Anyone else feel that there isn't much of a threat from nazis or fascists or the alt-right? They seem tiny, stupid and unorganized, and i doubt they pose any real threat in a larger sense.
I'm personally sitting out any blackbloc or defense actions. And instead continuing to put all my efforts against Porky and capitalist olpression in everyday life for the worker.
No fighting allowed in the radical centrist reality. If you fight, you are losing. Don't fight, it only makes all your ideas look bad to normies.
Carter Rogers
It's easy to not care about antifa if you are one of those people who Nazis won't target.
Joseph Campbell
Now, maybe, but I don't think this was always the case. All this kneejerk Antifa-bashing is ignoring what things would be like if they had never been there from the 50s to now.
Benjamin Campbell
I suppose it would depend on what country your in, but in the US nazis or fascists make up less then a percent of the population with alt-righters maybe making up another half a percent, so your not off. The sad reality is most people don't have time to engage in politics, those that do or find the time to usually just scratch the bare surface and side with a party, and the few that do become far-left or far-right are (usually) too seperated or disassociated to really amount to any significant numbers or threat, at least nationwide.
Matthew Foster
you're stupid if you think these nazis aren't on Porky's payroll. no idea why people forget the nazi party was forged in streetfights, must be americans.
Austin Lee
Alt-righters aren't really that different from mainstream Republicans. All feels, no capacity for introspection, natural hierarchists and so on. It's not a clean association, but they're natural allies.
It's important to punk them wherever they show up because it sends a clear message to everybody. Leftists will protect local workers, while fascists are violent losers.
You don't need to be antifa, but they're doing good work.
James Walker
who the hell do 'nazis' target, they don't target anyone, they're not even nazis, ever seen antifa hit a skinhead in jackboots and suspenders ? no , why ? cause it's all a sham they just hit some chubby kids at rallies .
fuck that shit antifa are ideological trash into the garbage can
Kayden Evans
They're angry and obsessive racists pal, they'd lynch blacks in a heartbeat.
Zachary Robinson
You sound like a fucking cuckservative talking about "supporting duh troops". Antifa hasn't done jack shit to improve my life againsts the capitalist power structure, and never will. In fact the majority of them are just liberals larping when they have time off from school. A school their paying money for, so they can then get careers to exploit other people financially, and try to become porky Jr.
Jack Hernandez
Blacks, immigrants, people who wear clothing that has far-left symbols, etc.
Jason Anderson
that;s just a bunch of nevulous fantasies, I've never seen a black get lynched by right ralliers , it's one thing to be a staunch ideologue and another to be a fucking POS liar who gets payed to break things in the name of the left
honestly I'm sick of antifa hypocrites , if you're one ofthem then shame on you
never happened , what's taking place is a bunch of rabid crowds aggressing isolated conservato/altrightists, got to stop
Angel Peterson
That's not what they're trying to do. And not constantly bashing doesn't mean unconditionally praising. I'm just not jumping on the bandwagon.
Bentley Howard
Fuck off, retard.
Camden Price
lmfao its a bunch of retards larping dude. Holy fuck did you let the media fill your head with shit. Next youre going to tell me about these evil hacking russians and how we need to nuke them first
Austin Hill
Nazis need to be discredited or stamped out.
Juan Anderson
Retards larping is indistinguishable from actual nazis, turdforbrains
Jordan Sullivan
Republicans have been trying to distance themselves as far as possible from the alt-right, where have you been?
Nolan Hall
Not the politicians, the people. Most republicans are just liberals, a lot are christian dogmatists, and a lot are authoritarian racists. Not controversial.
Hunter Murphy
that mussolini dude is just larping dude, don't collaborate with the other socialist parties and stay on that armchair.
Aiden Barnes
there isnt even a coherent vision or idea or belief in the "alt right". This antifa shit is only uniting what would have been a self destructive group that would have fallen into infighting like every other far right group that has existed.
