And once again...they fall for a hoax

[Synthaholic]

I am against burning the American flag. I don't like it one bit... but it is a freedom of speech & expression

Doesent that apply to the Confederate flag also?

That’s a traitor flag, and a loser flag. No wonder trump loves it.

 

[WillowTree]

At least this time, I hope they took walk around the battlefield and actually learned some history.

But what is worrisome is that anonymous people seem intent on creating and provoking potentially lethal confrontations among groups and exploiting if not widening divisions.

who are these people?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, PA. — For weeks, a mysterious figure on social media talked up plans for antifa protesters to converge on this historical site on Independence Day to burn American flags, an event that seemed at times to border on the farcical.

“Let’s get together and burn flags in protest of thugs and animals in blue,” the anonymous person behind a Facebook page called Left Behind USA wrote in mid-June. There would be antifa face paint, the person wrote, and organizers would “be giving away free small flags to children to safely throw into the fire.”


As word spread, self-proclaimed militias, bikers, skinheads and far-right groups from outside the state issued a call to action, pledging in online videos and posts to come to Gettysburg to protect the Civil War monuments and the nation’s flag from desecration. Some said they would bring firearms and use force if necessary.

On Saturday afternoon, in the hours before the flag burning was to start, they flooded in by the hundreds — heavily armed and unaware, it seemed, that the mysterious Internet poster was not who the person claimed to be.

The episode at Gettysburg is a stark illustration of how shadowy figures on social media have stoked fears about the protests against racial injustice and excessive police force that have swept across the nation since the death of George Floyd in police custody on May 25.

Armed vigilantes lined the streets of small Idaho towns last month after false claims circulated online about antifa, a loose collection of activists who oppose fascism and have sometimes embraced property damage and violent protest in recent years. Similar hoaxes have befallen towns in New Jersey, South Dakota and Michigan in recent weeks.

The difference is that no harm was done here, because the Right showed up and there was nothing going on, adn that was the end of it.


Compare that to the frauds from the left that gin up hate that eventually leads to violence. As intended.

No harm was done because only one side believed the scam. Again.

so Minneapolis, Atlanta, l.a. we’re all hoaxes?

This is Gettysburg. Try to keep up.

Oh, Gettysburg was a hoax? Can ewe prove that?

 

[Erinwltr]

The point isn’t Dem or Pub. Believe it or not there is a world beyond two political parties.

You have someone exploiting divisions in such a skillful way, he gets an entire group to go to a fake meet up.

When will this tactic actually work and lead to unintended violence beyond shooting oneself in the leg?

democrats are waging war to destroy America. The BLM Klan and the ANTIFA Brown Shirts are just the terrorist shock troops of the treasonous democrat party.

Was this trolling on Fascistbook or did the democrats realize they were out manned and out gunned?

Who cares? What's the point?

"Who cares? What's the point?" You ask that at the end of your comment, as if it had levity.

BS in BS out.

 

[Godboy]

“be giving away free small flags to children to safely throw into the fire.”

That's hilarious!!

And these uneducated tRumplings fall for it. SMH.

What is so unbelievable about democrats burning flags? Furthermore, i have yet to see proof that this was a hoax. The fact that no one showed up to his flag burning party is irrelevant.

 

[Lewdog]

I am against burning the American flag. I don't like it one bit... but it is a freedom of speech & expression

Doesent that apply to the Confederate flag also?

That’s a traitor flag, and a loser flag. No wonder trump loves it.

Trump doesn't think someone who gets captured in war is a hero... so what does he really think of a whole group that loses a war?

 

[Uncensored2008]

The "right showed up?" Translates to the KKK.

The BLM Klan?

Nope, they didn't show. Only the Americans did, you democrats hid in mom's basement.

 

[Synthaholic]

Yes, I'm all for allowing people to burn the confederate flag. What's your point?

Yes, I'm all for allowing people to burn the confederate flag. What's your point?

that flying the Confederate flag is freedom of expression too

So is flying the hammer and sickle. Go for it, scumbag.

