All the attention being paid to Antifa and its minions and associated organizations is clearly making the organization very uncomfortable indeed. One of its leading lights (such as it is), Prof. Mark Bray, has fled to Europe to avoid what he will doubtless categorize as "persecution", and other leaders are either "taking the gap" with him or trying to avoid public identification in the USA.
Another tactic is to issue "talking points" to left-wing commentators to deny that Antifa even exists. It's so blatant it would be funny, if it weren't so dishonest. See for yourself in this montage of TV commenters all agreeing with each other. It's a tactic we've seen many times before - gaslight the opposition, pretend something isn't so when it very clearly is, and try to obfuscate the issue at every turn. (A helpful question to deniers: if it doesn't exist, why is Prof. Bray's book about the organization still a best-seller?)
As a general rule of thumb, I think the safest approach is to assume that any far-left-wing progressive source, or claim, or allegation is a lie from start to finish. They can't be trusted, because they can't be truthful. It's like some pathological obsession with them. When presented with conclusive video evidence and eye-witness confirmation, they simply reject it as false rather than engage with it. They're what Robert Heinlein would have referred to as "yammerheads", trying to talk over and drown out the opposition and defy reality.
The lies and confrontations are only going to get worse from now on. We have a very difficult period ahead of us as the present Administration tries very hard to remove the excrescences that have defiled the US body politic, and return us to the rule of law. Let's not allow excrescences like Antifa to disrupt public understanding of what's really happening out there.
Peter
When people say it doesn't exist, I like to ask them who received millions in donations over the last 5 years.
ReplyDeleteBig companies weren't giving that money to just anybody; they were giving it to groups properly organized and documented under state and federal law (I'm sure their lawyers wouldn't allow otherwise).
I think this is an attempt to steal from the Tea Party, which was a variety of low level groups with no national organization. And of course, if they claim it doesn't exist then you can't sue it or take it's assets.
The problem with their claims is that a fairly simple review of legal documents shows there is in fact a national organization. I saw an article a few months ago that laid it out, but I can't find it at the moment.
Jonathan
seems like I remember a ad from a while back asking for people with "certain" military skill sets to come and teach others for nice bucks. I forget where it was but I remember thinking and hoping that no one with the skill sets they wanted took them up on it.
ReplyDeleteBTW, during "the summer of love" bullshit I was told about lawyers with WADS of cash ready to bail out some of these assholes that did manage to get locked up.
where did the cash come from and who PAID the lawyers to be there and do that ? still waiting on that.
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." -Verbal Kint
ReplyDeleteExcellent movie.
DeleteTry to avoid areas they inhabit, and be armed....it's about all we can do, until the pendulum swings back towards sanity. Speaking of Hienlien, we are in his "Crazy 6ears", I fear.
ReplyDeleteNo, it's not pathological; it's due to their moral system.
ReplyDeleteThe (overwhelmingly godless) Left believes in situational ethics -- the ends always justify the means; whereas, the right believes in absolute, black and white, morality per the Scriptures.
The sooner we on the right stop seeing the left through our "rose colored glasses"/interpreting their actions and perspectives by projecting our values and beliefs systems onto them, then the more effective our political and cultural efforts to counter them will be -- and especially, the safer we'll be in any interactions with them.
Implied above, but politics and performative "culture" is now a "religion" for the left. Seeing them as the extremists and zealots they are is hugely important -- for instance, there's not much "zeal" separation between mainline leftists and islamists, nor radical leftists and jihadists. So separate agendas, but same fervor for equally distorted and fundamentally flawed worldviews.
That religious zeal is also why as one example, my family no longer has any political bumper stickers on our vehicles.
*and which isn't to say mental illness isn't/pathologies aren't more common on the left -- they objectively are, but it's missing the forest for the trees...
Knowledge is power, and keep your head on a swivel. Stay safe!
One of the main reasons for the existence of Antifa is as a distraction. To keep attention away from the real power brokers on the left who are actually making the decisions. The Antifa "troops" roaming the streets are just the useful idiots that are always available to be used as cannon fodder.
ReplyDeleteWinner winner chicken dinner!
DeleteUseful idiots was the term commies had for their foot soldiers. They'll be utterly incredulous when they're standing against the wall.