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Oct 25, 2017
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A string of violent clashes erupted in Washington, DC, on Saturday night, hours after large crowds of protesters marched through the city in support of President Donald Trump.

By nightfall, a number of anti-Trump counter-protesters and antifa members were brawling with Trump supporters and members of the far-right Proud Boys. The chaos left injuries and arrests on both sides, according to The Washington Post.

One person was stabbed and critically injured in one clash around 8:30 p.m., the DC fire department told NBC Washington, though it wasn't immediately clear who stabbed whom.

At least 10 people were arrested as of Saturday afternoon, four of them on gun charges and two on simple assault, according to NPR.


This thread feels a little one sided with the videos shown



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Mar Tuuk

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Oct 31, 2017
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The fireworks caught me off guard. Scenes like the first video give Trump ammunition that his supporters are being attacked.

Whatever Healing Biden promised will be hard to achieve.
 

UberTag

The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
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Kitchener, ON
So the anti-Trump group incited the violence against those poor Trump supporters at every opportunity.
Thanks for clarifying things Western media. You're doing good work.

<rolls eyes>
 

Soap

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Oct 27, 2017
15,168
I hate Trump as much as the next guy, and he holds the blame for insinuating this. However, I am not down with this at all. Maybe come January if he refuses to leave and his supporters back him then it's fair game, but right now I don't see what benefit this is to anyone.
 

meowdi gras

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Feb 24, 2018
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Wouldn't be surprised if this was an unannounced goal of this "protest". Watch the denunciations come in from Biden & co. now.
 

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I'm torn. A lot of this is intentionally provocative and a lot of it is from Trump supporters starting shit so as to draw violent reactions from counter-protestors. In the words of the Mad Max movie, that's bait.

However, they're also Nazis. And I'm pro bad things happening to Nazis.
 

Violence Jack

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Oct 25, 2017
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The only thing I don't condone is going after a woman with her kids. They are innocent victims of their mother's dumbass actions.

That being said, if I ran across people who supports a president who supports white supremacists that want me dead, I'm not going to be sad if someone beats their ass. Nazis should be afraid to show their faces in public. Also, these selfish fucks are a large part of the reason why we can't get past Covid and see no problem holding a super spreader event during a global pandemic.
 
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Burli

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Nov 7, 2017
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It's unnecessary for anti-protesters to get involved. The Democrats won and Trump will be leaving office; let the MAGA idiots protest their fake injustices alone and infect each other with covid. Don't put yourselves in harm's way and give the MAGA hats ammunition for their anti-left propaganda.
 
Oct 29, 2017
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I really don't care. Donald Trump's already being a little fucknut about leaving, his supporters still support his bullshit, and a few hundred thousand people are going to die because of Trump and his supporters. They can all fuck off. Time for them crawl back under their rocks and let the adults be in charge again.
 

weekev

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Oct 25, 2017
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It's unnecessary for anti-protesters to get involved. The Democrats won and Trump will be leaving office; let the MAGA idiots protest their fake injustices alone and infect each other with covid. Don't put yourselves in harm's way and give the MAGA hats ammunition for their anti-left propaganda.
100% my thoughts too.
 

Dyle

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Oct 25, 2017
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Shame people are falling for this obvious bait and giving them ammunition to prove their claims.
 
Oct 27, 2017
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The amount of times counter protestors turn out to be right wing nut jobs still is enough times that I'm not believing the on the ground reporting just yet.
 

Pasha

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Jan 27, 2018
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How shameful! How disgusting!
Come on people we should be better than this.
Why can't we just let Trump and his supporters carry out this coup in peace?!
 

Xando

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Oct 28, 2017
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Anti-Trump protesters shouldn't take this easy bait to put themselves in a position to get condemned.

We should be better than this.
 

WedgeX

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Oct 27, 2017
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I took a week off of posting but this OP prompted me to come back - signal boosting the Daily Caller and TownHall?

Posting into videos showing racists getting yelled at when folks got stabbed and beaten up by the Proud Boys? Come on.
 