 

[WillowTree]

“be giving away free small flags to children to safely throw into the fire.”

That's hilarious!!

And these uneducated tRumplings fall for it. SMH.

What is so unbelievable about democrats burning flags? Furthermore, i have yet to see proof that this was a hoax. The fact that no one showed up to his flag burning party is irrelevant.

It is not unbelievable. The bastards have burnt cities to the ground.

 

[Synthaholic]

I am against burning the American flag. I don't like it one bit... but it is a freedom of speech & expression

Doesent that apply to the Confederate flag also?

Fuck no. The confederacy was not America and that flag is the flag of a foreign enemy defeated by the United States.

Said the academic too stupid to understand he just validated the legality of the Secession.

Cry some more. It was illegal. You were crushed.

 

[Uncensored2008]

"Who cares? What's the point?" You ask that at the end of your comment, as if it had levity.

BS in BS out.

This thread has no point. You traitors are crowing about something, but none of you can quite figure out what it is. Your massahs at the hate sites didn't program you with that information.


Some Americans went to Gettysburg, no looting, no rape, no arson. Okay, thanks for the update commies...

 

[Coyote]

Out of curiosity, did you actually read the entire article? It is interesting and exposes the fakery behind it.

It's behind a pay wall and nothing in this fucking world would get me to contribute to the Communist pile of shit anti-American little Goebbels, the filthy demagogues of the vile hate publication of WaPo.

Turn off an ad blocker? Not a fucking chance, it would allow these vermin to monetize.

Here is some more info, can’t post the entire article, But everything about the person behind this was fake.

It is not always clear who has made these false claims and why, whether they seek to advance a political agenda, antagonize people with whom they disagree or achieve some other goal.

Social media companies have in recent weeks shut down a handful of fake accounts created by white supremacist groups posing as antifa operatives in a bid to undermine peaceful protests.

In response to messages from The Post, the person managing the Left Behind USA account identified himself as 39-year-old Alan Jeffs, a lifelong Democrat-turned-anarchist from Pittsburgh who now lives in Des Moines.

The Post examined real estate, court and voter records, as well as other public documents, but could find no such person.

Officials at Facebook and Twitter shut down the Left Behind USA pages last week after The Post inquired about the accounts, saying the person behind them had manipulated the platform by creating multiple accounts with overlapping content in an effort to amplify their messaging. The officials declined to identify the other accounts.

But fears of the antifa-sponsored protest had already taken root.

Macky Marker, a member of a Delaware militia called First State Pathfinders, posted a YouTube video calling on militiamen to go to Gettysburg. “If you plan on coming, I would plan on coming full battle-rattle … to be fully, 100 percent prepared to defend yourself and whoever you come with,” Marker said in the video.

Left Behind USA popped up on Twitter in February, advancing far-left ideas in a torrent of crude memes and graphics that decried capitalism, called for an end to police and advocated a moratorium on rent. The account attacked Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as a “rapist” and accused him of supporting racist criminal justice laws.

The anonymous person controlling the account described himself in various posts as a laid-off graphic designer, a former Uber driver and a disc jockey. He wrote that he was living off food stamps and sleeping on a friend’s couch.

In early April, a person using the name Alan Jeffs created a petition on the website Change.org. It included a video first posted on a Twitter account controlled by the Alan Jeffs persona who runs Left Behind USA. The petition called for the governor of Wisconsin to postpone the Democratic primary because of the health risks of the novel coronavirus.

It included a photo of a smiling, bearded man, purportedly Jeffs, and said he was in Beaver Falls, Pa. Using a reverse image search, The Post found that the photo came from the stock photo website depositphotos.com.

The Left Behind USA Facebook page was created June 2. When The Post initially sought an interview in mid-June, the person controlling the Facebook page responded in a message: “I don’t prefer to talk to conservative media sources.”

