If you’ve been to some of these events, you’ll notice a large number of antifa people with handmade press passes calling themselves journalists, but also protesting peacefully by throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at cops, Burning buildings, preventing others from using their own cameras, hitting people, and breaking things. Those people are included in this count.
are you suggesting it's /pol/-type Trump supporters burning free speech signs, or am I misreading your comment? Because it's antifa members and black-bloc anarchists that are doing that.
As somebody who protested AGAINST neo-nazis but was constantly put in harm's way because antifa decided their best course of action was open violence against the police (while largely ignoring the actual neo-nazis that were present, curiously enough), and maybe burning some shit, with me in the middle of stone-throwing antifas and police, I welcome antifa going down in flames. To me, who had the displeasure of observing antifa in action again and again, they are immature violent hooligans looking for trouble wherever they can find it and not much else.
There's a lot of precedent for right wing false flag provocation during these protests, and lots of evidence, while there's no credible evidence of Trump being a double agent for the Democrats. There are people vandalizing their own property to blame it on antifa, "boogaloo" proponents smashing windows and lighting things on fire and posing as BLM supporters while calling for violence. It is wild, yes.
There are definitely people who proudly identify as "Antifa". And a pretty good number of them are what one might generically describe as agitators (at least).
If nothing else, they seem to be the douchebags defacing war memorials.
It’s not a group. It doesn’t have members. These protests have upward of 20,000 people marching on a single day. What does an antifa flag even look like?
Furthermore, AG and POTUS are not calling Nazis terrorists, they are calling people who march in protests and can be loosely tied to individuals who burn garbage terrorists. They are using this as legal justification to violate the privacy of American citizens.
I have always wondered why leftists cede such a powerful symbol to the right. It makes sense for Antifa, as they tend to be anarchists, but liberal lefties, not sure.
As a practical matter, it can be physically dangerous for leftists to bring a flag to a protest if Antifa is there, since they are violent to those they perceive as fascist, and the USA is considered fascist by them
This is a video of a leftist man beaten for just that in last year's Portland protests (later riots)
https://youtu.be/hpVj4658Zvc
Which is always fun, unless its your protest.
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