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Online bans fail to silence U.S. extremists drawn to protests

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By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN

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Introducing activist reporter MICHAEL(every white person is a racist)KUNZELMAN.

How about for the next article we get one of the thousands of small business owners who’s life's work was destroyed by left wing extremist rioting and criminal looting?

Its articles like this that display the rotten soft spot that many have for the destruction caused by left wing extremists.

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the anti-government “boogaloo” movement.

They are among the dozens of far right movements, many deemed 'domestic terrorists' by intelligence agencies. And their Trump eggs the terrorists on.

How exactly is reporting on online extremists displaying a non-existent soft spot for destruction?

Connection maybe in that Kevin Bacon 7 degrees of separation meme. Remember, when the far right, especially those 'informed' by Breitbart, infowars, RT, Hannity etc etc, can't defend their Trump they attack something they call 'the media', maybe 'the deep state'. Showing they have the reasoning level of a 10 year old believing Marvel Comics reflect some version of reality.

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FizzBitToday  07:43 am JST

Hilarious

Introducing activist reporter MICHAEL(every white person is a racist)KUNZELMAN. 

How about for the next article we get one of the thousands of small business owners who’s life's work was destroyed by left wing extremist rioting and criminal looting?

Its articles like this that display the rotten soft spot that many have for the destruction caused by left wing extremists.

Mate, you’re wasting your time asking. This esteemed publication long ago gave up any pretense of objectivity.

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Right wing extremists are the biggest threat to our country.

Always have been, just trump has a bigger mouth that past pressies

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Remember, when the far right, especially those 'informed' by Breitbart, infowars, RT, Hannity etc etc, can't defend their Trump they attack something they call 'the media', maybe 'the deep state'. Showing they have the reasoning level of a 10 year old believing Marvel Comics reflect some version of reality.

The AM mayhem radio hosts have been spewing moronic crap and lies for decades. Remember the hysteria brought about by the Hale-Bopp comet and the cult suicides that occurred during the time?

As for Marvel Comics, the recent movie adaptations of that franchise are total rubbish. Too dumb for even their teenage target audience.

GoodlucktoyouToday  09:00 am JST

Right wing extremists are the biggest threat to our country.

Always have been, just trump has a bigger mouth that past pressies

Trump always flaps his big mouth like Pac-Man/Puckman.

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Oh look its the "Bungaloo bois" myth being trotted out again to distract from something again.

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Right wing extremists are the biggest threat to our country.

impossible, if that were true then they would be the ones rioting and looting, if you go to New York, Oregon, Washington state, California, Minnesota, the nations capital, Miami, all of these places they’re all radical liberals and they are the ones doing the most damage, even the police aren’t supporting the Democrats the majority of them and the police unions.

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2 posts to add a total of 6 words and 4 punctuation marks to the conversation.

was it even really worth it to have such a low energy response with no facts?

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so Antifa, with all its Facebook groups, Twitter accounts, publicly declared supporters (Im 100% Antifa!) and nightly livestreams of its members is a myth. Doesnt exist, supposedly.

But at the same time this bungaloo bois thing is confirmed- because someone online using a fake name told a reporter something? cause I see dudes in Hawaii shirts at these violent Antifa riots all the......never.

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. This article is referring to private companies that aren’t being forced to do this by the government.

What naivete. Private companies are being held liable for the speech of others on their websites. They are LITERALLY being forced to squelch speech. Laws and court rulings have pretty much made the First amendment a joke in the internet age and what is happening now is that extremists are being effectively martyred and gaining sympathy for it.

Its hard to believe that people think that stopping others from speaking is going to end well. All it is doing is pushing them to speak louder or more secretively. It was better when it was on the same level as everyone else because then we all knew who to watch out for and their audience was less dedicated. One of the things banning people and deleting posts does is confirm to people they better fight the government and corporations to get their right to speak back.

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Any time you try to engage a Trump supporter in a conversation, it turns into them refusing to accept facts and logic and then shouting.

Its a similar story at least with nearly all people. This is because all people are stupid to some degree. But of course its most obvious with the most stupid, which are the people that honestly support Trump via believing what comes out of his mouth.

We must always be aware though that there are those that support Trump precisely because they are well aware of his lies and support what his lies accomplish. Interestingly, they too will refuse facts and logic and begin shouting.

That said though, facts and logic are being refused by those who say that the rightist punk and thug Kyle Rittenhouse should have stopped running away from leftist punks and thugs and handed his gun over to them. Every punk and thug has a right to self defense, so long as they are the ones being chased and attacked.

Yes, that Blue Lives Matter probably white supremacist should not have even been in Kenosha. But he turned tail and ran from violence exactly as he should have. He was given no choice but to defend himself with lethal force when running for his life failed.

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Any time you try to engage a Trump supporter in a conversation, it turns into them refusing to accept facts and logic and then shouting.

And anytime you engage a anti-Trump supporter in a conversation and you refute their "facts", they call you a "Liar" and "Fascist" plus other choice four-letter descriptive words.

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Just a small question from a little person living in safe japan...

Q. Is it true that there are over 200 million guns in private hands, 60% of kids in inner cities feel safer if they belong to a gang, people punch or shoot each other over weather slavery is good, and children get punched for wearing a MAGA hat?

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Any time you try to engage a Trump supporter in a conversation, it turns into them refusing to accept facts and logic and then shouting.

That goes both ways, you bring any type of opposing viewpoints Or facts to liberals and they don’t want to hear it, they want to live in this one world echo chambers that shows their viewpoint is right and THEY are always right and it should never be questioned or ever scrutinized.

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