The person later identified himself as 39-year-old Jeffs and provided several details about his background. “I have been politically active since I was old enough to vote and have voted Democratic in every presidential and midterm election that I’ve been able to,” the person wrote in a private Facebook message to The Post.

Election officials in Iowa’s Polk County told The Post that no one by the name Alan Jeffs has ever been registered to vote in the state, according to a database search. Officials in Pennsylvania said there was no one by that name on that state’s active or inactive voter rolls, either.

On June 11, Left Behind USA posted an image on its Facebook page that seemed designed to agitate.

Around an illustration of a U.S. flag aflame, it announced: “Antifa presents: 4th of July Flag Burning To Peacefully Protest For Abolishing Police Nationwide.”

“No Bikers, Militias Or Other So-Called Patriots,” it said. “Children Welcome - Antifa Face-Painting”

 

[WelfareQueen]

At least this time, I hope they took walk around the battlefield and actually learned some history.

But what is worrisome is that anonymous people seem intent on creating and provoking potentially lethal confrontations among groups and exploiting if not widening divisions.

who are these people?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, PA. — For weeks, a mysterious figure on social media talked up plans for antifa protesters to converge on this historical site on Independence Day to burn American flags, an event that seemed at times to border on the farcical.

“Let’s get together and burn flags in protest of thugs and animals in blue,” the anonymous person behind a Facebook page called Left Behind USA wrote in mid-June. There would be antifa face paint, the person wrote, and organizers would “be giving away free small flags to children to safely throw into the fire.”


As word spread, self-proclaimed militias, bikers, skinheads and far-right groups from outside the state issued a call to action, pledging in online videos and posts to come to Gettysburg to protect the Civil War monuments and the nation’s flag from desecration. Some said they would bring firearms and use force if necessary.

On Saturday afternoon, in the hours before the flag burning was to start, they flooded in by the hundreds — heavily armed and unaware, it seemed, that the mysterious Internet poster was not who the person claimed to be.

The episode at Gettysburg is a stark illustration of how shadowy figures on social media have stoked fears about the protests against racial injustice and excessive police force that have swept across the nation since the death of George Floyd in police custody on May 25.

Armed vigilantes lined the streets of small Idaho towns last month after false claims circulated online about antifa, a loose collection of activists who oppose fascism and have sometimes embraced property damage and violent protest in recent years. Similar hoaxes have befallen towns in New Jersey, South Dakota and Michigan in recent weeks.

You seem proud of the hoax. Good for you. i guess invoking fear and hatred is a good thing?

The Cancel culture is a losing issue for your team. America is a great Nation. The best place on Earth. No society created by men will ever be perfect, but if you can point to anything better i would love to hear about it.

Those folks who are defending our shared culture and history are doing the right thing. Our history should not be erased by anyone.

 

[Godboy]

I am against burning the American flag. I don't like it one bit... but it is a freedom of speech & expression

Doesent that apply to the Confederate flag also?

Fuck no. The confederacy was not America and that flag is the flag of a foreign enemy defeated by the United States.

Said the academic too stupid to understand he just validated the legality of the Secession.

Cry some more. It was illegal. You were crushed.

He isnt old enough to be part of the confederacy you fucking moron.

 

[SmokeALib]

At least this time, I hope they took walk around the battlefield and actually learned some history.

But what is worrisome is that anonymous people seem intent on creating and provoking potentially lethal confrontations among groups and exploiting if not widening divisions.

who are these people?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, PA. — For weeks, a mysterious figure on social media talked up plans for antifa protesters to converge on this historical site on Independence Day to burn American flags, an event that seemed at times to border on the farcical.

“Let’s get together and burn flags in protest of thugs and animals in blue,” the anonymous person behind a Facebook page called Left Behind USA wrote in mid-June. There would be antifa face paint, the person wrote, and organizers would “be giving away free small flags to children to safely throw into the fire.”


As word spread, self-proclaimed militias, bikers, skinheads and far-right groups from outside the state issued a call to action, pledging in online videos and posts to come to Gettysburg to protect the Civil War monuments and the nation’s flag from desecration. Some said they would bring firearms and use force if necessary.

