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Originally Posted by jmakin
Wow caught up on the last several posts. I thought my comments about a looming civil war in the main thread were a little melodramatic, but I had not even heard about a lot of this stuff.
I was at a few counter protests on college campuses soon after the 2016 election and it was nowhere near this ugly. Things are accelerating fast. I don’t see any other option than arming ourselves before it’s too late.
That's because the capitalist media is universally either completely ill-equipped to cover this stuff, or they have no interest in covering it. Capitalist media serves the will of the capitalist class--the billionaire class that owns the newspapers, the tv stations, the networks, the radio channels. "Journalism" can never really be legitimate in a situation where capitalism dominates the economy and government of a place. Check out this softball coverage of the Proud Boys from a local liberal newspaper in Portland, the Oregonian:
This individual is on camera in several places kicking the **** out of people. He is not in jail, he is touring the country giving fascism rallies wherever people will listen:
Here he is assaulting someone on the ground with his Proud Boy friends:
The liberal capitalist media absolutely will not describe these threats accurately. The conservative capitalist media will amplify the Proud Boys and legitimize them with their massive platform, and paint them as victims of liberal mob violence and campus political correctness gone wrong. A big chunk of the liberal media will do the same.