She gave you a toy train, but insisted that it had to run on time?
Darn. Wish I’d thought to as earlier that at least anti-fascism is an anti-ethos.
Like the French Resistance?
It’s only water
In a stranger’s tear
Looks are deceptive
But distinctions are clear
A foreign body
And a foreign mind
Never welcome
In the land of the blind
You may look like we do
Talk like we do
But you know how it is
You’re not one of us
Not one of us
No you’re not one of us
Not one of us
Not one of us
No you’re not one of us
There’s videos of people representing Antifa deliberately provoking violence at protests/rallies. Unless my imagination fails me.
All it really takes a swift condemnation and we can begin the discussion on how big a concern they should be. Which, in the grand scale, they’re not a huge concern.
What kinds of protests/rallies might these be? You have a link, maybe?
And how can we tell the difference between these guys and rightie imposters? I mean, don’t they all wear those masks?
So you haven’t been reading the thread, or you’re demanding a very specifically worded condemnation from everyone else? :dubious:
https://www.njhomelandsecurity.gov/analysis/anarchist-extremists-antifa?rq=Anti
Looks like someone didn’t read your thread.
It seems so.
Love that album.
I have no sympathy for any violent organization, but your link shows about eight or ten incidents in which antifa groups either had street fights with white supremacists, or otherwise acted like jerks towards similar sort of organizations.
I think there’s an idea in conservative circles that these knuckleheads are making plots against, say, David Brooks-type people. Again, I thoroughly condemn this group (and I’m horrified by that dude in Berkeley who smashed somebody’s head in a sneak attack with a bike lock – absolutely revolting), but I think there is some degree of hysteria here.
Hell, I condemn them just for that stupid abbreviation. What, pronouncing the “scist” part is too many letters for you?
That’s the thing. Fights with racists and alt-right assholes and they’re trying to make it sound like these people are the enemy of all mankind. No, they’re enemies of the far right assholes who are terrified that they can’t just march around carrying guns, hanging a black president in effigy and making offensive and threatening statements IN PEACE!!!
What precious little snowflakes!
Plus, how the fuck do you say it? AN-tie-fah? AN-tee-fah? an-TEE-fah?
Huh. I pronounce it an-ti-FAH. But how would I know?
Loach’s link leads to an interesting placemat chart that summarizes domestic terrorism events. I’m not minimizing antifa in any way, shape or form, but it is an interesting look at what fringe groups take to violence and how they carry it out.
Not close enough?
That sounds about right. They want to have their little mini_Kristalnacht rallies, hang folks in effigy, talk trash about applying “second amendment solutions” everywhere, and threatening about “impending civil war if they don’t get their way” …
But give just a little hint of possible opposition and they shit their pants.
The Europeans used it first. It’s probably an attempt to use a unified name across multiple languages.