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BigmanPigman

(55,171 posts)
7. Protesters are too smart to buy into MAGA BS!
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 02:26 AM
Oct 2025

I've been to 33 protests and the only time anything even close to violence was at the 2nd protest I attended (to impeach tRump in 2017).

You know who they were? Two dudes who drove down to San Diego from LA to disrupt the rally. They were up front where the guest speakers were and where I was standing. They had air horns and whistles to drown the speakers' voices out. A city council member called for the local sheriffs to stop them. The local sheriffs support tRump so they were no help. However, I found my way over to where the 2 dudes were with the sheriffs and that's how I learned that they were PROUD BOYS! I never heard of Proud Boys until then. I never heard them ar ANY of the protests I attended in the years since then. They should be called Proud Babies, an angry poodle is scarier.

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Bullshit, don't ever let them control what you say through fear of violence. Do not obey in advance. Blues Heron Oct 2025 #1
By refusing to take their bait, Oeditpus Rex Oct 2025 #16
I am OK with the antifa label. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2025 #2
Fuck the GD Neo Nazi Hitler's brown shirts 2.0 Cha Oct 2025 #3
Most welcome Cha!! applegrove Oct 2025 #4
... littlemissmartypants Oct 2025 #5
Perfect. yellow dahlia Oct 2025 #15
K & R SunSeeker Oct 2025 #6
Protesters are too smart to buy into MAGA BS! BigmanPigman Oct 2025 #7
I don't agree with Antifa creeksneakers2 Oct 2025 #8
That's Black Bloc, not antifa Bobstandard Oct 2025 #10
+1 leftstreet Oct 2025 #11
Maybe creeksneakers2 Oct 2025 #12
here we go. let the infighting over a BS label begin. uncle ray Oct 2025 #9
Lots of other people will turn against too. creeksneakers2 Oct 2025 #13
Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2025 #14
Simply spell it out so that they know what you represent: anti-fascism... AntiFascist Oct 2025 #17
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