On Saturday afternoon, in the hours before the flag burning was to start, they flooded in by the hundreds — heavily armed and unaware, it seemed, that the mysterious Internet poster was not who the person claimed to be.

The episode at Gettysburg is a stark illustration of how shadowy figures on social media have stoked fears about the protests against racial injustice and excessive police force that have swept across the nation since the death of George Floyd in police custody on May 25.

Armed vigilantes lined the streets of small Idaho towns last month after false claims circulated online about antifa, a loose collection of activists who oppose fascism and have sometimes embraced property damage and violent protest in recent years. Similar hoaxes have befallen towns in New Jersey, South Dakota and Michigan in recent weeks.

Fight fire with fire.

 

[Coyote]

Maybe he is just a very clever troll....this part is sort of funny. They fell for the same hoax three years ago.

A Facebook page called Central PA Antifa quickly denounced the event as fake, likening it to a hoax in Gettysburg three years ago.​

​

In 2017, rumors of an antifa event at the national park prompted a large group of armed militia members to show up. They encountered no one from antifa, but one of the armed militia members accidentally shot himself in the leg with a revolver.​

But wait... Antifa was not supposed to exist?

I don’t know who claimed that, but you have been misinformed.

The media that you consistently whore to told me that.

Link. Or admit you whore your rightwing masters.

 

[Preacher]

At least this time, I hope they took walk around the battlefield and actually learned some history.

But what is worrisome is that anonymous people seem intent on creating and provoking potentially lethal confrontations among groups and exploiting if not widening divisions.

who are these people?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, PA. — For weeks, a mysterious figure on social media talked up plans for antifa protesters to converge on this historical site on Independence Day to burn American flags, an event that seemed at times to border on the farcical.

“Let’s get together and burn flags in protest of thugs and animals in blue,” the anonymous person behind a Facebook page called Left Behind USA wrote in mid-June. There would be antifa face paint, the person wrote, and organizers would “be giving away free small flags to children to safely throw into the fire.”


As word spread, self-proclaimed militias, bikers, skinheads and far-right groups from outside the state issued a call to action, pledging in online videos and posts to come to Gettysburg to protect the Civil War monuments and the nation’s flag from desecration. Some said they would bring firearms and use force if necessary.

On Saturday afternoon, in the hours before the flag burning was to start, they flooded in by the hundreds — heavily armed and unaware, it seemed, that the mysterious Internet poster was not who the person claimed to be.

The episode at Gettysburg is a stark illustration of how shadowy figures on social media have stoked fears about the protests against racial injustice and excessive police force that have swept across the nation since the death of George Floyd in police custody on May 25.

Armed vigilantes lined the streets of small Idaho towns last month after false claims circulated online about antifa, a loose collection of activists who oppose fascism and have sometimes embraced property damage and violent protest in recent years. Similar hoaxes have befallen towns in New Jersey, South Dakota and Michigan in recent weeks.

Eh. It ended up being a good training mission for what's to come then. All is good.

 

[miketx]

Did you, or the little Goebbels of the America hating Washington Post have some sort of point, other than that you hate America?

I wonder why the bitch doesn't just censor all disagreeing comments.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Out of curiosity, did you actually read the entire article? It is interesting and exposes the fakery behind it.

It's behind a pay wall and nothing in this fucking world would get me to contribute to the Communist pile of shit anti-American little Goebbels, the filthy demagogues of the vile hate publication of WaPo.

Turn off an ad blocker? Not a fucking chance, it would allow these vermin to monetize.

Here is some more info, can’t post the entire article, But everything about the person behind this was fake.

It is not always clear who has made these false claims and why, whether they seek to advance a political agenda, antagonize people with whom they disagree or achieve some other goal.

Social media companies have in recent weeks shut down a handful of fake accounts created by white supremacist groups posing as antifa operatives in a bid to undermine peaceful protests.

