White supremacists pose as Antifa online, call for violence

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  1. Lee Atwater

    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    New York (CNN Business)A Twitter account that tweeted a call to violence and claimed to be representing the position of "Antifa" was in fact created by a known white supremacist group, Twitter said Monday. The company removed the account.

    Before it emerged the account was run by white supremacists, Donald Trump Jr., President Donald Trump's son, pointed his 2.8 million Instagram followers to the account as an example how dangerous Antifa is.
    "This account violated our platform manipulation and spam policy, specifically the creation of fake accounts," a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement. "We took action after the account sent a Tweet inciting violence and broke the Twitter Rules."
    Although the account only had a few hundred followers, it is an example of white supremacists seeking to inflame tensions in the United States by posing as left-wing activists online.
    https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/02/tech/antifa-fake-twitter-account/index.html

    Makes me wonder how much of the violence and looting is being done by or instigated by people doing it to disparage the protesters. Anecdotally, I've seen quotes from city officials around the country stating some of the people inciting violence are from out of town.

    Would I put it past Repub operatives to foment the destruction of private property so the "left" can be blamed for it? Absolutely not.
     
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    Yes, they are causing blacks to riot at gunpoint...
     
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    I suspect many Antifa members really are calling for violence, and the Left is trying to use this as a deflect. To publicly distance themselves from the violent members.

    Even though from what I've heard, many activists on the Left hold a great deal of sympathy to the rioters committing violence, even if they don't outright support the acts.

    Anyway, we don't have to talk about who's calling for what, we can see the actions taking place on the ground. We can judge by actions, not words.
     
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    Useless distraction.

    The Democrats insisted on a destructive lockdown which has now resulted in riots.

    The Democrats own this.
     
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    That's true but the Republican senate taking a wait and see approach in the face of horrible unemployment numbers is also a problem
     
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    Concur.

    Not a lot of real leadership to be found anywhere...

    :(
     
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    Nor people like you and I who are just fine calling out both sides....
     
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    Lee, I enjoyed your vacation as much as you did.
     
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    The antifa is a defensive group. When violent right wing gangs attack one's town, it is the antifa who pushes back. That is what they do.

    Repeatedly seeing the behavior of conservatives and repeatedly hearing fascistic themes in their rhetoric, I can see why the right wing fears a group that calls itself the anti fascists.
     
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    Seriously? How do you come to this conclusion?
     
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    The anti fascists are mostly a leaderless group with no real power structure, by design. Other than a few web sites, the antiFa has no infrastructure. If the Feds wanted to go after the Anti Fascists they would end up chasing ghosts.
     
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    lol
     
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    This comes as no surprise. For as long as Donald Trump, the president of low expectations, has been president, the right wing has been blaming the anti fascists for the violence and destruction of right wing actors.
     
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    Antifa isn’t a “defensive group “.
    They’re a bunch of spoiled weakling white kids who get their asses kicked 99% of the time.
     
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    I have witnessed the reality on the ground. I have seen my city repeatedly invaded by violent right wing gangs bent on mayhem. And then I have seen right wingers pretend things are other than they are.

    It is kind of funny, a conservative who lives on he other side of the country who has never been to the West Coast in their life, trying to tell me how they know more about the situation here than I do.

    It is as silly as if a poster kept insisting that I was wearing a red shirt, even though my shirt is clearly blue. What is most entertaining is how certain such people seem to be, about something they clearly know nothing about.
     
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    Yeah, the rest of the world see what happened on YouTube, so you’re pretty much a liar.
     
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    The Great heroes of Portland’s Antifa acting like a “defensive group”, or a mob of mentality unbalanced retards terrorizing a old guy in a car. You decide.

    derp
     
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    Sorry. Maybe you missed it. But it had nothing to do with lockdown. It had to do with the continued generally state sanctioned murder of black people.

    I know you may have missed that. Or perhaps you have a reading disability? Either way, I just wanted to make sure to correct your raving ignorance.
     
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    Hold that one close and keep your passions warm, feel the anger and fear deep in your gut. Let it build and grow and feel the power of the emotions.


    Now imagine how you will feel in a few months when Trump’s inadequate leadership in the country’s time of need is expressed at the ballot box and all the hubris of the Republicans will be little more than a bitter memory.
     
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    Yawn, what’s that have to do with you trying to make a bunch of mental midgets who dress up like gay ninjas, into something they’re obviously not. Just stop, you’re embarrassing yourself.

    “Look, I’m fighting the system in my cool ACAB Shirt, made by child labor in Bangladesh, and filming my clownish antics with my iPhone mommy bought me, because F**k capitalism!!!”-ANTIFA
     
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    It's hilarious isn't it? Some of the crap I read on this forum makes me laugh out loud.
     
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    Well...

    While their role in all the rioting is being overblown, I don't think they're exactly praiseworthy or defensive in nature.

    Like their violent supremacist doppelgangers, most are *morans* looking for trouble.

    And they unquestionably fired the first volley; the Inauguration Day riots in DC were all them.

    Pathetic pajama thugs.
     
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    95% of the time.

    A few are violent psychos.
     
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    Sorry - you're wrong. The Democrats poured gasoline on the dry tinder of economic destruction they created with the lockdowns - lockdowns which they KNEW were disproportionately hurting black folk. Floyd was just the spark; this was going to happen regardless.

    I know you may have deliberately missed that. Or perhaps you're too busy hurling childish ad hominem? Either way, I just wanted to point out the obvious to those who may struggle with it. :)
     
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