Hey kids - Welcome to Hell! It's time to get out your Field Guide to Left-Wing Wackos (yes, that's a real book) and Identify the anti-capitalist protesters at their "Welcome to Hell" cluster-foxtrot at the G20 summit in Hamburg. As I type, more than 70 police officers were injured by these self-styled defenders of humanity, morality and brotherhood: Leftist RAMPAGE At G20: ‘Welcome to Hell’ [VIDEO] http://eheadlines.com/leftist-rampage-at-g20-welcome-to-hell-video/ A few questions to get things started: How is it that these great "progressive" humanitarians invariably resort to violence at their protests, whether it be here in America or abroad? What is it that makes these "progressives" think they are entitled to act violently? Is it the utopian delusions that they are laboring under or is it something in their nature? This pattern has been repeating itself over and over again since the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. Anyhoo, I'll be posting more photos and info on the rioting and assorted anti-capitalist idiocy as the day progresses. In the meantime, anybody care to guess who the Blackshirts are in the photo above?
Its aim was, and still is, direct action. Practitioners care little for speech or to shape public opinion, and the media are held in disdain, as are liberals who espouse nonviolence. Members operate in small squads that organize themselves around flags during the havoc of a protest. Many are anarchists, and anarchist websites such as It’s Going Down provide a public platform for reports from the underground. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-black-bloc-20170212-story.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_action Now you will notice even the LA times admits they hold those with no violent tendencies in "disdain". Which leaves violent direct action... They are terrorists plain and simple.
Ah, the tolerant, peaceful left..... And when they are done burning, and all that CO2 escapes... But we forget, the prescription of the left aren't for them, it's just for the rest of us..
Oh dear, I didn't think about all that CO2. Perhaps, the eco-socialists at the summit should step outside and tut-tut their comrades?
Leftists very foolishly think they want some kind of war. If leftists could think, there wouldn't be leftists. It's an age old paradox.
That kinda runs in line with something I've observed myself - the only "progressives" capable of introspection are ex-"progressives". That particularly goes for the ones who were around during the Cold War and could see what was going on beyond the Iron and Bamboo Curtains. They don't have ignorance for an excuse...
Update from al Jihad (about 40 mins ago) Hamburg protests turn violent as G20 summit kicks off At least 159 police officers injured, 45 protesters arrested as leaders from world's largest economies meet in Germany. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/...violent-g20-summit-kicks-170707115823579.html 160 injured cops and only 45 arrests. Very interesting. And this party is just getting started. The "progressive" mayhem will be running through Saturday...
Oh, and we've got one of America's premier "progressive" loons jetting off to the riots... The prog has his priorities...
Some of these groups are good at hiding the sources of their funding. I'm astonished at the high number of injured cops and the low numbers of arrests. Something's wrong with that picture, and I don't see how it is going to deter more violence tonight and tomorrow...
Are you saying outfits like CNN can find a random reddit user that just used a meme but cant track funding of these groups? Why do we have a media then?
With every generation comes a new crop who believe they're entitled to the fruits of someone else's industry. Some mature and grow out of it. Some don't. Some of those trade in their bullhorns, bombs, masks and molotov cocktails for professional attire to become politicians, professors and propaganda peddling pundits... and for those, I'm inclined to believe it's congenital. I mean, what rational, sane, mature adult can observe the calamitous failures of authoritarian state paternalism (aka; socialism...Life of Julia-ism) in real time, time after time, and not reevaluate their worldviews?
That's a damned good question, webrockk. Look at what's happening in Venezuela right now - yet another in a long line of countries that embraced socialism and is now, like all the others, descending into destitution and dictatorship - is that compelling "progressives" to reevaluate their worldviews? No - they're avoiding it like this squirmy socialist: You know as well as I do why most "progressives" won't question their beliefs. They're irrational people clinging to a faith that has taken, to borrow Jean-François Revel's term, the last exit to utopia. The intro to his last book at Amazon about says it all: How did the Leftist legions regroup after history delivered its fatal blow to the Soviet system? Simple, argues Jean-Francois Revel: the Left retreated to the impregnable fortress of the Utopian ideal. After all, socialism incarnate was always vulnerable to criticism. Utopia, on the other hand, lies by definition beyond reproach. With the demise of the Soviet system, there is no longer a vast and flailing embodiment of their vision, and Utopia’s haughty champions can again rage boundlessly... I came to the conclusion a long time ago that "progressives" are a cult and socialism is their faith. Many of them aren't going to question their beliefs because they lack the courage, honesty and humility necessary to endure the long, difficult and sometimes painful process of facing the truth and admitting that everything they believe in is bullshit - that they are wrong. That's particularly difficult for "progressives" who have been drinking their own kool-aid and completely bought into the myth of their own moral and intellectual infallibility. But I'm not telling you anything you don't know. What I can tell you is that I am one of those "progressive" apostates who did observe the calamitous failures of authoritarian state paternalism in real time and reevaluated their beliefs, assumptions and worldviews. I think that is why that question perplexes me - if I can do it, why can't they? What is holding them back? Ignorance? Stubbornness? Some character flaw? All of the above?
They should hold it in the US Midwest or South somewhere. We'd call it "Welcome to the Fish Barrel, leftists!"
I guess the OP has never had a home foreclosed on him, never been fired to make profit for the CEO, never had student loans raised, never had an instance where they thought "maybe people are angry with capitalism because it only works for half the population"....never had an original thought in their life. The protests will only grow, and grow.
Sure, that is a perfect justification from destroying someone else's property and for assaulting people. Not. Get in line with your story of hard knocks. Most people have had setbacks during their lifetime, but to engage in this is domestic terrorism, period.
Try and understand people who are WAY more desperate than you are. Try and understand what capitalism has done to many people, not just what it may have done for YOU. Try and understand the economic and social pain, suffering, and fear many people have. Now, if you can't do that, then simply step aside, because you're not understanding what massive changes people have gone through the past 40 years. Nothing justifies violence to the privileged, myself included.
These rioting anti-FA scum are violent terrorists. I have no issue with them being treated as such by law enforcement.
Capitalism has enabled rich progressives to chat on political forums while sipping their latte and bash capitalism.