Who called for/sponsored the rally? Glad you asked!
Joe Biggs, (ex-Info Wars reporter, ex-Twitter user) is the Proud Boys member who has been organizing this rally.
It seems pretty clear that this is “itching for a fight” more than it is “celebrating anything at all” and it sounds like they may get what they want, but I don’t think they’ll get Biggs’ main goal:
Like the FBI did with Juggalos, I guess. :rolleyes:
Wait: who exactly is engaging in terrorism here? :dubious:
I expect more news/posturing over the next few days and prolly all day Saturday, but I didn’t want this to have to be a Breaking News thread, where we can’t make political comments, etc. Fuck that because fuck these white supremacist assholes. Godddamned nazi jerks, ruining this weekend for the people of Portland like they fucking ruin everything.
If they really believed that the antifas were terrorists, they wouldn’t be going to Portland to confront them. If they thought the antifas would be waiting for them with guns or bombs, the right wingers would be running in the other direction.
But these assholes know they’re safe; at most they’re be some fistfights (and the assholes seem to be going top great length to make sure they’ll be the bigger crowd).
This is the usual tactic of this kind; they have to gather a hundred of them together in order to be brave enough to fight one person. And then they’ll all brag about how they defended themselves.
By all means cameras. Get these lowlifes on video screaming their bilge and out them. Maybe they’ll lose their jobs. Maybe their employers could fill those jobs with some nice Jewish folks. Wouldn’t that be irony at its finest?
Good for the Oathkeepers for pulling out. They are the only group I’ve paid any mind to out of these fringe groups with near zero followers.
These goofballs should be forced onto private property just like the left wing goofballs. Unfortunately so much desirable space, in cities especially, is “owned” by the government. They do such a poor job maintaining the property. Also, constitutional rights to assembly have mistakenly been interpreted to guarantee goofball groups the right to freeload on “public” property, making it even more difficult for the slack-jawed coppers.
In a free society, these social outcasts from both sides would have a very difficult time finding a significant property owner to allow them to let off their angst on each other. Unless of course they made it into a pay-per-view gang fight, which would be mildly amusing.
Yes a pay per view fight between extremists would be good but hey wait a few years and you will see it for free.
Now, the rest of that post conveys a lack of understanding of how concentrated power would become in the land owners and their mercenaries. We’d be back to the days of warlords without a properly functioning state.
I really think that what these people want is a fight. They want to participate in violence, and in our society, violence can be hard to come by.
I don’t see why we can’t just set aside a corner of a park, make sure that anyone who is entering is aware of the nature of that corner of the park don’t allow any weapons, and then just let them beat on eachother till they get as tired of it as we are of them.
Good to see that just like our drooling idiot so-called president, drooling morons in this very thread have used the eminently brave and purposeful word combination “both sides”.
So glad to be livin in a country where we got freedumz!
Gimme your tired, your poor, your bear spray and baseball bats. Your huddled masses struggling to breathe in an officer’s choke hold, your good guys with their their M16s.