And lol the original nazis were almost all veterans and war heroes from ww1. The alt-right is just group of misfits. I mean we've all seen the fucking images. Don't build them up like this or else the meme will become real retard
Jack Foster
the modern antifa in the US is made up of people who went to the women's march and that science march. They are not socialists lmfao
Jack Phillips
mussolini was one of the greatest writers of his time tbqh. This gets downplayed considerably tho. I hope you aren't equating him to someone like richard spencer
Xavier Kelly
No shit sherlock, they're fascists.
Who's building them up? The original fascists were retards too, they were just propped up by libtards and corporates slightly more murderous than the ones we have today.
Chase Cox
Spencer believes in single payer healthcare, abortion rights, gun control etc. Stop LARPing.
Lucas Jenkins
most of them dont even know what fascism is dude. Also I really dont like this idea that our ideas and beliefs are so weak that a group of retards can dominate us and as such are the primary risk. Seems pretty cucky tbqh. Did you vote for Obama?
Mason Smith
Retards have retard strength, read a book
He believes in dick, he's closeted real hard. Can't trust a trust fundie.
Dylan Jackson
why is this a good thing? also source on those abortion rights.
Daniel Williams
so a group of retards ranks higher on your list of threats than our governments and corporations?
Good to know that antifa has their priorities straight. How many people are these nazis killing a year? I have a pretty good idea how many people are dying a year because of corporations and capitalism.
Ayden Baker
Some of you people are smart. I'm impressed; however, it's not really Antifa driving the right into one force, but rather it is Google, Facebook, etc, in the name of "anti-hate". How else were they going to control the people? They're cracking down on free speech until you'll all think the way that brings in the most cash. If anything, companies are using Antifa to push a crackdown on free speech, much to Antifa's delight… But that can bite you in the ass later.
Easton Ortiz
I'm trying to explain to you that tricky dick is just racist, not fascist. I can't wait for the LARPers ITT who push for violence to guarantee a Trump win in 2020 on his platform of "restoring order" by militarizing the police. Har-dee-har-har, maybe then your shithole country will finally collapse.
Andrew Jenkins
Antifa isn't doing all that much, I just don't see why leftpol cares about them so much. So far as I can tell it's just people phoning friends about neo-fash showing up and then having a good time. lmao real counter-revolutionary shit.
Dick would get purged within the timespan of one depeche mode album, he's a rotten enabler.
Angel Morris
Besides the authoritarian racists part, none of those necessarily puts them in a position to ally with the alt-right anytime soon compared to your average democrat. And the authoritarian racist part is probably going to depend on your part of the country.
Elijah James
The extreme left and extreme right, both hate Spencer equally… Amusing.
Tyler Phillips
Good proles. Keep not talking about me, we'll be A-OK.
Grayson Harris
antifa is doing what liberals do because its a group made up of liberals. no shit theyre just joking around LARPing along with the retard "alt right" fuckers. Sudan is being decimated with the aid of the US Government. Why the fuck are these antifa fucks wasting time bashing some low i q wannabe nazis instead of doing something that matters.
Julian Foster
The thing I dislike most about antifa is that they are an extension of punk culture. And I've always found punk culture especially self-contradictory in that it seeks to reject a lot of societal norms, but in doing so they just end up creating norms that are not even better, just different, like with their clothes and shit. Almost seems like a fashion statement tbqh
Also I'll get called a liberal for this, but I do support the right to free speech. I don't think violence is a good approach to political disagreement (unless absolutely necessary, and it's not right now). It also turns the nazis into martyrs and gives other people on the left a bad name
That said, they are valuable allies. I just wish they would focus more on peaceful counter protesting than throwing bottles at people
Easton Cox
Antifa - cool with Obama destroying Libya and Syria. Antifa - REALLY heated about a couple hundred LARPers circlejerking in public
insert shitty meme about noggins
Nolan Jenkins
Things have shifted recently, but fash is all about momentum and liberals have no principles. antifa isn't the be-all-end-all sure, but I don't think anyone thinks they are
They're showing up to the occasional nazty rally and then going off to do other shit. Most of the people there aren't afiliated with antifa anyways, they're just regular people kinda pissed. Great environment.
