Anyone heard anything about Russia lately?

My wife wouldn't believe me when I told her what bronies are. I had to show her the photos.

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My wife wouldn't believe me when I told her what bronies are. I had to show her the photos.

GET ME OUT OF HERE

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
Anyone heard anything about Russia lately?

They are Nazis!

Ann Coulter:

"Apparently, as long as violent leftists label their victims “fascists,” they are free to set fires, smash windows and beat civilians bloody. No police officer will stop them. They have carte blanche to physically assault anyone they disapprove of, including Charles Murray, Heather Mac Donald, Ben Shapiro, me and Milo Yiannopoulos, as well as anyone who wanted to hear us speak. …"

https://www.google.com/amp/amp...ove-in-their-hearts/

^^^ Excellent. Thanks for posting.

Richmond is next. Our democrat governor and our democrat mayor have changed their minds and decided that the Confederate monuments in Richmond must go.



Link to original video: https://youtu.be/k5VZjT0JE70

Read more about it here.

This is a well organized, mammoth effort of the Democrat Party. In Detroit, protestors are demanding the removal of a statue of Christopher Columbus. You know, the ... oppressor. --Actually, none of this makes any sense. It is purely a power move, showing who is in charge now. NOT you white men.

Great! Really, I think this will blow up in their faces sooooo bad. Let them go after every statue of a white person in America, change every school name, rant and rant about "oppression" and "white supremacy."

And when their ass is handed to them in election after election, may they continue to be utterly clueless-- and plan further protests.

http://www.freep.com/story/new...-columbus/583189001/

Hang on, I think I'm getting the hang of this:

Joan of Arc was a White Christian Nationalist.

Huh? Am I getting the hang of this, or what?

Yeah! I demand that we get rid of all these statues of historically significant White Europeans from the 1400s and replace them with statues of historically significant African-American Europeans from the 1400s!

Interesting article from CNN currently titled Unmasking the leftist Antifa movement The article has been edited twice since I read it last night. If you don't have the time or interest in reading the entire article, I suggest watching the first video and second video and then noticing this disclaimer at the end of the article:


Editor's note: This story has been updated to clarify that counterprotesters say they are not to blame for violence at the Charlottesville protest. The story's headline has also been updated.

Both videos display violence by Antifa including face punching and throwing rocks and a can of Pepsi at police, but as clarified in their first edit, CNN can definitively state that Antifa was not to blame for the violence in Charlottesville.

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Yeah! I demand that we get rid of all these statues of historically significant White Europeans from the 1400s and replace them with statues of historically significant African-American Europeans from the 1400s!

Yeah, you know, Jerome the Conqueror, Jose - the First of His Kind - King of the Andals, Tarik the Generous of Ancient Egypt, pick any one of those guys...

Maybe Mother Taneesha, or Tyrone of Arc?

Oh, wait...

(I should pitch that to the WB... Mother Taneesha. You beard it here first., an inner city urban single mom with thousands of kids yet finds the time to make miracles happen, one per episode, a quaint ditty about La-a's first kiss, behind the dumpster in the alleyway by the gangsta turned anti hero who slays his enemies - on the basketball court, or something)

http://abc13.com/politics/univ...ate-statues/2329751/


UT-Austin begins swift removal of remaining Confederate statues

Monday, August 21, 2017 03:27AM


AUSTIN, Texas -- University of Texas President Greg Fenves ordered the immediate removal of statues of Robert E. Lee and other prominent Confederate figures from a main area of campus, saying such monuments have become "symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism."

Fenves announced the move late Sunday night as crews were in place to begin taking the statues down. The school also blocked off the area during the process, and the statues are expected to be gone by mid-morning Monday, a spokesman said.

The university moved a statue of former Confederate President Jefferson Davis from its perch near the campus clock tower to a history museum in 2015. Fenves now says statues of Lee, Confederate Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston and Confederate Postmaster General John H. Reagan, which were in the same area as Davis, also will be moved to the Brisco Center for American History on campus.

Crews early Monday first removed a statue of former Texas Gov. James Stephen Hogg, which was commissioned at the same time as the others, a spokesman said. Hogg will get another place on campus.

Less than 30 people, both supporters and opponents of Fenves' order, congregated after midnight behind barricades near the statues. There was a heavy police presence and some arguments occurred between those gathered.

Mark Peterson, who identified himself as a University of Houston student, was seething at the removal of the statues.

"I hate the erasure of history and my people's history ... people of European descent who built this country," the 22-year-old said. "It burns me to my core."

Mike Lowe, an activist for the removal of Confederate statues in San Antonio, was driving to Dallas when he heard the statues were coming down, turned around and drove to campus. Lowe, 37, who is African-American, engaged in a brief but tense argument with a white male protester until police stepped in to separate them.

"They have no other reasons than 'you are erasing our history.' Their reasoning is flawed. These monuments represent white supremacy, and black lives haven't mattered in this county the same as a white man's matters," Lowe said.

