That’s how I know what I know about the movie.
Every time I hear some pundit on CNN say something about how Antifa is also bad (and both conservative and liberal pundits there have been saying it) I scream at the tv “They didn’t do anything bad at Charlottesville!! Stop saying that!!” And then I remember they can’t actually hear me. And then I remember Antifa isn’t actually a formal organization or anything. And then I remember modern journalism just totally sucks, and I go play a video game and hope WWIII doesn’t start soon.
First they came for the Muslims and I was like “Fantastic!”
Then they came for the Queers, and I was like “Great!”
Then they came for the Athiests and I said “Totally on board”
Then they came for the Socialists and I thought “Damn Straight!”
Then they ca…NO I’M PRETTY SURE THAT’S GOING TO BE IT, WE’RE TOTALLY GOOD GUYS
This is pretty clear to me. He’s backing down on DACA and the wall which are major issues for his racist base. So, he needs to make them happy by attacking antifa by equivocating fascism with people who fight fascism.
This needs more than a simple like.
What a disaster of a fucking human being.
He and Connery should play Jeopardy sometime.
There’s nothing wrong with being a ‘pretty bad dude.’ I say embrace it.
Blimey, he is very orange, and look at that strange hair-do.
Okay but real question, are you me?
Hmm. I’m not sure. Are you a 48 year old transwoman living in Missouri?
Im a 24 year old transwoman living in misery. So I guess I am a remix.
Well that misery part is not good. Ironically, moving to Missouri helped that part for me.
I may have over emphasized that for the alliterative parallel. But yeah I do think the widening discongruity between my ideals and our US politics is shortening my life by large parts. I’m glad you found comfort in Missouri!
I’m glad to hear that you support the violent black bloc anarchists who fought in the streets to try to keep fascists from harming people. But I’m also here to tell you that these are the same community of people (and in some cases probably literally the same people) who have earned your disdain by fighting other kinds of fascists (like the police) in the past.
But how can this be? It seems that people who you would call “ignoramuses, attention-seekers, and chaos addicts” in one breath are in the next “serious anarchists, who are willing to fight back in self defence against the fascists”. If they really are such terrible useless people, how is it that they’re some of the few doing the right thing in a time of crisis? Perhaps things are more complicated than reductionist name-calling can express.
Alternately, perhaps you are just engaging in a strawman fallacy whereby you talk shit aggressively against an invented version of militant anarchists, and then when your portrayal is shown to be bogus you respond with “of course I don’t mean those militant anarchists, I mean the bad ones who murder orphans! Surely you don’t support people who just love orphan-murder.”
That would be a weird approach for someone to take who is genuinely concerned with the urgency of antifascist struggle, but it would be an ingenious approach for someone who wanted to undermine solidarity between activists. It would allow you to continually air bogus allegations which encourage bad blood between different anti-fascists, and when they’re inevitably discredited you can use the opportunity not to learn and adjust your view but to reformulate the strawman and continue the condemnations.
I mean, I’m all for earnest debate and adversarial exchange as a way to improve ourselves, but it’s hard to stomach name-calling and bad-faith arguments as improving anything.
