Anyone remember Umbrella Man from the 2020 Minneapolis riots? He was smashing windows and trying to frame BLM protesters when in fact he was a right wing nut job.
Wasn't the only case if I recall of that year.
Boogaloo boys tried to do something similar in framing nearby protesters over George Floyd when they shot up a Federal courthouse, killing a security guard.
Investigations into the 2020 protests found that the vast majority of protests were peaceful and a majority of the violence was instigated by counter-protesters.
Agree but there's some commenters here that are so deep in the ml accelerationist sauce I wouldn't be surprised. They've literally replied that they hope the US falls to ruin and whatever violence happens is a fever killing a virus.
Not saying all, but many green party people advocating for Harris' defeat. As much as they may hope, Jill Stein was never a viable option, so who were they rallying for?
Those are the same people I never heard advocate for green party at local, county, state, or other federal office positions.
A few - like 3-5 people - were militant enough, I can believe it COULD be (not saying it was) a leftist.
If someone is only active in rabble rousing and not in supporting any affirmative ideas or actions around solutions to problems, then I tend to have a bit of suspicion that we're simply dealing with a rabble rouser, and not someone interested in any actual improvements. It doesn't really matter, to a rabble rouser, what the rousing is towards, since chaos is the goal. Any nebulous direction works, so long as the push is towards chaos.
If your goal is to watch the world burn, you do need an excuse for that. You can't just be like "well, I like the idea of collapse, suffering and death. don't you? c'mon, it'll be fun."
Most leftists have actual policy discussions, proposals, specifics that they'd like to see implemented. They'll actually applaud movement in a positive direction. Not all, though.
Yeah this is definitely coming from the people who say voting doesn't matter if you support the uniparty of war, and not the Alex Jones supporters who think mail-in ballots are a vector for fraud.
Being a mod definitely hasn't poisoned your brain, and is a very legitimate qualification.
I'm jeering at you for being proud of being an internet moderator, you are whining about how I failed to read rules that don't truly exist, try to keep up. You were getting it just a minute ago.
According to you, the mods in /News are “crybabies and only want to see things they agree with” while you simultaneously support the idea that not voting- or throwing away votes on third party spoilers and shills will somehow bring about the changes you’d like to see?
And to add to this, your comment history is FULL of verbal temper tantrums and pseudo-intellectual nonsense directed at anyone and anything outside of your little bubble.
From my perspective, you have zero room in there to be casting aspersions at others.
You never think about anything which doesn't confirm the beliefs handed down to you from Washington DC. This is liberal brain 101, you don't need to explain your vacuous psychology to me.
And yet no matter how much you metacommentate and cry that some people don't support bombing children enough for your taste, you can't actually refute anything I'm saying. Go ahead, pore over my comment history, it's straight fire. You can't scratch anything I'm saying, just cry about it.
You know that one side has openly threatened violence and carries out voter intimidation, and the other wants to stop the killing. You need a scapegoat so badly for your incoming loss.
Oh I wouldn’t bother myself to pore over a single word of your nonsense. And trust me when I say, it’s not at all because it’s “fire.”
It’s simply because it’s straight nonsense.
And the fact that you come here accusing people of crying while you have shown to be capable little else yourself, only serves to illustrate how little I or anyone else should do anything more than shine a white-hot light on your little temper tantrums so that others may better see you for what you truly are.
Wren you already said you were stalking my profile, that doesn't jive with "not a single word of [my] nonsense", you have a very whimsical train of thought, you little rogue.
Okay. This has gotten incredibly boring. You clearly have a need to have the last word and I’ve said what I felt needed to be said, and have nothing left to say. So go on then!
have at it!
The stage is lit for both you and your straight fire!
Investigators are trying to determine if the perpetrator was actually a pro-Palestinian activist or someone using that prominent cause to sow discord, one of the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing.
In either case, the actions of one person don't prove much about the larger movement that he intends to support.