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@AGreasedMonkey, ya not saying this woman was in the right, cause i wouldn't be surprised if she was throwing bottles (no evidence that she was using explosives). But this guy is a convicted felon, self-proclaimed white nationalist, and founder of Identity Evropa. I think it's safe to say this guy is a POS and we probably shouldn't be so quick to assume he was in the right either.
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@Oujosh29, I agree, but we simply don't know what happened. I'm just saying that with this guy's track record he shouldn't be given the benefit of the doubt. She shouldn't either, because she was holding a glass bottle. I see what you're saying, but respectfully I think it is irresponsible to just assume she was attacking him with a bottle. If she was though, I have no problem with him defending himself
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@Blue Shirted Guy, Here's one: http://memes2.fjcdn.com/pictures/Moldylocks_6f7ce0_6240745.jpg Here's another angle of the punch where you can actually see a bottle in her hand: http://memestatic.fjcdn.com/pictures/Moldylocks_d383fd_6240745.jpg You could argue she was just holding a bottle but Antifa was throwing those homemade fragmentation grenades all day.
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@jasohazard, yes, Antifa was doing this but there is no evidence of the individual woman holding bottles with fire crackers. You linked me to pictures of her holding empty bottles and there is also no evidence she was throwing homemade frags. My point is that it is important to seek the truth and come up with a rational explanation. From the evidence, we know she had large empty bottles. That's enough to claim she either threw them or was going to. However, we do not know if she threw them at this guy, but there is also enough doubt to claim that he was unprovoked. So I'm saying that *until more evidence* emerges we shouldn't make assumptions and defend either side, which is being done by her defenders *and* by your side.
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@Blue Shirted Guy, If people have been throwing exploding bottles at me all day and somebody is holding a bottle running at me then that seems reason enough to defend. It was a riot out there no one side is right but I do know Antifa has been using deadly weapons like this which really could have used some police intervention.
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@jasohazard, see again you are trying to add pieces to the story to make the woman look more in the wrong and I don't understand why. There is no evidence she was running at him, she wasn't in the video clips. We don't know she was using deadly weapons. There is evidence that she was holding empty bottles, which is significant but there is nothing more than that as of now. No evidence she used explosives, and evidence she was throwing bottles (she was holding them) but no hard proof. You say no side is right but your arguments have obviously been one-sided. I agree that it needed more police intervention.
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@Blue Shirted Guy, You do know Antifa is the organization right? Antifa the organization has been known to use these explosive bottles. This girl was in a video, it's where this still image was taken from and she was running at the guy and the guy was running at her. There was also her tweet about how she was about to scalp some nazis or whatever. She definitely had some bad intentions.
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@jasohazard, yes, I was in the car and my responses make it unclear. I'm editing them. The girl was not running at him in the video I saw, I'm not sure which video you watched. Again I'm not saying she was in the right but you are obviously taking a side in a situation with very little evidence to support either side. (The 2 sides being the 2 individuals) (edit: for example you claimed the girl was using bottles with firecrackers, why did you claim this?)
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@Blue Shirted Guy, I didn't claim. I'm saying the the group uses them and that she was pictured with a bottle twice, of course there wouldn't be a firecracker in there unless she was about to throw it. I do have to side with the other guys though. They were there at an organized event and antifa showed up to attack them. Pretty ironic that they call themselves antifascism when they act pretty fascist themselves.
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@jasohazard, you said there are pictures of her holding bottles with firecrackers in them didn't you? You also said she was running at him. Why did u say both these things? I am in no way defending Antifa nor this woman. I am showing 2 things. The first is that there isn't enough evidence to side with either individual. The second is that it is irresponsible to add facts because then there can't be a reasonable discussion.
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@KeKesUHaulFacility , I'm honestly surprised my comment above got downvoted 6 times, I'm not quite sure what i said there that people disagreed with. I'd answer no to your question but him being a white nationalist makes me more surprised that people here are flocking to his side, because I bet that if he was an actual skinhead or real horrible person that people wouldn't be on his side, even though it'd be opposed to their argument
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@Blue Shirted Guy, Not sure if my other comment got through but I couldn't post the site for some reason. Pretty much I agree we can't be sure that she was throwing explosives but she did show malicious intent in her tweet. The second part was that she jumped in the middle and turned to grab the guy buy the collar when she got punched. I'm sure you can find the tweet and video if you just look it up.
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@jasohazard, I saw the tweet, which is why I am 100% in no way defending her. I saw the video though and I didnt see her turning to grab the guy. In the one I saw she was running behind and to the left of the mob and he ran over from the right and punched her. You said though that she had firecrackers in a bottle and that there were pictures. Are you saying that's false? You don't think that it's an issue that people are trying to actively go out of their way to make this guy seem more in the right?
