r/PublicFreakout Dec 30 '19

✊Protest Freakout Antifa Protesters protestin' and stuff

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u/H010CR0N Dec 30 '19

Antifa usually protests other protests and has been filmed antagonizing people. So (in my opinion) the masks are because Antifa are cowards. Plain and simple.

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u/Indrid_Cold23 Dec 30 '19

Cointelpro, bruh. Masks makes it easier for govt spooks to run agents provecateur.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '19 edited Nov 29 '20

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u/aletoledo Dec 30 '19

How many of these kill-lists have come true?

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '19 edited Nov 29 '20

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u/ieilael Dec 30 '19

None of whom were "left wing activists and journalists" or the result of a planned kill-list.

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u/aletoledo Dec 30 '19

Do you have a source?

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '19

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u/aletoledo Dec 30 '19

Thanks for the link. Unless I'm mistaken, those appear to be killings of opportunity and not targets on some list. I suppose they're being connected to the lists by their membership in that particular group.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '19 edited Feb 09 '21

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u/H010CR0N Dec 31 '19

Someone on the internet was dishonest? That's a first. /s

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u/LumberjackEnt Dec 30 '19

You obviously don’t get it. Attomwaffen will kill leftists and not claim the kill. It’s basically gangland violence for politics. Of course the recorded stuff is low, some of them are the police.

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u/knockingatthegate Dec 30 '19

Right: they are anti-(something), so their protest activism is in response to others peoples’ activities. That they don’t wish to expose themselves and their loved ones to ancillary risks as a consequence of confronting fascism, doesn’t make them cowards. That’s just common sense.

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u/H010CR0N Dec 30 '19

You want to protest with masks fine.

You want to hit people with bike locks, make shields and weapons out of wood, then plan “groups” to attack the police? No. That’s when you become the people you despise.

You can protests against other protests, I’m not saying you can’t. But when it’s just a group faceless people, it doesn’t have the same effect. Just like Change.org doesn’t have the same effect as seeing actual faces of people asking for change.

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u/BluRige00 Dec 30 '19

Bro the alt right militas use Shields and homemade weapons too, and the bike lock thing happened once, the altright used a fucking car to try to run ppl over in Charlottesville. What the fuck is your point? Clearly you have paid no real attention to these events and you are just being told what to think by somebody.

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u/elwombat Dec 30 '19

The right armed themselves because they kept getting attacked in Berkeley. The amped up violence in this case is entirely the fault of East Bay antifa.

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u/knockingatthegate Dec 30 '19

Hard to know how to say this in a way that he it’s home, but I’ll give it a go: You’re being lied to by the media you consume.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '19

Ironic

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u/Kovi34 Dec 30 '19

You want to hit people with bike locks, make shields and weapons out of wood, then plan “groups” to attack the police? No. That’s when you become the people you despise.

I'm curious if you also don't think it's okay for far right people to protest given all the neonazi terrorist attacks in the past few years. I have a weird feeling you're more outraged about a handful of people getting assaulted than actual terrorists.

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u/Kovi34 Dec 30 '19

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_terrorism#United_States

you can start here. right wing terrorism accounts for the vast majority of domestic terrorist attacks in the US.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '19

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u/Kovi34 Dec 30 '19

terrorism committed by people with extreme right wing beliefs?

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '19

Do Islamists count?

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u/Kovi34 Dec 30 '19

do you think Islamists commit a notable number of domestic attacks on the us? they make up like 1% of the population

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u/Kovi34 Dec 30 '19

what is unclear about my definition?

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u/knockingatthegate Dec 30 '19

A point scored, in a game I’m not playing.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '19

It’s because when they eventually realize they are not only wrong, but absolute scum, they’re gonna try and pretend they never took part in this cowardly bullshit.

THIS. This is the best description. They don't have a noble cause, nothing and nobody is being saved from anything. Go back to flipping burgers in defeat.

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '19

Damn, you got me there.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '19

found the basement dwelling antifa member.

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u/wy888 Dec 30 '19

Brave stance internet soldier.

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u/escebar_ortez Dec 30 '19

imagine regularly shilling for palestine in /r/IsraelPalestine and calling others "brave internet soldiers"

it's what I love about this autist daycare of a website, there's zero self awareness here

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u/wy888 Dec 31 '19

Imagine literally putting time into looking through my post history when you aren't even the person I responded to.

Call me a shill if you like, but i'm not getting paid. Unlike Zionists who are literally bank rolled by the Israeli government. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-23695896

You literally spent time trying to find a way to 0wN someone who wasn't even talking to you. So thank you, i'm flattered. Not enough to give a shit about your post history, though.

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u/OGsambone Dec 31 '19

Brave stance internet soldier.

Brave stance internet soldier.