# Isolated shit, courtesy your neighbourly right wing scumbag **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 26, 2022, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900 "2022-06-26T17:22:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/141 "2022-10-31T21:30:59Z")
I knew he’d lost control. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/142 "2022-10-31T21:31:06Z")
With twenty pounds of headlines stapled to his chest? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/143 "2022-10-31T23:15:13Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > So long as you don’t complain about us putting a lock on our side of the gate. It’s first thing in my morning and I haven’t had coffee… I read that as “putting a lion on our side of the gate” and could find no reason to object. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/144 "2022-10-31T23:18:03Z")
It’s probably a British Commonwealth kind of thing. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/145 "2022-10-31T23:33:30Z")
[![](https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AMLnZu8dEXZCipfShuaK6T3Yp6eLXrgEXFkIch_sTiTiXew=s900-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj) ](https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AMLnZu8dEXZCipfShuaK6T3Yp6eLXrgEXFkIch_sTiTiXew=s900-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/146 "2022-11-01T00:16:55Z")
Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/147 "2023-02-08T15:18:40Z")
Illinois man apparently planned to blow up cops and/or their families after issuing threats against them: > **[Ford Co. Sheriff: Explosive devices discovered, detonated during arrest](https://www.wcia.com/news/sheriff-explosive-devices-discovered-detonated-during-arrest/)** > > GIBSON CITY, Ill. (WCIA) — The execution of an arrest warrant near Gibson City over the weekend resulted in the discovery and detonation of several explosive and incendiary devices, the Ford … Granted, there’s nothing about his political affiliation but given the lack of violent left wingers… ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/148 "2023-02-08T15:44:03Z")
There’s not a _lack_ of violent left wingers - they certainly exist, and “crazy” is pretty much non-partisan. It’s just that, at the moment, right-wing violence is far, far more prevalent. No idea about this guy as I can’t see the article (not available out of country). ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/149 "2023-02-08T15:58:21Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > No idea about this guy as I can’t see the article Not much there, really. Officers executed a warrant for those threats and found explosives + guns & ammo while on his property. Bomb squad was called in from some 25 miles away. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/150 "2023-02-08T21:27:00Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > There’s not a _lack_ of violent left wingers - they certainly exist, and “crazy” is pretty much non-partisan. It’s just that, at the moment, right-wing violence is far, far more prevalent. Antifa recently had a ‘day of rage’ in Atlanta that cost millions in property damage and at least one police car was firebombed. Does that count as violence? The day of rage was in solidarity with another Antifa member who shot a cop, then was killed by return fire during _another_ violent protest to stop the construction of a police training facility. What would be an example of similar right-wing violence in the past two years? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/151 "2023-02-08T21:36:21Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Antifa recently had a ‘day of rage’ Ah, you must mean this far right shit from Newsmax, then. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yahFJHj7AMM/maxresdefault.jpg "Antifa 'Night of Rage' in Atlanta leaves millions in damages | John Bachman Now") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yahFJHj7AMM) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/152 "2023-02-08T21:37:50Z")
You have been informed over and over and fucking _over_ again about the lies about what “antifa” was involved in, so I will just file this as yet another case of you being deliberately ignorant, absolving other posters from repeating what you have already been told. Fuck you, troll. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/153 "2023-02-08T21:38:10Z")
Ah, wondering what that was referencing. I mean, Portland has clearly been a smoldering crater for several years now, so it couldn’t be that. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/154 "2023-02-08T21:46:15Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > What would be an example of similar right-wing violence in the past two years? Two years, eh; just picked that number at random, did you? ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/155 "2023-02-08T21:50:30Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Ah, you must mean this far right shit from Newsmax, then. Sorry, I got it from that known far-right source, PBS. > **[Protest in Atlanta over state police killing of environmental activist turns...](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/protest-in-atlanta-over-state-police-killing-of-environmental-activist-turns-violent)** > > A protest turned violent in downtown Atlanta on Saturday night in the wake of the death of an environmental activist who was killed by authorities this week after officials said the 26-year-old shot a state trooper. > [@](#): > > The GBI said about 25 campsites were located and removed in Wednesday’s raid, and mortar-style fireworks, edged weapons, pellet rifles, gas masks and a blow torch were recovered. > > Seven people were arrested and charged with domestic terrorism and criminal trespass, with other charges pending, the GBI said. They range in age from 20 to 34 years, and none are Georgia residents. Seven people charged with domestic terrorism. Nothing to see here. Antifa doesn’t exist, even though everyone was dressed nearly identically in black, and four of the people charged were from out of state and traveled there to commit violence. