belief that fascism is real, it's an existential threat, and it can happen here - therefore freedom of speech and nonviolence can be disposed of if the purpose is keeping fascism from taking hold because the risks are too great.

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Gamgee on Tue Dec 15 17:22:56 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Gamgee to Al on Tue Dec 15 2020 07:20 am

    The existence of those groups is well known. There are some who
    call themselves antifa but there is no organized antifa group.

    Right. You didn't answer my question above about where are the HQ's
    for these groups. Try again, without attempting to divert/deceive.

    I don't associate with those groups. I don't know where the headquarters is. Groups like the KKK are old news and today support Donald Trump. There are web pages where you can get more info on those group and get involved.

    There is a web page for the proud boys also where you can get info and join up.

    There is no hypocrisy in anything I have said. I have looked for
    this group to find out who they are, what they want, what they
    are doing but I can find no such group.

    Sure there is. You ask "where is the HQ for Antifa?", but will not
    answer the same question back at you, regarding other groups, because that would remove the entire basis for your claims.

    Asking where is the antifa HQ is not hypocrisy, it is a question. There is no antifa HQ because it is not an organized group.

    Some do call themselves antifa but I don't know what that is or what it means to them since there is no antifa group. Not in any organized way.

    Members of the KKK and proud boys have been charged. We know who they are because they are organized.

    So, try again. Just straight answers to simple questions.

    All the above is straight simple fact.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Dennisk on Tue Dec 15 17:54:04 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Dennisk to Al on Tue Dec 15 2020 09:50 pm

    Antifa themselves identify as antifa.

    The only antifa I have been able to find in any real way is in Portland.

    The problems in Portland are very different from the BLM protests and riots around all that. It's not the same thing at all.

    The riots around BLM are mixed up with right/left politics.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to deepthaw on Wed Dec 16 08:20:51 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: deepthaw to Dumas Walker on Tue Dec 15 2020 04:33 pm

    The antifa creed of sorts I saw them espousing at the earliest was a basic belief
    that fascism is real, it's an existential threat, and it can happen here - therefor
    freedom of speech and nonviolence can be disposed of if the purpose is keeping fasc
    from taking hold because the risks are too great.

    Aka:

    We opose fascism. Therefore, we must establish our own brand of fascism and we are
    justified in establishing our own brand of fascism in order to prevent the rise of
    fascism.

    There is no contradiction in that.

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  • From Dr. What@VERT/DMINE to Al on Wed Dec 16 12:28:00 2020
    Al wrote to Dr. What <=-

    The right today repeats the election fraud lie day after day but it is simply not true, regardless of how many times it is repeated.

    Ahh... Another low information voter who only watches CNN and other leftie "news" sources.

    So the literally hundreds of signed affidavits (meaning those people can be punished for lieing) of people first hand witnessing irregularities mean nothing?

    So the first hand accounts of the Republican poll watchers being forced out
    (in voilation of state and federal laws) mean nothing?

    So the proven error rate of the Dominion voting machines (far in excess of state and federal laws) mean nothing? Since you have such low information about the election, this means that upwards of 68% of the ballots were manually changed, usually by offshore entities, because they needed to be "fixed".

    So the statistically improbable numbers of the votes mean nothing?

    To top it all off, the Leftie "leaders" refused to 1) charge the people who violated the election rules, 2) investigate any of these claims and, 3)
    in some cases **destroy** evidence even though there was an on-going court case.

    Lefties like you bury their heads in the sand and just yell "la, la, la, la" when they encounter facts that go counter to their narrative.


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  • From Dr. What@VERT/DMINE to Dennisk on Wed Dec 16 12:45:00 2020
    Dennisk wrote to Al <=-

    If you are going to spread lies, at least spread plausible ones.

    Lefties believe that if they repeat the lie enough times it becomes truth.


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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Dr. What on Wed Dec 16 13:55:21 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Dr. What to Al on Wed Dec 16 2020 12:28 pm

    The right today repeats the election fraud lie day after day but it
    is simply not true, regardless of how many times it is repeated.

    Ahh... Another low information voter who only watches CNN and other leftie "news" sources.

    This is exactly what the right is saying, is it not?

    So the literally hundreds of signed affidavits (meaning those people can be punished for lieing) of people first hand witnessing irregularities mean nothing?

    Rudy went into court with these affidavits and the judge asked him "are you alleging fraud", and his answer was no.

    So the first hand accounts of the Republican poll watchers being forced out (in voilation of state and federal laws) mean nothing?

    This was also in court. It was thrown out as baseless.

    So the proven error rate of the Dominion voting machines (far in excess of state and federal laws) mean nothing? Since you have such low information about the election, this means that upwards of 68% of the ballots were manually changed, usually by offshore entities, because they needed to be "fixed".

    It has not been proven. Those voting machines have been looked at. The GOP was given access to look them over but nothing has come from that.

    So the statistically improbable numbers of the votes mean nothing?

    After seeing what has happened the last four years it is no wonder so many tuned out to vote this year.

    To top it all off, the Leftie "leaders" refused to 1) charge the people who violated the election rules, 2) investigate any of these claims and, 3) in some cases **destroy** evidence even though there was an on-going court case.

    People who violated election laws have been charged and that will continue. States run elections and courts, not the left. This was a free and fair election as has been happening for many years in the US.

    Lefties like you bury their heads in the sand and just yell "la, la, la, la" when they encounter facts that go counter to their narrative.

    The left is not the cause of everything wrong in your life.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to DEEPTHAW on Wed Dec 16 13:25:00 2020
    The antifa creed of sorts I saw them espousing at the earliest was a basic >belief that fascism is real, it's an existential threat, and it can happen here
    - therefore freedom of speech and nonviolence can be disposed of if the purpose
    is keeping fascism from taking hold because the risks are too great.

    Well, there is no doubt it has been real in the past and could be real in
    the present and future. However, disposing of freedom of speech and nonviolence paves the way to make another rise of fascism much, much easier rather than more difficult. That, I believe, is a large fallicy in their thinking and methods.

    A lack of freedom of speech and a rise in violence are friends of fascism,
    not enemies.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to AL on Wed Dec 16 13:47:00 2020
    I don't associate with those groups. I don't know where the headquarters is. Gr

    And most of us don't associate with Antifa, so how would we know where
    there HQ is? You did ask.

    Asking where is the antifa HQ is not hypocrisy, it is a question. There is no tifa HQ because it is not an organized group.

    See above... we don't associate with them so we'd have no way of verifying
    that statement.

    You seem to have ignored deepthaw's response to your claims that antifa is
    not an organization.


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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Dumas Walker on Wed Dec 16 18:36:44 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Dumas Walker to AL on Wed Dec 16 2020 01:47 pm

    And most of us don't associate with Antifa, so how would we know where there HQ is? You did ask.

    You claim it is a thing, if so where is it, what is it?

