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Why did the left turn on antifa? (vanity, discussion question)

Posted on 09/03/2017 12:31:20 PM PDT by Cubs Fan

I have to say I was really shocked to see a lot of leftists come out against antifa (though of course not all-- Elizabeth Edwards). I'm shocked because the left always embraces and protects its extremists, no matter what they do (for example black lives matter thugs). This is the only time I have seen them do this, so what's the deal?


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To: Cubs Fan

$$$$$$$ dried up


41 posted on 09/03/2017 12:54:41 PM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: Billthedrill

Bug Eyed Nan realized that everyone knows she has a black hoodie in her closet. Just because she doesn’t wear it to Congress doesn’t mean she doesn’t believe in BAMN.


42 posted on 09/03/2017 12:55:47 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: raybbr
⚖. Arrests are meaningless without being prosecuted and comvictions.
43 posted on 09/03/2017 12:56:21 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

Head, but it’s where they have to start.


44 posted on 09/03/2017 12:58:24 PM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: Cubs Fan

The Left hasn’t turned on Antifa...they are merely in strategic retreat. The Left IS Antifa, and Antifa IS the Left.


45 posted on 09/03/2017 1:00:31 PM PDT by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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To: Psalm 144; Texas Eagle

I agree. Even when they criticize Antifa thugs, they imply or even outright say that their motives are good. The next move will probably be to claim that it is really right wingers who are dressing up as the lovable Antifa and causing all the violence. The left never truly turns on its own. Only Republicans do that.


46 posted on 09/03/2017 1:00:50 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
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To: Cubs Fan

President Trump is the root cause for why the Democrats have turned on Antifa.

If he had not braved all those arrows and said what he did about antifa we would still be in the midst of constant attacks from them


47 posted on 09/03/2017 1:04:25 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Cubs Fan; All
what's your view?

Because they're widely being exposed for the violent communist revolutionaries that they are? Very hard to stand and defend that. That is, unless you're a Maxine Waters type hardcore lefty. She even defended the '92 Rodney King riots, where 58 people were murdered with a billion-plus in property damage due to arson and looting. They even shot at the firemen for responding. That action, btw, was instigated by an organization called the Revolutionary Communist Party. The RCP has a front operating today in the current protests called "Refuse Fascism--Drive Out the Trump-Pence Regime". In addition, the RCP is an organizer for the phony Black Lives Matter movement. See my FR Home page for much more on these groups.

48 posted on 09/03/2017 1:04:49 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: Cubs Fan

Their internal polls are scaring the shit out of them. Their support of both Antifa’s and BLM’s violent antics is red-pilling everyone that isn’t a loon. They are driving away the middle-class, whites, independents, anyone who really understands communism, etc. Liberalism is a disease but communism is an anal warts, herpes, and HIV combo contagion.


49 posted on 09/03/2017 1:07:20 PM PDT by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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To: Cubs Fan

Here’s part of the reason. It came out of their incomes.

Colleges struggle over defending or curbing free speech
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/01/colleges-struggle-over-defending-or-curbing-free-speech.html

And here’s another part.

Formally recognize AntiFa as a terrorist organization
Created by M.A. on August 17, 2017
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/formally-recognize-antifa-terrorist-organization-0

“341,790 signed”

And thirteen more days to sign up. It’s easy, with only name and e-mail address required for confirmation.


50 posted on 09/03/2017 1:09:03 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Cubs Fan

A campaign ad juxtaposing their support with video of violent acts by AntiFa was not something they wanted to face...


51 posted on 09/03/2017 1:10:09 PM PDT by Homer1
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To: ETL
Antifa are basically brownshirts for the Left. No matter what they call themselves, when it comes down to it, they are brownshirts. The same kind of brownshirts that helped bring about Nazi Germany.

By the way, the Nazi Party was a Leftist party. Need to keep driving that point home as well.

52 posted on 09/03/2017 1:12:54 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Cubs Fan

Democrat polls must show that Middle Class voters connect Antifa and BLM with their party. They will sell out their own mothers to win in next year’s elections.


53 posted on 09/03/2017 1:18:31 PM PDT by txrefugee (.)
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To: Cubs Fan
Liberals have from time immemorial had a slogan: No enemy on the left. This is because they always viewed themselves as the outsiders trying to break through the walls of privilege.

They couldn't afford any internal bickering if they hoped to take down "The Man".

However, the leftists have broken this compact. They are openly attacking liberals and left-leaning centrists. They have caused liberals to lose their jobs and lose control of the empires they created, e.g. academia, journalism, entertainment, etc.

There is a great opportunity for liberals, conservatives, and libertarians to come together on certain constitutional issues such as supporting free speech, opposing the notion of 'hate speech', opposing the creation of safe zones and the enforcement of penalties against so-called 'microaggressions', and even the opposition to civil forfeiture.

It would go a long way toward bridging the gap between the polarized opposite if those of us who are still sane could tell antifa, BLM, the remnants of the KKK and neo-NAZI's to all go pound sand ... preferably in a place with lots of it like Syria.

54 posted on 09/03/2017 1:18:48 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Cubs Fan

Many of them—especially the instructor and graduate leaders—have gone back to classes. They’ll be indulging more in their many other methods of causing trouble.


55 posted on 09/03/2017 1:19:20 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Cubs Fan

Because Antifa was exposes what the Left is all about for all the world to see.


56 posted on 09/03/2017 1:19:35 PM PDT by Savage Beast (To the insane, the sane appear insane. MAGA = Renaissance!)
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To: Cubs Fan

My guess: review of video evidence from Charlottesville will show the hIt and run driver had been attacked by antifa scum and was fleeing in panic. Not guilty of attempted murder. Note that I find neo nazis reprehensible but they had a permit and thus had the right to demonstrate. Lefties in congress trying to distance themselves before the reports come out from FBI. Remember, everybody convicted George Zimmerman in advance and then were gobsmacked when he walked, where his disparate force defense worked brilliantly. Methinks lefties in congress got a heads up that the Charlottesville situation was not quite what it seemed.


57 posted on 09/03/2017 1:22:14 PM PDT by Panzerfaust (The HK P7 .....it's what Jesus would carry.)
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To: Cubs Fan

I don’t think they’ve turned on them. Some are trying to distance themselves in order to reduce the risk of being blamed. But most of them are not that smart.


58 posted on 09/03/2017 1:22:29 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Cubs Fan

The Left turned on them, when they realized it would damage them.

Nixon and Reagan won two terms, based in part on Law & Order.

The Dems want to disassociate themselves from Antifa, but we should not allow that.


59 posted on 09/03/2017 1:23:28 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: SamAdams76
By the way, the Nazi Party was a Leftist party. Need to keep driving that point home as well.

True. The Nazi Party = Nationalist Socialist Party

60 posted on 09/03/2017 1:28:11 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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