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• wsws sunday edition wsws sunday edition (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 28 2018, @09:09PM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 28 2018, @09:09PM (#754781)

  I guess WSWS publishes on Sunday every now and then. Eleven killed in deadliest attack on Jewish community in US history [wsws.org]. Not a terrible lot of analysis. Probably more on Monday.

  Bowers was a regular user of Gab, a social network used by white supremacists and anti-Semites. A look at his social media pages show that he espoused a more extreme version of the anti-immigrant, racist and nationalist views put forward by Trump, and regarded Trump as not a real nationalist because he had appointed Jews to his White House staff. He also claimed not to have voted for Trump—he was registered to vote without party affiliation.

  But Bowers was fully in support of Trump’s persecution of immigrants. In one social media posting, he claimed that Jews were helping transport members of the migrant caravans. He applauded the change in language in which opponents of the caravan referred to the migrants as “invaders” rather than “illegals.” After noting this new language—for which Trump is mainly responsible—he wrote, “I like this.”

  In the past month, Bowers has posted dozens of comments attacking Jews, Blacks and immigrants. Many of his posts suggested that Jews were undermining the Trump administration. He criticized Trump’s “Make American Great Again” slogan as phony, writing, “There is no #MAGA as long as there is a k--e infestation.”

  This this the second time this week that a fascist has taken action in synch with Trump’s ultra-right rhetoric. A Florida man, Cesar Sayoc, has been arrested for sending over a dozen pipe bombs through the mail to prominent Democrats and critics of the Trump administration. Unlike Bowers, Sayoc was an overt Trump supporter who attended Trump rallies and posted photographs of himself wearing a MAGA hat.

  Still have to snicker a bit that the mail bombs were the work of Florida Man.

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• Re:wsws sunday edition Re:wsws sunday edition (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 29 2018, @02:30AM (2 children)

  by Runaway1956 (2926) on Monday October 29 2018, @02:30AM (#754887) Homepage Journal

  So, WSWSWSWS characterizes Gab as just another Stormfront. Interesting.

  Florida Man - I missed that. LMAO

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  • Re:wsws sunday edition Re:wsws sunday edition (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @03:29AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @03:29AM (#754908)

    Yeah, I was disappointed by that personally. They've documented how Facebook has been eliminating left-wing groups and pages, so they should be able to easily see that alternatives are needed. Services like Gab (and Soylent for that matter) that emphasize free speech are the best way for the international working class to communicate and organize in the face of corporate censorship.

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    • Re:wsws sunday edition (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 29 2018, @05:04AM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) on Monday October 29 2018, @05:04AM (#754914) Homepage Journal

      Dubya and Cheney said it years ago: "If you're not with us, you're against us." So, Gab doesn't stand with WSWS, obviously they are just like Stormfront and all the rest. Tiny, weak minds are like that.

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