Trump at least has enough honesty to say he wants to shut down those that bother him. While it seems very un American at least he is up front. I find that better than the Biden admin using the FBI to lean on FB & Twitter to delete content and kill accounts. Both are a fascist’s tactic/maneuver.
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 20, 2025, at 10:10 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I’m not sure it matters a whole lot whether some violent protestors or > hooligans are Antifa or not. If they use “black bloc” techniques and arson, > maybe they are just some bad dudes. > > What concerns me more is that everything lately is done by “the left” or “the > right”. Not a particular person I can name, like this or that senator or my > neighbor Bob. My observation was this used to be more common with the media > supporting DJT because he blames “the lunatic radical left”, but now the > progressive leaning media is blaming everything on “the right”. > > It’s as if all people belong to one or the other, and you can identify them > on site. When in reality I think most people if you asked them whether they > are “the left” or “the right” would reject those labels. And they are the > same species and look the same. (Well, I’ll make an exception for the MAGA > cult, they wear red hats to declare their identity. I feel like MAGA isn’t > the same as “the right” although lots of people would disagree.) > > A specific person, Tyler Robinson, shot Charlie Kirk. But that doesn’t fit > anyone’s preconceived narrative or advance their agenda or put money in their > pocket. It must be the fault of some group I dislike. He did it because he > was raised in a conservative family. He did it because the left called Kirk > bad names. He did it because of the transgender roommate. Who knows? The > only information we have from the killer’s own words is Kirk said things that > pissed him off. I never followed Charlie Kirk, but in retrospect he said > some things I find offensive. But apparently in a spirit of free discussion. > Do we kill people now for saying things we find offensive? I hope it hasn’t > come to that. I’d bet most of us would have to kill several people per day. > > Who remembers Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism? You could destroy someone by > calling them a Communist, you didn’t need proof, and it didn’t really have > that much to do with Communism. It was just a label you could throw at > someone. So if Joe says Chuck is a Communist, and Steve protests that he > knows Chuck and he isn’t a Communist, then Steve must be a Communist, and he > must be destroyed as well. > > Some of these labels like the left, the right, woke, anti-semitic, terrorist, > etc. feel like McCarthyism to me. > > From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bill Prince > Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2025 9:10 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT? Carr and Kimmel and "jawboning" > > I can make a website like that today. > > and I don't really give a shit because it's not a real organization. > > If you google "join antifa", you will get at least a dozen different places > to go; all disconnected from one another. > > Name their leader. > > > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > On 9/19/2025 8:58 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: > Not organized? > > https://www.joinantifa.org/ > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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