    I don't see an antifa group we can investigate or charge with anything in the same way as groups like the KKK or the proud boys.

    You seem to have ignored deepthaw's response to your claims that antifa is not an organization.

    I read deepthaw's response but I didn't make any further comment on it.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From deepthaw@VERT/CORTEX to Dumas Walker on Thu Dec 17 00:17:53 2020
    On 12/16/2020 2:47 pm Dumas Walker said...
    You seem to have ignored deepthaw's response to your claims that antifa is not an organization.

    it really depends on your definition of organization. there's no central power structure. you have people who decide to organize, and antifa is a set of tactics and beliefs they take. they may communicate between groups, but a group isn't going to encompass much more than a city. nobody's deciding who is and isn't allowed to call themselves 'antifa.'



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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Al on Thu Dec 17 05:32:45 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Al to Dr. What on Wed Dec 16 2020 01:55 pm

    States run elections and courts, not the left. This was a free and fair election as has been happening for many years in the US.

    Somehow you have reminded me of Basque elections.

    Maybe the counting was fair but it was certainly not free. Kale Borroka dudes would hunt down and beat the candidates that didn't follow the acceptable party line. If your party didn't endorse the Marxist Republic of Basque Lands you basically had a harder time than everybody else because you risked a brick in your teeth everybody you opened your mouth.

    Violent BLM activists, antifas and whatever you want to call them sound to me a lot like an embrionary American Kale Borroka. Which is what I find deeply troubling.

    The main reason voter fraud conspiracies are so credible is because if the left is willing to sponsor this sort of activities, it is easy to believe they are willing to rig vote counts or do whatever it takes to grab the throne. I don't doubt for a single second they wanted to rig the process. The real question is whether they had the capability to do so :-)

    Whether there was a lot, a little or no organized rigging, I am confident a lot of spontaneous irregularities will be found and heads will roll.

    BTW I have heard Zuckerberg is gonna be raped in prison because he's been found funding partisan "non-profits" with dark money. Rejoice, for the end of Facebook is night :-P


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to AL on Thu Dec 17 12:02:00 2020
    You claim it is a thing, if so where is it, what is it?

    As I (and deepthaw and others) have explained, they are not a top-down organization, so there is not necessarily a "where is it?" It is a
    vertically organized group, meaning they have no central leadership figure. Someone sends out the message, on social media or the dark web, and their
    peeps just show up.

    I don't see an antifa group we can investigate or charge with anything in the me way as groups like the KKK or the proud boys.

    The KKK and, I assume, Proud Boys are organizations with a leadership structure. Because a group has no leadership structure does not mean that
    they don't exist, especially if they are a group that advocates anarchy... having a central leader for a true anarchy group would be a bit
    hypocritical, no?

    I read deepthaw's response but I didn't make any further comment on it.

    Because it made sense and you realized you never convince him that there is
    no such thing as Antifa groups?


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to ARELOR on Thu Dec 17 11:48:00 2020
    We opose fascism. Therefore, we must establish our own brand of fascism and we >re
    justified in establishing our own brand of fascism in order to prevent the rise
    of
    fascism.

    There is no contradiction in that.

    That is pretty much it.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to DR. WHAT on Thu Dec 17 11:50:00 2020
    The right today repeats the election fraud lie day after day but it is simply not true, regardless of how many times it is repeated.

    Ahh... Another low information voter who only watches CNN and other leftie "news" sources.

    He might be a low information voter, but he is not a US voter so it isn't
    all bad. :)


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to ARELOR on Thu Dec 17 11:55:00 2020
    The main reason voter fraud conspiracies are so credible is because if the left
    is willing to sponsor this sort of activities, it is easy to believe they are >willing to rig vote counts or do whatever it takes to grab the throne. I don't >doubt for a single second they wanted to rig the process. The real question is >whether they had the capability to do so :-)

    It is difficult to prove that they are "sponsoring" the activities of
    bullys and rioters, etc., but they are being very tolerant of it. Since
    the election has been decided, it is not in the news as much but it is
    still happening in cities that have ongoing issues with these folks (and an ongoing record of not cracking down on them).


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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Arelor on Thu Dec 17 17:23:47 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Arelor to Al on Thu Dec 17 2020 05:32 am

    Somehow you have reminded me of Basque elections.

    Maybe the counting was fair but it was certainly not free. Kale Borroka dudes would hunt down and beat the candidates that didn't follow the acceptable party line. If your party didn't endorse the Marxist Republic of Basque Lands you basically had a harder time than everybody else because you risked a brick in your teeth everybody you opened your mouth.

    I have no idea what you speak of as regards Basque elections or Kale Borroka dudes so I can't join that discussion.

    Violent BLM activists, antifas and whatever you want to call them sound to me a lot like an embrionary American Kale Borroka. Which is what I find deeply troubling.

    The BLM protests were not an armed standoff, it was simply a march, a large one, in many cities across America.

    It became a right/left issue and that is when the violence/looting/riots started.

    That may remain an issue or not. Time will tell.

    The main reason voter fraud conspiracies are so credible is because if the left is willing to sponsor this sort of activities, it is easy to believe they are willing to rig vote counts or do whatever it takes to grab the throne. I don't doubt for a single second they wanted to rig the process. The real question is whether they had the capability to do so :-)

    I find the voter fraud conspiracies incredible. The left is not now and never was, sponsoring these sorts of activities.

    Whether there was a lot, a little or no organized rigging, I am confident a lot of spontaneous irregularities will be found and heads will roll.

    There likely are irregularities and when found solutions are needed for them. I see no rigging of elections and not even talk of such things until Donald Trump was at the podium. He was speaking that way even before any vote took place.

    BTW I have heard Zuckerberg is gonna be raped in prison because he's been found funding partisan "non-profits" with dark money. Rejoice, for the end of Facebook is night :-P

    I don't subscribe to FB so I am not aware of anything good or bad about it.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Dumas Walker on Thu Dec 17 17:37:59 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Dumas Walker to AL on Thu Dec 17 2020 12:02 pm

    The KKK and, I assume, Proud Boys are organizations with a leadership structure. Because a group has no leadership structure does not mean that they don't exist, especially if they are a group that advocates anarchy... having a central leader for a true anarchy group would be a bit hypocritical, no?

    We all know what the KKK is all about. The Proud Boys are a western chauvinist group. Whatever that is. The greatest fraternal organization in the world they say. They are organized groups.

    So there is no group but these "antifa" exist. I don't see anti fascism or any antifa (whatever that is) is any big threat. Just because Donald Trump tweets "Antifa" or "Obamagate", doesn't make it a so.

    I read deepthaw's response but I didn't make any further comment on
    it.

    Because it made sense and you realized you never convince him that there is no such thing as Antifa groups?

    Deepthaw's explanation of the group "antifa" wasn't much different than mine.

    If I have a comment to make, I will make it. If I don't, I won't.