In response to messages from The Post, the person managing the Left Behind USA account identified himself as 39-year-old Alan Jeffs, a lifelong Democrat-turned-anarchist from Pittsburgh who now lives in Des Moines.

The Post examined real estate, court and voter records, as well as other public documents, but could find no such person.

Officials at Facebook and Twitter shut down the Left Behind USA pages last week after The Post inquired about the accounts, saying the person behind them had manipulated the platform by creating multiple accounts with overlapping content in an effort to amplify their messaging. The officials declined to identify the other accounts.

But fears of the antifa-sponsored protest had already taken root.

Macky Marker, a member of a Delaware militia called First State Pathfinders, posted a YouTube video calling on militiamen to go to Gettysburg. “If you plan on coming, I would plan on coming full battle-rattle … to be fully, 100 percent prepared to defend yourself and whoever you come with,” Marker said in the video.

Left Behind USA popped up on Twitter in February, advancing far-left ideas in a torrent of crude memes and graphics that decried capitalism, called for an end to police and advocated a moratorium on rent. The account attacked Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as a “rapist” and accused him of supporting racist criminal justice laws.

The anonymous person controlling the account described himself in various posts as a laid-off graphic designer, a former Uber driver and a disc jockey. He wrote that he was living off food stamps and sleeping on a friend’s couch.

In early April, a person using the name Alan Jeffs created a petition on the website Change.org. It included a video first posted on a Twitter account controlled by the Alan Jeffs persona who runs Left Behind USA. The petition called for the governor of Wisconsin to postpone the Democratic primary because of the health risks of the novel coronavirus.

It included a photo of a smiling, bearded man, purportedly Jeffs, and said he was in Beaver Falls, Pa. Using a reverse image search, The Post found that the photo came from the stock photo website depositphotos.com.

The Left Behind USA Facebook page was created June 2. When The Post initially sought an interview in mid-June, the person controlling the Facebook page responded in a message: “I don’t prefer to talk to conservative media sources.”

The person later identified himself as 39-year-old Jeffs and provided several details about his background. “I have been politically active since I was old enough to vote and have voted Democratic in every presidential and midterm election that I’ve been able to,” the person wrote in a private Facebook message to The Post.

Election officials in Iowa’s Polk County told The Post that no one by the name Alan Jeffs has ever been registered to vote in the state, according to a database search. Officials in Pennsylvania said there was no one by that name on that state’s active or inactive voter rolls, either.

On June 11, Left Behind USA posted an image on its Facebook page that seemed designed to agitate.

Around an illustration of a U.S. flag aflame, it announced: “Antifa presents: 4th of July Flag Burning To Peacefully Protest For Abolishing Police Nationwide.”

“No Bikers, Militias Or Other So-Called Patriots,” it said. “Children Welcome - Antifa Face-Painting”

So, Americans went to Gettysburg.

No looting, no rioting, no rapes, no arson.

You started a thread to tell us that?

 

[Crepitus]

“be giving away free small flags to children to safely throw into the fire.”

That's hilarious!!

And these uneducated tRumplings fall for it. SMH.

What is so unbelievable about democrats burning flags? Furthermore, i have yet to see proof that this was a hoax. The fact that no one showed up to his flag burning party is irrelevant.

Lol, you're completely brainwashed and have no clue it's even happened to you.

 

[Coyote]

I am against burning the American flag. I don't like it one bit... but it is a freedom of speech & expression

Doesent that apply to the Confederate flag also?

Fuck no. The confederacy was not America and that flag is the flag of a foreign enemy defeated by the United States.

It doesn't matter what you think it stands for.

If I am allowed to burn my American flag because I have the right to free speech, I also have the right to fly my Confederate flag with that exact same freedom of speech.

You can't cherry pick and make exceptions for what you don't like.

We either have true freedom of speech or we don't.

..we can fly we want....and burn any flag we want.

Ironically the same people defending The right to fly a confederate flag have a complete meltdown When someone flies Mexican flag