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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Date: 04/12/23 8:56 PM
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I give you facts, studies, and data and you give me an op-ed.

And the ANTIFA BOOGEYMAN!!!

As for Antifa. Here you go: A new database of nearly 900 politically motivated attacks and plots in the United States since 1994 includes just one attack staged by an anti-fascist that led to fatalities. In that case, the single person killed was the perpetrator.

Over the same time period, American white supremacists and other rightwing extremists have carried out attacks that left at least 329 victims dead, according to the database.
theguardian.com - US rightwing extremists attacks deaths database leftwing antifa

Dope1: Some of us who live in blue cities got to experience literally months of pretty much daily left wing riots carried out by your co-travelers.

Riots, ya' say. Ever heard of Umbrella Man? You know, the guy who instigated the rioting and looting in Minneapolis after George Floyd's death? The guy who spray painted "free sh!t for everyone zone" on the AutoZone that sparked a series of events that turned previously peaceful protests chaotic?

"This was the first fire that set off a string of fires and looting throughout the precinct and the rest of the city," Christensen wrote in the affidavit, according to reports. "Until the actions of the person your affiant has been calling 'Umbrella Man,' the protests had been relatively peaceful." That action led to roughly 500 businesses being damaged or looted, with nearly 70 of them burned to the ground.

So who was Umbrella Man?

He was a member of the Aryan Cowboy Brotherhood, a White supremacist prison and street gang, who specifically sought to inflame racial tensions. npr.org - Minneapolis police reportedly identify viral umbrella man as white supremacist

And remember the republican outrage over a Minneapolis police station that was set on fire. ANTIFA! ANTIFA!

Nope, another rightwing extremist who later boasted of driving from Texas to Minneapolis to help set fire to the police precinct during the George Floyd protests.

US attorney Erica MacDonald said on Friday that she had charged Ivan Harrison Hunter, a 26-year-old Texas resident, with traveling across state lines to participate in a riot. The charges are the latest example of far-right extremists attempting to use violence to escalate national protests against police brutality into an uprising against the government, and even full civil war. theguardian.com - Texas boogaloo boi minneapolis police building george floyd

So sure, you go ahead and post your op-eds and I'll keep posting facts, studies, and data.

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