    Ttyl :-),
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  • From Dr. What@VERT/DMINE to Dumas Walker on Fri Dec 18 08:45:00 2020
    Dumas Walker wrote to DR. WHAT <=-

    He might be a low information voter, but he is not a US voter so it
    isn't all bad. :)

    Well, that's good news, at least.

    I wish these socialists would keep their failed systems in their own
    countries and not export it to others.


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  • From Dr. What@VERT/DMINE to Dumas Walker on Fri Dec 18 08:53:00 2020
    Dumas Walker wrote to AL <=-

    You seem to have ignored deepthaw's response to your claims that antifa
    is not an organization.

    Lefties like to do that: Avoid answering because they would have to admit
    that they are wrong. And Lefties can never admit that they are wrong.


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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Al on Fri Dec 18 10:30:08 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Al to Arelor on Thu Dec 17 2020 05:23 pm

    I find the voter fraud conspiracies incredible. The left is not now and neve was, sponsoring these sorts of activities.

    If you look closely at the matter, sides have been clearly taken in this regard.

    When the Right was asking for thigns to stop, the Left was tagging the taking of neighbourhoods by rioters as peaceful protests. When the Right was deploying policies to bring disorder to an end, the Left was shielding their rioter stormtroopers from these policies.

    The occupation in Seattle only ended when the useful idiots started bothering the local politicians and local Dems decided it were more trouble than they were worth, not before.

    As I have said, the situation looked like local powers were trying to bait the federal government into doing something drastic to restore order, in order to blame Washington for the consequences.

    So given this sort of scenario, it is easy to believe Democrats were willing to do things such as rigging election software, shipping fraudulent ballots and, in general, doing whatever it takes to grab the throne - I think we have sufficient evidence of WILL already.

    Now, did they have the MEANS? Yesterday the showed me a video of a witness declaring in front of senators and giving a list of names of people aware of irregularities and explaining the sort of weird stuff she witnessed. If she is proved to be lying she will be grinded into mincemeat, so at the very least these declarations (and a lot of others) should be carefully considered. So, in my opinion, if they weren't able to pull a megafraud at national level, my hunch is that a number of people actually tried to rig the thing in a number
    of counties.

    Which is why a number of States is unwilling to certify the results of their own elections and why the electoral process is far from over to this day.

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Al on Fri Dec 18 10:32:39 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Al to Dumas Walker on Thu Dec 17 2020 05:37 pm

    So there is no group but these "antifa" exist. I don't see anti fascism or a antifa (whatever that is) is any big threat. Just because Donald Trump tweet

    I invite you to come to the Basque region waving a People's Party flag. If you manage to survive the experience you will know which kind of threat so-called anti-fascist groups are.

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Arelor on Fri Dec 18 16:59:14 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Arelor to Al on Fri Dec 18 2020 10:30 am

    When the Right was asking for thigns to stop, the Left was tagging the taking of neighbourhoods by rioters as peaceful protests. When the Right was deploying policies to bring disorder to an end, the Left was shielding their rioter stormtroopers from these policies.

    Was the right asking things to stop? Was the left asking things to continue?

    The protests were not about the left or right. It was a BLM protest largely about black people being killed at the hands of police without justification.

    In the early days these protests turned into riots in some cases that caused large amounts of death and destruction. This was not planned by the left. The root cause of those protests needs to be addressed so the BLM movement doesn't need to march in the streets in the hopes that they will not be killed by police.

    Police departments need to take seriously the actions of police officers and the justice system the consequences of bad behaviour or we continue as it is.

    The occupation in Seattle only ended when the useful idiots started bothering the local politicians and local Dems decided it were more trouble than they were worth, not before.

    The city of Seattle choose to give it time to settle down. I don't know if that was the right thing to do or not but it is no longer an issue.

    As I have said, the situation looked like local powers were trying to bait the federal government into doing something drastic to restore order, in order to blame Washington for the consequences.

    States have the option to call in federal help if they want/need it. No one is baiting anyone.

    So given this sort of scenario, it is easy to believe Democrats were willing to do things such as rigging election software, shipping fraudulent ballots and, in general, doing whatever it takes to grab the throne - I think we have sufficient evidence of WILL already.

    I don't know what in the above leads you to believe "Democrats were willing to do things such as rigging election software" or "shipping fraudulent ballots".

    There is NO evidence.

    Now, did they have the MEANS? Yesterday the showed me a video of a witness declaring in front of senators and giving a list of names of people aware of irregularities and explaining the sort of weird stuff she witnessed. If she is proved to be lying she will be grinded into mincemeat, so at the very least these declarations (and a lot of others) should be carefully considered. So, in my opinion, if they weren't able to pull a megafraud at national level, my hunch is that a number of people actually tried to rig the thing in a number of counties.

    There are many videos showing many things. What we don't have is proof.

    Which is why a number of States is unwilling to certify the results of their own elections and why the electoral process is far from over to this day.

    Every state has certified the election results, the electoral college has certified the election results.

    The republicans will continue to deny the truth but it has been established.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Arelor on Fri Dec 18 17:00:48 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Arelor to Al on Fri Dec 18 2020 10:32 am

    So there is no group but these "antifa" exist. I don't see anti
    fascism or a antifa (whatever that is) is any big threat. Just because
    Donald Trump tweet

    I invite you to come to the Basque region waving a People's Party flag. If you manage to survive the experience you will know which kind of threat so-called anti-fascist groups are.

    Here in the west at least, it hasn't come to that. Yet.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to AL on Fri Dec 18 11:16:00 2020
    The KKK and, I assume, Proud Boys are organizations with a leadership structure. Because a group has no leadership structure does not mean that
    they don't exist, especially if they are a group that advocates anarchy..
    having a central leader for a true anarchy group would be a bit hypocritical, no?

    So there is no group but these "antifa" exist. I don't see anti fascism or any
    ntifa (whatever that is) is any big threat. Just because Donald Trump tweets "
    tifa" or "Obamagate", doesn't make it a so.

    Groups exists. They do not have an organized leadership structure.
    Neither do most unruly mobs but that doesn't mean they don't exist.

    The difference is that your definition of a group is that they must have a leader. Mine does not.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to AL on Fri Dec 18 16:06:00 2020
    The BLM protests were not an armed standoff, it was simply a march, a large one
    in many cities across America.

    It became a right/left issue and that is when the violence/looting/riots starte
    .

    False. In most places, the destruction of public and private property
    started on Night 1.

    I find the voter fraud conspiracies incredible. The left is not now and never s, sponsoring these sorts of activities.

    Never has?

    Please educate yourself on the Daley political machine and what it got up
    to in the 1950's-'60's. Whether they were "left" is debatable, but Daley was both Chicago mayor and head of the local Democratic Party. Daley's machine
    is where the old saying about "the dead vote in Chicago" came from.

    That is not the only example, but probably the most famous one.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to DR. WHAT on Fri Dec 18 16:18:00 2020
    He might be a low information voter, but he is not a US voter so it isn't all bad. :)

    Well, that's good news, at least.

