Facebook Takes Down Trump Ads Featuring Symbol Used By Nazis To Mark Political Prisoners (thehill.com) 440
Facebook on Thursday took down Trump campaign ads against antifa that prominently featured a symbol used by Nazis to designate political prisoners, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to The Hill. From the report: "We removed these posts and ads for violating our policy against organized hate," Facebook said in a statement. "Our policy prohibits using a banned hate group's symbol to identify political prisoners without the context that condemns or discusses the symbol." The ads featured an inverted red triangle, which was used by Nazis to identify political opponents including communists, social democrats and liberals at concentration camps.
The symbol was included in 88 ads run by pages for President Trump, Vice President Pence and "Team Trump" alongside text warning readers of "Dangerous MOBS of far-left groups" and asking them to sign a petition against antifa, a loose group of radical activists that use direct action to fight against fascism. Just the ads on Trump's page were seen as many 950,000 times before being taken down. The Trump campaign is defending using the image, calling it a "common Antifa symbol" in a statement to The Hill. The campaign directed The Hill toward shirts, stickers and posters on websites were users can upload whatever design they would like to. The most common symbol used to identify antifa is a black and red flag or three arrows inside a circle.
The symbol was included in 88 ads run by pages for President Trump, Vice President Pence and "Team Trump" alongside text warning readers of "Dangerous MOBS of far-left groups" and asking them to sign a petition against antifa, a loose group of radical activists that use direct action to fight against fascism. Just the ads on Trump's page were seen as many 950,000 times before being taken down. The Trump campaign is defending using the image, calling it a "common Antifa symbol" in a statement to The Hill. The campaign directed The Hill toward shirts, stickers and posters on websites were users can upload whatever design they would like to. The most common symbol used to identify antifa is a black and red flag or three arrows inside a circle.
88? (Score:5, Funny)
included in 88 ads run by pages for President Trump
I see what you did there.
A little honesty would be nice (Score:3, Insightful)
Not all Trump supporters are racist, but a very large proportion of racists are Trump supporters.
It would be nice if some of these people had the guts to come out of the closet and say flat-out, "I support White Nationalism", then argue their position. I would rather have a hundred David Dukes running for office and hundreds of thousands voting for them than a dozen politicians who insist they "don't see colour", but who somehow always manage to vote for measures that keep a foot on the neck of non-whites.
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Not all Trump supporters are racist, but a very large proportion of racists are Trump supporters.
How do you know "a very large proportion of racists are Trump supporters"? Did you count them, and figure out the percentage?
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Prove it. You can't, obviously. But you like the way it sounds and people on twitter gives you lots of likes. It makes you feel good.
All Lives Matter, and It's Ok to be White. That's not racist, that's just the truth. You don't have statistics to back up your claim, but I have some you won't like. You'll scream and cry and report me. That's ok. The truth just is, and no matter how much you scream "DRUUUUUMPH
Re: A little honesty would be nice (Score:2)
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Biden's a DINO. Always has been. It's why Obama chose him...he thought it would keep the loon right under some kind of control.
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The cleaners called. Your sheets and hood are ready for pickup.
Beau of the Fifth Column (Score:2)
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To summarize: "Trump isn’t Hitler, but he wants to be." -- fav'd top comment
What's this? The white supremacist wannabe dicator put a black woman in charge of the country's elite military forces? [marinecorpstimes.com]
But absolutely anything that doesn't fit their narrative ever matters. Hitler is the ultimate bad man, therefore, Trump must be accused of being Hitler.
Oh No! (Score:4)
Not the family planning [wikipedia.org] symbol!
Trump's poll numbers have gone up (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't. I can't even. I mean. What the fuck people?
Re: Trump's poll numbers have gone up (Score:3)
This post right here pretty much sums up why you US people will pretty much have your streets burning again, soon, harder.
Because large parts of you seem to just not get it - what's happening, why it's happening, how to solve it...
