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2024-05-25 Fifth Column

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Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-05-25 05:07|| || Front Page|| [114 views ] Top

#1 They used to be called anarchists.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2024-05-25 07:30|| 2024-05-25 07:30|| Front Page Top

#2 These are "look at meeeeee!" protests.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-25 07:37|| 2024-05-25 07:37|| Front Page Top

#3 #1 From wiki
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism. Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies and voluntary free associations. As a historically left-wing movement, this reading of anarchism is placed on the farthest left of the political spectrum, usually described as the libertarian wing of the socialist movement (libertarian socialism).

Nihilism (/ˈnaɪ(h)ɪlɪzəm, ˈniː-/; from Latin nihil 'nothing') is a family of views within philosophy that rejects generally accepted or fundamental aspects of human existence,[1][2] such as knowledge, morality, or meaning.

Although, I might be giving them too much credit - and they're simply savages looting.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-05-25 07:43|| 2024-05-25 07:43|| Front Page Top

#4 As I recall, about 40% of them are outsiders, come to help the students do it right. Not only that, but many of the outsiders and quite a few of the students are being paid for the work, with supplies and funds for supplies provided as a package deal. A big funder of the protests is IT billionaire Neville Roy Singham, the notorious Maoist who lives in Shanghai. The People’s Forum is one of his projects, as Code Pink is his wife’s.

The cause is never the cause, as someone said. The cause is always revolution.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-05-25 09:44|| 2024-05-25 09:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Walter Sobchak:
Nihilists! F*** me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.

Posted by Frank G 2024-05-25 09:59|| 2024-05-25 09:59|| Front Page Top

#6 BDS is a dirty word. It's literally illegal in the USA to do that to Israel.

Posted by Cromonter Spawn of the Faeries8107 2024-05-25 14:43|| 2024-05-25 14:43|| Front Page Top

#7 It’s literally illegal at the state level for state or local government entities in certain states — I think about 27 of the 50 — to engage in BDS against Israel, or to do business with those who are engaged in BDS. Private businesses, individuals, and groups can do anything they want, even in those states, and anyone can do so at the federal level.

We have had this discussion several times before, Cromonter Spawn of the Faeries8107. But you refuse to accept reality counter to your fevered imaginings.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-05-25 15:07|| 2024-05-25 15:07|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ Herb

Posted by Frank G 2024-05-25 16:48|| 2024-05-25 16:48|| Front Page Top

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