Cameron Diaz
??????????? going to need citations thank you
Hunter Jenkins
thats a cool argument though. All these liberals who are wearing black and are hiding their faces aren't actually antifa. They're just normal people who haven't gone through the rites of initiation and completed the final test of admission.
Sounds legit to me.
Charles Johnson
Do you think there is a professional antifa lmao?
all the antifa having picnics with their families yup yup
Jonathan Thomas
Because many on the left hate racism more than anything else, and that is driven by the left-wing media. Fuel the divide to increase Left voting and media ratings. The problem is that much of the racism, isn't any different than how left-wing identity works to begin with. Hate is created on both sides by means of media demonization.
This will only get worse over time (justification based on what violence was done to said side last) unless it stops soon.
Wyatt Cruz
there is no such thing as an antifa member. anyone who is wearing the black and protesting "NAZIS" is antifa. trying to say that the significant portion of liberals who make up your silly group actually aren't members is retarded. Not a surprise though because this is all going over your head. Go back to /r/news and cry about the coming trump reich or something libshit
Aiden Moore
Not OP but I am one of those people the Nazis would target and I kinda agree with OP. I support Antifa on principle but I think the IRL alt-right is massively exaggerated. Their strength is online.
Ethan Jones
I'm guessing you're an Amerifat. Ignoring the fact that Nazis just killed a Wobblie in your country, Nazis form very real threats to leftist in other countries. In most places antifascist organizations formed as self defence units as a response to Nazis literally murdering and beating leftists in the streets
Daniel Scott
Violence brings… violence. Demonization is the real issue.
Ethan Bell
I agree with you, but as you can see from this thread the left has gone full retard and completely lost sight of any greater goals. It's all fucking meme wars and counter-counter-counter-counter-protests now.
Ayden Ward
Yes, the fact that we make them out to be bad guys is the real issue, not the fact that they bomb our spaces and stab us.
Gavin Lewis
dont speak about muslims like that
Daniel Gonzalez
Muslims don't bomb unions and stab communists for being commies you ignorant cunt
What I'm suggesting is that the reason both sides become violent is the demonization of the other side; if you make them inhuman you can commit violence more easily against them, and that will be followed with violence. If you want change, deescalation is key. Followed by well reasoned arguments, and maybe a eugenics program so that higher Autism Level people will naturally choose a correct path for our future. Some of the bad is simply born out of stupidity.
Logan Mitchell
*Higher Autism Level, not autism. God I love auto correct! It made me laugh on this one.
David Roberts
Can't say I…. Q… ? Wtf, lol
Juan Walker
I cant really remember the last time a nazi bombed a union in the US. Hmmmmm guess that doesnt matter. Let's counter protest the same 100 people for let's just say the next 4 years then go back to chilling once a democrat is president. The Obama years sure were good weren't they
Carson Jackson
theres no genocides going on or any oppressions, you're the oppressor you fucking snake, f u back
Isaac Cook
If you don't take sparks from a socket as seriously as an electrical fire, you're doomed to have an electrical fire.
You deal with them before they try themselves on a Hell's Angels or Aryan Nation mask
Kayden Morgan
that's a whole load of bullshit if you ask me , what I honestly can't stand in the contemporary left is the lack of honest assessment and the gratuitous amount of self-justification at uall costs
hey look , 5 moron with an US flag they FACISTS they're FASCISTS go get them boys!!! mean while nothing is going on … in tommorow's Left , the first ones to be shot will be you as frivolous and corrupt ideologues , and I'll enjoy see you collapse with a bullet in your head, either yu can handle ialectics, or you deserve find yourself down a ditch
Xavier Foster
Can someone explain to me how beating up nazis is actually helpful against neonazism? At the end of the day it's just ideas.
Cooper Cooper
As far as I can see, this is a problem on the right.