Well... *shrug* *getpopcorn*
As long as Hammer-n-Sickle are Ok! (Score:5, Informative)
As long as Hammer-and-Sickle [google.com] and Che Guevara [google.com] portraits are Ok, there is nothing to worry about, is there?
Carry on, Facebook!
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The upside down red triangle was one used by Antifa, which is why Trump used it. They're the ones who got it from the Nazis. It wasn't in the hate symbol database at the time.
Its not. The account directed an NBC News reporter to a T-shirt on which the word “ANTIFA” is written across an upside-down red triangle as proof. The shirt was created by a user from Spain on a website in which anyone can upload their own T-shirt design.
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The red triangle has been used by "antifascist" for a long time. It isn't hard to actually search yourself instead of just swallowing whatever Trump haters spoon-feed you.
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The claim is that Trump used an "Antifa" logo when he did not (and used a different logo with a dark history). What similarities there are is another matter.
This is something that took all of a minute to understand...and it includes sifting through the bullshit of Trump sycophants.
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The red triangle has been used by "antifascist" for a long time. It isn't hard to actually search yourself instead of just swallowing whatever Trump haters spoon-feed you.
After reading this thread up to here, it seems that many people actually have been searching and have found no evidence that Antifa has been using this symbol "for a long time." Those who are on your side point to lame anecdotal evidence in the form of uploaded graphics from individuals.
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There are other examples [archive.fo], though it seems to be something used mostly in Spain.
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"other examples" linking to the exact same thing which is NOT the sample symbol Trump used?
Re:It's an Antifa symbol (Score:4, Informative)
Red and black are typical ANTIFA flag/emblem base colours, and each branded cell then designs a specific design to denominate their specific cell. The entire point of creating ANTIFA has been to decentralize the banned militant/terrorist communist party of Germany to avoid said ban. Mutual identification of members in the decentralization process was achieved through certain unified symbology combined with individualized design based off that symbology.
Which is why branded ANTIFA cells will use wildly different graphic designs with commonality being the black/red base colours. "Dear, police, we're not the same ANTIFA as that banned German Communist party, look at our individual graphic." "Dear revolutionary communist comrade from another cell, we're also ANTIFA, look at base colours of our emblem".
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If you can't be bothered to type "antifa emblems" into your favourite image search and see that they follow the pattern I described, consider that this is a black mark on you and not me.
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Originally I used a mod point to mark this Informative, but had to comment.
Antifa are the fascists.
"a loose group of radical activists that use direct action to fight against fascism"
When in actuality, they are a case study in Neitzschian predictions ala:
“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
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Thanks for that insight, comrade.
Curiously, your own post acknowledges that "Antifa" fights "monsters". Is that your intent, or are you that stupid?
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Which ought to surprise no-one.
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Something different, of course. Apparently, posting the same bullshit reference a bunch of times counts as more evidence to you.
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Somebody had a cow
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Uh...so you are saying Trump supports Antifa...that bastard!
Antifa doesn't exist (Score:5, Insightful)
antifa doesn't exist. It's just a flag like being agnostic. You don't need an organization to say you oppose fascist governments.
Why is Trump (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:It's an Antifa symbol (Score:5, Informative)
Just google "antifascist red triangle". They sell tshirts with it. You didn't really search very hard did you?
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Okay my Google's broken. I did just that and got the double red flag (that I've associated with antifa), red/black flag, and the circle A. Heck I had to go a bit down to eventually see the sXe symbol. Upside down red triangle not showing on my results. So just wanting to add my results to this very unscientific study on Google search results.
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https://www.redbubble.com/i/ca... [redbubble.com]
Google searches for this term are already choked with fresh references to this very ad-pulling story. YYou now have to scroll down for a while to find the above.
Re:It's an Antifa symbol (Score:4, Insightful)
How fucking stupid do you have to be to think Redbubble is useful as a source of information?