    I wish these socialists would keep their failed systems in their own countries and not export it to others.

    I wish they would also. I also wish they'd stop presenting their bad information as fact to voters who are from the US.


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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Al on Sat Dec 19 03:12:14 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Al to Arelor on Fri Dec 18 2020 04:59 pm

    The protests were not about the left or right. It was a BLM protest largely about black people being killed at the hands of police without justification

    You can keep saying that BLM or allegations of racism are not political or partisan, but management of policies in sociaty is a political matter by definition.

    You remind me of students who build orgs for pushing programs that are clearly Left or Right aligned and then try to convince everybody the org is non partisan.
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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Al on Sat Dec 19 03:15:10 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Al to Arelor on Fri Dec 18 2020 04:59 pm

    I don't know what in the above leads you to believe "Democrats were willing do things such as rigging election software" or "shipping fraudulent ballots

    If you are willing to stir your pawns into breaking havoc, burning and looting, and bringing unstability to society in general... then there is basically nothing you are not going to be willing to do to achieve your political goals.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Dumas Walker on Sat Dec 19 12:10:10 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Dumas Walker to DR. WHAT on Fri Dec 18 2020 04:18 pm

    He might be a low information voter, but he is not a US voter so
    it isn't all bad. :)

    Well, that's good news, at least.

    I wish these socialists would keep their failed systems in their own
    countries and not export it to others.

    I wish they would also. I also wish they'd stop presenting their bad information as fact to voters who are from the US.



    i think al is just mad at his own country and projecting it at the usa. from what i've read about canada and from what i've heard from the hundreds of canadians i've spoken to over the years, the canadian system is meant to keep you down. and when you get REAL down you can't work your way back up. on top of that they take in a lot of immigrants.
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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to ARELOR on Sat Dec 19 10:22:00 2020
    The protests were not about the left or right. It was a BLM protest largely >> about black people being killed at the hands of police without justification

    You can keep saying that BLM or allegations of racism are not political or partisan, but management of policies in sociaty is a political matter by definition.

    His statements are also misleading. In this area, the "peaceful protest"
    riots were over a sad state of affairs, but it was a sad state of affairs
    that could have been avoided had someone in the apartment not shot at the police first.

    Although several other aspects of the case were at various times disputed,
    that one (that the police were shot at first) has never been one of them.

    You remind me of students who build orgs for pushing programs that are clearly >Left or Right aligned and then try to convince everybody the org is non >partisan.

    Yes, he does.


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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Dumas Walker on Sat Dec 19 16:13:47 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Dumas Walker to AL on Fri Dec 18 2020 04:06 pm

    False. In most places, the destruction of public and private property started on Night 1.

    Truth. The majority of protests have been peaceful. That's just a fact.

    On night one in Minneapolis it turned into a riot and there was large amounts of destruction. The police building was destroyed. There were riots and destruction in other places too, I know this. The fact is that most protests have been peaceful.

    You look at these riots as if that was the problem but that is the result of the problem.

    The problem of course is black people being killed by police without justification. If we can solve that problem these protests and riots will stop.

    I find the voter fraud conspiracies incredible. The left is not now
    and never was, sponsoring these sorts of activities.

    Never has?

    Please educate yourself on the Daley political machine and what it got up to in the 1950's-'60's. Whether they were "left" is debatable, but Daley was both Chicago mayor and head of the local Democratic Party. Daley's machine is where the old saying about "the dead vote in Chicago" came from.

    That's interesting but that is a whole different thing from another place and time.

    I find the voter fraud conspiracies incredible. The left is not now and never was sponsoring these sorts of activities.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Arelor on Sat Dec 19 16:23:22 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Arelor to Al on Sat Dec 19 2020 03:12 am

    The protests were not about the left or right. It was a BLM protest
    largely about black people being killed at the hands of police without
    justification

    You can keep saying that BLM or allegations of racism are not political or partisan, but management of policies in sociaty is a political matter by definition.

    The allegation that black people are being killed by police without justification is not political. That is the root cause of the protests and riots that followed.

    If we want the protests and riots to stop we need to solve that issue.

    You remind me of students who build orgs for pushing programs that are clearly Left or Right aligned and then try to convince everybody the org is non partisan.

    I'm almost certain the left/right or republican/democrat can agree on what the problem is here. If we can't agree on the problem the solution is not going to arrive any time soon.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Arelor on Sat Dec 19 16:25:04 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Arelor to Al on Sat Dec 19 2020 03:15 am

    If you are willing to stir your pawns into breaking havoc, burning and looting, and bringing unstability to society in general... then there is basically nothing you are not going to be willing to do to achieve your political goals.

    I have no pawns to stir into anything. I have no political agenda.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Dr. What@VERT/DMINE to Dumas Walker on Sun Dec 20 11:04:00 2020
    Dumas Walker wrote to AL <=-

    The difference is that your definition of a group is that they must
    have a leader. Mine does not.

    Standard Leftie debate tactic: Redefine things to match the Leftie's argument.


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  • From Dr. What@VERT/DMINE to Al on Sun Dec 20 11:22:00 2020
    Al wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

    Truth. The majority of protests have been peaceful. That's just a fact.

    Only if you get your "news" from CNN.

    The problem of course is black people being killed by police without justification.

    False Leftie Narrative. The facts don't show anything of the kind.

    Of course, to the Lefties feelings matter more than facts and any facts that don't go along with the Narrative must be false.


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  • From Dr. What@VERT/DMINE to Al on Sun Dec 20 11:23:00 2020
    Al wrote to Arelor <=-

    I have no pawns to stir into anything. I have no political agenda.

    That has to be the most disingenuous thing I have ever heard.

    Which says something having watched so much political BS over the last 4 years.


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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Al on Sun Dec 20 10:11:15 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Al to Dumas Walker on Sat Dec 19 2020 04:13 pm

    The problem of course is black people being killed by police without justification. If we can solve that problem these protests and riots will st

    Thing is, the protests are not about racism at all. They use racism as an excuse but they are clearly aimed at breaking havoc against the federal government.

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to AL on Sun Dec 20 11:48:00 2020
    You look at these riots as if that was the problem but that is the result of t
    problem.

    The problem of course is black people being killed by police without justificat
    on. If we can solve that problem these protests and riots will stop.

    No, I look at them as BEING a problem and the result of one. The thing is
    that riots didn't have to be the result. Louisville had "peaceful protest" riots and looting, while other cities in the area had actual peaceful protests. Areas that are more "tollerant" had trouble. Areas that are not did not.

    I believe the actual peaceful protesters have a right to protest. Unlike with your PM, we've not had as much of a gag put on our free speach here. I do
    not believe the rioters and looters had any right to do what they did.

    Never has?

