Major violent protest in UC Berkeley

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Zorba

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DNC took the bait... they're pushing President Trump's 2020 reelection campaign already...and they don't even know it.

Luckily nobody in the US has that good of memory, which is why after completely screwing over the country the voters gave republicans back the HOR in 2010. While we will still dealing with all their screw ups.
 
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Zorba

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I don't agree with violent protests, especially directed at people. But when you rig the election system to disenfranchise millions of voters to elect people that are 100% dedicated to screwing over the middle class, what do you expect.

I am also not going to shed a tear for Wells Fargo or Chase.
 

master_shake_

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I don't agree with violent protests, especially directed at people. But when you rig the election system to disenfranchise millions of voters to elect people that are 100% dedicated to screwing over the middle class, what do you expect.

I am also not going to shed a tear for Wells Fargo or Chase.

hillary?
 

WelshBloke

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Now you're going to pretend this isn't a leftist group? Why else would they have pepper sprayed a President Trump supporter after a television interview?
The black bloc are a bunch of anarchists. Trying to imply that"The Left" is some monolithic organisation with common aims is just daft.
 
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The black bloc are a bunch of anarchists. Trying to imply that"The Left" is some monolithic organisation with common aims is just daft.
Implausible deniability- It wasn't the left that were violently protesting against Breitbart's Milo, it was some other group of violent protesters.
 

Zorba

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The black bloc are a bunch of anarchists. Trying to imply that"The Left" is some monolithic organisation with common aims is just daft.

Yeah, from the live stream it look liked maybe ~20 people were actually vandalizing anything. Everyone else was just marching, chanting and taking pictures.
 
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Now you're going to pretend this isn't a leftist group? Why else would they have pepper sprayed a President Trump supporter after a television interview?

Is that what I'm doing? Didn't we just have an exchange about the words honor, integrity and honesty?

I guess I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and chalk this up to something like a poor grasp of the English language and how it's used.

Let me put it this way. Since when does a tiny group of people like Black Block or antifa represent "The Left"? Does this mean that skinheads represent "The Right"? Other than the small fact that on one side no one wants to put people in ovens, they are somewhat equivalent groups so I think that's a reasonably fair comparison.
 

Starbuck1975

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Is that what I'm doing? Didn't we just have an exchange about the words honor, integrity and honesty?

I guess I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and chalk this up to something like a poor grasp of the English language and how it's used.

Let me put it this way. Since when does a tiny group of people like Black Block or antifa represent "The Left"? Does this mean that skinheads represent "The Right"? Other than the small fact that on one side no one wants to put people in ovens, they are somewhat equivalent groups so I think that's a reasonably fair comparison.
We're not the Judean People's Front. We're the People's Front of Judea.
 
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WelshBloke

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Implausible deniability- It wasn't the left that were violently protesting against Breitbart's Milo, it was some other group of violent protesters.
Lol. You seem to missing something here. If if was "The Left" (ooooh scary!) as a whole you'd have some serious problems!
Yeah, from the live stream it look liked maybe ~20 people were actually vandalizing anything. Everyone else was just marching, chanting and taking pictures.
Thats how a black bloc works. You get a big demo and in the middle of it you'll get a black bloc of a hundred or so guys (unless you're in Berlin!) that are there to fuck shit up.
 
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Is that what I'm doing? Didn't we just have an exchange about the words honor, integrity and honesty?

I guess I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and chalk this up to something like a poor grasp of the English language and how it's used.

Let me put it this way. Since when does a tiny group of people like Black Block or antifa represent "The Left"? Does this mean that skinheads represent "The Right"? Other than the small fact that on one side no one wants to put people in ovens, they are somewhat equivalent groups so I think that's a reasonably fair comparison.
No "WE" didn't.
 

Starbuck1975

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Do you think that Republican businesspeople like being lumped in with people like Milo because they're both 'the Right'?
I think that for both the left and the right, their silence is deafening when they let loose their flying monkeys. Milo is not the right, yet the right is tolerant and open to his rhetoric. The left are not anarchists, but amazing that the anarchists always show up at their protests.

Where were the faculty to defend Berkeley's proud history of defending free speech.
 

Vic

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Political differences aside just for a few milliseconds, isn't the irony of silencing purported hate speech by means of a violent protest just the least bit amusing?
It only makes it worse. Milo wants the violence to escalate IMO.