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SunImp

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June 30, 2019

How do we deal with our sides anger?

So I was surfing through twitter and came across this lovely clip. We don't know how it all started of course, but the Right is already
mobilizing to use clashes like this against us.

https://twitter.com/Jimryan015/status/1145067852375851008?s=09

Over the last few months our side has been attacking politicians, bystanders and alt right out of anger and its giving the Right ammo to twist public perception against us. They probably have a big list of assaults ready just to shove into our face to shut us up now. Just look at these

https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-faces-deportation-allegedly-assaulting-man-maga-hat/story?id=61346171

https://www.koat.com/article/fight-over-make-america-great-again-hat-ends-with-teen-s-arrest/22859177

https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/crime/2019/02/27/nj-man-19-arrested-assault-elderly-man-wearing-maga-hat/3008538002/

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/06/the-dreaded-milkshake-attack-has-made-its-way-to-a.html

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/young-woman-says-viciously-attacked-wearing-maga-hat-austin-134813834.html

I don't believe all these assaults are the lefts fault some of these could be just anarchists trying to instigate things or Magats successfully goading people into attacking them. One thing is true though is we can't just let people throw stuff or punch other people because we hate what they believe. We need to fight these people by using words and legal means. Don't let them win by goading you into a fight. If you're at an event and see our side ready to pounce you need to step in and deescalate the situation. We are going to need to deal with more and more of these events in the coming months and for sure after the 2020 election.

June 16, 2019

Hundreds of Current and Former Law Enforcement Officers Reportedly Found in Extremist Facebook Group

Hundreds of current and former police officers and other law enforcement personnel are members of “Confederate, anti-Islam, misogynistic or anti-government militia groups” on Facebook, according to an investigation by the U.S. Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal News posted on Friday.
Reveal’s data is from prior to mid-2018, when Facebook removed a function that allowed downloading of membership lists from groups. Reveal wrote it created two separate lists of “members of extremist groups and members of police groups,” then compared them to find 14,000 cross-matches. Reveal further checked to see which of those accounts belonged to individuals with a verifiable history of employment in law enforcement (as opposed to people with personal ties to or an interest in the profession), finding “almost 400 users were indeed either currently employed as police officers, sheriffs or prison guards or had once worked in law enforcement.”


Reveal wrote that some 150 of the officers in question were involved with “violent anti-government groups”


https://gizmodo.com/hundreds-of-current-and-former-law-enforcement-officers-1835545223

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