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[QUOTE=Uberpro;52169197]Can someone give me a quick TL;DR on who these people are and why are they acting like this[/QUOTE] Upper class, usually employed college students that subscribe to far-left communist ideologies. They believe that they must use violence rather than words to counter protests, and will regularly verbally or physically assault right-wing demonstrators. Their rhetoric is generally violent and calls for "action" against whatever flavor of fascist they dislike, which will even include liberals that don't think violence is the best option.
[QUOTE=Tudd;52171229][B]Emotionally charged people who really hate Trump and anyone supports him, and aren't afraid to label anyone that disagrees with them as Nazis or enablers to the current "fascist" regime they imagine.[/B] Also they are far left and typically anarchist or communists who believe in radical revolutionary tactics to achieve their aims.[/QUOTE] "They hate Trump" is really simplistic and reminds me of the "they hate us for our freedoms" rhetoric being used around the time the War on Terror began. It's not a coincidence that the group that thinks violence is the appropriate safeguard to the rise of fascism see's a huge bump in numbers and activity during and after the election of Trump to the presidency. Whether or not he has fascistic is a conversation for another day but he is the closest thing to a fascist politician in recent memory, to the point where Trump supporters themselves, in a bid to distance themselves from the more militant, white supremacist aspects of the alt-right, will name Trump's stance as "civic nationalism". Obviously I don't defend Antifa or their methods but it's obviously not because they "hate Trump" or are imagining the dramatic uptick in nationalist/fascist rhetoric from Trump and his supporters.
[QUOTE=NeverGoWest;52143982]Trump supporters deserve to be shot and sarin gassed, and so does antifa. This shit needs to fucking stop. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Advocating murder/Settle down, dude." - Pascall))[/highlight][/QUOTE] So, Anti-Fac. deserve to be shot but so do trump supporters? Are you anti-fac or not, I can't tell. This is text book cognitive dissonance, wtf lol.
[QUOTE=Episode;52171302]So, Anti-Fac. deserve to be shot but so do trump supporters? Are you anti-fac or not, I can't tell. This is text book cognitive dissonance, wtf lol.[/QUOTE] I think he is just pro-sarin.
[QUOTE=Uberpro;52169197]Can someone give me a quick TL;DR on who these people are and why are they acting like this[/QUOTE] The American "Antifa" is a loose label pertaining to anyone who opposes fascism. Due to the lack of any official organization, it falls to the same problems as BLM. Protests usually turn violent due to unchecked escalation, the more extremist people are dragged into the limelight to demonize the tame majority, and because there are no core values, everyone just applies their own ideas of what they are to them. See Tudd's "they just hate trump and call everyone nazis" self-projection. [editline]oh hamburgers[/editline] That being said, there are three major antifascist groups. [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Fascist_Action]One in the UK,[/url] [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifaschistische_Aktion]one in Germany,[/url] and [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifaschistische_Aktion#Sweden]one in Sweden.[/url]
Just be glad the american ones aren't organized, see the shit they've done over the years in sweden with what an organized one will do.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;52171237]Upper class, usually employed college students that subscribe to far-left communist ideologies. They believe that they must use violence rather than words to counter protests, and will regularly verbally or physically assault right-wing demonstrators. Their rhetoric is generally violent and calls for "action" against whatever flavor of fascist they dislike, which will even include liberals that don't think violence is the best option.[/QUOTE] Source on them being typically upper-class and employed?
The whole Berkeley thing just looks like a bunch of bored kids who want to pick fights. Like chavs with a political cause
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;52173266]The whole Berkeley thing just looks like [B]a bunch of bored kids who want to pick fights[/B]. Like chavs with a political cause[/QUOTE] antifa in a shellnut
A bunch of middle-upperclass college students that want to LARP communist revolutions on their campus. :v:
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