Anyone can create an account and upload anything and call it anything. I could upload a pride flag and call it the official Space Force logo, but that doesn't make it so.
Re:It's an Antifa symbol (Score:5, Insightful)
Oh some guy made some shirts with a logo? Well shit, that certainly puts the stamp of legitimacy on them beyond any question.
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This is just to prove that antifa was using it, which is all that's claimed.
This may surprise you, but they have a lot of symbols, probably including a bunch of symbols that most of us don't recognize.
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Oh some guy made some shirts with a logo? Well shit, that certainly puts the stamp of legitimacy on them beyond any question.
The point is that people who self-identify with Antifa are using the symbol themselves.
It is a symbol of Antifa, not a symbol of hatred of Antifa, just as the elephant is a symbol of Republicans.
In the Nazi concentration camps, Jews were required to wear a yellow Star of David. So is the Star of David a symbol of antisemitism?
Also, why is there no symbol for capitalists? I feel left out. I hereby nominate a blue square to be the symbol of capitalism.
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The point is that people who self-identify with Antifa are using the symbol themselves.
All this proves is that some guy who goes by the handle "reydefine" put up a page with shirts what that logo claiming to be Antifa. What link does he have really? There are no archive versions of any pages with Antifa in the name more than a day old on that site.
My best guess is that he saw the news articles showing Trump's ads and thought he could cash in.
Re: It's an Antifa symbol (Score:4, Informative)
Capitalists already have a symbol : $
Re:It's an Antifa symbol (Score:5, Insightful)
One guy somewhere who made a shirt and uploaded it does not make it an official symbol.
Show me an official Antifa website, or several Antifa members wearing it at a protest (or probably riot because that is what Antifa does, and why they should be not be defended).
Though Antifa is clearly indefensible for their support of violence, they are clearly being scapegoated by POTUS, and play a small role in the BLM protests.
For Trump to use this NAZI symbol, the same one that was forced on the scapegoats the NAZI used to justify their atrocities, is utterly despicable.
But please, keep defending him, it tells us more and more about who you really are.
Re: It's an Antifa symbol (Score:3)
But it was posted by the Trump campaign. Not by anti-fascist groups.
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Even Christians
LOL.
Ya, even Christians. You know, those hippie beatnicks who protested every war they ever came across and totally didn't lay fucking waste to everything between Western Europe and Palestine for 1000 fucking years, and to this very goddamn day.
Even Christians. You kill me.
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Confirmed bullshit.
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I got one relevant hit for a page that appears to have come into existence today. All the links on that page were 404.
Sure, but who's wearing those T-shirts? (Score:3)
Nobody. The people behind the merch aren't Antifa, they're just trying to sell stuff to Antifa wannabes.
If you really wanted to sellstuff to Antifa, you'd copy protest signs, DIY protester clothing, and especially graffiti. The big three symbols are (1) The three arrows (a reference to the Wiemar era SDP); (2) The circle-A symbol ("Order in Anarchy"); and (3) the red and black flags of anarcho-syndicalism. You also sometimes see some black cats.
That's not to say there can't be some Antifa protesters in
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No, "they" do not sell t-shirts with it. If you look at those etsy t-shirt listings, they're all posted by the same entity, and all listed as "new" (as in posted today). Somebody's trying to backfill.
There are no antifa groups that use an upside-down red triangle. The ads were just a Stephen Miller dogwhistle to Trump's white supremacist base.
Re:It's an Antifa symbol (Score:5, Informative)
I have done some searching for antifa symbols, I do not see this anywhere as one of their symbols. Source pls.
You are either bad at searching or you are just bad at trolling: on cafepress [cafepress.com], Antifa Utrecht on Facebook [facebook.com], probably from this LGBTQ symbol [wikipedia.org]
And even if it is, it is abhorrent for Trump to use it against his political foes.
I really doubt Trump knows about the origin of the symbol.