The debate over public memorials for Confederate figures roared into national conversation last week after one person was killed and 19 injured when a car drove into a crowd of people in a clash between white supremacists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia.

"Last week, the horrific displays of hatred at the University of Virginia and in Charlottesville shocked and saddened the nation. These events make it clear, now more than ever, that Confederate monuments have become symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism," Fenves said in a statement.

Moving the Davis statue in 2015 was a much more deliberate effort. The Davis statue had long been a target of vandalism. Fenves convened a special task force to discuss its future after a shooting rampage by a white supremacist at a Charleston, South Carolina, church and ultimately decided it should come down.

Confederate groups tried to block the removal of the Davis statue and the Sons of Confederate Veterans sued to stop it, but a state district judge sided with the school.

The decision to take down the others came much quicker. Fenves said he spoke last week with student leaders, students, faculty members, staff members and alumni about what to do after the events in Virginia.

"The University of Texas at Austin is a public educational and research institution, first and foremost. The historical and cultural significance of the Confederate statues on our campus - and the connections that individuals have with them - are severely compromised by what they symbolize," Fenves said. "Erected during the period of Jim Crow laws and segregation, the statues represent the subjugation of African Americans. That remains true today for white supremacists who use them to symbolize hatred and bigotry."

Asked why the school decided to remove the statues during the overnight hours, UT spokesman Gary Susswein said recent events played a factor.

"We've seen what happened elsewhere," Susswein said. "The timing was designed to ensure public safety and provide minimal disruption to campus."

Cuomo warning others about "playing fast and loose with the truth on this show". The absolute apex of hypocrisy.

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Interesting article from CNN currently titled Unmasking the leftist Antifa movement The article has been edited twice since I read it last night. If you don't have the time or interest in reading the entire article, I suggest watching the first video and second video and then noticing this disclaimer at the end of the article:


Editor's note: This story has been updated to clarify that counterprotesters say they are not to blame for violence at the Charlottesville protest. The story's headline has also been updated.

Both videos display violence by Antifa including face punching and throwing rocks and a can of Pepsi at police, but as clarified in their first edit, CNN can definitively state that Antifa was not to blame for the violence in Charlottesville.

These people are lunatics. The violence is one sided and all coming from the people dressed in black and masking their faces. If I was to protest something, I'd never mask my identity. I wouldn't harm anyone unless protecting myself or loved ones. I don't give a shit if you don't like someone's views, this is America, we have no thought police.

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"We cover our face because the Nazis will try to find out who we are. And that is a very bad thing because they harass people," he said. "We're trying to stop them from organizing. ... When they organize, they kill people, they hurt people, they fight people. And we're the ones who are fighting back."
It's a position taken by many Antifa activists: "This is self-defense."
Antifa activists often don't hesitate to destroy property, which many see as the incarnation of unfair wealth distribution.

Later in article, they go on to explain exactly how they harass people. Can they not remember what they just said they were fighting against a few moments earlier?

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In Portland, where the Rose City Antifa has been active for a decade, members focus on outing people they believe are neo-Nazis, even trying to get them fired and evicted from their homes.
"We've done mass mailings. We've even gone door to door before in communities," said the group's leader, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "We've gone out to areas that we know that a lot of Nazis live with, like, 'wanted' posters, like, 'Do you have any information on this person?' and put them up in the area, and we usually get a flurry of tips like, 'Yeah, this person works here,' and so on and so on."

FOAD

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AUSTIN, Texas -- University of Texas President Greg Fenves ordered the immediate removal of statues of Robert E. Lee and other prominent Confederate figures from a main area of campus, saying such monuments have become "symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism."

Why did the governor of Texas allow this? I hope that UT alumni will respond by ceasing any donations.

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AUSTIN, Texas -- University of Texas President Greg Fenves ordered the immediate removal of statues of Robert E. Lee and other prominent Confederate figures from a main area of campus, saying such monuments have become "symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism."

Why did the governor of Texas allow this? I hope that UT alumni will respond by ceasing any donations.

I'm not sure the Governor could stop it.

Also, remember that UT is there in California on the Colorado.

I doubt anyone could have walked up to those statues anyway. Nobody notices them. Maybe they will pave the space and make it more parking. That's what they really need.

Surely the Governor is at least an ex officio member of the Board of Trustees.

Maybe he can exact some revenge with terminations.

And you are right re: California on the Colorado.

All Texas liberalism stems from Austin.

RMD

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I hope that UT alumni will respond by ceasing any donations.

Agreed, Matt! I hope this is the least that happens.

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Surely the Governor is at least an ex officio member of the Board of Trustees.

Maybe he can exact some revenge with terminations.

And you are right re: California on the Colorado.

All Texas liberalism stems from Austin.

RMD

Nope. The Governor appoints the 9 member Board of Regents to 6 year terms, with advice and consent of the Texas Senate, sometimes known as the SOBs. 3 are appointed every odd year.

The Regents need not be UT alum. Even the Governor isn't required to be a UT alum, and the last one was an Aggie, of all things. Crazy, huh.