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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,398 posts)
Sat Apr 21, 2018, 08:33 PM Apr 2018

Anti-fascists protest neo-Nazi rally in Georgia; police arrest some wearing masks

With heavily armed riot police looking on from behind barricades, anti-fascist demonstrators held signs and chanted Saturday to protest a planned rally by neo-Nazis in Newnan, Ga.

It appeared to be the largest face-off between the groups since clashes at Charlottesville last year that left one person dead.

Members of Antifa, the loose-knit anti-fascist movement, gathered along the sidewalks on streets leading to Greenville Street Park where the rally by the National Socialist Movement was set to begin at mid-afternoon.

At the outset, police arrested several anti-fascist demonstrators, apparently for wearing masks.

One protester held a sign that read, "You can shoot us, you can run over us, but your side always loses."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/anti-fascists-protest-neo-nazi-rally-in-georgia-police-arrest-some-wearing-masks/ar-AAw98mz?li=BBnb7Kz

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RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
1. Human beings are a strange species. One little planet, a spinning ball of dirt, only life we really
Sat Apr 21, 2018, 08:41 PM
Apr 2018

know of and we have endless quarrels and fights ... and countries with weapons enough to destroy all living species on earth. Is this really fucked up or what.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
9. I wonder what would happen if aliens invaded the earth.
Sat Apr 21, 2018, 09:39 PM
Apr 2018

I bet there are assholes on this planet that will try to join the alien's side because they hate particular earth groups.

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
10. Yep, I think they would use the same diversionary tactics as they do now. Advanced life forms would
Sat Apr 21, 2018, 10:28 PM
Apr 2018

probably recognize them for what they are. Of course, we have no idea what these advanced lifeforms might be. It's going to happened sometime. The universe is vast and IMO it's really a fool's logic to conclude we are the only life form in this vast universe.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
11. Yes. Given the size just of our own galaxy and the number of planets that
Sat Apr 21, 2018, 10:35 PM
Apr 2018

can contain life, the likelihood that we are alone is pretty much zero. If an alien race reach us, one thing will be clear. They are likely way, way freaking more intelligent than we are, them just reaching us would be proof positive of that.

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
13. Here's an interesting video I watched recently, particularly interesting because it is
Sat Apr 21, 2018, 10:51 PM
Apr 2018

the US military providing the information, now retired, and able to speak openly. It's hard to watch this video and conclude there is nothing going on.

 

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)
5. Wearing a mask in public is an arrestable offence in Georgia
Sat Apr 21, 2018, 09:04 PM
Apr 2018

unless it's on private property or part of a Halloween or other costume (it's something that was intended as an anti-KKK law).

backscatter712

(26,355 posts)
6. The cops were pointing live weapons at the counterproteaters
Sat Apr 21, 2018, 09:21 PM
Apr 2018

Some of those that work forces are the same as those that burn crosses.

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