I love Boston

[Arkady]

Right wingers tried to hold a rally on the Boston Common yesterday. Only a few dozen people showed up, despite days of hype and free publicity in the media. Surrounding them, a few dozen yards away, was a circle of thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people peacefully making their opposition to the alt-right known.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/19/us/boston-counterprotest-crowd-video-trnd/index.html

 

[Raoul_Luke]

Thanks for today's self congratulatory navel gaze. I genuinely get a smile from seeing you again and again claiming success where there is none. Where were all the well attended right wing "free speech" rallies held that we can compare and contrast Boston's with? Precisely, there were none, because no one wants to be identified with the media's portrayal of anyone who isn't a socialist is a racist nazi, which is how anyone who attends any gathering that isn't left wing is being labeled. The fact is that there simply isn't any "right wing" ground swell for rallying in favor of racist symbolism. The rally in Charlotte was (most likely) a manufactured event as part of an organized effort to demonize Trump and his supporters:

http://www.richmond.com/news/virgin...cle_c0acb07f-873d-5a9b-87dc-4f912824ad12.html

But I have no doubt about your love for Boston. It is a bastion of socialist elitism and you are a socialist elitist. Q.E.D.

 

[Corruptbuddha]

Right wingers tried to hold a rally on the Boston Common yesterday. Only a few dozen people showed up, despite days of hype and free publicity in the media. Surrounding them, a few dozen yards away, was a circle of thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people peacefully making their opposition to the alt-right known.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/19/us/boston-counterprotest-crowd-video-trnd/index.html

Complete with flag burning and piss throwing.

http://ntknetwork.com/antifa-extremists-clash-with-police-burn-american-flag-in-boston/

Well done.

 

[Arkady]

Complete with flag burning and piss throwing.

http://ntknetwork.com/antifa-extremists-clash-with-police-burn-american-flag-in-boston/

Well done.

Agreed: it was very very well done indeed! Having a crowd that vast without any serious property damage or injury is tough under the best of circumstances. But under the present circumstance, where murderous Nazis had just run wild in Charlottesville, it's a real tribute to the city of Boston that so many thousands of righteously outraged Americans could turn out to make their voices heard, and the worst we saw were a handful of cases of disorderly conduct. Wouldn't it be nice if all public demonstrations never got worse than a little piss throwing and cloth burning?

 

[Arkady]

Thanks for today's self congratulatory navel gaze.

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I am not the city of Boston. Therefore it was, obviously, not self-congratulatory. It would help if you thought for a minute before hitting "Post Reply."

 

[Dawg]

Yep, went well as cops had to fight the gawd damn liberals

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/how-boston-protests-unfolded/vi-AAqo8lL?ocid=spartandhp

Why wasn't your lard ass there?

 

[EatTheRich]

Thanks for today's self congratulatory navel gaze. I genuinely get a smile from seeing you again and again claiming success where there is none. Where were all the well attended right wing "free speech" rallies held that we can compare and contrast Boston's with? Precisely, there were none, because no one wants to be identified with the media's portrayal of anyone who isn't a socialist is a racist nazi, which is how anyone who attends any gathering that isn't left wing is being labeled. The fact is that there simply isn't any "right wing" ground swell for rallying in favor of racist symbolism. The rally in Charlotte was (most likely) a manufactured event as part of an organized effort to demonize Trump and his supporters:

http://www.richmond.com/news/virgin...cle_c0acb07f-873d-5a9b-87dc-4f912824ad12.html

But I have no doubt about your love for Boston. It is a bastion of socialist elitism and you are a socialist elitist. Q.E.D.

The racist right is unpopular but that doesn't mean they aren't genuine, or that they aren't waging a ferocious retreat.

 

[Sickofleft]

The day free speech died.

 

[resident_evil]

Right wingers tried to hold a rally on the Boston Common yesterday. Only a few dozen people showed up, despite days of hype and free publicity in the media. Surrounding them, a few dozen yards away, was a circle of thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people peacefully making their opposition to the alt-right known.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/19/us/boston-counterprotest-crowd-video-trnd/index.html

Your brain floats on top of the shit level to your eyebrows. :0)

This is why Boston is great.

 

[resident_evil]

The racist right is unpopular but that doesn't mean they aren't genuine, or that they aren't waging a ferocious retreat.

We are going to domestic the racist right so that their racial agenda will become a cultural (regardless-of-race) agenda instead. We aren't in a race war rather we are in a culture war.

 

[georgephillip]

Right wingers tried to hold a rally on the Boston Common yesterday. Only a few dozen people showed up, despite days of hype and free publicity in the media. Surrounding them, a few dozen yards away, was a circle of thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people peacefully making their opposition to the alt-right known.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/19/us/boston-counterprotest-crowd-video-trnd/index.html

Your link:

"The Anti-Defamation League said the Boston rally, as planned, was not a white supremacist event, but its organizers are 'in step with the alt right in their hatred of feminists and immigrants, among others.'

"Counterprotesters on Saturday made clear to the organizers that their views were not welcome in Boston.

"'The extreme difference of the size of the two groups is a statement in itself,' Christopher Marino, who shot a video overlooking Boston Common, told CNN.

"In another video, counterprotesters can be heard chanting 'shame.'"

Any thoughts on the reaction Trump may receive in Phoenix?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/20/...or-an-angry-reception-in-phoenix.html?mcubz=0

"White House Bracing for an Angry Reception in Phoenix"

 

[Arkady]

Your brain floats on top of the shit level to your eyebrows. :0)

This is why Boston is great.

