First of all I excuse myself if the OP isn't on par with the standards, but I'm sure you'll be willing to forgive a first-time poster here. Thought of opening a thread about this on halfchan's Holla Forums or /news/, but those places have become shitposting central.
It's kind of old news in Italy, but two days ago a bunch of "antagonists" from the Hobo collective (Anti-fa types) in Bologna have rallied in libraries in the city and have ripped apart copies of a recently published biography of Matteo Salvini, leader of Italy's Lega Nord (Nothern League), the country's most prominent anti-EU and anti-immigration party.
What's with antifa doing exactly what they say "fascists" do and plunging deeper and deeper into barbarism? It reminds me of that documentary about Swedish antifa groups that I can't find anywhere now.
-(Not linking to it unless I figure out how to do the archive thing) Italian Vanity Fair interviews members of the Hobo collective. "We're using our have freedom of speech"
Christian Nguyen
Genova 2001 again, please Italy. Do note the crocodile tears of the leftist who had just been looting and attacking people, but is now flabbergasted and amazed that the police hit back. The leftist cries out in pain as it strikes you.
Cameron Martinez
They did it in a book store so i imagine they hadto pay for the damaged books later or insurance did. Basically they bought 10 books. Barabarism manifests differently in civilised capitalist world.
Ryder Wright
people still go to these in italy are the books they targetted available on the internet if so then it is a publicity stunt completely failing the object of stopping the spread of knowledge
Tyler Cooper
In my trip to Italiy i realised they dont appriciate the internet as , lets say we Estonians and other nordic countries do(Dont really know about others). Italians still live in real life.
I may be completly wrong ofcourse.
Benjamin Ramirez
It has all to do with how progressive they pretend to be and how hypocritical they are about it, since they resort to these tactics.
You have no idea how much the leftists still idolizes Carlo Giuliani, some punk who literally tried to break into a police vehicle with a fire extinguisher and got shot and killed. He has become some sort of martyr for them.
Jacob Parker
As said, Italy is still comprised of a good number of internet-analphabet people. I doubt it was a publicity stunt, but I can totally see how it has backfired.
Luke Moore
Of course THEY don't expect to follow the standards they impose on the "evil fascists". They say "violence is bad" so that you will put down your weapon and they can kill you with impunity. Remember this.
Luke Hernandez
1 open archive.is in one tab. 2. copy the address you want archived into the URL field in the archive.is page 3. press enter
Ryan Reed
They say its the means of ideological war, after the war they will return to the standards they fought for, but the war never ends, there is allways an opposition or you will be the opposition.
Okay they dont say it but its obvious they think that way.
Matthew Wright
Has this EVER happened in a socialist country?
Gabriel Richardson
Because in the antifa mind it's preventative violence to prevent "fascists" from being violent towards minorities.
But at the end of the day it's mostly just edgy 18-25 year olds that want an excuse to attack people and destroy things (see: Black bloc anarchy)
Kayden Nelson
fun fact.
they guy used to sell drugs. so the forces had his phone calls under control. turns out that his dad, that rode this "hero" thing hard, was caught saying that he hoped that his drug dealing son would die sooner than later.
then the fire extinguisher happened
Juan Rogers
I can't see Nero's name without thinking about that degenerate faggot Milo.
Adrian Jackson
Thanks, mate.
-Italian Vanity Fair interviews members of the Hobo collective: archive.is/PYgSi
Just some juicy highlights in case you guys don't want to use google translate:
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Jayden Hughes
Do they even know how ironic this is?
Connor Harris
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Christian Hernandez
It's not ironic, commies were burning books before the fascists were.
Nolan Ramirez
Nope. Thats the point. Ideological war never ends. Only when we are all cyborgs or something. True socialist wants to be the king od himself, the thing no state can provide. You allways have to give away some of your freedoms for the protection.
Nathaniel Powell
ITALY, YES!
Jeremiah Morales
I'd laugh but it's really just another nail in the coffin of Europe.
Henry Thomas
Oh hot damn. So books are just another commodity. Thats ignorance on its finest. I bet she was raised up in old indian folklore tradition, face to face knowledge, amongst people where there were no letters. Actually letters are overrated commodity aswell. We should communicate in bird sounds.
Grayson Turner
I believe Trotsky referred to it as "permanent revolution".