You don't see the difference (Score:2, Insightful)
I mean, for Pete's sake, you could just read the Wikipedia article you linked to and it will explain it in language even you can understand...
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Is this an Antifa symbol too? https://www.logoworks.com/blog... [logoworks.com]
This gets into willful ignorance territory. FYI, the Bass Ale logo (upside down red triangle) is the oldest known geometric shape used as a logo. If you're going to claim a logo, it needs to actually be the logo, not something similar.
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Antifa Utrecht is a Dutch organisation
The pink triangle Wikipedia article starts:
A pink triangle has been a symbol for various LGBTQ identities, initially intended as a badge of shame, but later reclaimed as a positive symbol of self-identity. In Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, it began as one of the Nazi concentration camp badges, distinguishing those imprisoned because they had been identified by authorities as homosexual men,[1] a category that also included bisexual men and transgender women.
None of that has anything to do with the Antifa Trump was claiming.
So you're not really helping your own case.
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I doubt Trump even knew about the ads!
I doubt he did too, but I am unsure why you would think that makes it ok.
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Finland was part of Russia, and Britain didn't have nuclear weapons.
Re:It's an Antifa symbol (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:It's an Antifa symbol (Score:4, Insightful)
If you're calling people who fight against Nazis as "militant communist terror cells", you might want to take a long hard look at your worldview.
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It is acceptable for militant communist terror cells to use it as they terrorise the society, If you're calling people who fight against Nazis as "militant communist terror cells", you might want to take a long hard look at your worldview.
No, lots of people fought Nazis in the past. Unlike Antifa, they weren't controlled from Moscow, though. Antifa was just a small portion of all the people who were involved against Nazis.
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Communism isn't a Russian ideology in the first place. It's a German/French import, depending on which specific core Communist thinker/location on which work was done you consider seminal. Lenin and his crew were the ones who studied it and brought it to Russia, where they lost the elections in their bid for power in 1917 and started a civil war to take over the country.
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Lyshenkoism is not a part of any version of Communism. It's an adventitious parasite. It could have latched onto any authoritarian group. The idea of Progress came from Victorian England (and probably had deeper roots that I haven't followed).
I don't carry any brief for Marx's theory of history, and Lenin's Communism is frankly unworkable. He kept tinkering with it to make it work, so don't take any statement he made as his final thoughts on the matter, but he was wrong in his basics.
Communism works wel
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At least in the States, the anti-fascist movement was pretty much the first group that actually publicly declared Nazis and other fascists as enemies. While Congress twiddled its thumbers in the 1930s and right up until Pearl Harbor, the anti-fascist movement was the only one who seemed to take the Fascist threat seriously. I'll be blunt, the anti-fascists in the US were on the right side of history. Nazism was and still is one of the most evil political ideologies in history. Frankly, given the odd Neo-Naz
Re:It's an Antifa symbol (Score:5, Interesting)
A large portion of the anti-fascist movement in the 1930s was made up of union members. Admittedly some of those were communists, but most were just regular union members working in solidarity with the violently oppressed unions in Germany and Italy. One of the reasons why Henry Ford financed Nazi newspapers in the US until the opening of hostilities was because of Hitler's anti-union actions (I'm not sure he was aware that union leaders were being sent to Dachau, but he probably would have supported it.)
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Yes, Stalin's Communists fought nazis alongside the rest of peoples in Soviet Union. Soviet people a lion's share of fighting and dying too in that war. I have family members on that side.
It doesn't change the fact that the same family members were also purged and sent to gulags by Communists for their effort.
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Pragmatism. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. During WW2 "Uncle Joe". After the war, it didn't take too long to wake up and smell the totalitarianism. No more "Uncle Joe". So yes. Just because evil fights evil, doesn't mean it isn't evil.
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Everyone already knows you don't. Antifa stands for anti-fascist.
