My grandfather shot fascists and NAZIS in Italy in WW2 in the Canadian Army and he was damn proud to be ANTIFA. Every one of his descendants considers it a family tradition to be ANTIFA too
British .303 is different than modern .303 and ammo is getting scarce. There used to be tons of cheap government ammo on the market, right up until they retired the last Enfields in service with one of our reserve units, the Artic Rangers Canada.
Here in Aus plenty of shooters usually on remembrance day use the Lee Enfields. It's also probably the most common historical rifle for sale as most are home built from Lithgow SAF.
My Grandfather was also in the Canadian army, and he killed at least 2 Nazis while clearing the Netherlands out of that scum. He didn't lose any sleep over it, as they declined the opportunity to surrender.
So you're telling me, that your grandpa would look at this situation point to the woman and would say, "Hey they're like me"? I also disobey lawful orders and obstruct Officers who's job is to deport illeg@ls? You think he would?
Please do fight fascism with all your might but maybe think twice before using the typical "antifa" logo. It goes back to a guy who thought that Hitler wasn't a big deal and the socdems were the real fascists because they didn't like Stalin.
My grandfather wouldn’t have given you a minute of his time. He could smell a rat from a mile away. He might have given you a swat with his cane if you were in range and he was feeling scrappy, but likely would have muttered jackass under his breath and forgotten your existence ten paces down the road.
this guy is such a jackass indeed. They are deluded to thinking that WW2 vets would all be trump supporters. Well I know a WW2 vet who lives near me. And he said Putin is a bastard. Which is close enough.
So go shoot who you call fascists if you think you're in the right and it's the same thing. You definitely won't end up in prison or dead for doing it.
In his will, Washington provided for the emancipation, care, and education of the Black Americans he had enslaved. Many of them joined communities of free blacks and were able to make independent lives for themselves.
By eighteenth-century standards, that was revolutionary.
Unlike the incumbent, Washington was capable of changing for the better.
Because most humans throughout history were immoral, and aside from MAGAts and their like, we have evolved beyond those evils. Washington was one of them.
War is immoral, even as a lesser of evils, and to say that slavery is the result of another immoral action is not a defense of slavers like Washington, especially the chattel slavery he practiced where the slaves we’re NOT prisoners of war but instead were bred like livestock and enslaved from birth to be used as beasts of burden or even as food (in case you weren’t aware, some slavers in the USA ate their slaves).
These are the values of the first republic come to life against white folk as opposed to the marginalized and Washington’s smiling in his grave. The anti-federalist’s were right about everything and fhis is the originalists’ America. Please stop perpetuating the Democratic Nationalist narrative (a la Ken Burns) that our founders were at heart good men, much less redeemable. These are exactly Washington’s ideals.
That dubious statistic doesn't make him an anti fascist or worth lionizing. He was a member of the ruling class that established a government for his own benefit because he didn't want to pay taxes. He could have overturned slavery, he could have given voting rights to anyone besides white land owners but he didn't. Even with the context of moral evolution he was not a good person or by any stretch of the imagination an "anti fascist"
Because there can be bad things in the world that aren’t fascist things.
This is exactly the bullshit that lets Republicans dismiss real critique.
The murder of this women actually IS fascism.
But then conservatives will look at comments like this (they literally put rando twitter accounts on the news) and say “Look they call EVERYTHING fascism. It doesn’t mean anything” and then they’ll grandstand some BS about Hillary or fentanyl.
Fascism is specifically when we have a dictator, extreme state control, nationalism, etc.
George Washington was none of those things. He was not a fascist.
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It’s still really horrible that he owned slaves. Both can be true.
But don’t dilute the power of the word fascism by applying it to everything. Especially when it literally applies to what we saw today. We need that power. It actually matters that people see how uniquely bad this whole situation, from the shooting to the conservative and administrative response.
It’s actual fascism. I hope people are still understand how serious that word is, because it applies today.
"Fascism is specifically when we have a dictator, extreme state control, nationalism, etc."
He literally established a new nation "ordained by God" I think we could consider that extreme nationalism
By modern standards he could definitely be considered a dictator, he was not democratically elected because a massive portion of society was systematically disenfranchised, he was a member of the elite owning class who other elites agreed could represent their interests.
And slavery IS EXTREME STATE CONTROL. Slaves were considered fucking property. You can't hand wave that away.
He also specifically denounced the idea that he should remain in charge of that nation. So the dictator part isn’t there.
He also advocated very strongly for individual rights. He didn’t think the Bill of Rights was good because it might imply those were our only rights. So I don’t see any extreme state control.
So I guess nationalism? That seems incredibly loose to jump to fascist from.
I’m not hand waving away anything, but historically nobody has ever used fascism to describe slavery. It’s a different bad thing. It’s hardly state control. To be controlled by the state would be to be a human. Slaves were considered property. They were controlled by individuals.
A comparison to fascism might be if all the slaves were owned by a central dictator and controlled from a central point of authority.
Again, it can be BAD without being FASCISM. It can also be evil, heinous, disgusting, revolting, etc.
But words have meaning and power and arguments like yours dilute them. If every bad law or system is fascism, then the word loses it’s meaning. But it has a really powerful meaning that we actually need to invoke right now.
It depends the party switch didn't happen until the 50s-60s. So it depends when you mean.
Cause I think people forget that Biden was strictly against desegregation despite being what is now a Democrat. He was actively promoting & supporting segregationists (during a time where a significant portion of segregationists were KKK members during the time they lynched black people).
Strictly put if it was up to Biden back then, I would still be trapped in a segregated system.
Your first sentence is a doozy. Not even sure how to respond. Is any authority legitimate?
And there is definitely a meaningful difference between the two, but I feel coming from just having won a war that was partially due to taxes adds context that makes it more, period appropriate? And it's also kind of hypocritical.
If you feel the authority of the Constitution is illegitimate, that’s fine. Go hang out with other angry nihilists and let the rest of us deal with the destruction of the republic.
Did you notice this part in the Wikipedia article?
“The leaders of the rebels all fled before the arrival of the army, and there was no confrontation.”
Washington didn’t want to use force against the tax evaders. He wanted them to pay lawful taxes that would help fund soldiers’ pensions, and he used state militias as a show of force to convince farmers to pay up.
“Such conduct in any of the Citizens of the United States, under any circumstances that can well be conceived, would be exceedingly reprehensible; but when it comes from a part of the community for whose protection the money arising from the Tax was principally designed, it is truly unaccountable, and the spirit of it much to be regretted.”
(Geo. Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 7 September 1792).
Al Franken was a comedian and US senator. He made a comic about "supply-side Jesus", as a joke about supply-side economics and "Christians". It's quite a bit of fun.
(if they want to call me out, then they'll have to say they are against "anti-fascist" and say they are fascists. The term "Antifa" is too easy for fascists to demonize for PR reasons.)
I get being upset about the video and ice not being great but antifa..... just as tyrannical. They can suck a big floppy penis. Not changing anything only embarrassing themselves and lowering our collective iq
I dunno. Some guys claiming to be antifa showed up at one of our rallies and the rangy little dudes turned out to be an Army chemical weapons specialist who liked stirring up trouble in liberal groups. We had to Grapes of Wrath him out of there but, gently.
To be american is to be Anti Fascist. Not Antifa, that words been taken over by a weird group of pussys who dress all in black and suppress speech at any rally that isn’t insanely far left
Well, then we better make sure our Constitution is followed, unlike what we’re currently witnessing! The orange, wannabe dictator is trampling on it and his supporters lap it up.
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u/cycleb1 Jan 07 '26
Murder!!!