    Please educate yourself on the Daley political machine and what it got up
    to in the 1950's-'60's. Whether they were "left" is debatable, but Daley was both Chicago mayor and head of the local Democratic Party. Daley's machine is where the old saying about "the dead vote in Chicago" came from.

    That's interesting but that is a whole different thing from another place and t
    me.

    But you did say "never" which incompasses all different places and times.

    I find the voter fraud conspiracies incredible. The left is not now and never w
    s sponsoring these sorts of activities.

    And, again, you say "now and never has." Again, educate yourself.
    Probably hard to do in Canada as your PM has probably made finding certain information illegal because it might hurt someone's feelings.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Sun Dec 20 10:50:00 2020
    i think al is just mad at his own country and projecting it at the usa. from wh
    t i've read about canada and from what i've heard from the hundreds of canadian
    i've spoken to over the years, the canadian system is meant to keep you down. >and when you get REAL down you can't work your way back up. on top of that they
    take in a lot of immigrants.

    From what I can tell, Al isn't mad at his own country because he enjoys
    being blind to things that the "non-right" does.

    "There is no such thing as fake news, unless that news is something bad about Trudeau or the US Democrats."
    "There is no such thing as vote fraud, and never has been, unless it involves Bad Orange Man and the Russians."
    "All political extremists are bad, but only 'the right' has extremists. Leftists riots are always the fault of 'the right' and, besides, 'the left' never riots and leftist groups don't exist.'
    "Groups only exist if they have a well defined leadership structure, and
    only if I have heard of them."

    For some reason, reading some of the things he says reminds me of the commandments in "Animal Farm" that keep changing and become contradictory.

    He's pretty predictable.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to AL on Sun Dec 20 11:44:00 2020
    The allegation that black people are being killed by police without justificat
    n is not political. That is the root cause of the protests and riots that foll
    ed.

    If we want the protests and riots to stop we need to solve that issue.

    The incidents that lead to the most local "peaceful protest" riots both involved the person being killed, or their boyfriend, shooting at the
    Police first. The Police returned fire. Those leading the "peaceful
    protest" riots believe that returning fire when you are fired upon is not justified if you are a cop and the person firing at you is not white. That
    is the root cause of many businesses in downtown Louisville, Kentucky,
    either being looted, destroyed, or boarded up this Summer.

    That is, that is the supposed root cause. The actual root cause is that
    people on the not right and not center portion of the political spectrum
    saw an opportunity to start trouble... but that cannot really be true
    because the left never does stuff like that. They are always peaceful.


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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Dumas Walker on Sun Dec 20 13:40:00 2020
    Dumas Walker wrote to MRO <=-

    i think al is just mad at his own country and projecting it at the usa. from wh

    t i've read about canada and from what i've heard from the hundreds of canadian

    i've spoken to over the years, the canadian system is meant to keep you down.
    and when you get REAL down you can't work your way back up. on top of that they

    take in a lot of immigrants.

    From what I can tell, Al isn't mad at his own country because he
    enjoys being blind to things that the "non-right" does.

    "There is no such thing as fake news, unless that news is
    something bad about Trudeau or the US Democrats."
    "There is no such thing as vote fraud, and never has been, unless
    it involves Bad Orange Man and the Russians."
    "All political extremists are bad, but only 'the right' has
    extremists. Leftists riots are always the fault of 'the right'
    and, besides, 'the left' never riots and leftist groups don't
    exist.' "Groups only exist if they have a well defined leadership structure, and only if I have heard of them."

    For some reason, reading some of the things he says reminds me of
    the commandments in "Animal Farm" that keep changing and become contradictory.

    He's pretty predictable.

    Spot on.

    He's a perfect example of what excessive Koolaid Slurping can do to a
    brain. I'm afraid his damage is irreversible.

    Laughable and pitiful at the same time.


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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Dr. What on Sun Dec 20 14:00:28 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Dr. What to Al on Sun Dec 20 2020 11:22 am

    The problem of course is black people being killed by police without
    justification.

    False Leftie Narrative. The facts don't show anything of the kind.

    This fact is pretty clear.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Dr. What on Sun Dec 20 14:01:57 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Dr. What to Al on Sun Dec 20 2020 11:23 am

    I have no pawns to stir into anything. I have no political agenda.

    That has to be the most disingenuous thing I have ever heard.

    OK, what pawns or political agenda am I stirring?

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Arelor on Sun Dec 20 14:13:20 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Arelor to Al on Sun Dec 20 2020 10:11 am

    The problem of course is black people being killed by police without
    justification. If we can solve that problem these protests and riots
    will stop.

    Thing is, the protests are not about racism at all.

    Right. It's about bad police behaviour, whether that is racism or just a bad attitude I don't know.

    They use racism as an excuse but they are clearly aimed at breaking havoc against the federal government.

    The BLM movement is not anarchy, is not aimed at breaking havok against the federal government.

    These protests have in many cases become riots and that is not good.

    There is a root cause that I think, needs to be addressed if we want these protests and riots to stop. That's where the politics come in and it's not any help in getting to a solution.

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Dumas Walker on Sun Dec 20 14:22:50 2020
    Re: Leftist rioters and fraud
    By: Dumas Walker to AL on Sun Dec 20 2020 11:48 am

    No, I look at them as BEING a problem and the result of one.

    Them?

    Problems are everywhere. If there are layers of different problems we will need a solution for each of those problems.

    The thing is that riots didn't have to be the result. Louisville had "peaceful protest" riots and looting, while other cities in the area had actual peaceful protests. Areas that are more "tollerant" had trouble. Areas that are not did not.

    In this case there are many things below the surface that can boil up and the next thing you know you have a riot. It is a complex problem and the solutions may not be easy.

    I believe the actual peaceful protesters have a right to protest. Unlike with your PM, we've not had as much of a gag put on our free speach here. I do not believe the rioters and looters had any right to do what they did.

    Canada is similar to, but not the same as the USA. Write some kind of hate speech in Canada and you can be in a world of hurt very quickly. This is nothing new and not related to what we are talking about.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Dumas Walker on Sun Dec 20 14:29:12 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Dumas Walker to AL on Sun Dec 20 2020 11:44 am

    That is, that is the supposed root cause. The actual root cause is that people on the not right and not center portion of the political spectrum saw an opportunity to start trouble... but that cannot really be true because the left never does stuff like that. They are always peaceful.

    Anyone can start trouble or be corrupt. It doesn't matter how far right or left you go, people generally can be or do corrupt things.

    In my own case I am likely close to the center although my leanings are conservative, I am progressive.

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    Al

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  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to Arelor on Sun Dec 20 15:22:31 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Arelor to Al on Sun Dec 20 2020 10:11 am

    Thing is, the protests are not about racism at all. They use racism as an excuse but they are clearly aimed at breaking havoc against the federal government.

