Wanderthread

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The Australian right is impressively deranged in its own weird way:

Depending on the article, trigger warnings for the beating and for the neo-Nazi flags

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/10/10/black-man-beaten-at-white-nationalist-rally-in-charlottesville-faces-felony-charge/

Yes, he’s facing felony charges for self-defense against multiple armed attackers. Between the attack on Cece McDonald and this one on Deandre Harris, it sure looks like the courts criminalize black people’s self-defense against White supremacist attacks.

“Violence on both sides, basher and bashed…”

Other articles:

http://www.newsweek.com/police-issue-warrant-black-man-beaten-white-supremacists-charlottesville-681360

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/deandre-harris-charge-charlottesville-attack-sticks-white-nationalists-wounding-a7992671.html

https://www.salon.com/2017/10/10/a-black-man-beaten-in-charlottesville-is-facing-felony-charges/

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For those not on the other site:

Injustice for All, it seems.

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One more for your drums of war thread.

EDIT

To clarify, this is the same level of sketchy intelligence we got before Iraq.

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Personally, I would have titled it “how the corporate media is conspiring to import American fascism into Australia”.

Our media is heavily dominated by Murdoch, BTW.

Fairfax is controlled by Gina Rinehart (cartoonishly evil billionaire, inherited mining wealth from her infamously vile father).

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I just found a whole new genre of Youtube vids: Americans experiencing Akala for the first time. :slight_smile:

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In today’s Twitter drama, the white Clintonite liberals are stomping on Queer and Black people because they’re upset that Bernie is one of many speakers at a feminist conference.

Some context in this thread:

Something of a racial split on the McGowan-solidarity Twitter boycott, too.

Does Fox realize that this organization that created this report is the political wing of a Islamic-Marxist organization?

Because this is all sorts of fucking hilarious if they don’t…

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I’m reminded of the assorted stories about right wing Americans traveling to Kurdistan to fight ISIS, only to flee in horror when they discovered that the Kurds were left wing feminists…

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