@aigarius @travis_burn Good on you, Aigar. Join the cause, join “Antifa”. It’s only fitting, as you still self-identify with “the USSR”. Your old gang of communist comrades shall warmly welcome you into the fold! A word of warning though—avoid ending up on the #AntifaMugshots https://t.co/Bv5iGxEwO 24 atbildes
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Artis Schlossberg (2020-06-01 18:43:31) |
@aigarius @travis_burn Good on you, Aigar. Join the cause, join “Antifa”. It’s only fitting, as you still self-identify with “the USSR”. Your old gang of communist comrades shall warmly welcome you into the fold! A word of warning though—avoid ending up on the #AntifaMugshots https://t.co/Bv5iGxEwO | |
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Aigars Mahinovs (2020-06-01 19:32:06) |
@tikums @travis_burn Communists also are totalitarian, nacist police states. That what USSR was. It was just as bad a "nazi" state as Germany, nut survived for far longer. Idiots that equate antifa with communism demonstrate absolute lack of understanding of either. | |
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Artis Schlossberg (2020-06-01 19:59:11) |
@aigarius @travis_burn Kudos for recognizing that all stripes of totalitarianism are evil. Most "antifa" supporters wouldn't dare to admit it, which leads me to my 2nd point—beyond the name itself, it's evident that you don't know much about the "Antifa". It's decidedly anti-capitalist and Marxist. | |
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Aigars Mahinovs (2020-06-02 10:53:04) |
@tikums @travis_burn I have a bunch of friends in Antifa movement. Basically all of them are anarchists with a tinge of democratic socialism, just like absolute majority of the movement. Maybe you are the one who has no idea what and who antifa are. Or what is "Marxist". Is Finland "Marxist"? | |
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Artis Schlossberg (2020-06-02 11:26:21) |
@aigarius @travis_burn Do you think that, maybe, your friends are not very representative of the "antifa" movement? Your German friends and the militant groups in the U.S. are not quite the same. Apart from your anecdotes, academic studies of "antifa" suggest that many identify as anarcho-communists | |
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Aigars Mahinovs (2020-06-02 11:29:15) |
@tikums @travis_burn "anarcho-communists" makes absolutely zero sense, especially not in the context how the word "communism" is understood in USSR context. Now if you actually think in Northen European values, it is completely different. But then it is not scary-sensacionalist. | |
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Artis Schlossberg (2020-06-02 11:48:12) |
@aigarius @travis_burn I agree. Very little about "antifa" makes sense. Even the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a well-known human rights organization, agrees with the sentiment—"Antifa" is militant far-left radical organization, engaging in violent action & poses a danger to society.https://t.co/GYb1 | |
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Aigars Mahinovs (2020-06-02 12:11:32) |
@tikums @travis_burn https://t.co/LAXzn88n1d - out of ~330 hoodie designs only 2-3 featured communist symbols. Hardly counts as "many". | |
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Aigars Mahinovs (2020-06-02 12:13:39) |
@tikums @travis_burn "Domestic terrorists" in US are white doodes shooting up the place with automatic weapons, like the Pulse nightclub massacare. White supremasists with anti-LGBT agenda added on top. | |
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Aigars Mahinovs (2020-06-02 12:15:18) |
@tikums @travis_burn Noone is arguing against antifa being far left. Just like Finland is a far left country. And Sweeden. And even Denmark. For a US observer France and Germany are far left countries. With socialized medicine, pensions and mandatory vacations. | |
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Artis Schlossberg (2020-06-02 12:20:43) |
@aigarius @travis_burn Absolutely. This is not an Either/Or. All extremists are a danger to a civilized society. It seems that the modern left is not eager to admit that it has some extremists among its ranks. Radical militant organizations, either on the right, or on the left, must be neutralized. | |
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Aigars Mahinovs (2020-06-02 12:23:36) |
@tikums @travis_burn https://t.co/3ri5MRNUJv - show me one left organization actively stockpiling assault weapons and training for the "second civil war" in war camps in the woods. There is no "both sides". There are men with assault rifles and boys with gas masks. | |
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Artis Schlossberg (2020-06-02 13:09:26) |
@aigarius @travis_burn It's legal to own firearms. It's illegal to procure pipe bombs, IEDs and other explosives. You don't have a clue about "both sides". First—because of your evident bias, and second—you don't have access to FBI files on radical left-wing groups.https://t.co/grNPOBaZzE | |
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Aigars Mahinovs (2020-06-02 14:07:52) |
@tikums @travis_burn ROFL, calling up 1980s. Can you find anything from, you know, this century, when actual modern antifa formed? | |
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Artis Schlossberg (2020-06-02 14:19:46) |
@aigarius @travis_burn So, you do accept and agree that violent radical groups can form both on the far-left and the far-right? You do agree that we must police them? Most “boogaloos” are cosplaying in the rural U.S., while “Antifa” causes mayhem and attacks people here and now. https://t.co/yiloItG | |
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Aigars Mahinovs (2020-06-02 14:23:32) |
@tikums @travis_burn Antifa are the guys with the medical supplies that came to help him. And it is very unclear what exactly was he doing that got the attention of the attacker. Some people were beaten for attacking protesters with deadly weapons (like sword or bow or knife). Well deserved. | |
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Aigars Mahinovs (2020-06-02 14:24:43) |
@tikums @travis_burn Attention of a single attacker who was immediately chased away by other protesters. | |
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Artis Schlossberg (2020-06-02 14:33:23) |
@aigarius @travis_burn No, “Antifa” is an organization that released an official statement back in 2017, proclaiming that they are “‘unapologetic’ over the use of ‘physical militancy’” and they’ve been true to their word—they do not shy away from violence and destruction. You are evidently clueless! | |
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Aigars Mahinovs (2020-06-02 14:36:50) |
@tikums @travis_burn And? Yes, thjey are very unapollogeting for punching nazies in the face. And they are also organising medical supplies, milk bottles to treat tear gas injuries, shields to protect from rubber bullets and gas masks. One does not preclude the other. | |
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Aigars Mahinovs (2020-06-02 14:37:57) |
@tikums @travis_burn Also, there is no such thing as "official Antifa organisation" or "official antifa statement". There is no central organisation of any kind that could issue any kind of statements. It is an anarhist collective, they are allergic to anything central. | |
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Artis Schlossberg (2020-06-02 14:43:24) |
@aigarius @travis_burn An old man, peacefully carrying the Star-Spangled Banner | |
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Aigars Mahinovs (2020-06-02 14:45:48) |
@tikums @travis_burn https://t.co/CFzQK1Smy0 - that guy was walking around punching people. He got punched back. | |
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Artis Schlossberg (2020-06-02 14:47:20) |
@aigarius @travis_burn You are clueless. | |
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Aigars Mahinovs (2020-06-02 14:50:27) |
@tikums @travis_burn Which part of that video of the same guy punching people in the head from behind makes me "clueless". Or did you really believe some random tweet that he was "protecting an old guy carrying US flag and doing nothing wrong"? | |
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Aigars Mahinovs (2020-06-02 14:51:32) |
@tikums @travis_burn And then running away like a little girl, like all nazies do when actually confronted. | |