    Of course it's about racism. It's always about racism. What world do you live in? Do you know how long this shit's been going on? The problem is the blacks think they can "fix" the whites. The white's "owe" them. "Retribution" if you will. They want the whites to wake up one day and love all black people. They want us to confess our sins to them and give them everything they deserve. The land that was promised, the money, the jobs. All of it. The tide will turn and it will be the white upper and middle class that will suffer. White people don't stick together the way blacks do. We fight each other. I don't see how you can say it's not about racism. It is and will always be about racism. It's never going to go away. Not in my life time anyway.

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  • From deepthaw@VERT/CORTEX to Dumas Walker on Sun Dec 20 17:38:36 2020
    On 12/20/2020 11:50 am Dumas Walker said...
    "There is no such thing as fake news, unless that news is something bad about Trudeau or the US Democrats." "There is no such thing as vote fraud, and never has been, unless it involves Bad Orange Man and the Russians." "All political extremists are bad, but only 'the right' has extremists. Leftists riots are always the fault of 'the right' and, besides, 'the left' never riots and leftist groups don't exist.' "Groups only exist if they have a well defined leadership structure, and only if I have heard of them."

    Let another "leftist" address those topics.

    Fake news is Trump's pet term for anything unflattering to him, which he hijacked from people trying to find a politically correct term for propaganda and lying coming from Trump.

    Vote fraud is real and statistically insignificant. Trump didn't win because the Russians hacked anything, although their misinformation campaign probably helped. Americans voted for him of their own free will. Similarly, Biden didn't win because of some massive vote fraud conspiracy. He won because Trump is historically unpopular and we saw record turnout. It takes a ridiculous amount of self-delusion to look at the sheer volume of hatred aimed towards him and refuse to accept he could have lost an election.

    Extremists exist on both sides, and are often so far extreme that "left" or "right" fails to encapsulate them at that point. I know plenty of progressives I've formerly called friends I no longer speak to because they've gone off the deep end. If you think AOC or the rest of "the squad" are extremists, you haven't seen squat.

    "Leftist" riot seems to insinuate anything ostensibly related to BLM. The majority of that was protests, which don't get reported on because they're uninteresting. The riots were the result of either: people on the left with years of frustration boiling over (not right but understandable) people on the right who were there to stir up racial tensions (the boogaloo crowd) and what I believe most of them fall into, people who are just pieces of shit and took advantage of the situation to cause chaos and destruction because they wanted to steal shit and stick it to the man (whoever he was that day.)



    Group != organized group. That's why people keep talking about leadership structures. A lot of people claiming to be antifa don't even seem to be aware of the pre-existing definition I spoke about which calls for active violence and suppression of fascism. Nobody's gatekeeping antifa, so anybody can call themselves antifa. Thus some groups are violent, some groups aren't. What they aren't is well-organized or some kind of existential threat to the nation.

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  • From Philthy74@VERT/BUNKERBB to HusTler on Sun Dec 20 20:03:29 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: HusTler to Arelor on Sun Dec 20 2020 15:22:31

    Of course it's about racism. It's always about racism. What world do you live in? Do you know how long this shit's been going on? The problem is the blacks think they can "fix" the whites. The white's "owe" them. "Retribution" if you will. They want the whites to wake up one day and love all black people. They want us to confess our sins to them and give them everything they deserve. The land that was promised, the money, the jobs. All of it. The tide will turn and it will be the white upper and middle class that will suffer. White people don't stick together the way blacks do. We fight each other. I don't see how you can say it's not about racism. It is and will always be about racism. It's never going to go away. Not in my life time anyway.

    Great point. We have the same narrative happening in Canada with the aboriginal population.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Dumas Walker on Sun Dec 20 20:02:45 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Sun Dec 20 2020 10:50 am

    left' never riots and leftist groups don't exist.'
    "Groups only exist if they have a well defined leadership structure, and only if I have heard of them."

    For some reason, reading some of the things he says reminds me of the commandments in "Animal Farm" that keep changing and become contradictory.

    He's pretty predictable.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to DR. WHAT on Mon Dec 21 16:28:00 2020
    Standard Leftie debate tactic: Redefine things to match the Leftie's argument.

    Yes it is. Leaving stuff out when they quote a message back to you, as if
    you never explained that part, is another one.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to AL on Mon Dec 21 16:49:00 2020
    No, I look at them as BEING a problem and the result of one.

    Them?

    Yes, the riots over the Summer. It was right above the line you quoted,
    and I think I know that you can read.

    The thing is that riots didn't have to be the result. Louisville had "peaceful protest" riots and looting, while other cities in the area had actual peaceful protests. Areas that are more "tollerant" had trouble. Areas that are not did not.

    In this case there are many things below the surface that can boil up and the xt thing you know you have a riot. It is a complex problem and the solutions m
    not be easy.

    Looks pretty easy to me.

    -- If you live in an area where people know the law will crack down on them
    for looting and destroying property, you have very few problems with looting and property destruction. You instead have peaceful protests where
    community leaders are more likely to show up and people actually have their voices heard.

    -- If you live in an area with a history of left-leaning politics, and being soft on people who excercise their "freedom of expression" by looting and destruction, you are going to have more looting and destruction. No one
    who can actually listen and help is going to show up because they don't
    want to be beat up. They might be dumb enough to call it a "peaceful
    protest," but they're smart enough not to be there as long as it is
    dangerous.

    In the latter case, the same people who are either out tearing the
    city down, or that support the activity, will be on TV some time in the future complaining about how all the businesses have moved out to the suburbs (or
    out of town) and downtown is crumbling. Well, DUH!


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to AL on Mon Dec 21 10:22:00 2020
    That is, that is the supposed root cause. The actual root cause is that people on the not right and not center portion of the political spectrum saw an opportunity to start trouble... but that cannot really be true because the left never does stuff like that. They are always peaceful.

    Anyone can start trouble or be corrupt. It doesn't matter how far right or left
    you go, people generally can be or do corrupt things.

    In the context of the current discussion, most of us (outside of your part
    of BC) seem to be pretty straight on which side took a bad situation as an opportunity to start trouble.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to DEEPTHAW on Mon Dec 21 16:55:00 2020
    Fake news is Trump's pet term for anything unflattering to him, which he hijack
    d from people trying to find a politically correct term for propaganda and lyin
    coming from Trump.

    The term "fake news" existed long before Trump even started running for President. When I first heard it, his only political experience was as a character on The Simpsons. "Russian collusion" and "peaceful protests" are both much, much newer phrases than "fake news."

    Extremists exist on both sides, and are often so far extreme that "left" or "ri
    ht" fails to encapsulate them at that point. I know plenty of progressives I've
    formerly called friends I no longer speak to because they've gone off the deep >nd.

    You need to find a way to explain that to Al, but be sure to use very small words and be prepared for lots of contradiction.

    "Leftist" riot seems to insinuate anything ostensibly related to BLM. The major
    ty of that was protests, which don't get reported on because they're uninterest
    ng.

