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[fredrancour]

Why are the police protecting those assholes? Dumb question I know.

Mayor Walsh doesn't wanna be the city that gave the right wing media couple dozen martyrs.

 

[Cyanity]

The first step is making these people afraid to fly their nazi flags or wear their armbands in public again. The Charlottesville rally was a very bold display of outright nazi imagery from its participants. Stamping out their belief that they can get away with being publicly Third Reich-ass Nazi is only the first step, but an important one.

Yep. It's time to make racism shitty again.

 

[mike6467]

Can't stop. Every time they decide to hold an event they need to know this is what they'll be staring in the face. There wasn't mainstream awareness of Charlottesville (Edit: BEFORE it happened) and the support that was seen was still amazing. Going forward this should be the standard, our representatives need to see this and realize the people they're working for aren't the obscenely loud far right. Overwhelming numbers like this can't be ignored, no matter how Fox is spins it (no way I'm giving them page views right now).

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

Probably the same thing other animals do inside a zoo cage; fling poo, pick lice off each other, shriek animistic noises at the zoogoers, eating things we throw at them, and so on.

Let's not insult animals now.

 

[Sanjuro]

Why are the police protecting those assholes? Dumb question I know.

Because it wasn't an invitation to murder people locked in a steel cage.

 

[Mr Swine]

I wonder what Donny the Conartist will tweet now?

"See, the alt left are violent ones! We need to protect the alt right attack cost!

 

[GutsOfThor]

Trump: "I have the biggest crowds!"


Since then...
Women's March


March for Science


Immigration Ban Protest March


Charlottesville Vigil


It feels like we've been marching in protest ever since... and I see no signs of us slowing down.

That's great and all but I hope people show up when it really matters which is the voting booth.

 

[NewDust]

The best part about this is watching the mental gymnastics that pol is having to do. Before the Rally was set to begin they were touting how there was going to be 1,000 people attending, as the day went on and they started to realize that no one was really showing up they starting making excuses with some saying it was all a ruse and no one had planned on showing up anyway.

In hindsight I shouldn't submit to right-wing memery... So no jokes about wealthy persons, who some "people" believe might have funded (counter)protests.

 

[Dai101]

Well, it is hard to find parking in Boston, and public transit is for commies...

Well, they could ask their mums to gie them a ride and pick them up later.

 

[Nabs]

Welp. The Nazis done left.

 

[vatstep]

The "free speech" group has left early

LOL

 

[RinsFury]

Sounds like the nazi cowards ran away. Nice work by all those attended and sent these evil fucks running for the shadows.

 

[Kensation]

The "free speech" group has left early

LOL

SOOOOORRRRROOOOOOSSSSSS!

 

[Cyanity]

Friends are telling me the flags have been taken down and the free speech people are leaving. We won guys.

 

[Red]

Friends are telling me the flags have been taken down and the free speech people are leaving. We won guys.

Was there ever any doubt?

Watch this play out as an attack on the actual right to free speech in right wing media over the coming days.

 

[minor effort]

The "free speech" group has left early

LOL

And this is why you counter-demonstrate at the same place, at the same time. This is why you don't wait to politely hold your counter-demonstraition at a different time or different location.

 

[MIMIC]

Glad they were outnumbered. These assholes should ALWAYS be outnumbered, no matter where they go. Hell, start crashing their rallies in the woods.

 

[Sanjuro]

And this is why you counter-demonstrate at the same place, at the same time. This is why you don't wait to politely hold your counter-demonstraition at a different time or different location.

Either way it would have come across as poor.

 

[RichiRamjag]

Mayor Walsh doesn't wanna be the city that gave the right wing media couple dozen martyrs.

Yep. That is the last thing anyone needs.

 

[Fox Mulder]

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[Ozigizo]

Man, Soros must be spending millions on busses.

 

[minor effort]

Either way it would have come across as poor.

Sure the nazis would have looked bad either way, but I was sort of subtweeting (sub-replying?) to this poster from earlier in the thread.

Why don't you counter protest another day, avoid violence and other people getting hurt or killed??

 

[rjinaz]

that sounds like censorship to me dog

They believe they can accomplish their racists goals if they are less obvious about it and it will be effective because americans tend to only recognize the extremes

 

[Condom]

The images from Boston are good to see.

 

[Future]

And this is why you counter-demonstrate at the same place, at the same time. This is why you don't wait to politely hold your counter-demonstraition at a different time or different location.

