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  1. 5 minutes ago, Loch Ness Monster said:

    Honestly never met an Antifa person but have met plenty of nutjob MAGA people.

    You would think 30% of the US is Antifa if you read conservative Twitter.

    There's no real "antifa" group or organization. I work with people who would likely qualify as antifa, at least in the eyes of most. One has a poster of richard spencer getting punched in the face above his desk. these guys spend their free time going to homeless sweeps and yelling at cops, and showing up to yell at proud boys and alt-right when they march in our area. they are genuinely concerned with the plight of the poor and downtrodden. Would they get violent if provoked? Yes, but I don't consider them violent.

     

     

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  2. 2 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    I'm convinced based on video and pictures that many, possibly most, of the Capitol police were sympathetic to the rioters. I haven't researched the context of those images, so I'm open to having my mind changed, but it would be consistent with what we have seen recently from police. Put down Black protesters and their allies with extreme prejudice, but exercise caution when they are "patriots" waving confederate and trumper flags. I guess one was actually spooked and shot a lady, but the rest of them seem to have been treated like rowdy teenagers smoking on school grounds. "Move along you knuckleheads and I won't tell your parents."

    Yes. Police forces have always been sympathetic to white nationalism, primarily because police ranks are composed of white nationalists and facists. 

    The bullet came from a man in a suit. It was not a police officer. 

    Despite my disdain for police in general, gotta give props to the cop at 1:13 below who comes flying down the steps and just starts throwing haymakers into a crowd that outnumbers him like 50-1. 

     

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  3. I'm as anti-police as they come, but those rioters could easily be charged and convicted of attempted murder. I guarantee you some of those people have publicly stated their sincere desire to kill specific individuals in that building. They then traveled to the city where those individuals work and live. They gathered as a group and stated their intention to stop those individuals. They broke through a police barricade, committed a burglary while armed with firearms. They then assaulted police, injuring several. They then roamed the building, sometimes asking for specific individuals by name. They were carrying zip ties and firearms and dressed in paramilitary outfits. 

    Deadly force was warranted and legal. 

     

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  4. 1 minute ago, Thatguy said:

      No one has ever trained them to shoot people that look like them, or believe in what they believe in. Something that should be addressed in training going forward.

    Yeah. We were told all year that the police needed to be "retrained" and "deprogrammed" so that they won't just start attacking civilians. This incident proves, again, that its about race. Police are an armed wing of white supremacy. Always have been. Maybe always will be. Up to us.

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  5. 17 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

    A pretty good documentary that came out recently is called "Feels Good Man". It centers on Pepe the Frog, which was originally a character from a web comic drawn by this hippy dippy artist guy and then of course, it got co-opted by the alt right, became a hate symbol, etc. I felt bad for the guy when he's at his storage unit talking about the 30 grand of Pepe merchandise he bought that is now worthless. Also how all this shit is basically what the story of his life gets to center on. At any rate, at one point they have 4chan guys talking about the evolution of its use as a meme, and the kinda... jokey application of pepe being a nazi or piloting the 9/11 planes, and then gradually people aren't joking. Or how it transitions from "lol we got you you think we are serious" to more of a "this is a joke *wink*" type thing. I should rewatch that segment. I was thinking about that reading about the seeming disconnect of... people are storming the capitol to overthrow the government, and then walking away rubbing pepper spray out of their eyes like wtf we're just trying to do the revolution. The disconnect between the seriousness of what they are doing and the seriousness that they have about it. Like they were going to naruto run towards Area 51. Except also maybe they're going to hang the vice president.

    This is one of those crazy "the internet and the real world have mingled" things, and it's crazy and dangerous and you can kinda see how some people don't totally grok the seriousness of what they are doing, and it's maybe even more dangerous because others know exactly what is up and they're all together. Jtfc I dunno, what a time.

     

    good movie, though

     

    UT Grad made it too.

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