That pattern is this: a small group of alt-right instigators uses "free speech" as a shield to try to entrap the left into violence.
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Berkeley and PDX antifa keep their movements from scaling to what we saw in Cville. What they do saves lives.
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August 12 in Charlottesville was a natural extension of what that can be if it grows. They picked Charlottesville as a "soft target."
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Heather Heyer died because the alt-right specifically picked Cville as a good place to kill people.
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"Both sides are bad" isn't just dangerous rhetoric. It masks the issue of what happens if the alt-right scales.
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The actions in Portland, Berkeley, Seattle, etc. aren't about antifascists getting their rocks off punching Nazis.
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It's that these folks *know* what happens when 2 dozen Nazis becomes 600.
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Nothing stopped Joey Gibson from speaking at Waterfront in Portland on Sunday. He had a shitload of police protection. He didn't show.
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It's because the right wants violence. And if no one is there to counter them, and to stop the state from enabling that, it grows.
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Charlottesville showed the world what happens if we let it get that large. We can't let it get that large ever again. Done.
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Add in now, with pdx. The multiple sites, false rally points "leaked" to counter protesters and organization of bait teams and record teams
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Where 3-5 nazis start something or try to and there are 10 more recording it. That then edit videos in near real time.
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That pdx thing with false rallies they confuse their own supporters with. With several people showing up at false rally points .
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Add in rallies that cross state lines and in nearby (1-2 hour drives away) cities means even if one city organizes the next may not have
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The same response size. Which will give media they take the shot they are yearning for. Equal or greater numbers than counter protesters
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