Yup. Where is that poster that said you should stay home. This right here is exactly why you DONT

Don't run away from conflict if you have skin in the game

 

[rokkerkory]

We will win

 

[_Ryo_]

Do all the rules and banned stuff in the OP also apply to the "free speech" Nazi fuckers as well as to the counter protesters?

 

[KHarvey16]

Do all the rules and banned stuff in the OP also apply to the "free speech" Nazi fuckers as well as to the counter protesters?

Of course...?

 

[sphagnum]

lol the spin on right wing sites of course is "I can't believe how many people are coming out to protest against free speech!"

 

[sn00zer]

Any response from the organizers and such?

 

[LiK]

I'm staying away. Watched some stuff on local news. Counter protestor crowds are pretty huge already.

 

[Brinbe]

Good job. =)

Show those fucking idiots that they are not the majority.

 

[Ziltoidia 9]

The Boston one isnt the one I'm worried about. There is one in Dallas tonight (that even goes into the night). The DFW area isn't horrible, that isn't what I'm saying, but down south here its much easier for the backwoods people to get here.

 

[Cyanity]

Part of being an activist is putting your personal safety on the line to prevent injustice. This is why we ALWAYS need to show up to these hate events and shout them down from the sidelines.

 

[Marvie_3]

The "free speech" group has left early

LOL

Run back to your holes you little nazi fucks

 

[fredrancour]

Do all the rules and banned stuff in the OP also apply to the "free speech" Nazi fuckers as well as to the counter protesters?

There was only monitoring of the alt-right. I just got off the subway and joined the crowd. They were under police supervision more so than police protection

 

[_Ryo_]

Of course...?

Just checking.

Also im way late in this thread.


The protesters left early?

 

[minor effort]

lol the spin on right wing sites of course is "I can't believe how many people are coming out to protest against free speech!"

They certainly know what they're doing by calling these rallies "Free Speech" rallies. Of course the right wing sites parroting this false narrative are aware of what they're doing as well.

 

[Jenov]

So great that the nazis dumb hate rally was drowned out and now looks like it was taken over by counter protesters. Good work!

 

[Garlador]

That's great and all but I hope people show up when it really matters which is the voting booth.

I'm hoping so. Last election many got complacent. Hillary was a "shoe-in" and Trump wasn't seen as a credible threat by many. Heck, many switched TO Trump compared to Obama.

But his victory in the election, and all his actions sense, have had the one positive effect of lighting a fire under people who were sitting it out before or doing the "both sides are bad" excuse to justify their vote.

Now we have to work harder than ever to make a difference and unite the truly disenfranchised among us who have borne the brunt of Trump's hateful ideology.

 

[NewDust]

lol the spin on right wing sites of course is "I can't believe how many people are coming out to protest against free speech!"

It's not spin... It's the entire reason it's called "free speech rally". In a way it doesn't even matter they only showed up with 20 or so people.

 

[aspiegamer]

After last weekend I think it's going to be hard for them to protest in absolutely any city whatsoever. The entire country saw the violence and no one wants that stuff in their town. People will clamp down on the supremacist marches anywhere they go, and it's great that they will. Law enforcement was also clearly not amused.

"I'm freely expressing myself by telling you that you're hateful pieces of shit and want you to go home" is an equally perfect and valid use of the first amendment as celebrating nazism, btw, if anyone tries to argue with you about it.

 

[Sanjuro]

Man, if we can beat the Yankees and Nazis in the same day? 😍

 

[Slayven]

It's not spin... It's the entire reason it's called "free speech rally". In a way it doesn't even matter they only showed up with 20 or so people.

Tells you all about their commitment to the idea

 

[SparkleMotion]

I'm amazed how many people throw themselves under the banner of First Amendment protection without even realizing what the First Amendment is. It doesn't mean you're allowed to say whatever you want without any consequence.

 

[Caelus]

""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Free Speech"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

 

[Protein]

Soros paid them to not show up.

 

[OriginofHysteria]

Soros paid them to not show up.

Maybe I should be a pretend Nazi so Soros will give me some of that cash.

 

[jbug617]

It's over

@MeghanIrons: Officer says free speech rally is over. "There were only 20 people there," he says.

https://twitter.com/MeghanIrons/status/898952241494798336

 

[Two Words]

that sounds like censorship to me dog

Shouldn't she be saying "PLEASE no Nazis at the event"?