Deathglobe

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Oct 25, 2017
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Every trump supporter wants to toss around that he's the best because we haven't had a war in 4 years. But don't realize that's because we've been fighting ourselves the past 4 years.
 

Keasar

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Oct 25, 2017
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Victim blaming is wrong on so many occasions.

However, for this moment I am not gonna give a shit and say their own fucking fault for waving his merchandise around being proud to support a racist, homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic, rapist, paedophile of a goddamn inhuman, selfish monster. Don't walk into a massive crowd of anti-Trump demonstrators wearing a fucking MAGA hat.
 

winjet81

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Oct 27, 2017
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These Trump supporters are human filth and cannot be negotiated or reasoned with - they have no problem seeing your neighborhood burn down by their proud boys and police protectors, so good on these anti-nazi protesters for fighting back against their march of intimidation.
 

ps3ud0

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Oct 27, 2017
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I do wonder how the US will ever come back, electing Trump was an act of a much deeper malaise.

ps3ud0 8)
 

Lord Fanny

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Apr 25, 2020
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The only one I see as being too much is the woman with the babystroller. The rest, eh, fuck'em. People keep saying crap like 'don't give them ammunition.' As if these people need ammunition; they don't function on the logical level. They're out here essentially 'protesting' to endorse a fascist overthrowing of the government and people going to pearl clutch about being mean to these assholes just because 'we won.' Especially, as others have noted, a lot of these reports come straight from the police, so how reliable they even are is up in the air so who knows how accurate it even is. The softness of liberals, man. Even when you have what is basically literal fascists openingly walking down the street, there's calls for civility. People are getting played, for sure, just not the way they think.
 

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Warning: Violent video


Reminder that these Nazi goons are out there starting shit and only showing the aftermath when they get beat back
 

ghostemoji

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Oct 27, 2017
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Stop giving Trump or his supporters the attention they want. Stop engaging and let them fall into irrelevance.
 

noodlesoup

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Feb 21, 2018
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I hope the anti-Trump protestors are realizing that these goons are trying to antagonize them into a fight where they can clip it, cook up a false story for it, and push it as propaganda in an attempt to further radicalize the average American on Facebook.

Don't give them attention.
 

ghostemoji

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Oct 27, 2017
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Proud boys are out attacking people in the streets and the media message is gonna fawn over right wing victimhood

I agree with you but it's looking like a no win scenario here

They went there hoping to have counter protests to antagonize though. Just let then have their little pity party and leave them cry themselves to sleep.
 

Waffle

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Oct 28, 2017
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Don't fall for their bait. This is exactly what they want and it's why they are trying so hard to provoke. Also I agree that the videos linked on this thread seems a bit one sided. What is up with that?
 

Bengraven

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Oct 26, 2017
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You absolutely know the white supremists were super hard waiting for someone to hurt them. The "if you don't like me fuck you" brand they have is basically sexually excited thinking about people attacking them, especially minorities. It's sogood.gif for them to have some shit to incite the base on Parler.

But on the other side, if nothing happens they can then say "look our protests are peaceful".
 

Okii

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Oct 25, 2017
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Yeah I'm not listening to this one sided shit, provoke and ask for fights then play victim when they get knocked out on the ground. Media will spin whatever clip they have to make the Trump magats look like peaceful victims.
 

Sidebuster

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Oct 26, 2017
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As it is, anti-fascist are in a losing battle when it comes to media perception. Everything gets twisted to make the anti-fascist look fascist and it works to the smooth brain majority. This is why I feel regardless of having a Democrat as the President; at some point the country is going all the way. Hell the government is already there. They've been extremely successful with their "free country" mask all the while putting their boots on the throat of the lower classes. Only when it goes to the point of no longer being sustainable will it start to crumble.
 

Nepenthe

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Oct 25, 2017
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It is impossible to not give someone what they want if that person lives in a delusion where every act by their political opponents is inherently proof of victimhood.

Fuck these people.