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These pics blow "Both Siderism" to pieces... (Original Post) kpete Aug 2017 OP
Thanks for the pics. zanana1 Aug 2017 #1
WTF is this both sides shit, anyway? Shell_Seas Aug 2017 #2
It's Trump LWolf Aug 2017 #9
Those kids in the second picture say it all. WTF? femmocrat Aug 2017 #3
I zeroed in on the young folks looking at the stupid dangerous gun-carrying idiots also. riversedge Aug 2017 #10
Here we have protesters versus the poster children for erectile dysfunction Snake Plissken Aug 2017 #4
Selectively edited photos don't prove the point. Expecting Rain Aug 2017 #5
Just stop obamanut2012 Aug 2017 #13
Hell No. Expecting Rain Aug 2017 #14
I mean Europe should have just loved Nazis more right? moda253 Aug 2017 #16
I just can't even believe this shit. smirkymonkey Aug 2017 #6
Did the guys in the middle take a wrong turn at Fallujah? Tommy_Carcetti Aug 2017 #7
What's the story with the guy in the white suit? B2G Aug 2017 #8
He's a Nazi BannonsLiver Aug 2017 #11
That's what I thought. B2G Aug 2017 #15
Looks like he's got that stupid frog thing on his lapel. Tracer Aug 2017 #12
That second image. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? Stinky The Clown Aug 2017 #17
The horrific picture of the car slamming into the counter protesters workinclasszero Aug 2017 #18

zanana1

(6,124 posts)
1. Thanks for the pics.
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 09:27 AM
Aug 2017

I guess we shouldn't be too surprised. At the Trump campaign rallies, protestors were met with fists, not debate.

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
9. It's Trump
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 12:02 PM
Aug 2017

attempting to do his duty in speaking about the atrocity without criticizing his base.

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
3. Those kids in the second picture say it all. WTF?
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 09:30 AM
Aug 2017

I cannot even begin to imagine the mentality of grown men dressing up like GI Joe or storm troopers and parading around in public. You just know they never served in the military. They are warped.

That third picture is odd.... I thought the guy in the white suit was on "their" side from other pictures I looked at. The goon who is manhandling him is the same miscreant from the second picture. Hope someone ID's him.

Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts)
4. Here we have protesters versus the poster children for erectile dysfunction
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 09:33 AM
Aug 2017

Take a guess which is which?

 

Expecting Rain

(811 posts)
5. Selectively edited photos don't prove the point.
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 11:19 AM
Aug 2017

We would "win" the PR war against the Nazis easily if all the counter-protestors looked and acted like these folks.

But the violent extremists in Antifa are fucking it all up and they help the Nazis to spin a counter narrative.

Liberals should dissociate from violent anarchists. They are enemies, not allies. We lose by association.

 

Expecting Rain

(811 posts)
14. Hell No.
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 12:12 PM
Aug 2017

The Antifa movement only helps the Nazis and hurts liberals and Democrats.

We need to disassociate from these violent assholes.

 

moda253

(615 posts)
16. I mean Europe should have just loved Nazis more right?
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 12:28 PM
Aug 2017

Of course I am mischaracterizing you just a bit, but that's because we are closer to an absolutely ugly reality than mmost people care to admit.

Are a lot of these Nazi white supremacists a bunch of talk? Of course they are, but a lot of them aren't. But just because they aren't going to actually do anything violent doesn't mean that they aren't a MASSIVE part of the problem. Just like people that add to the problem by being indifferent. There can be absolutely no room for this ideology to take root in our country. These people are preaching a message of hate, at the very least they want to bring back ideas such as legal slavery, and at the worst they want to eradicate races from our society.

There is not enough love to turn this type of evil. These people are becoming emboldened to a fervor that we haven't seen before. We made the decision only decades ago that this ideology needed to be thoroughly defeated and we lost countless lives to defeat that because it was absolutely necessary. I for one am not willing to let this fester here in our country and wait until it is too late to start fighting to keep it from taking hold here.

Now, I'm not going looking for a fight. But I'm not going to back down from it when it presents itself either. We have a president that is emboldening this scum. We have concepts being adopted that harken back to the ugliest of periods of our existence. Walls, Deportations, rights being taken away, elections being tampered with.

Now I agree with you that we cannot just have anarchy. But when we have armed self described Nazis walking our streets and they are organizing and planning large scale rallies weekly, on the heels of a presidential campaign that fomented this type of activity.... It's time to start thinking about what we are going to do as a people to say "No we do not accept this".

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,189 posts)
7. Did the guys in the middle take a wrong turn at Fallujah?
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 11:38 AM
Aug 2017

Seriously, what the fuck is that? GI Joe cosplay?

 

B2G

(9,766 posts)
15. That's what I thought.
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 12:12 PM
Aug 2017

Which makes me wonder why he's being pummeled by another one in that last photo.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
18. The horrific picture of the car slamming into the counter protesters
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 12:33 PM
Aug 2017

shows one of them carrying a large sign with LOVE on it.

The nazi killer aimed his death machine right at it!

Violence on both sides my ass Mr Russian puppet/president!!!!

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