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > You have been informed over and over and fucking _over_ again about the lies about what “antifa” was involved in For a definition of ‘informed’ being, “we gave you our opinion”, I disagreed. The notion that Antifa isn’t a thing is ridiculous. No, they don’t have a head office or a national leader. That’s not how such groups operate. They are intentionally set up as local cells and distributed groups to prevent a single point of attack and to enhance security. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/156 "2023-02-08T21:58:25Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Sorry, I got it from that known far-right source, PBS Sure, an article that didn’t once mention “antifa”. _I know that you know_ you have absolutely no empirical proof, whatsoever, that the perps were “antifa”, or even on the left, so, to reitrerate, then, everyone’s entreaties for you to stop trolling. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/157 "2023-02-08T22:08:57Z")
…because whenever there is a violent protest that does not involve Confederate flags, guns, big trucks, and cosplay soldiers, it must be Antifa. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/158 "2023-02-08T22:12:46Z")
Pick any interval you want. If you want to go back farther, fine. We can talk about the George Floyd riots, the ‘Autonomous zones’ set up in Portland and elsewhere complete with plenty of violence. We can talk about the firebombing of a police station full of people and a courthouse, and the storming of a state capitol. > **['Heavily armed' antifa rioters descend on Oregon Capitol targeting vehicles...](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/antifa-oregon-riot-heavily-armed)** > > “Heavily armed” protesters wearing riot gear and waving antifa flags descended on Oregon’s Capitol Sunday, resulting in at least three arrests. Someone should tell those people Antifa doesn’t exist, because they are waving flags belonging to a nonexistant entity, apparently. If you want to go farther, we can talk about the violent riots at the G20 and other left wing violence going back to the Weather Underground, the Black Liberation Army and the Black Panthers. Here in Canada we have left-wing terrorists derailing trains and spiking trees. But hey, you’ll always have J6. The gift that keeps on giving. To be fair, there HAS been a rise in right-wing violence, and it’s deplorable. But the left is plenty violent. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/159 "2023-02-08T22:21:06Z")
What a typically fucking useless article from the Washington Examiner, whose ridiculous bias is _way_ more warped than any bias shown by A-N-Y left publication, that’s for shit sure. Bad enough the article comprises tweets mainly from “Oh noes Anitifa!11!!!” reich wing troll Andy Ngo. Dismissed. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/160 "2023-02-08T22:27:32Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > […] and the storming of a state capitol. > > ['Heavily armed' antifa rioters descend on Oregon Capitol targeting vehicles with projectiles and lasers | Washington Examiner](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/antifa-oregon-riot-heavily-armed) > > Someone should tell those people Antifa doesn’t exist, because they are waving flags belonging to a nonexistant entity, apparently. Oh for pity’s sake, Sam. You’re accepting the Washington Examiner’s version of that event? (ETA: ninja’d by G-s\_i and probably a dozen more posters by the time I finish typing this cite.) How about a more honest [description](https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2021/03/dueling-protesters-clash-at-oregon-capitol-several-detained-including-man-who-pulled-gun.html) of this “storming” as a clash between armed right-wingers and left-wing counter-protestors? > [@](#): > > Right-wing demonstrators initially gathered in Sandy for a “Freedom Rally” with plans to travel to the Capitol. A flyer for the event said they planned a “flag wave to honor those who fought for our freedoms.” > > The plans attracted more than 150 left-wing counter-protesters, who arrived at the Capitol hours earlier, some carrying banners with symbols tied to the antifa movement. They billed their gathering as a “direct action in opposition to a fascist event.” Personally, I have never claimed that there’s no leftist political violence. But for you, or any other conservative news-spinner, to try to pretend that its recent irruptions are somehow independent of, or comparable to, the growing trend of right-wing domestic terrorism is despicable. > [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > But hey, you’ll always have J6. The gift that keeps on giving. Oh, you’re finally admitting that the January 6 insurrection attempt was in fact something more than just a “protest” by a bunch of random “angry people” that unfortunately got out of hand? Good, that’s progress, at least. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900.md?page=9)