Dude. I don't mean to distract you or bfv from your conversation, because you both have damn good points. BUT! That picture is on the front page of The Guardian right now and I couldn't help but fucking laugh my ass off at them. Fucking pasty white, wanna be yuppies with bad facial hair, button up shirts, khaki pants, and loafers. Look at those shit shields. What is that? Cardboard and tinfoil? I see better stuff from highschool kids at renaissance faires. And what's that guy wearing? A bicycle helmet and swimming goggles? What a bunch of sorry ass, fucking losers. No wonder they're trying so hard to buy into tough talk. They're compensating. Edit: And I hope to God they find a way to straighten up. Deep down, every last one of them knows better.
Antifa is a bunch of spoiled, privileged rich and upper middle class idiots LARPing as Communist revolutionaries. The Alt-Right is a bunch of spoiled, privileged, rich and upper middle class idiots LARPing as Fascists. How do you fight these people? Laugh at them. Mock them. Ridicule them. Encourage them to peacefully come out and protest so people can point and laugh at them. And when/if they get violent throw the whole weight of the legal system at them and fuck them into the earth.
the people who I know in Antifa are low income ex-veterans who are sick of seeing their country go to shit. But what do I know.
Interesting. This shows that we live in very different worlds, and one of the reasons I like Hubski is that I get reminded that not everyone lives in Dumbfuckistan. The angry Vets out here tend to go "alt-Right" and would be at the march with the torches. Even though I empathize with the anger, if you fly the NAZI flag fuck you. You don't get to be a proud American and wave the flag of a government that killed US soldiers. (cough Confederate flag cough) The Antifa people out here are mostly college kids with huge student loans and humanities degrees. My proposal is as follows: Get your antifa vets and my "alt-Right" vets and sit them in a room and get them talking. And while I am playing the part of a Pollyanna I'd also like clear skies for the eclipse and a winning lotto ticket. And my point stands. Laugh at them. The guys at the march, claiming genetic superiority, all looked like less evolved mouth breeders who listen to modern pop country music.
What drives me crazy with that picture is the fasces logo is turned three different ways on the three shields. Can't they be consistent? Also, the fasces looks more like a rolling pin with an axe on the end than a bundle of rods.
That's because one of them bought a riot shield and put his logo on it, then handed out kryloned plywood circles to two dudes who wandered by so unfamiliar with what they were looking at that they couldn't hold the damn things right side up. this was racistpalooza and the joiners didn't even recognize the iconography enough to hold it the right way.
I agree with all of this, but you're coming from a position of safety. Gotta admit - I've spent the past half hour staring at this. You can be pasty. You can be a wanna-be. You can have bad facial hair, shit shields, cardboard and tinfoil, bicycle helmets and swimming goggles but if you can be incited to drive a car through a crowd, you're a jihadi. In no way do I think these chucklefucks should be taken seriously. Their ability to convince impressionable young men to take them seriously, however, has gotten my spidey senses tingling.