    The actual peaceful protests were reported on in this area, too. I live between two big towns. One town does not have a history of putting up with stupidity. There, they had actual peaceful protesting, very little (if any) rioting, and likely got some good discussion out of the issues. Community leaders weren't afraid to participate.

    The other town has a different history. There, they had "peaceful protest" riots that were destructive on Day 1. No bad righties showing up to stir them into it. As soon as it got nice and dark, they started tearing everything up.

    The riots were the result of either: people on the left with years of frustr >ation boiling over (not right but understandable) people on the right who were >here to stir up racial tensions (the boogaloo crowd) and what I believe most of
    them fall into, people who are just pieces of shit and took advantage of the si
    uation to cause chaos and destruction because they wanted to steal shit and sti
    k it to the man (whoever he was that day.)

    In the local case, third option. Maybe some first option folks who think
    the Police don't have a right to defend themselves when fired on.

    ifa. Thus some groups are violent, some groups aren't. What they aren't is well
    organized or some kind of existential threat to the nation.

    Tell that to people who have lost property, or property value, or their
    loved ones, to these nonthreatening folks.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to ARELOR on Mon Dec 21 16:30:00 2020
    The problem of course is black people being killed by police without
    justification. If we can solve that problem these protests and riots will st

    Thing is, the protests are not about racism at all. They use racism as an excuse but they are clearly aimed at breaking havoc against the federal government.

    Exactly.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to AL on Mon Dec 21 16:59:00 2020
    The problem of course is black people being killed by police without
    justification.

    False Leftie Narrative. The facts don't show anything of the kind.

    This fact is pretty clear.

    You cut it out of the last message I wrote you on this topic but here it is again. The violent, leftist riots in this part of the country were after
    the cops RETURNED FIRE in two different instances. In the first one, the shooters girlfriend was killed and, in the second one, after the riots had already started, the gunman was killed.

    To a leftist, a cop returing fire is probably not justified, but to most of
    the rest of us it is. I can remember when shooting at cops used to be
    called "suicide by cop," as in the person wanted to die and just couldn't
    kill themselves.

    Now it is a reason to burn the inner city down.

    Nationally, the other instances, without fail, seemed to involve other
    things I was told never to do to/with a cop unless I wanted to go to jail
    or wanted an assisted suicide. I somehow doubt these latest instances were used as teaching moments for anything of the sort.


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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Dumas Walker on Mon Dec 21 19:45:38 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Dumas Walker to AL on Mon Dec 21 2020 04:59 pm

    The problem of course is black people being killed by police
    without justification.

    This is what I am talking about. Black people being killed without justification.

    You cut it out of the last message I wrote you on this topic but here it is again. The violent, leftist riots in this part of the country were after the cops RETURNED FIRE in two different instances. In the first one, the shooters girlfriend was killed and, in the second one, after the riots had already started, the gunman was killed.

    This is an entirely different thing where someone fired on police when he thought they were intruders in his home when it was in fact police serving a no knock warrant. These cops were at the wrong address. This is another instance of people being killed without any kind of justification at all.

    To a leftist, a cop returing fire is probably not justified, but to most of the rest of us it is. I can remember when shooting at cops used to be called "suicide by cop," as in the person wanted to die and just couldn't kill themselves.

    I can't speak for leftists but there can be times when a cop has to kill or injure someone who is a threat to themselves or others. Suicide by cop is another totally different thing not related to what I was talking about. It is a real thing too, just not what I was saying.

    Now it is a reason to burn the inner city down.

    I don't know why the protests turned into riots. An angry mob is a possibility.

    Nationally, the other instances, without fail, seemed to involve other things I was told never to do to/with a cop unless I wanted to go to jail or wanted an assisted suicide. I somehow doubt these latest instances were used as teaching moments for anything of the sort.

    If you do certain things or behave in a certain way your chances of being arrested or killed by police increase with those activities. I don't recommend that.

    What I am talking about is the bad behaviour of police that can end with injury or death of people who did not deserve that.

    No knock warrants and suicide by cop are all debatable subjects, but that is not what I am talking about.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Dumas Walker on Mon Dec 21 19:56:21 2020
    Re: Leftist rioters and fraud
    By: Dumas Walker to AL on Mon Dec 21 2020 04:49 pm

    In this case there are many things below the surface that can boil up
    and the next thing you know you have a riot. It is a complex problem and
    the solutions might not be easy.

    Looks pretty easy to me.

    It seems easy to me too. Stop the unjustified killing of people by police and the protests and riots also stop.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to deepthaw on Mon Dec 21 18:13:13 2020
    On 12/20/2020 4:38 PM, deepthaw wrote:

    Group != organized group. That's why people keep talking about
    leadership structures. A lot of people claiming to be antifa
    don't even seem to be aware of the pre-existing definition I
    spoke about which calls for active violence and suppression of
    fascism. Nobody's gatekeeping antifa, so anybody can call
    themselves antifa. Thus some groups are violent, some groups
    aren't. What they aren't is well-organized or some kind of
    existential threat to the nation.

    And what you are describing is how most terrorist organizations are structured. Not to mention that many localized antifa cells define the current US Govt (including Democrats) as fascist/facism that must be
    opposed with violence.

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Al on Tue Dec 22 09:55:00 2020
    Al wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

    Nationally, the other instances, without fail, seemed to involve other things I was told never to do to/with a cop unless I wanted to go to jail or wanted an assisted suicide. I somehow doubt these latest instances were used as teaching moments for anything of the sort.

    If you do certain things or behave in a certain way your chances
    of being arrested or killed by police increase with those
    activities. I don't recommend that.

    Exactly. And in *EVERY* *SINGLE* *CASE* of recent nationally
    sensationalized incidents where a cop killed somebody, the "victim"
    did exactly that. They *ALL* did certain things or behaved in a certain
    way which resulted in the police action.

    What I am talking about is the bad behaviour of police that can
    end with injury or death of people who did not deserve that.

    See above. Perhaps the "victims" had some bad behavior too, which
    actually caused the injury/death. Yup.

    No knock warrants and suicide by cop are all debatable subjects,
    but that is not what I am talking about.

    Nobody really knows *WHAT* you're talking about. Including you.



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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Al on Tue Dec 22 10:33:52 2020
    Re: Leftist rioters and fraud
    By: Al to Dumas Walker on Mon Dec 21 2020 07:56 pm

    Re: Leftist rioters and fraud
    By: Dumas Walker to AL on Mon Dec 21 2020 04:49 pm

    In this case there are many things below the surface that can boil up
    and the next thing you know you have a riot. It is a complex problem and
    the solutions might not be easy.

    Looks pretty easy to me.

    It seems easy to me too. Stop the unjustified killing of people by police an the protests and riots also stop.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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    Riots would stop if the core issue was unjustified killing of people by police.

    My hunch is that if they didn't have unjustified killings, they would take a new excuse and roll with it. That's how politics work.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to AL on Tue Dec 22 11:54:00 2020
    This is an entirely different thing where someone fired on police when he thoug
    t they were intruders in his home when it was in fact police serving a no knock
    warrant. These cops were at the wrong address. This is another instance of peop
    e being killed without any kind of justification at all.

