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Pro-Trump demonstrators, counter-protesters rally in downtown Seattle
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fluffydelusions
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king5 stream seems to go back and forth between the 2 rallies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_ePKaRde2I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_ePKaRde2I
WhiteRabbitEXE
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I mean, realistically this is the same in most states, it's just the proportions that differ. Some states have a higher skew of rural and suburban voters, others have a higher urban skew, but the dynamic holds through. Hell, it's not even just the US. Look at the Brexit vote map for England and you'll see something similar happening.
This video needs to be plastered everywhere. Holy fucking shit. They're basically assaulting cops with no response.
CannonFodder52
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Very high quality sign
UberTag
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Is it now? When Trump has Richard Spencer's fellow Duke conservative compadre, Stephen Miller, writing his speeches and crafting his anti-immigration legislation? He may be a Jew who says he ascribes to white Zionism but let's be real here. We all know who and what he is... just like we all know who and what Trump is... and just like Trump supporters who attend Pro Trump rallies know where he stands on white supremacy (which he can't denounce even though Nazis champion it).
True enough.
Unknown Soldier
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Can we not do this shit in Seattle? It's a very nice city with nice people.
Go do it in Portland instead. Thanks.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/st...americas-most-politically-violent-city-215322
Go do it in Portland instead. Thanks.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/st...americas-most-politically-violent-city-215322
SoulUnison
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I joined the livestream in the middle of a commercial where a father and daughter are washing their car and momentarily thought:
"Wow, this is going a lot better than the other one."
"Wow, this is going a lot better than the other one."
Tal Shiar Agent
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I love seeing the IWW making a comeback.
I am going to bat for anyone in America to have a legal rally. I am against anyone that uses violence to try and stop people they disagree with.
What if they don`t believe what you believe about Trump? They have a completely different opinion of him. You cant just say people are Nazi because they support a person that you believe is a bad person. They have a different view. Look at what this group in Seattle says they want and believe then decide.
Every time I drive by that and the billboard near Battle Ground I just want to tear those awful fucking things down. They're such terrible shit.
And man it can really suck the further away you get from Seattle. Longview leans conservative and Cowlitz County went Trump. So many garbage people here.
super-famicom
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Fuck is this going to be a daily occurrence now?
It's so fucking obvious. I don't know how people can be blind to this level of privilege. Oh wait, yes I do. It's not that they don't see it, it's that they think their owed it.
Lightning_Roller
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This video tells you exactly where cops stand with Nazis....Right next to them.
Unknown Soldier
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During most of 2016, there was a gigantic Trump/Pence sign by the freeway right before you got onto the Tacoma Narrows Bridge going southbound on WA-16 (towards Tacoma). I commute frequently across the Narrows and I saw that sign every day for probably a solid 8 months.
Officerrob
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There is all kinds of shit wrong with that video, but I'm telling you right now, if certain aspects of the left are ready to label all police officers of the United States as white supremacists, they have already lost
GoldenEye 007
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Nazism isn't a simple disagreement.
excelsiorlef
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I mean we have already lost more or less.
That's dumb though.
Nah. Fuck that Nazi scum up.
Officerrob
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Moderates, centrists, and independents will move even further away
stuminus3
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Not surprised at all, many of those in blue are right-wing psychopaths themselves. Law enforcement is broken beyond repair, it's time for a new term for what this is.
PhoncipleBone
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If it sends a message to those in charge.
I too think that every American has a right to peacefully protest. Cool.
Now, fuck that "it's just a difference of opinion" shit. The Trump administration is hell bent on destroying the lives of minorities and now can't be bothered to condemn Nazis.
Do you really feel the Trump administration is just a difference of opinion? Do you just think that all the people upset with our president need to stop overreacting because it's just politics?
These scum are no different than ISIS. There is no conversation to be had. It's either their way or ours.
SenorArdilla
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Not really all that surprising considering that white supremacists have been infiltrating law enforcement for years.
GoldenEye 007
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Then they're ok with white supremacy and Nazism. They were never really allies.
fluffydelusions
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I love all the people calling out the cops for protecting the nazis on this stream
Then they're the enemy too. Bye.
You weren't defending their right to have a rally. You were trying to shield their rally from any criticism. Counter-protestors have the right to call Trump supporters mean names.
Then fuck them.
I'm sick of people telling us to hold back because we'll make moderates align with racists and literal Nazis.
They're not allies we want anyway then.
That's nice. Unfortunately the people you're going to bat for have a tendency of driving through crowds of people they disagree with, so the fact that there's a counter-protest shouldn't surprise you.
Imperfected
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Do you really not understand why a conservative organization holding a rally the day after what happened in West Virginia would need to explicitly and vociferously distance themselves from that group and those events to not be assumed in support of and association with them, or are you just being willfully pedantic?
If moderates, centrists and independents don't move away from the right, they're not moving away from the left either. Everybody's already picked a side. Some of us are just too chicken shit to state it with conviction.
Anybody who's really afraid to get hurt is gonna stay home anyway.
To say they are just Trump supporters is hilarious. Even if I accepted that Trump's White House isn't white supremacist these people's events in the past have been filled with white supremacists and alt right memes all over the fucking place. Oh god the memes. You have to be willfully ignorant to fall for this shit.
Looks at their amazing Facebook info statement
Seriously? These people know what they are doing. They are trying to put on a respectable face for idiot centrists. This group did this in Portland right after the knife attacks against the Muslim women and the men trying to protect them a few months ago. They even had a moment of silence for the people who were killed at the rally. Fucking disgusting crocodile tears.
Looks at their amazing Facebook info statement
Seriously? These people know what they are doing. They are trying to put on a respectable face for idiot centrists. This group did this in Portland right after the knife attacks against the Muslim women and the men trying to protect them a few months ago. They even had a moment of silence for the people who were killed at the rally. Fucking disgusting crocodile tears.
Lightning_Roller
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Are you really that ignorant to the fucked up shit police and the justice system commit on a daily basis? Are you?
Tal Shiar Agent
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Maybe you just suffer from a lack of knowledge of the situation or maybe you are trolling. Either way, there is no "disagreement", there is no discussion to be had. People forget that there are legitimate enemies of liberty and the United States, both external and internal. Nazis, the "alt-right", white supremacists are those enemies. They don't want you to fight back, they want you to give them a platform. It gives them the ability to recruit and grow in strength until they can engage in open war. The only solution is to strike at them.
Yesterday the kind of people that want to hold these rallies ran people over with a car and beat them.
No. Fuck them. Violent hate doesn't deserve a stage. I don't really give a shit about preserving the First Amendment in this context.
Preserving our humanity, the right for our minority brothers and sisters to feel safe matters more. Fuck standing for patriotism when it comes to stomping out hate.
Gordon Shumway
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Every thread..lol.
Officerrob
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It's literally an extreme fringe left position to call all cops white supremacists, who are the elected Democrats who hold this position? Is this a new Litmus Test for "allies"?
Good old appeasement politics with fucking fascists. Because it worked so well 70 years ago.
If it's the case that police in the US are white-supremacist (I don't know, I'm not American), why is it like that? Don't decent people apply to the force as well? Or is there selective bias going on when it comes to hiring?
Dr. Benton Quest
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If they stand next to the Nazis then I'll punch them too.
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