Dominic Bennett
It allows the larger, more Aryan Nation associated white nationalists to come out of their closet and protest,luring them into associating with these basic misguided nerds. Maybe then they'll see what kind of people and philosophy they're dabbling with, but I'm not sure.
Regardless, it will help the public understand much more clearly
Hunter Collins
Is this currently happening?
Are the true neo-nazis coming out of the woodwork to defend kekistanis?
Jason Kelly
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Charles Sanders
Pardon?
Wyatt Lopez
I think it has less to do with defending Kekistanis and more to do with the same storm shit that they've been doing on the internet. Vomit up their rhetoric, cause trouble, then absorb whatever mental giants decide to throw in with them.
Carter Sullivan
Here's my take:
American antifa is now in the best position it has ever been in. And to an extent, they are now a valuable potential recruitment tool. The best case of this is the Richard Spencer punch - Democracy failed most Americans on multiple levels in 2016, and there was an undeniable rage among liberals and centrists which they were too big of pussies to express and too spooked to completely articulate. When that punch landed, it not only hit the bratty, idiotic smug face of the alt-right - it hit liberal establishment politics, too.
Now, a sizable group of Americans are just about rooting for a group who were barely acknowledged as anything other than opportunistic assholes with leftist leanings not long ago at all.
Christopher Howard
These people are already joining the "alt right" in protest, and please don't try to give me this shit about
It doesn't matter, it really doesn't. All that has to be done is show the true colors of your own ideology for it to crumble like it has always crumbled. Aryan Nation and Hell's Angels became meth heads, the Nazis lost, and Nazi sympathizers were largely alienated save some Project Paperclip geniuses the alt right really doesn't have. Nor have they in the past.,
When people realize who associates with the farthest right, and what it takes to enforce its ideology, people naturally shun it because of the costs involved, logistical, emotional, financial, it creates pure chaos and the one time it was tried, even dismissing the purposeful ethnic and cultural cleansing, it was awash with internal conspiracy and mass assassination.
And the public still remembers all this in its collective sub conscious, and it remembers the people who support it the most who end up in prison. When they come out, or when these new fold begin acting like them, or both, it doesn't send a pretty picture to the rest of the public.
Dylan Clark
good point
teachers and college professors are literally on porky's payroll too, and have a lot more influence on reproduction of capitalism than dumb street fighters tho
punk a real republican then, one with state power in their offices. maybe antifa should show up to a military base, or block arms supply trains. Or would that be too radical for antifa?
I think I don't want to clean up the republicans, or clean up capitalism by routing out the alt-right who grew out of it. I guess it is someone else's problem to worry about, but not mine.
Brayden Green
But antifa has been beating up the actual neonazis since like the 80's. There wasn't really a kekistani in sight then. That guy i was replying to implied we would be living in a second reich right now if it wasn't for antifa.
Ethan Sullivan
When Paul Ryan and Rick Wilson think you are good, something has gone awry. These tards are being set up for long prison terms over fucking statues of men who shared the exact same views as Washington and Jefferson
Matthew Wood
antifa is CUCKED
Aiden Richardson
I'm not concerned about either. The radical left is impotent in general, and the Trump-ist right is not really all that radical when compared to American history.
Carter Phillips
yes. this. this is a fucking blip.
Nolan Thompson
i'm black and reread settlers twice a day but even i don't give a shit about all of this nonsense. pure spectacle
Henry Nelson
This. He's the same neoliberal shitstain we've been forcefed for the past several decades, just with a thin veneer of populism and fascism. He'll talk a big game but in the end he won't anything to rock the boat. The most unique thing about his rise to power has been his overall rhetoric and attitude, not so much his policies.
Adrian Price
peak idpol
Nathan Hernandez
I see no reason not to pull down confederate monuments 1. If they pull them down enough times, they'll have to either consent to put them in a museum, or risk losing their """historic""" artifacts. 2. There's no reason to have them, other than supporting the confederacy. 3 Fuck the confederacy. Burn it down a second time.