By that logic North Korea is a democracy
Re:It's an Antifa symbol (Score:5, Interesting)
There were many underground groups that also fought against the Nazis, and some of them were Communist cells. So *those* folks have a right to claim the name Antifa. It wasn't just the military, though they played the major role.
OTOH, it's also a good example of why even from the first not all those who had claim to the name Antifa were good guys. The Communists were nearly as bad as the Nazis...perhaps worse in terms of total number of people subjugated and killed. At that time the US really was "the good guys", and often not only in comparison. I wish it had remained true. The enemy of a vile horror is not necessarily any better. The US still is better, but it's a lot closer comparison now than it used to be, and this disgusts me.
That said, the US has been a fascist state (not a Nazi state, think Mussolini's definition) for a long time...probably back to the Civil War. This isn't inherently bad, but it has a strong tendency in that direction. Fascism is quite compatible with Democracy, but the joining needs careful balancing if it's not to go awry, and it feels as if the US became unbalanced with the Supreme Court decision that money == speech. Well, it was already leaning in an unbalanced way, but that pushed us out of the metastable equilibrium.
Re:It's an Antifa symbol (Score:5, Informative)
Well I do, and anti-fascist groups were battling American Nazis in the streets in the 1930s. Poo-pooed as a disturbance of the peace at the time. Of course, a few years later, fighting Nazis kinda became fashionable, y'know, with Americans joining the British Empire and the Soviet Union in pummeling Nazi Germany into the ground.
Re: It's an Antifa symbol (Score:4, Interesting)
Actually, yeah, nationalism is wrong. It's specifically designed to other-ize foreigners so that the population is malleable and can be mobilized using bogeymen and secular religion.
It maybe had a positive role in defining the modern world's borders by using quasi-racist ideology to provide national stability. But it's utility is outmoded in a time where the biggest unilateral land transfer from invasion in the last 60 years is Crimea.
Re:It's an Antifa symbol (Score:5, Insightful)
If you're calling people who fight against Nazis as "militant communist terror cells", you might want to take a long hard look at your worldview.
Right, because you guys didn't just loot, torch and destroy everything you could get your hands on during the weeks of riots recently.
Damn, where do I even begin?
a) The looting and rioting was not widespread, despite what the media may have made it look like. I know it was scary and exciting looking, but that's how they make their money. No, people didn't just "loot, torch, and destroy everything they could get their hands on". The US is fucking huge. The media just went from protest to protest to make sure they kept the visuals up. They mostly didn't go back a week later to show everything getting back to normal. They didn't show 2 weeks of peaceful protests in a location, because that's boring.
b) If you're conflating an angry protest about systematic racism that uses some violence to get attention with "militant communist terror cells", you probably don't know what some or all of those words mean.
c) If you're angry about the angry protests, you just don't understand why they're happening and why violence is the logical outcome.
Re:It's an Antifa symbol (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:It's an Antifa symbol (Score:4, Insightful)
Serious question here:
How can you know what Trump is doing? Absolutely everything Trump does is spun so hard in one direction or another that I can't even see the truth of the matter. He could be the leader of a KKK cell that is about take over the United States or he could be the best president ever and I can't fucking tell because everybody has to throw their own spin on it. It started out with extreme negative spin, probably from the Democrats and disillusioned Republicans.
I am not a spring chicken and I have never seen this much PsyOps bullshit ever. Even when reading about history, I have never seen such extreme social "programming", probably because they didn't have Science to make it as effective as it currently is.
TL;DR, None of us can know WTF is going on because the facts are being hidden and/or spun to an extreme never before seen. From what I can put together, Trump is not a good president but that is not what he was elected for. He was elected to throw a monkey wrench into the machine and it appears as if he is failing that simple task.
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They do though, check the post was usage section on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... [wikipedia.org]
Re: It's an Antifa symbol (Score:3)
You might be missing the symbolism. The symbol was used to mark political enemies of the Nazi government. It's quite an obvious symbol for anti-fascists to use.
