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A bunch of my friends are there counter-protesting. Trump has given a voice and empowered these losers; people who think otherwise are deluded.

This is the US; those losers have been in charge of at least a good chunk of that country for almost all of its history.
 
I wish people would stop with the 'both sides are as bad as each other' nonsense. One group has been advocating for an ethno-state, waving around actual Nazi flags, and promoting ill-feeling towards non-whites and LGBTQ people.

The other side is fighting against it.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Balance_fallacy

This is true, though that should never prevent anyone from saying that the way the US left has been fighting the US right for the past twenty years (and especially the past three or four) is rubbish, demonstrably ineffective and utterly counter-productive. I cannot think of any contemporary anti-fascism that is as sh*te as theirs is.
 
We are dealing with the here and now; Trump has stoked the flames, no question about it.

No question, but whilst Trump was the one to stoke the flames he wasn't the one who went around piling up logs and pouring the petrol. His victory and the manner of it was the product of nearly thirty years of deliberate political targeting of ethnic groups, and of the failure of the US left to come up with any version of solidarity worthy of the name.
 
Blame Trump all you want but up until now all violence at political rallies has been caused by the laughably named anti fascists.
 
Blame Trump all you want but up until now all violence at political rallies has been caused by the laughably named anti fascists.
Well that's just not true. You can find months-old footage on YouTube where right-wingers are armed with weapons and shields, ready to carry out violence. And I'm sure you know of the places where far-right types enthusiastically discuss doing such things to people on the Left, people of colour, LGBTQ and other minorities.

And if you're referring to violence on campus, then in those situations it wasn't ideal. It's not the violence we'ere seeing now though, and it's not even close to the levels of violence we'd see if these fascists got their way.
 
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