antifa at Berkeley on Sunday being violent (Aug 27th 2017 version)

[dead0man]

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My favorite part was at the end when the 50-100 people chasing the 2 people with their hands up down the street, hitting them with sticks and water bottles and calling them "pussies".  I wonder how their feminist allies feel about that insult?

[Beet]

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My favorite part was at the end when the 50-100 people chasing the 2 people with their hands up down the street, hitting them with sticks and water bottles and calling them "pussies".  I wonder how their feminist allies feel about that insult?

Forget it dead0man, it's California, literally the worst state in the union. What do you expect?

[dead0man]

From local SF paper

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[Associate Justice PiT]

     It's clear that Berkeley PD can't handle these events. The one time that they succeeded, it was with backup from other police forces as well as the California Highway Patrol; what I read indicates that this did not happen here. With that in mind, enlisting reinforcements should be SOP for these types of events. It's tragic that it comes to this, but you have to do what you have to do.

[dead0man]

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Now I'm not going to say they did it on purpose, but it seems to me that cops disarmed one side, and then left.

[publicunofficial]

Man Stabs Self, Blames AntiFa

Thought of you, dead0.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Im sure the 2 assholes were being very oppressive to the crowd. One of them may have even expressed a forbidden opinion. A little physical violence pales in comparison to the violence that is wearing a MAGA hat.

[dead0man]

link-LA Times

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[Coraxion]

Right-wing terrorism is a bigger threat.

[publicunofficial]

The Berkeley protests had about as many violent incidents as the average Raiders game, per person.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

What does the name "antifa" stand for?

[Associate Justice PiT]

What does the name "antifa" stand for?

     It's from the German "Antifaschistische Aktion", which was the name of a 1930s left-wing German org. The name translates as "Anti-fascist Action".

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

What does the name "antifa" stand for?

     It's from the German "Antifaschistische Aktion", which was the name of a 1930s left-wing German org. The name translates as "Anti-fascist Action".

Thanks, PiT.  Google is my friend but sometimes I'm just a lazy. 

[dead0man]

Berkeley Mayor caves to violence

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or, ya know, you could do one of the most important jobs of a city official and protect the civil liberties of people in your jurisdiction.  Do your job coward.

[FairBol]

Heh.  As my late father would say, "so what the hell else is new"? :-/

[Coraxion]

Freeze peach.

[publicunofficial]

AntiFa gets a white nationalist rally cancelled, their methods speaks for themselves! Thanks AntiFa!

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Antifa is working hard to re-elect Trump.

[KingSweden]

Antifa is working hard to re-elect Trump.

Hell has frozen over - I'm quoting jfern in *agreement*. What's happening to me??!?

[dead0man]

Berkeley cops can't keep violent assholes apart, but they sure can steal $60 out of the pocket of a hot dog vendor.  link

We need fewer laws!

[TheLeftwardTide]

Antifa is working hard to re-elect Trump.

Quoting Chomsky; I see that you're a man of high standards.

But dead0man, stop trying to strawman the left. We all know about your ulterior motives here...
"DAE THINK SOSHALIZM IS A VOILANT IDEA"

[dead0man]

Hey guess what, I'm not posting for you or by your command....so, ya know, go pound sand.

[Lord Admirale]

Antifa is working hard to re-elect Trump.

Quoting Chomsky; I see that you're a man of high standards.

But dead0man, stop trying to strawman the left. We all know about your ulterior motives here...
"DAE THINK SOSHALIZM IS A VOILANT IDEA"

Can you act like you have an ounce of maturity, for once? My God, this is so cringe-inducing.

[RINO Tom]

Antifa is working hard to re-elect Trump.

Quoting Chomsky; I see that you're a man of high standards.

But dead0man, stop trying to strawman the left. We all know about your ulterior motives here...
"DAE THINK SOSHALIZM IS A VOILANT IDEA"

Can you act like you have an ounce of maturity, for once? My God, this is so cringe-inducing.

He is an angry SocDem, and he's NOT going to take it anymore.

[TheLeftwardTide]

Antifa is working hard to re-elect Trump.

Quoting Chomsky; I see that you're a man of high standards.

But dead0man, stop trying to strawman the left. We all know about your ulterior motives here...
"DAE THINK SOSHALIZM IS A VOILANT IDEA"

Can you act like you have an ounce of maturity, for once? My God, this is so cringe-inducing.

I mean, let's just put aside the fact that this post was not meant to be taken 100% seriously, or the fact that (at least in my opinion) I have posted several serious, mature posts. You want me to be more mature? Sure.

First of all, let's ask, what is the point of the thread? Almost everyone on Atlas agrees that Antifa sucks, with the exception of maybe publicunofficial and a few other people to the left of me. So, the post is essentially preaching to the choir on how Antifa is violent.

Now, a philosophy of mine is that everything happens for a reason. I believe that people ultimately are trying to reach a goal with every action they take. So, what was dead0man's goal in posting this thread? Is it for personal pleasure? No, who would take pleasure in posting violence? Is it for informing the public? Again, refer to my point about the Atlas consensus on Antifa.

Judging by post history, it can be said that dead0man has a hatred for economically left-wing ideas, namely, everything to the left of social democracy. Antifa, and really college-campus SJWs in general, are already hard-wired into being associated with the left. So by consistently bringing up their idiocy, you can get people to be "turned off" from ideas such as democratic socialism when, in reality, such concepts are founded on completely different principles. I've seen this happen to many people, and it's one of my main theory as to why (as of now) Gen Z is polling to be very conservative.

Of course, I didn't want to make my post be taken 100% seriously. There is most likely some truth to what I laid out, but it's also very possible - and probable - that he was just bored and felt like starting this thread. I also found this association to be a very simplistic one. There's really not that much depth to it. So, I decided to mock this idea, by using all caps and misspelled words, essentially killing two birds with one stone.

TL;DR I didn't intend to be mature here, but it's quite obvious that at least some of my posts have been mature, so chill.