    That actually was how it was initially reported but turned out not to be
    true.

    (1) they were serving a no-knock, but witnesses in other apartments claimed they did indeed knock and announce.
    (2) they were not at the wrong address -- they went to that address on
    purpose believing that the ex-girlfriend was "holding" evidence (either drugs, guns, and/or money) for the person that the press originally reported they
    were looking for. The "originally reported" person was indeed in custody, but the person they were really looking for was there.

    They had reason to believe she was holding as they had "Bonnie and Clyde"
    style photos from social media that showed her posing with guns and money.

    The new boyfriend shot at, and wounded, one of the cops, causing them to
    return fire. One of the cops shot wildly into other dwellings and has
    since been charged. Although it has been controversial with members of the community, no other policeman had been charged last I heard.

    There is still an active movement to do away with no-knock warrants. In
    most cases, I agree they are not warranted.

    I can't speak for leftists but there can be times when a cop has to kill or inj
    re someone who is a threat to themselves or others. Suicide by cop is another t
    tally different thing not related to what I was talking about. It is a real thi
    g too, just not what I was saying.

    What I am saying is that I was taught shooting at cops = suicide by cop, no matter what. Nowadays, people don't seem to see it like that and, if a cop returns fire, it isn't the original shooters fault.

    If you do certain things or behave in a certain way your chances of being arres
    ed or killed by police increase with those activities. I don't recommend that.

    What I am talking about is the bad behaviour of police that can end with injury
    or death of people who did not deserve that.

    I am aware of no examples of someone being injured or killed by the police
    over this Summer that were not participating in, or were not with someone participating in, some of those "things and behaviors" that can end in "being arrested or killed" that you speak of -- resisting arrest,
    brandishing weapons, shooting at cops, etc.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to TRACKER1 on Tue Dec 22 11:54:00 2020
    Group != organized group. That's why people keep talking about
    leadership structures. A lot of people claiming to be antifa
    don't even seem to be aware of the pre-existing definition I
    spoke about which calls for active violence and suppression of
    fascism. Nobody's gatekeeping antifa, so anybody can call
    themselves antifa. Thus some groups are violent, some groups
    aren't. What they aren't is well-organized or some kind of
    existential threat to the nation.

    And what you are describing is how most terrorist organizations are structured.

    Exactly. That way, when you cut off the head you don't kill the snake... because there is no "head."

    I am not certain if the people who don't understand that "groups" can be (dis)organized that way really don't understand, or don't want anyone else
    to figure it out.

    Not to mention that many localized antifa cells define the
    current US Govt (including Democrats) as fascist/facism that must be
    opposed with violence.

    Which explains why the issues in the Pacific NW continued after the
    election was over.


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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Arelor on Tue Dec 22 14:21:46 2020
    Re: Leftist rioters and fraud
    By: Arelor to Al on Tue Dec 22 2020 10:33 am

    Riots would stop if the core issue was unjustified killing of people by police.

    That's what it is in this case.

    My hunch is that if they didn't have unjustified killings, they would take a new excuse and roll with it. That's how politics work.

    The politics will go on and on as they always have regardless of the good or bad behaviour of police.

    While all the politics goes on we might want to, and be able to expect a certain level of justice from police?

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Vlk-451@VERT/INREALM to Arelor on Mon Dec 28 02:06:12 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Arelor to deepthaw on Wed Dec 16 2020 01:20 pm

    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: deepthaw to Dumas Walker on Tue Dec 15 2020 04:33 pm

    The antifa creed of sorts I saw them espousing at the earliest was a basic belief that fascism is real, it's an existential threat, and it can happen here - therefor freedom of speech and nonviolence can be disposed of if the purpose is keeping fasc from taking hold because the risks are too great.

    Aka:

    We opose fascism. Therefore, we must establish our own brand of fascism and we are justified in establishing our own brand of fascism in order to prevent the rise of fascism.

    There is no contradiction in that.

    You can't make someone driven by the convictions of their own richeousness see that giving into their base urges is wrong. They are drunk on the power of their thoughts.

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  • From Vlk-451@VERT/INREALM to Tracker1 on Mon Dec 28 02:15:37 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Tracker1 to deepthaw on Mon Dec 21 2020 06:13 pm

    On 12/20/2020 4:38 PM, deepthaw wrote:

    Group != organized group. That's why people keep talking about
    leadership structures. A lot of people claiming to be antifa
    don't even seem to be aware of the pre-existing definition I
    spoke about which calls for active violence and suppression of
    fascism. Nobody's gatekeeping antifa, so anybody can call
    themselves antifa. Thus some groups are violent, some groups
    aren't. What they aren't is well-organized or some kind of
    existential threat to the nation.

    And what you are describing is how most terrorist organizations are structured. Not to mention that many localized antifa cells define the current US Govt (including Democrats) as fascist/facism that must be
    opposed with violence.

    I honestly think it's easier to think of antifa as a gang. Anyoen can claim membership, but most are posers. Some are in tight nit-groups with extreme views and agendas they act upon. Some are violent.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Vlk-451 on Sun Dec 27 22:42:20 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Vlk-451 to Tracker1 on Mon Dec 28 2020 02:15 am


    I honestly think it's easier to think of antifa as a gang. Anyoen can claim membership, but most are posers. Some are in tight nit-groups with extreme views and agendas they act upon. Some are violent.

    they hide behind that. just like anonymous and blm does.

    there are people calling the shots and dumb people that are 'activists' that
    do the dirty work.
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  • From Vlk-451@VERT/INREALM to MRO on Mon Dec 28 16:02:40 2020
    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: MRO to Vlk-451 on Sun Dec 27 2020 10:42 pm

    Re: Re: Leftist rioters
    By: Vlk-451 to Tracker1 on Mon Dec 28 2020 02:15 am


    I honestly think it's easier to think of antifa as a gang. Anyoen can claim membership, but most are posers. Some are in tight nit-groups with extreme views and agendas they act upon. Some are violent.

    they hide behind that. just like anonymous and blm does.

    there are people calling the shots and dumb people that are 'activists' that do the dirty work.

    That makes it sound more organized then I really think it is. I seriously think that it's easier to think of it as silos that share an ideology but act individually. So in that aspect much more like terrorists then the traditional idea of a gang, but many gangs work in cells.

    Everything is on a need to know basis and it's all about who you know.

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to VLK-451 on Mon Dec 28 14:23:00 2020
    We opose fascism. Therefore, we must establish our own brand of fascism and
    we are justified in establishing our own brand of fascism in order to prevent the rise of fascism.

    There is no contradiction in that.

    You can't make someone driven by the convictions of their own richeousness see
    hat giving into their base urges is wrong. They are drunk on the power of thei
    thoughts.

    This. :)


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