Zachary Sanders
>Let's say that we have ironically taken the invitation sent by Salvini, #emptythelibrary Right, pity you didn't buy the books, but instead ripped them apart. "That too is a form of freedom of expression". But books are read, not to be destroyed: "Enough with this sanctity of the book: it's a product like any other. It's a product of Slavini that champions ideals that censor life". Many people have condemned this gesture, that reminds them of a dark past. "But we haven't even ripped aprat all the books. We have merely performed a targeted action, a symbolic one." Well, the Nazis too didn't burn all the books. Just the Jewish ones: "It seems to me that this is a superficial comparison. Enough with discussion on democracy being an end unto itself. Why don't you talk about democracy when protesters are taken away by the police or when the migrants get stopped at the border?"
Here's the interview part. Hopefully I didn't fuck the translation too badly, it's been a while since I had to use my Italian.
Joshua Bell
Congratulations, you have been subverted.
Wyatt Taylor
Leftists finally confirmed for unsophisticated backward proles.
Hudson Adams
Right, pity you didn't buy the books, but instead ripped them apart. But books are read, not to be destroyed: Many people have condemned this gesture, that reminds them of a dark past. Well, the Nazis too didn't burn all the books. Just the Jewish ones:
Here, reposted in a (hopefully) more legible format.
Liam Edwards
It's okay, I'll bleach him from my mind with Roman history books.
Juan Ramirez
Fukcing faggot with the sickle and hammer tattoo whining. And then shuts the fuck up when the cops point out his tattoo. Glorious.
Brayden Morris
"Libreria" is bookstore, not library. "Biblioteca" is library. I'm assuming they had to pay for the books they destroyed.
Also the entire Emilia-Romagna region is fucking commie central.
Brandon Cox
nvm, just read the Repubblica article, they vandalised books without buying them. Charges are being brought against "parties unknown".
The police smackdown video was quite satisfying.
Brandon Myers
No, they went into the university library and tore the books there.
Adrian Jenkins
Yeah, fuck me, I fucked the translation up. (pretty shameful as I translate for a living).
Emilia-Romagna is living hell for anyone with even slightly non-left opinions. Well, Italy in general. Just think about Lega Nord who (excluding the whole separatist hogwash, IMHO) are basically economically socialist but against immigration and the EU, but are intrinsically associated with racism and the "far-right".
Lincoln Williams
Actually Feltrinelli is an italian chain of bookstores. There was no mention of university libraries anywhere in the article.
Wyatt Hall
Yeah, you have the right of it. I guess I use English so much I just defaulted to libreria = library.
Kevin Hughes
Destroying books is how is starts. Italian nationalists need to get these faggots under control right now before they find themselves in a communist country.
Juan Cruz
That's what the dumb leftists think will happen.
In truth the mudshits and niggers will just hang them first before they turn the place into Africa.
Camden Cox
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Josiah Turner
The problem is these faggots got so used to centri sociali where the maghrebins were "cool" and sold them hashish that they can't even conceive of the ruin they're bringing. Never have they ever has a protest for better human rights in say, the islamic world or CHYNA. But they're eternally bootyblasted about chiapas and deify the EZLN. They are the epitome of useful idiots.
One thing you can say about italian commies is that they're the only ones in the world with a modicum of reverence for the monuments of the past and some pride in italian cultural achievement. They truly have the highest level of doublethink.
Samuel Lee
It's Alexandria all over again.
Isaac Johnson
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Jaxson Taylor
That is very tolerant.
Juan Martinez
Did they pay for them first?
Robert Long
You are welcome.
Next time.
1. translate page in google translate 2. copy the URL of the translated page into archive.is 3. Voila, now it's the translated page that have been archived.
Jaxon Butler
I wonder how many of those children have a father or is the white beta the one paying currently for them.
Jackson Morris
Do you see any bucks in the pic?
Joshua Clark
It's okay, I did it too with my tentative translation above.
Righto, I'm just not used to using archive.is is all.
That's something I noticed too. Despite their rampart "progressiveness", most of them have some respect for history, monuments and culture. Well, until these fuckers came along and started ripping books apart.
Owen Peterson
That clearly isn't his kid, he was obviously cucked.
Joseph Evans
These protests show that leftists don't really give a fuck what happens in the world.
Anyone can see that the protests are only making republicans like Trump more.
But all they care about is appearing non-racist.
Noah Campbell
'Anti-fascism' is a lie and it's an major anachronism anyway. They wish they could be wearing a uniform and beat up white people just for being whites.
These people aren't "anti-fascists", they are violent masochists who hate their own race and want to abolish borders.
Michael Bell
You support the WTO bc thats what they were protesting against? The carabinieri where way out of line beating up old folks sitting on benches as well as commiefags. Get your priorities straight shitbag.