When those militant communist terror cells (Score:2, Insightful)
But yeah,I'm just holding the President of the United States to a higher standard than dumb kids showing up at rallies in masks and occasionally throw a milk shake [youtube.com].
On the other hand the right wing [usatoday.com] seems to have real problems [washingtonpost.com] that are slightly worse than a milkshake [wikipedia.org]. Might want to get your own glass house in order first
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What standard is that? "You're forbidden from identifying the instigators of the riots?" What, the dumb kids who are being fooled by ardent communist instigators should not be differentiated from said communist instigators?
And yeah, throwing things at your political enemies is violence. It shows that "I can get to you, and next time, it may be an acid bomb". The goal here is to saw terror in the victim for political reasons. One of the main reasons why Western nations are so exceptionally stable is because
Re:It's an Antifa symbol (Score:4, Insightful)
"It is acceptable for militant communist terror cells to use it as they terrorise the society..."
It is not acceptable, nor is "Antifa" "militant communist terror cells" nor do they use that symbol.
Re:It's an Antifa symbol (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't know, how insane must you be to believe "militant communist terror cells" are significant problem in the US?
Re: It's an Antifa symbol (Score:2, Flamebait)
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If you were a "millitant communist terror cell", the last thing you would do was loot a store. The looting - which you of course have gorged on in the right-wing news, rather than look at some of the 480 and counting [twitter.com] police brutality videos that's been collected - is rather exaggerated.
I'm sort of impressed, if you're a true believer. In this age of cell phone cameras, it really takes some effort to think "millitant communist terror cells" are the reason for the anger, rather than what the blue gangs are do
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It's deflection. Trump's supporters don't seem to want to admit that some pretty sordid types seem to think he's their man, and neither can they accept that he keeps sending out signals that he is, indeed, their man.
Re:It's an Antifa symbol (Score:5, Insightful)
It is acceptable for militant communist terror cells to use it as they terrorise the society, but it's abhorrent for chief of executive to use the same symbol to define them?
How insane with TDS must you be to produce this line of thinking?
For one thing it's a free country. If people want to be communists they can be communists. Secondly, it is not the anti-fascists who are marching through the streets armed to the teeth, wearing swastikas and holding tiki torches while chanting stupid crap about jews replacing them. So please untwist your panties and give it a rest. In Germany and elsewhere the red triangle symbol holds significance for anti fascists for the same reason the yellow Star of David is important to Jews. A whole lot of them were shot, gassed or otherwise murdered by people with beliefs not that far to the right of yours and they had that that thing sewn onto their coats when they died. Staking your claim on these symbols is just a way of defusing the perverse significance that the red triangle and the Star of David holds to you and your buddies so get over it.
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It is acceptable for militant communist terror cells to use it as they terrorise the society...
Yeah, we're going to need some evidence of all of those things.
Evidence that multiple "militant communist terror cells" exist.
Evidence that said cells "terrorise the society".
Evidence that they use that particular symbol while doing so.
Otherwise, you're just full of shit, trolling like the president is.
It's a classic Karl Rove tactic (Score:2)
Karl Rove once convinced an electorate that a veteran missing his legs from war was a coward while a draft dodging ivy league rich boy was a patriotic American Hero. He's a God of propaganda and much of our current troubles stem from the systems he
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Ya, there was a whole lotta doublethink going on when he was whispering in ears. Protest to bring the troops home and you'd be accused of not supporting the troops. It was around that time too when everyone had to wear an American flag lapel pin to prove that they were sufficiently patriotic (because a $0.95 piece of pot metal can do that). Now everyone's got one. The highest ideal it seems is to literally worship this piece of cloth, but following the ideals that this symbol stands for gets you called
Re: It's an Antifa symbol (Score:2, Informative)
It was modded down for ending the post with some inflammatory nonsense. Leaving that bit off would have shot it up to +5 and stayed there. Learn to post better if you want to play this game, else don't play it if you can't win.
