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[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago

Probably “bring guns and be assholes”.

Pretty much the only response they’re capable of.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago

They’re going to wear “Yes Kings” t-shirts.

[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 day ago

They are scared of us. We need to just keep building momentum.

[–] wetbeardhairs 90 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Commit terrorism!" LOL memes are great these days! /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

The meaning of terrorism is someone who uses terror to get their political agenda across, no?

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago

Just notice that when these Trumper nazis with guns were actually confronted by those who fought back, they ran.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago

My title would be proud boys get stiffys while posting violence fetish fantasies online from their parents basements.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

History shows that the public will side against the group they perceive to be the most violent. So let's let them get that fame before we start firing back

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Not disagreeing necessarily, but it feels really bad to voluntarily sacrifice human lives so that we can build good will with the public.

It's a matter of perspective and who would die if such and such happened vs this other thing.

As the old saying goes, the ends justify the means, right?

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Loose lips sink ships.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (5 children)

Are we though? Don't drop any details if you're aware of actual community defense preparations at the No Kings protests...but the organizers of these protests are libbed up as hell. ~~No way they're working with any armed community defense groups.~~ It looks like the Salt Lake City protest organizers actually did work with a volunteer peacekeeping group, and the fatality was a bystander killed by a bullet meant to stop the gunman.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Peace keepers at slc got the dude with the rifle.

They were put there by protest organizers, so yes they are

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Fire fights is what the Right wants and is hoping for.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

They were working with the armed defense group that stopped a mass shooting in Utah and the 50501 spokesperson said the designated armed defense groups were a regular part of the protests.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can't speak for every group, but from reading about the incident at the Salt Lake City protest it was an armed guard that shot the would-be shooter and unfortunately killed the bystander

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

RIP to Mr. Ah Loo. This shouldn't have fucking happened, and hopefully there will be accountability for this. Beyond that, I'm going to hold off on commenting until more details come out.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Can anyone think of a case where opening fire on unarmed citizens actually caused unrest to die down? Because I can't think of a single case. Even in Russia, the Russian Revolution of 1905 was sparked off by firing on civilians.

In every case I can think of it made things worse for whoever was in charge. Aren't there any counterexamples?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago

Tiananmen square.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

FAFO I guess

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Weren't there a couple of unrests in proxy states it the Soviet Union that were ended with violence?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

uprisings in Czechoslovakia, Hungary etc? Yes very much.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This article is from Friday. It doesn't make it entirely irrelevant, but keep it in mind and take the fear element of it with a grain of salt. Proud Boys are all talk.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean to be honest, they’re not Proud Men.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's a good one, gonna use that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Over the weekend at least one car drove through a No Kings protest (in NC I think), at least one person was killed in a shooting at a protest (in UT), two Democratic politicians were shot in MN (one killed). This is more than just talk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

To be fair, the person shot & killed at the march was an accident trying to stop a shooter, and the kid who drove the car hurt at most one person who didn't need emergency services. The one with a real agenda was the killer dressed as a cop who had delusions of killing 50+ without realizing he'd be hunted down and caught after the first.

Yes, they're getting violent, and yes, they have plans, but don't give them any more credit than they deserve and scare people. Don't over- or underestimate your enemy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This sounds like trump’s talking points. He’s feeding his crime family their thoughts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

With Theil pulling the orange rapist/felons strings.

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