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From The Gym To The Gun Range, Here's Where Antifa Learn To Fight
Buzzfeed News ^ | October 19, 2017 | Kate Talerico

Posted on 10/21/2017 9:27:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The anti-fascists are wearing their sweatpants today. Tennis shoes are a must. They’ve been told to wear something breathable — no masks, no bandanas, no armor. Almost nobody wears black (almost nobody).

Gym members drift in through the door of the Breakaway Social Center in the Little Village neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side. The two-story corner building was once home to a $10-a-haircut barbershop, but now the walls are lined with posters bearing anarchist symbols and advertising a recent lecture on militant suffragettes.

The couches are pushed back to the walls, next to shelves stacked with political journals. On the floor, warm-ups begin. The class splits into small groups to learn a couple new moves — thrust kicks, palm heel strikes.

Lean in, turn hips for momentum, and follow through once, striking the jaw — that’s how to punch a neo-Nazi.

One of the gym’s organizers, who goes by Meyer Lanski (a play on the Jewish gangster Meyer Lansky), instructs participants to stand in line. Lanski, 32, holds out a kick shield and braces himself to receive their blows. Even some of the new participants are landing their kicks. Within the hour, the women and men start sparring, learning self-defense tactics they can use in their private lives, or at protests.

The Haymaker Collective is one of many anti-fascist groups that began offering self-defense courses in the wake of Donald Trump’s election and the political upheaval that has followed. Some groups train their members for unforeseen attacks, while other antifa organize more militant trainings to equip people with arms or prepare them for confrontations at protests.....

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TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: anarchists; antifa; banglist; meyerlanski; trainingcamps; violence
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1 posted on 10/21/2017 9:27:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Silly fascists! they won’t get close enough to me to land a punch.

they will be suffering from lead poisoning long before they are close enough.


2 posted on 10/21/2017 9:34:04 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not included in the training, presumably, is any part of “don’t start the fight”.


3 posted on 10/21/2017 9:34:48 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When they start their terror campaign, show them no mercy.


4 posted on 10/21/2017 9:38:10 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Government employees and welfare recipients are both net tax consumers. Often for life.)
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To: Trod Upon

“When they start their terror campaign, show them no mercy”.

That’s right...no mercy at all. They would not show us any.

And never underestimate the bastards.


5 posted on 10/21/2017 9:40:03 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Antifa is successful today because law and order in most cases has not broken down. If law and order does cease to exist, they will be the hunted and not the hunter. I hope this does not happen.

They call themselves Antifa. They are actually violent Marxists.


6 posted on 10/21/2017 9:43:08 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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7 posted on 10/21/2017 9:48:13 PM PDT by Bobalu (The NFL, Watching their demise is more fun than watching their games.)
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8 posted on 10/21/2017 9:49:05 PM PDT by Bobalu (The NFL, Watching their demise is more fun than watching their games.)
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9 posted on 10/21/2017 10:03:21 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Islamic invaders have been at the rifle range for several years already


10 posted on 10/21/2017 10:04:44 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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Wanna bet the pink mist behind their heads when the 5.56 goes through it looks as badass as it does on the ISIS punks who are almost WASWAS punks.

Actually these fascist Che Guevara wannabe’s can be very dangerous so they should not be taken for granted; especially close up. Their hands are fast and usually have a weapon in them so don’t let them get close.


11 posted on 10/21/2017 10:19:20 PM PDT by Boomer (The dem party has become the North Korea of American politics; unreasonable, dictatorial, fascist.)
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Looks like it’s empty.


12 posted on 10/21/2017 10:45:42 PM PDT by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Some skinny commie kid from a white privileged rich family left the coffee shop and spent 10 minutes on how to be a badass. Lol...


13 posted on 10/21/2017 10:51:35 PM PDT by Professional
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Leftists used to haveto go to Cuba for stuff like this.


14 posted on 10/22/2017 12:25:03 AM PDT by piasa (...)
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To: cpdiii

Robert Williams was a Castroite, then Maoist communist and sought sanctuary there for a long time. Williams ran the Revolutionary Action Movement, whose members committed acts of violence in NYC and if I remember correctly, tried to bomb the Statue of Liberty in the 1960’s but get exposed by a brave undercover police office. The name Robert Collier comes to minds. Will have to check the House Committee on Un-American Activities hearings back then on “Subversive Influences on Riots, Looting and Burning”.

Anyone who admires Williams is a communist sympathizer and a clear and present danger to the American people.


15 posted on 10/22/2017 2:58:53 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Bring it on, millennial weenies.
16 posted on 10/22/2017 3:08:12 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (eliminate perverse incentives)
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While they learn their moves in a gym, others learned there moves in Basic, Ranger Schools, Seal Schools.

While they learn their proficiency in arms at the local range, others learned theirs in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, and Korea.


17 posted on 10/22/2017 3:14:57 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I laughed inappropriately hard at this article.


18 posted on 10/22/2017 3:17:51 AM PDT by nonliberal (Sent from a payphone in a whorehouse in Mexico)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is November, coming. Trench coat and overcoat weather in some parts of the country. Perfect weather for that snubby.
‘Jus’ sayin’!’


19 posted on 10/22/2017 4:59:53 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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Children play grown up tough guys. They say their war on us starts Nov 4th. The pathetic thing is it probably is the date and they’re too self-important to even try to conceal their big “Plan.”


20 posted on 10/22/2017 5:13:05 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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