Andy today:
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I just found out that the groups that would eventually become antifa in Portland were formed because gangs of fascists were patrolling Portland in the 80s and 90s, beating up anyone who wasn’t white, ‘Christian’, cisgender and heterosexual. The police were turning a blind eye to all this, as were all the people who are suddenly so upset about antifa violence.
This is rather damning for those now complaining.
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Those who beat their swords into plowshares will push a plow for those who didn’t.
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On the continuing theme of “right wing propagandists accidentally portraying leftists as totally badass”…
Antifascism is self-defence.
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And again:
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In my experience, leftists these days are all too often characterized by unwillingness, even inability, to agree and maintain a common front. And the further left you go the more pronounced this gets.
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Which makes them just the sort of people who would engage in a highly-coordinated grand conspiracy of terrorism. At least that’s what Andy and Alex and Donny and Rush and Steve tell us
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The party of projection strikes again. Just because you (right wing terrorist backers) absolutely would go out and start a race war in order to maintain white privilege doesn’t mean your detractors would go out and kill a bunch of people to oppose you.
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That’s the same Gavin McInnes who founded the Proud Boys
The Right wing will always be dishonest about this.
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This may be true in some sense but the warrant was to Google, not the carrier. If you just tell your location services not to share your location with Google (much less turn on airplane mode or turn off the device), you won’t be in their database. There is definitely a wrong way to do this, which made news a few months ago. But if you disable it correctly, your location won’t be sent. I haven’t verified this personally, but it’s easy enough to detect. I don’t buy in to easily-disprovable conspiracy theories even if I haven’t disproved them personally.
Of course, they could also serve a reverse warrant to all the major carriers and demand location data, and who knows, maybe your “turned off” phone leaks that, but that’s not what the OP is about.
I remember finding out in grade five that Canada had both a Communist party and a Marxist-Leninist party and asking someone why. They couldn’t really explain it. In university, after spending some time around activists, the real question became why there weren’t more.
So the guy who tweeted that was right-wing trying to make Antifa look scary? I assume we are supposed to be scared of the skin tone of the shirtless person.
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Someone should start a cell phone company that focuses on creating devices that respect your privacy. there could be a physical switch to turn off the camera and mic
Schaffer’s from The Blaze (Glen Beck’s thing).
It appears that he was going for attempted mockery rather than alarm. Failed either way; read the comments. 
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Sad thing is: here in German-speaking countries, the vast majority of people you ask a) wouldn’t even know many left wing groups, b) would know next to nothing about their political goals, and c) would be very much in agreement that ‘the radical left’ is a danger to democracy in general and free speech in particular (see: gender debates, de-platforming, political correctnessetc.) and **something needs so be done about that.
TBC, I do not give much fucks about many really radical left-wing groups because they are sectarians and at the same time mostly harmless. No-one is even paying attention to them. Perceiving them as a threat more important than neo-nazis actuall killing people seems amazingly disproportionate. I do not understand how that happens.
There’s a big political shift in the US compared to DACh countries, though. Our so-called “centrist” friend upthread would probably be a member of the AfD in Germany, and the so-called “radical leftists” here in the US would align policy-wise with The Greens in Germany. Maybe even the Social Dems.
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