maqroll Posted August 19, 2017 Author Share Posted August 19, 2017 20,000 people marching from Roxbury to Boston Common today against a planned KKK rally. The Klan has yet to show up, apparently. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 26 minutes ago, maqroll said: 20,000 people marching from Roxbury to Boston Common today against a planned KKK rally. The Klan has yet to show up, apparently. No, they've shown up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted August 19, 2017 Author Share Posted August 19, 2017 54 minutes ago, peterms said: No, they've shown up. And scurried away under police escort shortly after. Really happy to see Boston show up for this, especially considering our own dicey racial history. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted August 19, 2017 Author Share Posted August 19, 2017 Police estimate puts the counter-demonstrators at 35K. Fascists on the attack, we will drive them back! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted August 19, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted August 19, 2017 If only more journos took this approach: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 I'm not sure that "shouting relentlessly at obvious morons" is the best approach to journalism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted August 20, 2017 Author Share Posted August 20, 2017 Sometimes this actually feels like a nightmare. Normal parameters are totally bent out of shape and there's a sort of surreal fog hanging over everything. Anarchists must be cheering this sh*t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TheAuthority Posted August 20, 2017 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2017 35 minutes ago, maqroll said: Sometimes this actually feels like a nightmare. Normal parameters are totally bent out of shape and there's a sort of surreal fog hanging over everything. Anarchists must be cheering this sh*t. We have to be vigilant against being overwhelmed by the "fog" of the Trump clown show. Scary things are happening away from the spotlight that can severely alter the course of the US. The Sinclair media group is now on the verge of reaching THREE QUARTERS of the homes in America through it's purchasing of local tv outlets. It then forces them to air hyper right wing propaganda disguised as "news." Betsy (I bought my job in government so I can make more money by screwing poor people) Devos, is planning to tear up public education. Yes, we desperately need a less educated populous voting here. Robert Mercer didn't fund Trump for no reason. He and his cronies want a return on their investment plus interest. More than ever we need to be engaged citizens resisting everything that Citizens United (thanks scum bag Scalia,) is bringing us. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Brumerican Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 15 hours ago, maqroll said: And scurried away under police escort shortly after. Really happy to see Boston show up for this, especially considering our own dicey racial history. I always found it funny that Bostonian Irish people hate the English far more than the actual Irish do ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnkarl Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 Well done to Boston. Just the kind of peaceful protests that shut these bed-linen wearing idiots up. Let's not validate their screwed up views by being violent. The leader of the Anti Defamation League has worded some strong language to both the far right and far left in this whole mess. Essentially saying that beating people up for their views will only strengthen their cause. Quote In April, pro-Trump demonstrators at a planned Ann Coulter talk in Berkeley called for antifa to be declared a terrorist organization. Others disagree with that assessment. "There's extremist ideology and then there's extremist tactics," said Oren Segal, the director of Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism. His organization does not directly track antifa groups but says they come up in their work because of their opposition to the hate groups they do track, he said. The ADL opposes antifa's use of violence in part because "it helps the white supremacist narrative of victimization become a more effective talking point," he said. Smith rejects the claim that both sides are equal, saying the movements of neo-Nazis and white nationalists are at least in part what's driving the antifa movement. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted August 20, 2017 Author Share Posted August 20, 2017 5 hours ago, Brumerican said: I always found it funny that Bostonian Irish people hate the English far more than the actual Irish do ! That's more of an older generation thing, and it's pretty much limited to a few specific areas. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 (edited) 2 hours ago, maqroll said: That's more of an older generation thing, and it's pretty much limited to a few specific areas. To be fair I have based my entire opinion on this from one scene in "The Rock" where one of the rogue soldiers calls a blatantly Scottish Sean Connery an "English prick" and then says "Did I tell ya my old man was Irish " before hitting him. Edited August 20, 2017 by Brumerican 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 20, 2017 Moderator Share Posted August 20, 2017 5 hours ago, magnkarl said: Well done to Boston. Just the kind of peaceful protests that shut these bed-linen wearing idiots up. Let's not validate their screwed up views by being violent. The leader of the Anti Defamation League has worded some strong language to both the far right and far left in this whole mess. Essentially saying that beating people up for their views will only strengthen their cause. Source You keep perpetuating this alt-right myth about Charlottesville. Have a look at the footage, I've watched footage from many sources, I've yet to see any, where the anti fascists were the aggressors. There's only one side starting any violence, there's only one side wandering around armed. The only image I've seen so far claiming to show Antifa aggression has been proved FAKE. It suits Trump and alt-rights agenda to deflect by claiming the other side was as bad, there is, however, scant evidence for it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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magnkarl Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 (edited) 3 hours ago, bickster said: You keep perpetuating this alt-right myth about Charlottesville. Have a look at the footage, I've watched footage from many sources, I've yet to see any, where the anti fascists were the aggressors. There's only one side starting any violence, there's only one side wandering around armed. The only image I've seen so far claiming to show Antifa aggression has been proved FAKE. It suits Trump and alt-rights agenda to deflect by claiming the other side was as bad, there is, however, scant evidence for it I've had a look at a lot of footage, it shows two groups having an all out melee for about 20 minutes. I'm not sure who started it, but I'm pretty sure everyone gave as good as they got. That doesn't justify some dipshit driving into and killing people. The whole point of my previous post was that one of the most respected anti extremist research groups in the world has asked people to stop being violent against these people as it furthers their points. http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-charlottesville-witnesses-20170815-story.html LA Times is by no means a rightist newspaper, have a read. A wide spectrum of accounts suggest that the problem is much more nuanced than you are suggesting. Anarchists aren't exactly saints, and never have been. Edited August 20, 2017 by magnkarl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted August 21, 2017 Moderator Share Posted August 21, 2017 An interesting summary of the hotly debated monuments - 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted August 21, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted August 21, 2017 51 minutes ago, NurembergVillan said: An interesting summary of the hotly debated monuments - Nah. It's all about history and heritage, innit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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peterms Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 Sounds about right. Quote WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump’s demonstrable inability to spell even the simplest words has reassured many that he lacks the aptitude to correctly enter the nuclear launch codes entrusted to the President of the United States. While millions of Americans have lost sleep over the thought of Trump being anywhere near the nuclear codes, his failure to spell such words as “heal” and “tap” suggests that mastering a more complicated sequence of letters or numbers would be well above his grade level. “Giving one person the power to launch the most destructive nuclear arsenal in the world has always been problematic,” Harland Dorrinson, the director of the Society for Nuclear Security, said. “In their infinite wisdom, the American people have solved that problem by electing someone whose brain would be utterly flummoxed by the task.” While Trump has demonstrated an ability to use simple tools, such as a television remote or a fork, Dorrinson does not foresee him mastering the nuclear codes anytime soon. “This is not exactly the system of checks and balances that the Constitution intended, but we should all be grateful for it,” he said. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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