That's a perfect representation of the rank stupidity of modern American conservatives, right there. The dude travels around the country (he's from Milwaukee), shouting his idiocy to the world. It's fantastic that even with such people traveling to Boston to try to swell the ranks of the bigots, they still only managed to find enough racist goons for a crowd of a few dozen people, while 40,000 good local people showed up to tell them to go fuk themselves.

What a great city!

 

[Arkady]

Your link:

"The Anti-Defamation League said the Boston rally, as planned, was not a white supremacist event, but its organizers are 'in step with the alt right in their hatred of feminists and immigrants, among others.'

"Counterprotesters on Saturday made clear to the organizers that their views were not welcome in Boston.

"'The extreme difference of the size of the two groups is a statement in itself,' Christopher Marino, who shot a video overlooking Boston Common, told CNN.

"In another video, counterprotesters can be heard chanting 'shame.'"

Any thoughts on the reaction Trump may receive in Phoenix?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/20/...or-an-angry-reception-in-phoenix.html?mcubz=0

"White House Bracing for an Angry Reception in Phoenix"

There have been a few recent big-name Republicans who have effectively lost their ability to travel abroad through their sheer awfulness in office. Whether because traveling abroad risks actual war-crimes indictments (Kissinger), or just vast crowds of people booing them (Bush), they're effectively confined to the US, unless it be to travel to somewhere like Saudi Arabia, where a dictatorial regime can be counted on to suppress any demonstration of the public's negative sentiment. Trump is certainly like that. But he may also become the first president who is effectively barred from traveling in the US, too, except to places that can be rigidly controlled and shut off from the American People. At this point, in any open setting, he's likely to face thousands of deeply pissed off Americans telling him just what they think of him, even in a conservative state like Arizona.

 

[resident_evil]

That's a perfect representation of the rank stupidity of modern American conservatives, right there. The dude travels around the country (he's from Milwaukee), shouting his idiocy to the world. It's fantastic that even with such people traveling to Boston to try to swell the ranks of the bigots, they still only managed to find enough racist goons for a crowd of a few dozen people, while 40,000 good local people showed up to tell them to go fuk themselves.

What a great city!

ha ha ha You watch so much shit that you can call this guy's city out? ha ha ha ... I'll take his word that he's from Boston.

The best part is he confronts antifa as communists and they deny they're communists. ha ha ha ha.. .Either your antifa stick figure ninjas are too [Unwelcome language removed] stoopid to know they're communists or they're lying to hide the truth from REAL Americans. ha ha ha

I too am glad to see 10's of thousands of white Americans come out against racism. Now that racism is dead the race wars can now become the culture wars.

 

[Arkady]

"Counterprotesters on Saturday made clear to the organizers that their views were not welcome in Boston.

"'The extreme difference of the size of the two groups is a statement in itself,' Christopher Marino, who shot a video overlooking Boston Common, told CNN.

"In another video, counterprotesters can be heard chanting 'shame.'"

Sometimes it's worth taking a step back and appreciating the big picture:

 

[resident_evil]

Sometimes it's worth taking a step back and appreciating the big picture:

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I fixed that for you.



And you're too unAmerican (or unLawyerly) to tell the difference.

 

[Arkady]

Either your antifa stick figure ninjas are too [Unwelcome language removed] stoopid to know they're communists or they're lying to hide the truth from REAL Americans.

They're just not so stupid as to imagine that anyone who opposes fascism must be a communist.

It's amazing how we've somehow returned to those debates all these years later. Back in the 1930s, a bunch of Americans volunteered to go to Spain to fight against Franco's fascist forces, as part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Those were the "premature antifascists"("premature" because they did it in the late 1930s, whereas the rest of the country didn't become antifascist until late 1941). For the "crime" of having understood the threat of fascism sooner than most of their countrymen, those volunteers were treated as suspicious by their own government (especially J. Edgar Hoover's FBI), such that, despite valuable combat experience, many were denied entry into the armed forces when the US entered WWII. The "reasoning" of the right-wingers in this country was that anyone who wised up to the threat of fascism before the majority must be a "commie" and therefore wasn't to be trusted.

I too am glad to see 10's of thousands of white Americans come out against racism.

The beauty of this repudiation of alt-right bigotry is that it involved good people coming together from all races and ethnic groups, standing shoulder-to-shoulder against the evil of Trumpist hatred.

It wasn't a black counter-protest, or a white one, or Asian, or Hispanic. It was a unified front of tens of thousands of locals who refused to be divided across such lines.

 

[MaryAnne]

Right wingers tried to hold a rally on the Boston Common yesterday. Only a few dozen people showed up, despite days of hype and free publicity in the media. Surrounding them, a few dozen yards away, was a circle of thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people peacefully making their opposition to the alt-right known.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/19/us/boston-counterprotest-crowd-video-trnd/index.html

One of our old buddies was there. Quite a sight to see what happened at the Commons.

 

[Arkady]

I fixed that for you.

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And you're too unAmerican (or unLawyerly) to tell the difference.

Both crowds were non-violent. If those 40,000 people had wanted to react violently, they could have torn those few dozens of right-wing goons limb from limb, and there aren't enough police in the whole state to have done a damned thing about it. But they didn't. They were content to stand peacefully and make their voices heard. And thus, despite tens of thousands of people assembled in one place with emotions running hot, there was no serious property damage, no serious injury, and almost no arrests. Something like three people were arrested for assaulting police officers (throwing bottles of urine that them), out of 40,000. And the crowd let every one of those bigots gathered at the rotunda go home in one piece. It was extraordinarily peaceful.

 

[MaryAnne]

Neo Nazi cries at thought of going to jail.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...7/christopher-cantwell-cries-video/578227001/