Dylan Roof - American nazi who shot and killed 9 people in 2015 during a church service in a largely black community, arrested without lethal force.
James Alex Fields Jr. - American nazi who drove a car into protestors in Charlottesville in 2017, killing antifascist and wobbly Heather Heyer as well as injuring 19 others, arrested without lethal force.
James Harris Jackson - American nazi who stabbed a 66 year old black stranger to death in 2017, arrested without lethal force.
Nikolas Cruz - American nazi who shot and killed seventeen people in Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018, fourteen of them students, arrested without lethal force.
Willem Van Spronsen - Dutch/American antifascist and anarchist who threw petrol bombs at empty ICE vehicles in one of their concentration camps, shot dead by police on the spot.
Anonymous asked: What is antifa fighting for? Ive seen videos where you all mostly appear to just be bullies. But i dont believe the videos as im sure they are editing based on someone else's agenda. I just thought I would go to the source so i can make an informed decision.
Antifa’s fight is best summed up by the motto “respect existence or expect resistance.” We are fighting for the right of people to live their lives peaceably and without threat of discrimination, dehumanization, vilification, scapegoating, deportation, abuse, violence, enslavement, or genocide because of their ethnicity, race, religion, language, gender or sexual orientation, migrant status, or disability.
You’re correct that the videos you’re seeing are carefully edited to make antifa look like the aggressors. There’s a clear pattern going on that runs like this:
a) fascists/far right bigots announce a public event to incite violence against their perceived enemies, recruit more followers, and gain publicity.
c) the day comes and the people in the community they’ve chosen for their event stand with anti-fascists in opposition to them.
d) some of the more tech-savvy fascists deliberately try to provoke counterprotestors by threatening them, harassing them, endangering them, or assaulting them.
e) the counterprotestors use every means imaginable to stop this without resorting to physical force. When none of it is effective & they resort to physical force, the fascists record it, then post edited videos showing only the reaction to their harassment & assaults, then immediately start begging online for money via crowdfunders etc.
b) From that same event, the “innocent elderly gentleman” who was “assaulted with a crowbar” by antifa is well known local nazi John Blum, who came to the event with a collapsable police baton which he was threatening antifa with for several minutes.
d) Likewise the “antifa attacked an innocent father and his 5-year-old daughter.” That was Johnny “shitty 300 cosplayer” Turano and his adult daughter Bianca, who travel the west coast harassing leftist protestors like they did this past Saturday, showing up at an entirely peaceful counterprotest and harassing people for the better part of an hour. Johnny repeatedly tried to smash people in the face with a metal shield before the crowd made them run away by dousing them with water and pushing them. Here’s a particularly creepy video of the two of them getting tattoos, which we’re pretty sure a five-year-old wouldn’t be allowed to do. Here’s another video of them calling an actual five-year-old girl a terrorist.
You have to ask yourself why people would be going to these lengths to make anti-fascists look bad. Maybe it’s because they see antifa as a threat to their political goals + they also see an opportunity to make bank off of gullible conservatives by revving up the ol’ right wing outrage machine.
I mean getting the government running is a priority RN. I’m sure Dems will get to it in time
Like they got around to closing Gitmo right?
the bill wasnt to fund ICE by itself the bill was to FUND THE GOVERNMENT PERIOD. Like seriously voting no to stop funding the government specifically to stop ICE from being funded is 1. not actually going to deal with the problem of abolishing ICE and 2. Only will continue to harm those who are affected by the shutdown. Like those whos families need the welfare programs that the bill voted to fund??
If we want to abolish ICE you dont do that by just saying ‘hi i vote to stop funding it’ once?? it takes LEGISLATION and WORK. Not just voting on one bill that isnt even focused on the issue at hand.
this is such a bullshit outrage piece and yall keep falling for it. incredible.
in 2019 we ARE reading articles and making sure we comprehend their contents and we are NOT posting headlines and reacting in outrage without even attempting to accrue further information
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THIS WAS A FUCKING HIT PIECE.
YOU NEED TO STOP SCROLLING AND UNDERSTAND THIS.
THIS WAS NOT A MISUNDERSTANDING.
