Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 04:35:37 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: BIDEN: "Trump Won't Denounce Political Violence!" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: <17c63ac49768ad15$12265$3582942$c6d58c68@news.newsdemon.com> Content-Language: en-US From: trotsky In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 71 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 09:35:37 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 3837 X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c66a700fa80dbb$57447$3349862$52d51861@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 4224 On 4/15/24 3:36 AM, FPP wrote: > On 4/14/24 3:02 PM, moviePig wrote: >> On 4/14/2024 11:42 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote: >>> BTR1701 wrote: >>>> On Apr 9, 2024 at 6:15:20 PM PDT, FPP wrote: >>>>> On 4/9/24 12:46 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>> On Apr 9, 2024 at 6:53:43 AM PDT, FPP wrote: >>>>>>> On 4/6/24 2:37 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>> >>>>>>>> . . . >>> >>>>>>>> And you still haven't explained why Biden hasn't denounced any >>>>>>>> of them, >>>>>>>> since he's decreed that denouncing political violence is the >>>>>>>> duty of >>>>>>>> every president. >>> >>> [Fred Phelps citing headline] >>>>>>>> Fact check: Joe Biden has condemned Antifa, violent protests >>> >>>>>> Wait, I thought Antifa didn't exist? Now you're claiming it does >>>>>> and that >>>>>> Biden has condemned them? >>> >>>>>> Wow. Baby steps, I guess. >>> >>>>>> Or do they only exist to the extent you can win on Usenet today? >>> >>>>> It exists as a concept, but not as an organization. >>> >>>> LOL! So it was a concept that was trying to burn down the federal >>>> courthouse >>>> every night in Portland during the 2020 Summer of Love, was it? >>> >>> I'm so confused about Fred Phelps' position here. These large-scale >>> protests that included violence, arson, and vandalism were organized >>> through Twitter by people forwarding tweets. An "organization" is a body >>> that organizes something. A protest was organized by those tweeting. The >>> fact that they worked in concert is what made them an organization, even >>> without being organized as a corporation, partnership, or unincorporated >>> society with charters and bylaws and other organic documents. Working >>> together by passing the word along is what made them an organization. >>> >>> It exists as a means of organizing among those doing the organizing. >>> This is actual, not conceptual. Working together toward a common purpose >>> is all that's necessary to be an organization. >> >> So, a lynch mob is an organization.  Start spreading the noose... >> > > > All bullshit, pig. > >> Antifa has earned its reputation for sporadic violence. But many other >> rumors about antifa have been spun from whole cloth, sometimes by >> people later identified as right-wing extremists. In June 2020, >> Twitter shut down multiple fake antifa accounts that were inciting >> violence against white suburbs; subsequent investigations tracked the >> accounts to Identity Evropa, a white supremacist organization. > >> "When we looked at the data around the insurrection, we saw literally >> millions of pro-Trump [internet] posts that repeated the phrase >> 'antifa,'" said CBSN tech reporter Dan Patterson. " [But] when we look >> at the data, this boogeyman is nonexistent." > > Antifa is the boogeyman to the right. It's all the same shit over and over again. "Fauci is a criminal." "Vaccines will kill you." "Hunter Biden has too big a penis." Ad nauseum.