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Re:Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website by dragonwriter on Friday August 25, 2017 @04:56PM (#15102173)
> He is opposed by his own party,

He is opposed by a significant fraction of the other elected officials in his party in some issues, but he's also carrying out a campaign to bring he party to heel (and has not been especially constrained in taking extraordinary executive actions by the intraparty opposition, though that has limited his legislative success.) While his public support is weak overall, it's mostly concentrated in the committed electoral base of the party. So he's actually positioned better than one might expect for the intraparty struggle. If he remains in office through the midterms, I wouldn't be surprised to see him in relatively undisputed control of the party after them.

> Ghandi didn't wear a mask, Malcom X didn't wear a mask, the kids at Kent State that were shot by the police didn't wear masks

Another thing that all those people have in common is being shot for their activism.

Re:Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website by rpiguy on Friday August 25, 2017 @05:01PM (#15102218)
And they are deeply respected...

Just saying Antifa would get a lot more support if they changed their look. People in black masks busting up Starbucks are not who anyone wants in charge. They just do Trump a favor.

Re:Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website by ycmbntrthrwaway on Friday August 25, 2017 @05:08PM (#15102268)
> People in black masks busting up Starbucks are not who anyone wants in charge.

They don't want to be in charge, most of them are anarchists (but only a minority of anarchists are antifa and not all antifa are anarchists).

Re:Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website by Yetanfou on Friday August 25, 2017 @07:47PM (#15103173)
The majority in the rioting mobs don't have a clue what they really stand for. They might be able to articulate, haltingly, what they are against - which is whatever the loudest mouth in the mob has told them they're fighting - but if you ask them what they really stand for the answer is generally some incoherent rabble of buzzwords.

They are like Lenin's 'useful idiots' [1], although the question is what use they serve to whom.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot