Gettysburg 2.0, Militias' effort to refight battle ends poorly

[Deleted]

Left wing violent thugs like antifa are and have been a problem for a long time.
But since its left wing its "The good kind of violence".

Seeing as they at least aren't terrorists, yet, I'll resign that I frankly can't find the energy to be upset.

Hurray for being old and such, and having an actual memory. Because oh boy do a lot of young people have absolutely no idea what left wing extremism is

[Stormspellz]

pulling from the gop's book of tinfoil justification

This is further proof that antifa is just false flag attacks to scare rural men to buying more guns, now that the scary black man isn't in the white house.

[Milchshake]

pulling from the gop's book of tinfoil justification

This is further proof that antifa is just false flag attacks to scare rural men to buying more guns, now that the scary black man isn't in the white house.

Nothing says "economic anxiety" like buying expensive toys.

[King Shark]

Nothing says "economic anxiety" like buying expensive toys.

At least the guys in this pic have good trigger discipline. You can say that much about them. No shooting one's self in the foot here.

[Milchshake]

At least the guys in this pic have good trigger discipline. You can say that much about them. No shooting one's self in the foot here.

I appreciate the trigger discipline. But they should spend more time on PT. Strokes and diabetes are rising for their age group and localities.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...aving-strokes/

Though that guy in the jeans... carrying a concealed pistol in the pocket is asking for an accident.

[Deleted]

Nothing says "economic anxiety" like buying expensive toys.
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To be fair, it is kind of like buying gold. Once the government finally starts their complete ban on firearms and starts confiscating guns from lawful people, they'll be worth far more.

They are actually highly skilled investors, thank you very much.

[Stormspellz]

To be fair, it is kind of like buying gold. Once the government finally starts their complete ban on firearms and starts confiscating guns from lawful people, they'll be worth far more.

They are actually highly skilled investors, thank you very much.

quality fear mongering

[Deleted]

quality fear mongering

I'm becoming quite sufficient at it. Too bad my career is economic supervising, I belong in the PR and speech department of politics with the gold I can produce

[Flarelaine]

Have you seen the people in Antifa? Not really anything scary about a bunch of white college hipsters with bike chains.

Nothing scary? You try getting that grease they put on bike chains out of your clothes, you'll see how scary they are.

[Kasierith]

So they wasted their entire day and someone accidentally shot himself. This is why you don't let trolls get to you on the internet.

[Logwyn]

lincoln was a pretty staunch abolitionist and always had been; that's why his election was viewed in the south as being worth seceding over (originally he thought the slaves should be repatriated to africa, but he backed off that pretty quickly.)

Lincoln while he may have been an abolitionist he wasn't a staunch abolitionist. His concern was preservation of the Union. Someone who is a staunch abolitionist would not have been saying that to something of the effect that if keeping the slavery were preserve the Union then he'd be OK with it and if getting rid of slavery would ok too.

Lincoln did not even free all of the slaves. Only those in the areas under "rebellion" with the Emancipation Proclamation. He even let the city of New Orleans keep slavery.

It wasn't a clear cut example of North anti-slave and South Pro-slave either. The cotton/textile industry effected everyone from both North and South. Slavery unfortunately was apart of it. Lincoln realized this. And if you look at why Lincoln freed those slaves when he did. You will find that there was an offer to end the war but the South said No. So to try to break the economic structure of the South Lincoln did said Emancipation Proclamation and to bring an end to the war.

[Cheze]

Lincoln while he may have been an abolitionist he wasn't a staunch abolitionist. His concern was preservation of the Union. Someone who is a staunch abolitionist would not have been saying that to something of the effect that if keeping the slavery were preserve the Union then he'd be OK with it and if getting rid of slavery would ok too.

Lincoln did not even free all of the slaves. Only those in the areas under "rebellion" with the Emancipation Proclamation. He even let the city of New Orleans keep slavery.

It wasn't a clear cut example of North anti-slave and South Pro-slave either. The cotton/textile industry effected everyone from both North and South. Slavery unfortunately was apart of it. Lincoln realized this. And if you look at why Lincoln freed those slaves when he did. You will find that there was an offer to end the war but the South said No. So to try to break the economic structure of the South Lincoln did said Emancipation Proclamation and to bring an end to the war.

lincoln had been arguing for abolition since before he was elected to the U.S. house; allowing slavery to continue in the south was a compromise he was prepared to accept to avoid a war, not his preferred policy position. Here's Lincoln, debating with Douglas:

I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects—certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man... I hate [the] monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world—enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites—causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity, and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty—criticizing the Declaration of Independence, and insisting that there is no right principle of action but self-interest

he was always pretty unequivocal about how he felt about slavery

[Post]

Oh don't worry, soon enough (if not already), Obama will be the shadow leader of everything. Literally everything liberal, leftists, socialist and globalist; so essentially pure evil for those out of the loop. With his Queen Merkel, who'll rise up the refugees and overtake our nations and turn them into Islamic soviet states.

