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greenjar_01

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12. There are actually antifascists groups that have been fighting these right wing dipshits for years
Tue Jan 19, 2021, 12:20 AM
Jan 2021

They of course won't get a thank you here, but they're out there.

The alt-right is learning right now that Black Bloc is not an identity or fashion statement, but a street protest tactic for unarresting people and not being identified after the fact. The right is used to cosplaying and LARPing in the woods, and outside of a small group of hardcores, has little experience of the law crashing down on them, which lefty groups have dealt with for decades. So the right wing "militias" are more visible, largely because visibility has not been a deficit for them. But don't get it twisted: the Proud Boys and similar groups have had their asses handed to them in street battles as much as they've been handed it out.

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Are there left wing militias? [View all] Renew Deal Jan 2021 OP
Doves take wing from the scimitar moon tips dweller Jan 2021 #1
The significant owl hoots in the night Hekate Jan 2021 #5
Don't you mean the Superb Owl? DBoon Jan 2021 #15
I've yet to know of any Bluethroughu Jan 2021 #2
Sign me up if there are any. roamer65 Jan 2021 #3
We have guitars, the right has banjos RainCaster Jan 2021 #4
Wrong RichardRay Jan 2021 #20
You're right. I was thinking of Deliverance RainCaster Jan 2021 #24
Not today. Revolutionary Marxist groups used to be a thing, although not so much in the US Azathoth Jan 2021 #6
Not that I know of in the US LeftInTX Jan 2021 #7
Fidel really had a ratty beard misanthrope Jan 2021 #25
Uhhmmm....can't think of any. I do consider myself a left-winged Christian, though. turtleblossom Jan 2021 #8
Not that I'm aware MustLoveBeagles Jan 2021 #9
I have radical gardens with weird tomatoes! 🍅 NRaleighLiberal Jan 2021 #10
There have been some... PoliticAverse Jan 2021 #11
There are actually antifascists groups that have been fighting these right wing dipshits for years greenjar_01 Jan 2021 #12
There are militias that counter the white nationalist movement. Gore1FL Jan 2021 #13
Does the NFAC count? Dr. Strange Jan 2021 #14
Forgot about them LeftInTX Jan 2021 #28
Yeah they come out every saturday with Honk for Peace signs RANDYWILDMAN Jan 2021 #16
Macrame Militias,...... with hemp and beads. magicarpet Jan 2021 #17
Pretty much all the well organized left wing militias... Xolodno Jan 2021 #18
I've got a bunch of garden gnomes. Solly Mack Jan 2021 #19
ahem ... dweller Jan 2021 #21
Well, yes. MontanaMama Jan 2021 #22
The first rule of Left Wing Militias... Progressive Jones Jan 2021 #23
Yes Turbineguy Jan 2021 #26
I don't know if you'd call it a "militia", but we do have the Antifa Navy Silent3 Jan 2021 #27
I can neither confirm or deny left wing militas. Chainfire Jan 2021 #29
Good question, there's no TRUE group called ANTIFA its 100% made up winger shit uponit7771 Jan 2021 #30
We need the "Mao Tse-tung Hour" roamer65 Jan 2021 #31
I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of Leftist militias Warren_Pointe Jan 2021 #32
'Redneck Revolt' is the closest thing I am aware of... DemocraticPatriot Jan 2021 #33
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