A lot of Trump’s voters are too far from a major city to go to protests. And no one cares if the protest in Newfreedomevill, Kansas population 400.
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Rhode Islander and Providence resident here. The first time Resist Marxism showed up they got their tents torn down and sound equipment ruined in the pouring rain that day. This second round I couldn't attend but from what I'm reading in the papers and online is that RM was outnumbered again but the riot police separated the two groups after some words and light fighting with no arrests.
I'll be writing something in the letters to the editor section of The Providence Journal this week about it, what memes or references do you guys want be to drop?
I think user is correct. Most people on the right are liberals like they said who are satisfied with the direction the United States is heading in so they don't have much reason to mobilize. The right-wing groups that showed up to Providence are a mix of actual fascists and their motivations are different.
They also might simply flat-out not have the numbers. It looked like a decent number of the (already small) showing in Providence traveled there from other states. From what I can tell of the American Guard they look like they sprouted from the Midwest. I imagine the left got some additional numbers from nearby cities. I also wouldn't underestimate D*SA and other groups like it which, although not militant, is often able to mobilize a decent number of people quickly in most major cities for these things. So you have a bloc but then you also have a D*SA there which adds numbers and mass, which is good.
I saw that and it was hilarious. My peeps were facing off with fash later the same day elsewhere and that gave us motivation. Red salute.
"Enhance the fighting capacity of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards by intensifying their drills as the anti-Japanese guerrillas did in Mt. Paektu!"
Oh wait, you mean something they might actually publish? Let me think…
No, "antifa" is a term, not a group. Therefore it isn't something organised, not even loosely. Local groups using the term around the globe organise antifascist action as the term implies, but they don't share an ideology more strictly defined than fighting fascism, nor do they interact, really. It's a catchy, very old term, the media grabbed their chance to demonise around 2016. Little else.
Where else did they show up? I thought that it was over after we followed them back to their vans in the street by the state house, unless they had a lesser-known rally somewhere else.
There were several fash rallies in different cities that day. Seattle, Austin, etc. The Providence one was early in the day so the video of their equipment getting wrecked had already circulated by the time we were marching.
One thing I've learned is that the fash who show up at these spend a lot of time traveling to different cities for them and they all mostly know each other. Like in Providence today there was this crew from the PNW and they make their living from donations I'm assuming. The same crew travels to Austin. I don't know why they decided to have multiple rallies that day and divided their numbers like that.
So the right wing protesters are essentially astroturf then?
Unironically yes. This is yet another example of America's decline. The elite went from financing the Tea Party to the Proud Boys. They are scared. Things aren't working as well as they had hoped.
The main organizer for these things in Texas also seems to work for the GOP in some capacity. Her rallies regularly bring in these guys in Fred Perry polos and thugged-out militia types. (See pics.)
You can also see this in how they think the left is always astroturfed. That's how they think about street politics, and they overspend on everything from equipment to travel and lodging. They'll bring in speaker systems and get drowned out by left-wing crowds with drums and noisemakers bought cheaply and in bulk.
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A lot of them are, I can't comment on the specifics of US groups, I'm from the UK but I can give you an example.
You might have heard of a guy called Tommy Robinson, he's a Grifter and Criminal who founded a Far-Right group in the UK called the EDL and he's been politically agitating on and off for many years. He was originally just involved with Gangs and Drug Dealers and his Racism is entirely spawned from rivalries with Pakistani Organized Crime in Luton but that's not relevant, he's moved on to essentially becoming a spook.
Recently there was a big controversy with him getting arrested and sentenced for attempting to interfere with the Trials of the Rotherham rape scandal, publically broadcasting and trying to break into court, that kind of stuff. This was turned into a massive uproar to attempt to mobilize support for Far-Right politics, although it's kind of petered out. There were protests, and it turns out all the protestors were hired by an Organization called the Middle Eastern Forum (they also paid his legal fees), which is a Zionist Thinktank ran by an American called Daniel Pipes, who has ties to the MIC & Intelligence agencies, and is a rabid Zionist & Neocon.
And these aren't the only ties that Robinson has , being an open Zionist himself; he's also worked for Rebel Media in the past. Robinson is a bit of a larger scale case here but given the history of the EDL as essentially starting out as a borderline Paramilitary Football Hooligan group and the far-right splinter groups it's created since it's dissolution, it's pretty comparable to a lot of these orgs in the US, and is probably more extensive there.