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@Blue Shirted Guy, No there aren't pictures of her with the explosive in the bottle, I was inferring that her having the bottle, antifa's history with the explosive bottles, and her intent says that she may have been part of that too. Either way she had a bottle when she got punched so that would explain why it happened. In the picture that we are commenting on you can see she has her hands on his collar
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@KeKesUHaulFacility , haha, actually. You know it's a problem when people feel the need to add falsehoods to defend a white nationalist and convicted felon, and then still defend him when those falsehoods are exposed. Bet if it was Amy Schumer throwing the punch everyone here would fall in love with the Antifa woman haha (edit: ya he's an extremely violent person and people just assume he had to be provoked, it's unreal)
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@jasohazard, Now you've completely changed your argument. By your logic then that guy should be held accountable for every act his organization is responsible for. Have you looked him and his organization up? (Edit: you are also now saying she deserved to be punched simply because of her affiliation with her organization?)
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@Blue Shirted Guy, It's not that they should, it's that when they are labeled as domestic terrorists by the United States government, every member will have to answer for the crimes of the group. I'm saying that because of the group's actions, she was subject to judgement based on those actions because she was with them. She had a bottle and jumped into the fight that was breaking out. Either way that was her decision, she knew what she was getting into.
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@Blue Shirted Guy, He was there for the rally, she was there to fight them. I haven't changed my argument, I've tried to change the point of view to help supplement my point so you can understand better but you are twisting it as changing my argument, which is why I never liked debaters. They can be 100% proven wrong but still twist words to make their point seem valid. I see what you mean but the point is she was there to fight, he was there to rally for free speech.
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@jasohazard, I'm just making sure I understand your point. So you're saying that Antifa initiated the fight and so Damigo felt that he needed to use violence as well to stand up for his rally? Do you not see that this leads to a possible scenario where Damigo ran over to the brawl and punched a woman he saw holding a bottle? It's possible he was provoked by the woman, possible he wasn't. That's my point, can't choose a side between *the individuals* because we don't know what happened
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For those who don't know, this chick was with AntiFa assaulting people at a rally in California recently. She stated her intent to assault people the day before on social media. After the police received stand down orders from their chief of police, who is a member of the extremist group By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), AntiFa proceeded to throw fireworks, rocks, and masonry and single out and beat people on the ground. Eventually they set off a smoke bomb that was blown back towards them by the wind and a large number of rally-goers chased off the AntiFa through the streets. The girl in question was hit while engaging in the brawl and is e-begging for $40,000 for medical bills despite appearing perfectly uninjured the next day on video. Oh, and she was also once a porn star apparently.
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@Jdrawer, it was a free speech rally with mostly classical liberals, libertarians, and AnCaps present. It was not an ethnonationalist rally, nor did it even have anything to do with racial identitarianism. There were simply a small handful of ethnonationalists and even open fascists there ostensibly to support free speech, although more likely there to troll AntiFa. Also, ethnonationalists aren't inherently violent. Most would rather just talk non-stop until you leave the room than initiate force.
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@Jdrawer, "behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something." That's according to Google, which in turn got the definition from Oxford. There are several definitions from other dictionaries that all have the same meaning as this. Not a single one says that words or ideas constitute violence, only physical force.
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@Poondog, there's no evidence she used M80s and watching the video she wasn't attacking him with a bottle, so we are unsure if that happened. Why are you so quick to assume that he was in the right when we don't know what happened? (Edit: @Oujosh29, is there any evidence? I'm legitimately wondering cause I can't find any)
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@Blue Shirted Guy, the photos of her with a bottle a literally everywhere. I admit I have seen no photo evidence of the M80's, but both sides have reported the same fact. There was a blog on Reddit and FB of an ex-ANTIFA guy who left because he witnessed this.... he was there to protest, not kill ppl
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@Poondog, I know she had a bottle, but she was not attacking him with it in the video. I'm not defending either individual and in fact think Antifa was more in the wrong organization-wise. However, a leader of an organization holding a peaceful rally should not be in the brawl. My point is that there is not enough evidence to say either *individual* was in the right, especially with violence involved.
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@Blue Shirted Guy, Oh I guess I did put that there. She was pictured with bottles and given her ill intent it was something I would say is not too crazy to think, but yeah you're right we haven't seen her commit the act. And second in the video I saw they both ran at each other, she jumped in the middle of it all saw him went for his shirt collar and obviously the guy went for the punch. Here's a site that has the video and her twitter thing if you haven't seen it. I haven't read what the author of this articleby said, I can only assume its not antifa friendly, but the videos and tweet is there
I feel like "it's ok to hit women like we hit men because equality" isn't really a good ideal. We should never advocate for violence in any way at all, so the better thing to say is "don't hit women but don't hit men either". Don't hit women, don't hit men, don't hit anybody really. However if it's a situation like "woman is attacking me" or "woman is committing crime against me/family" then it becomes a gender-irrelevant self defence action, naturally.