The Truth About Today’s Anarchists
New York Times,
by
Farah Stockman
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
10/1/2020 2:33:11 PM
On the last Sunday in May, Jeremy Lee Quinn, a furloughed photographer in Santa Monica, Calif., was snapping photos of suburban moms kneeling at a Black Lives Matter protest when a friend alerted him to a more dramatic subject: looting at a shoe store about a mile away.
He arrived to find young people pouring out of the store, shoeboxes under their arms. But there was something odd about the scene. A group of men, dressed entirely in black, milled around nearby, like supervisors.(Snip)
Mr. Quinn took pictures of another store being looted. (Snip) A white man, clad in black, had broken the window with a crowbar, but walked away without
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/1/2020 2:36:34 PM (No. 558699)
FTA:
That’s the thing about “insurrectionary anarchists.” They make fickle allies. If they help you get into power, they will try to oust you the following day, since power is what they are against. Many of them don’t even vote. They are experts at unraveling an old order but considerably less skilled at building a new one. That’s why, even after more than 100 days of protest in Portland, activists do not agree on a set of common policy goals.
Even some anarchists admit as much.
Back a few years when Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals was being dissected, one writer mentioned a key fact about Alinsky. Although he was all for total revolution, tearing everything down rather than trying to fix anything, he never came up with proposal for what would take its place.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/1/2020 2:39:24 PM (No. 558701)
hit submit too soon
That sounds like Biden and the Dems… No really practical plans. Just hammering on Trump and all he and we stand for. Our American heritage, our Constitution.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Laotzu 10/1/2020 2:52:56 PM (No. 558722)
Member of the Times' Editorial Board is astounded to find out that the guys in black breaking windows aren't white supremacists, but anarchists. No, really! And they're organized!!
The only thing I don't understand is why the New York Times has just this minute decided to recognize the nose on their face. What's the strategy at work, here?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Gallo3 10/1/2020 3:22:42 PM (No. 558752)
Nary a word in the Paper Of Record about the actual Trotskyite Bolshevik Heart Of Darkness coordinating this nationwide attack on our country- the DSA.
Democrat Socialists Of America, also known as The Degenerate Socialists of Amerika.
Move along now.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
mathman 10/1/2020 4:03:38 PM (No. 558800)
And what will replace the Constitution and the rule of law?
Anarchy?
Dictatorship of the Proletariat?
Bolsheviks?
I can't get any answer to this question.
I suppose they want rule by mob.
Good luck with that.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 10/1/2020 4:06:37 PM (No. 558805)
See, that's the funny thing about anarchists: they destroy, they do not build; they are, literally, without law, without authority over them. They are nihilists, just what Nietzsche warned about in a world without belief in the God of order, design in creation, without GOD. Or in the words of the great Dostoyevsky, "When there is no God, all things are permissible." There is no Law. He had examples all around him of a world run amok with atheistic anarchists and revolutionaries.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/1/2020 4:28:56 PM (No. 558834)
This was reported on day one in Minneapolis shortly after Saint George died. A guy in a trenchcoat was walking along block after block breaking windows. The looters later traced the same route and started hauling out the merchandise. The plan was in place before it was needed.
Farah states that the anarchy worked and many corporations fell for their cause and shoveled money their way but it was not out of sympathy to their cause, it was out of fear of their anger and destruction. It worked really well for "woke" suckers like Starbucks, Wendy's, Chik-fil-A, McDonalds, BK, Target, Nike, Walgreens, Macy's, etc. They paid and then they got burned all over the place. Violent blacks have always needed management and outside help so it was somewhat of a surprise when some of the later events looked organized. As it turns out, they all were. There have been instances of friction between Antifa and BLM. It won't be long before there is a full scale blow-up and a parting of the ways. That's when the popcorn will really be needed!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Mad Dog 10/1/2020 4:56:11 PM (No. 558858)
I don't believe Al Gore could have done a worse job of Judicial picks than W has.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Edgelady 10/1/2020 5:00:47 PM (No. 558865)
Wow, truth from the Times
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 10/1/2020 5:14:48 PM (No. 558872)
I doubt that the New York Times has even the remotest acquaintance with “the truth.”
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 10/1/2020 5:28:21 PM (No. 558883)
Truth perporting to come from NYT? That seems as likely as two sunrises an hour apart.
I am sorely tempted by the poster's known good judgement, but I have a pretty firm personal rule against the NYT.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rubinski 10/1/2020 5:43:40 PM (No. 558901)
They do have some ideas on how things will go. Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said some capitalists "are going to be the first" to be "shot in the revolution" in a tweet Wednesday. It’s posted on Fox Business.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MMC 10/1/2020 6:12:12 PM (No. 558922)
But But But.. Biden says Antifa is an ideology, not organization..
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
columba 10/1/2020 6:28:09 PM (No. 558942)
No one who survived the USSR is in favor of anarchy.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MDConservative 10/1/2020 9:10:58 PM (No. 559050)
Really, this is a MUST READ if ever there was one. Especially considering the source: NYT.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 10/2/2020 1:28:02 AM (No. 559225)
#12, maybe Mr. Tweet needs to be take care of in advance.
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This is quite interesting. Some of the usual suspects will say “I know that! Just bust them…” but knowing what we’re dealing with goes a long way toward figuring out what to do about it. Worth a read.