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OKNancy

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4. Gene Lyons???

Wed Sep 6, 2017, 03:42 PM

Sep 2017

I think you also misinterpreted what he meant.

I agree with him and I lived through 1968. The worst year of my life. The SDS and others DID bring us Nixon.

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Yes, Antifa Is Very Dangerous -- But Not To Fascists - by Gene Lyons [View all] DonViejo Sep 2017 OP

If you use violence in some "leftist" cause, you might as well as join the KKK... Thomas Hurt Sep 2017 #1

Absolutely! get the red out Sep 2017 #2

He wants us to get beaten and killed so we'll get sympathy leftstreet Sep 2017 #3

Gene Lyons??? OKNancy Sep 2017 #4

Well, Nixon has been described as the last liberal President leftstreet Sep 2017 #5

That is a mistake made with the clouds of time. He was an evil son-of-a-bitch OKNancy Sep 2017 #7

I don't think Obama was mistaken leftstreet Sep 2017 #8

You are comparing Barack Obama to Richard Nixon on a forum designed to support Democrats? Expecting Rain Sep 2017 #9

LOL oh knock it off! leftstreet Sep 2017 #11

He was depriving Bill O'Reilly of talking points on FOX "News" Expecting Rain Sep 2017 #12

I don't care leftstreet Sep 2017 #13

You forced an out-of-context incident into a thread where it was irrelevant... Expecting Rain Sep 2017 #16

Alert if it's a violation of TOS leftstreet Sep 2017 #19

I don't want to talk about Bill O'Reilly either... Expecting Rain Sep 2017 #21

I think Obama said it for political reasons and he said "in some ways" OKNancy Sep 2017 #15

Exactly. In just the same way Bernie Sanders could have punked O'Reilly... Expecting Rain Sep 2017 #22

Big business brought us Nixon.. mountain grammy Sep 2017 #34

For the sake of optics we should just take the ass whooping, right? Jake Stern Sep 2017 #6

*barf* "Idiot professors" Please spare me. Coventina Sep 2017 #10

Agree with Coventina n/t Greybnk48 Sep 2017 #14

Do some research on "this guy." Both he and his wife are retired Professors. DonViejo Sep 2017 #18

But not with violence Not Ruth Sep 2017 #28

Gandhi got assassinated, as did Martin Luther King and the Kennedys. HughBeaumont Sep 2017 #32

Gandhi did just fine because the Germans Downtown Hound Sep 2017 #56

Truth x 1000. Efilroft Sul Sep 2017 #58

stand in the back, then. maxsolomon Sep 2017 #17

Nice ivory tower this guy has. Lucky him. politicat Sep 2017 #20

WASPy name? Then he must be a counter-revolutionary! Expecting Rain Sep 2017 #23

Six legs excellent! Eight legs get the planet! politicat Sep 2017 #24

So now we add people with WASPy names to the list of the privileged along with... Expecting Rain Sep 2017 #25

74 means that he has lived through Nazi Germany Not Ruth Sep 2017 #29

The right is spreading false narratives about the left. Initech Sep 2017 #26

Thank God others have noted the privilege this guy has....... socialist_n_TN Sep 2017 #27

What percentage of voters would you consider to be fascist? Not Ruth Sep 2017 #31

The 62 million who thought it would be the bees knees to put one in charge of our country. HughBeaumont Sep 2017 #33

Almost half.....would you consider most cops and military to be fascists? Not Ruth Sep 2017 #36

The cops for the most part IMO are fascists........ socialist_n_TN Sep 2017 #41

Thanks for all the replies, are there any organizations other than Antifa that are anti fascist? Not Ruth Sep 2017 #43

EVERYBODY is anti-fascist in words.......... socialist_n_TN Sep 2017 #45

I would say the DNC is sometimes an anti-fascist group Downtown Hound Sep 2017 #55

How do you tell the difference between a fascist and and authoritarian? Not Ruth Sep 2017 #49

Yooooouuuuu rreally don't want me to toss paint on those sacred cows . . . HughBeaumont Sep 2017 #44

This message was self-deleted by its author Not Ruth Sep 2017 #35

Voters are not the goal of fascists......... socialist_n_TN Sep 2017 #39

You seem to be saying that fascists do not vote, is that correct? Not Ruth Sep 2017 #40

No that is not what I'm saying......... socialist_n_TN Sep 2017 #42

I'd hope "dedicated and armed communists" would be stopped in infancy as well, being little better Marengo Sep 2017 #47

The fascists, Donald Trump, Jamie Dimon and all the other oligarchs...... socialist_n_TN Sep 2017 #50

Spare me the propaganda. In my youth I was involved with Bob Avakian's clown circus. As an adult... Marengo Sep 2017 #53

Stalinism (of which Maoism is a variant) is......... socialist_n_TN Sep 2017 #57

The Maoists of course disagree, considering themselves the only true ideological descendants... Marengo Sep 2017 #59

chicago was a police riot, you twit. mopinko Sep 2017 #30

Exactly! G_j Sep 2017 #48

It's inevitable Bradical79 Sep 2017 #37

Amen! LAS14 Sep 2017 #38

Antifa is not good for the Democratic Party. kentuck Sep 2017 #46

Lyons makes some good points in that. MineralMan Sep 2017 #51

Those "innocent victims" of Antifa beatings weren't so innocent. backscatter712 Sep 2017 #52

Another pseudo intellectual pansy who fancies himself the keeper of "the right way" to do things Downtown Hound Sep 2017 #54