THIS WAS A DELIBERATE ATTEMPT TO TURN US AGAINST HER.
THIS WAS A FUCKING HIT PIECE.
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They always do this with her and faux liberals get their page on, call her a cop and a fake.
Anyone else reading stuff like this and wondering how many people commenting saying she is Terrible are actually Russian psyops? Like, not to sound paranoid but IT ALREADY HAPPENED BEFORE.
@beachdeath@thenonbinaryspacegem@katjohnadams this was not a hit piece at all, it’s from a libertarian socialist site, and if like you claimed, you actually fucking read the article you’d have read this:
This was not a catch-all bill to reopen the federal government, which
has been shut down for weeks while Trump refuses to sign a budget until
he gets funding for a border wall. That was a different vote. No, House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi scheduled an entirely separate vote
solely on funding the Department of Homeland Security. This is the
department which oversees ICE as well as US Customs and Border
Protections. And it passed with support of every Democratic member of
Congress, including democratic socialists Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida
Talib, as well as a number of other self-proclaimed ICE “abolitionists.”
Change is not coming from above, stop putting faith in elected representatives and make the change you want to see yourselves. For the sake of the rest of the world, we are terrified of your faith in the political system.
Also, before you even come at me with that “the DHS is an essential part of government” bullshit, it didn’t even exist prior to 9/11 so miss me with that state propaganda.
Cortez hasn’t called for worker ownership of the means of production once, she has no desire to change the top-down tyrannical hierarchy of the workplace, she’s a social democrat at best and over here we’re fed up of their “capitalism can be fixed” mentality. We’re well past the point at which that sort of politics is helpful.
As
long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity
around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will
continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological
extinction.
Nor
do piecemeal steps however well intended, even partially resolve
problems that have reached a universal, global and catastrophic
character. If anything, partial ‘solutions’ serve merely as cosmetics to
conceal the deep seated nature of the ecological crisis. They thereby
deflect public attention and theoretical insight from an adequate
understanding of the depth and scope of the necessary changes.
Once the winter months hit there are going to be major health epidemics. These facilities are going to be freezing (while some people are literally being housed in the open) and people are going to get sick and die. There’s already reports of those who aren’t being provided adequate supplies and blankets. Mix that with this INTENTIONAL decision to fail to vaccinate when they know there’s an extremely high risk of diseases spreading in conditions like this.
THEY KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DOING
I know it’s right there but I want to stress that this is AFTER children died of the flu, and more deaths are sure to follow. These people are malnourished, aren’t able to sleep well, have no access to adequate hygiene. Their immune systems are already weakened.
They know they’re going to kill these kids. They know that it’s going to rip through the camps. This is deliberate.
Please remember that the first stages of the Nazi concentration camps were just like this. They weren’t death camps, they were *temporary detainment* centers, or *work camps*. Originally, they also didn’t hold Jews, but trade unionists, socialists, and communists, only later being filled with ethnic minorities like Romani and the Jewish people.
Conditions weren’t actually that inhumane at the very beginning, but they steadily got worse and worse, as the dehumanization of the Jews was growing in strength.
Anne Frank didn’t die at the hands of a Nazi executioner, or by being shot by an SS officer. She died of Typhus.
ICE are doing this on purpose. They are denying them care, so that they die by a preventable disease, counting on the American public to not view Mexicans and Central Americans as humans. Just like the Nazis.
It’s happening again, and we are only a few weeks away in some places of the country where winter weather will hit. Right where these detention centers are.
the wrong amazon is burning and the wrong ice is melting
IT DIDNT CATCH FIRE IT IS BEING DELIBERATELY CLEARCUT AND BURNED BECAUSE LARGE AGROBUSINESS CONGLOMERATES PAID THEIR FASCIST GOVERNMENT TO IGNORE THIS COURT RULING
It’d explain why it isn’t getting coverage for sure.
You can give *directly* to Indigenous forest protectors in Brazil by supporting @ApibOficial (Brazilian Articulation of Indigenous Peoples). Indigenous groups are the only reason there is any rainforest left in Brazil at all at this point.
