Agreed...hence the distinction mentioned between rioters & protesters in my comment.
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I gave up on both sides years ago.
Somewhat a generalization, I believe as I find it difficult to discern the political leanings of our fellow pipe smokers. We have a rule as to not jump into that pool here. True, that some tap dance around it, but most of our folks here keep their own Counsel when it comes to which side of the aisle they lean.
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Haha if anything I’d say it’s opposite of Sincerely’s observation. It’s just the conservatives that are loudmouths about it. ?Somewhat a generalization, I believe as I find it difficult to discern the political leanings of our fellow pipe smokers. We have a rule as to not jump into that pool here. True, that some tap dance around it, but most of our folks here keep their own Counsel when it comes to which side of the aisle they lean.
if someone keeps their mouth shut politically I’m not sure how you are guessing they are a conservative.
Also there are no real conservatives anymore so his observation is doubly wrong.
ME AND BLUEGRASSBRIAN ARE THE MOST CONSERVATIVE PEOPLE ON THE PLANET
I hope these thugs didn’t hit Nat Sherman’s after...
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Well small businesses should be the backbone of America but Amazon and the general public’s lack of loyalty broke its back long ago...
True...it is an important distinction indeed between the peaceful protesters and the random criminals using the protests as an excuse.
But then there is the "highly organized" aspect as you say of some (I would say most) of the criminality, which is the most concerning. And this represents a third faction in all of this...a faction that uses violence and destruction as a form of protest...or, more accurately, as a means of furthering a political/social agenda...terrorists in other words.
There are undoubtedly some of those as well, but what HAS turned up are cases of well planned break-ins with no political overtones, and a weird one in LA where some goofballs in black face were caught smashing windows in the Fairfax district.
Yes, there are agent provocateurs as well...a fourth element in all of this.
But we have a known, organized group: "antifa"...no mystery there.
And they are exactly what they claim to be against: fascists.
They're the far left version of fascists. Its interesting that most of the suppression of opposition,censorship of differing political opinions and outright chaos is coming from the left. Not to mention all the tobacco regulation bills mostly have a "D" attached to them. True liberals are becoming rare it seems which is rather unfortunate.
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Antifa, nasty bunch, except that there's no documentation to point to their involvement to any great extent as they are apparently too poorly organized to mount such an effort. But they'll do as a popular boogy man.
This is as political as I get, Come Election Day the Americans who are horrified by this lawlessness will make their voices heard!
Well, I'll just agree to disagree there, because IMO, they are rather well organized and well funded...but I won't descend any further down that rabbit hole here. (And I would just add, they aren't the only such group out there either).
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH OK CHARLIE KIRK
antifa is a madeup scapegoat for coattail conservatives.
HAHAHAHAHA AND MY PROOF WAS FROM A GUY WHO SAID SO
man, you could conspiracy any theory.
The far anything is not about freedom. They're all about conformity to some made up ideology. But they all like to use the word "freedom" as a smoke screen.
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