Re: What is happening in your country?
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2019 4:25 am

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Ah, the video games are to blame, I see.FireyPaperMario wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2019 8:40 amTo be honest, I blame the mental lunatics to think reenacting violent shooting games just as CoD, and fortnite
They shoudn't blame video games.Electriking wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2019 9:08 amAh, the video games are to blame, I see.FireyPaperMario wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2019 8:40 amTo be honest, I blame the mental lunatics to think reenacting violent shooting games just as CoD, and fortnite
I wonder what the right has to say about this...
Antifa is a group of anti-rioters, aiming to migitate harm done by fascist movements across the country. Expand the term "antifa" into "anti-fascist" and you have basically every functioning citizen. Oh boy.
I actually saw the full video of the bus and it's hard to tell who had the hammer first. I also saw the full unedited video if John turano and his 24 year old daughter Bianca who looks 12ish. He is also called spartan. In the video he was pushed to the ground and violently attacked by a large crowd kicking and punching him in front of his daughter. Another video showed another man lifeless on the ground with antifa surrounding him.Enjl wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2019 9:03 pmAntifa is a group of anti-rioters, aiming to migitate harm done by fascist movements across the country. Expand the term "antifa" into "anti-fascist" and you have basically every functioning citizen. Oh boy.
"What about their tendency to violence?"
There was this Portland thing a few weeks ago, which you probably heard of, where an antifa member used a hammer to attack someone in a bus. That happened at a rally of the Proud Boys neo-fascist group that was busing themselves across the country with their weapons etc etc. So, of course, anti-protesters come to the rally to make their stance against what these people stand for. The full video of the hammer incident is rarely shared in right-wing media because it would dismantle the image, easily seen by the token tweet that people tend to respond when it's mentioned: "Where did the hammer come from?" Inside the bus. The hand of the guy who ended up getting attacked by it. Who attacked first? The fascist inside the bus, who the hammer belonged to. Bit of a theme of counter-protest, counter-violence here.
Of course, violence is ultimately desired to be avoided, and this is just a token example showing the kind of violence going down there and the ways in which the truth is twisted by right-wing media. But it paints a picture: The antifa counter-protests are not at the root of the problem, but a consequence thereof. What if the country didn't have such a tendency to fascism and white supremacy? Well, less people would get (rightfully) upset about it!
Now, to that second point....
Abortion. Tricky topic. Many perspectives. First things first: Abortion happens wayyyy before birth, so there isn't actually a baby to be killed at that stage. It's a fetus a short while after conception. So. Why remove the fetus?
Well...So even if you count abortion as a "killer", illegitimizing them can consequentially plummet 25+% of aborting women into unwanted situations. Noooooooot quite sure if this is really the "murder" statistic that should be pointed out. Something like "car accidents" sounds more ethically avoidable.Spoiler: show
Yet there was no violence from the right at the Portland rallies thus there was no violence for Antifa to fight against.Cedur wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:19 amthe arch conservatist and right populist is back.
You can criticize antifa for their policy of fighting violence with violence, but at least they're fighting against violence and not for an abusive ideology full of ostracism and lies. The Democrats are no left extremists. Trump is a right extremist, a maniac, and a hypocrite. He shall never ever condemn any right terrorists if his hate speech and venom actually incites them. He shall never ever commiserate any victim of shootings when he keeps cuddling with the gun lobby. Every shooting is one too many.
Again, right extremism and right populism is the biggest poison to humanity and your cherrypicking and your awry comparisons don't change that.
I respect your opinion and Thank you for your input. I'm not always right myself.Enjl wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2019 6:23 amI was gonna reply to some of the points made but after half an hour of writing this post I decided that it'd take me weeks to put all the information into digestible paragraphcs that would only derail the thread further. I looked into that $400.000 claim first and found that it's from a facebook meme and that while he HAS been donating his salary, he did it while cutting way bigger funding from the departments he donated to ($100.000 in 2017 to DoE while cutting $9.200.000 from its budget). Then I went on a tangent on illegal immigrants, their importance to jobs around the country and how disgusting it is to just call illegal immigrants "illegals" since it's just 1 step away from calling them "aliens" which some people do. And then I stopped myself in the middle of researching the current border patrol scenario where people fall ill and false positives are held captive for weeks in some sort of modern holocaust scenario.
I was also gonna look into that "jobs" thing cause news are out that jobs are down ~500.000 from when Obama was president, but I really don't have the time to go into them all in detail.
I know that being unable to provide properly sourced claims is bad practice, but when bombarded with such sheer amounts of poorly sourced half-truths, it's impossible to keep up. Sorry.
I have no problem with Antifa holding peaceful counter protests. They have a right to do so.
Teemster2 wrote:I also don't support the kkk, neo Nazis or violence from the right. I also don't support all Republicans. What I refuse to do is give anyone a free pass just because they are in my party.