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Hundreds of San Franciscans plan to prepare Crissy Field, the picturesque beach in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge where rightwing protest group Patriot Prayer will gather, with a generous carpeting of excrement.

“I just had this image of alt-right people stomping around in the poop,” Tuffy Tuffington said of the epiphany he had while walking Bob and Chuck, his two Patterdale terriers, and trying to think of the best way to respond to rightwing extremists in the wake of Charlottesville. “It seemed like a little bit of civil disobedience where we didn’t have to engage with them face to face.”

Tuffington, a 45-year-old artist and designer, created a Facebook event page based on the concept, and the dog owners of San Francisco responded in droves. Many have declared their intention to stockpile their shitpiles for days in advance, then deliver them in bags for the site.

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That’s a great article (it’s in the Washington Post) but let’s highlight the most important part of that: it only deals with the small subset of voters who flipped from Sanders to Trump, not Sanders supporters in general.

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The most retarded of the Sanders voters.

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In 2008, 25% of Clinton primary voters ended up voting for McCain (much higher than the Sanders to Trump defection rate of 10%). I have to wonder how much of that was racially motivated.

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Or are there people who throw in so heavily to a primary fight that they can’t back the ultimate winner if it isn’t their pick?

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Far-right activists are using fake Twitter accounts and images of battered women to smear anti-fascist groups in the US, an online investigation has revealed.

The online campaign is using fake Antifa (an umbrella term for anti-fascist protestors) Twitter accounts to claim anti-fascists promote physically abusing women who support US President Donald Trump or white supremacy.

Researcher Eliot Higgins of website Bellingcat found evidence that the campaign is being orchestrated on internet messageboard 4Chan by far-right sympathisers.

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I’m beginning to realize what a hard-won achievement it was for our society to ever have arrived at something like a consensus on what actually happens, on what the public record is.

That consensus is splintering, aided and abetted by the President himself. It’s just going to be disinformation ops all around from now on, evidently.

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Since this is the de facto racism thread, a situation blew up on Twitter today when a Florida white woman began spewing racist comments and threats in a mixed-race setting. Another white woman spoke up, a fight ensued and the racist woman got an impressive ass-whopping but wasn’t hurt.

Via:

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This happened in my sister’s town in Minnesota. #ThanksTrump

http://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/2017/08/23/swastika-found-gouged-green-early-monday

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Why did it take so long for someone to intervene? Why did the person film this instead of stopping the fight? It is never ok to beat up racists except in self-defense, because it is never ok to beat people up just for their opinions.

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The woman who got her ass kicked actually started the fight by grabbing the other woman’s hair.

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Yeah, this was definitely self defense. The racist “pregnant” woman was basking in her perceived acceptable Full Racist Mode and got a dose of reality.

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Basically the fight should have been stopped the moment the racist woman first raised her hand on the other woman.

There was a camera watching, that means there was another person watching, and that person should have stopped filming and stopped the fight early. That racist woman got her ass handed to her for at least a good couple of seconds before someone else intervened.

Racism should have no place in modern society, but so should political violence. Is this the bystander effect in the selfie age? The photojournalist wannabe effect?

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It seems to me the camera was rolling because of all the racist stuff being said so if she had to defend herself there was a record of what happened

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My assumption was that the camera guy was sitting at a customer service station or desk or whatever, and was low on the totem pole relative to the rotund dude and the two other dudes who eventually separated the two women. And the rotund dude, who was closest and had authority, clearly didn’t look like the kinda guy who’d want to jump into a girl fight. Why it took 15 seconds for the rotund dude and the other guys to step in, I don’t know. On second thought, it probably took the rotund dude that long because that’s when the other two guys began to help.

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Maybe don’t pick fights if you don’t want your ass beat.

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Plain stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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I’d be more concerned by what appears to be a serious facial problem. :)

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One could argue to not kick her butt would have been the bystander effect.