Crying is for babies and Presidents. (Example of how not to end your post)
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Ideally moderation shouldn't be about suppressing views you disagree with. The discussion thread itself is where that can be expressed effectively. If there is a bullshit post with no mod points spent on it and an informative/insightful post as the response, then the system works. If we apply our mod points capriciously then it will be a pointless tug-of-war more suited to Reddit's vote system that tracks controversial posts.
P.S. - my earlier post was not Flamebait, it was Offtopic. if you want to waste mod
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That symbol is not the same as Trump used either.
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Funny thing, that page and all others featuring a red triangle seem to have come into existence today.
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You might as well link to Russia Today. [mediabiasfactcheck.com]
Overall, we rate Zero Hedge an extreme right biased conspiracy website based on the promotion of false/misleading/debunked information that routinely denigrates the left.
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If you're getting your worldview from people like that you ought to have a wee think about yourself.
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It doesn't get any more naked than this, and by that I mean your shameless, dishonest post.
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Didn't the Communist Party of Germany fight the Nazis? I thought they were their enemies. Granted commies are not exactly good guys either .. but at least they fought the Nazis.
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Supposing you were doing a political ad against the Supreme Court ruling on LGBTQ discrimination, would you illustrate it with a pink triangle? Of course not. Because you're not an idiot.
Of course anyone has a *right* to use Nazi symbols with a radioactive past in his political speech, but that doesn't mean it's not a damn fool thing to do.
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Are the Black Panthers a right-wing racist group now?
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Indeed. And then anyone who isn't espousing far left thought and actively participating in public struggle sessions needs to be sent to re-education camps, to be re-educated through strict work regime. Those rehabilitated through this that survive can then be re-introduced into society based on love, caring, hating right wing thought and hating white people.
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> All Militias are nothing but right wing racist groups who should have their guns confiscated. The Second Amendment needs to be repealed or at the very least, have the whole militia clause removed. That is a vestige of 18th century colonial thinking. The British are NOT coming again!
I'll be sure to alert the Roof Koreans regarding your views on the second amendment and racism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
https://freebeacon.com/coronav... [freebeacon.com]
GP is wrong about the possibility of the British (Score:2)
One of my all time favorite events was when a bunch of "Southern Gentlemen" decided they were gonna get their rifles and go scare them up some Muslims over at their Mosque.
So there they were, all armed and
You do know that's Antifa symbol, right? (Score:2)
The upside down red triangle is used by some Antifa groups [twitter.com].
That's what the Trump ad was about, complaining about Antifa...
So when are you going to go complain to Antifa about this? Short answer, never.
P.S. can't blame you from being confused as Google has scrubbed all results showing that upside down triangles are related to Antifa, spamming it with anti-Trump stories instead.
Just as hastily scrubbed I'll bet, are the profiles of Antifa people that used it... very possibly they actually were using it with
It's OK to have biases (Score:4, Insightful)
Bias is bad when it is unfounded. Bais against Nazis is not unfounded.
This is a classic tactic of the fascists in general, BTW. They will hide behind the shields created to protect legitimated discourse up until they're in power, then they will destroy us all. Never forget the Nazis won their elections up until they dissolved parliament.
Re:Facebook should give up (Score:4, Insightful)
Define hate speech for me.
Well, since you asked, here you go. [facebook.com]
Re: Facebook should give up (Score:3)
Apparently this gem is not hate chocked full of hate speech. Facebook has - Trump Must Die Marching & Chowder Society and Donald Trump Needs To Die.
Common sense would dictate if a person or group is advocating the death of someone it is most certainly hate speech. Yet not a peep or move by Facebook.
Try saying that sort of stuff about the former president and youâ(TM)d be lucky to stay out of jail and/or alive.
Re: (Score:3)
You mean your post, right?
Antifa is not a group, it is a free to use brand.