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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Reziac on Sunday October 07 2018, @05:10AM (6 children)
As I lately said elsewhere, I think next time the left gets majorly thwarted, the paid Antifa (as distinguished from the LARPers) will morph into our own version of the IRA. Which is probably just as well, since better if the public can see them for what they are. And the response? Hey, leftards, you want martial law? this is how you get martial law.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @05:38AM
and ai'm Emmanuel Goldstein.
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Sunday October 07 2018, @01:40PM (4 children)
My understanding is that the IRA believed in the cause and were prepared to die for it. The pathetic paid LARPers making up Antifa are not the same class of humans as IRA members. They are heavily programmed post-modernists, each believing the world revolves around themselves and their cellphone. They will crumble instantly.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday October 07 2018, @02:40PM (2 children)
Yes, I agree entirely, but there does exist a core of genuine, committed, well-paid Antifa -- look how different they are in Europe (where Antifa is mostly genuinely dangerous thugs who don't back down) from the mostly-LARPers in the U.S. Once our LARPers crumble, the committed types will remain. Not many, but enough to be a problem, at least in the cities where they've made a habit of letting thugs operate as they please. Here in flyover country, their careers would get, ah, truncated.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 07 2018, @03:02PM (1 child)
They're not enough to be a problem now, even if they were all committed to the cause. They would be a non-issue if mayors and police chiefs didn't tell their cops to stand down and let them do whatever they like.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday October 07 2018, @03:40PM
And there's the rub. Knock a few of 'em into the bushes and the LARPers would all slink away. The rest aren't a serious problem YET. Hopefully those cities will get their act together and keep 'em that way, but I wouldn't count on it.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 07 2018, @03:37PM
Not "instantly", but pretty quickly.
Look up the Redneck Revolt. https://www.redneckrevolt.org/ [redneckrevolt.org] Basically, it's a militia organization, which backs up Antifa. The real military arm of Antifa. I don't really know their quality - I doubt they can fight a sustained battle against Boy Scouts. But, we may presume that they will put up a fight, for awhile, anyway. Lots of idiots think that because they have a weapon in their hands, they are a force to be reckoned with.
Even if they surprise the hell out of me, and fight ten times better than I expect, there aren't enough of them to matter, long term. The only way they win, is if they inflict several thousand casualties for each one they suffer.
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