Obama can't run everything, that's what Russia is doing.

[pathora44]

So some of the same people who call this "the flag of traitors and secessionists" are now calling for secession of California. The left can't figure out their head from their ass now.

Who gives a fuck about what some tiny minority of people want to do, and if I remember correctly a good number of conservatives and Trump supporters on here are always complaining about California and the country would be better if California and NY left the U.S. Flying a confederate battle flag over a government building alongside the U.S. flag is traitorous. The Confederates were traitors to the U.S. who broke away they are to be treated as traitors and their flags should never be flown over Government buildings. It is funny that Conservatives especially backwater yokels who are the ones with giant American flags on the back of their trucks and talk that if you don't like the country you should get out are also the ones flying the flags of traitors pretty ironic. Again though it also makes sense that Republicans back the Confederate flag because just like back then the rich get the uneducated yokels of the South to go against their actual best interests to fight for the rich and powerful to keep their money and power.

[HumbleDuck]

Maybe antifa didn't show up because they're a bunch of thugs and only pull their shenanigans when they don't fear retaliation. How dare a bunch of private citizens stand guard to prevent a bunch of morons from destroying statues. My friends were at Gettysburg this weekend to watch the reenactments. Didn't even notice the 3% types. More fake news meant to make losers who never leave their neighborhood feel informed.

Not that I support any of these two groups, but given the context, I guess the retaliation they face would be a bunch of people shooting themselves in the foot.

[Logwyn]

lincoln had been arguing for abolition since before he was elected to the U.S. house; allowing slavery to continue in the south was a compromise he was prepared to accept to avoid a war, not his preferred policy position. Here's Lincoln, debating with Douglas:



he was always pretty unequivocal about how he felt about slavery

My argument was he wasn't a staunch abolitionist. Not that he wasn't. He was willing to give up abolition to keep the Union together if that was the way to do it.

I can go pull out many quotes if you really want me too.

[announced]

Interesting to see the Alt Right trying to troll Antifa into showing up at a monument, backfires again. Just starts more violence amongst themselves.
PSA; Antifa has no real presence on reddit. Its just alt-right mods trying to set up honeytraps, which is obvious to everyone except themselves.

GETTYSBURG, Pa. ― A few hundred armed militia group members, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Ku Klux Klaners, supporters of President Donald Trump, and other self-described patriots descended upon the Gettysburg battlefield Saturday to defend the site’s Confederate symbols from phantom activists with the violent far-left group Antifa.

Some carried semi-automatic rifles ― permitted in Pennsylvania ― as they peered out across the battlefield with binoculars, on the lookout for the black-clad, face-masked anti-fascists, anarchists and socialists they said they had heard were traveling to the national park to dishonor Confederate graves, monuments and flags.

Although many came expecting violence ― even after Antifa made it clear its adherents never planned to show up ― the only bloodshed came when a lone militia group member accidentally shot himself in the leg.

Deputize that guy ASAP.



Happy 4th ya'll.

looks like a bunch of civil war re-en-actors, where exactly are the KKK members in their white costumes carrying crosses and pitchforks and signs like death to blacks exactly?

see this isn't exactly fake news, but the story is so distorted from reality it might as well be.

[Mormolyce]

So they wasted their entire day and someone accidentally shot himself. This is why you don't let trolls get to you on the internet.

Funny part is they appear to have trolled themselves.

[JohnBrown1917]

looks like a bunch of civil war re-en-actors, where exactly are the KKK members in their white costumes carrying crosses and pitchforks and signs like death to blacks exactly?

see this isn't exactly fake news, but the story is so distorted from reality it might as well be.

They are no re-en-actors, but keep believing whatever you want.

[TITAN308]

That's funny...because the alt-right "army" managed to take casualties even without antifa showing up. They fought a battle against nothing and still lost. That's Beta AF.

Hes not wrong though. I mean if you had to bet your last dollars of your bank account on a fight between the two who you going to put your money on?

Sure it's like two retarded kids fighting, but someone is going to come out the winner and I'd rather bet on the kid with down syndrome than the one with autism.