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Yep, I'll play that one by ear. A tattoo might be something you regret. An active demonstration of Nazism is a sign that you are currently a Nazi and should get punched.

 

Criticize the police handling of it all you want. Give up on the "THEY HAD A PERMIT" canard, because their revoked permit did not cover the activity that occurred.

 

Yep, that's his "Heckuva job, Brownie" moment.

 

Who knew that presidenting could be so complicated?

 

When you watch it and/or listen to it it's even worse. He's reading it, rote. And then gets animated when he starts emphasizing, "On many sides. On many sides."

 

Thirty-four percent seems shockingly high.

 

They'd likely be correct to think that.

 

Once you've decided to punch Nazis, where do you start? You'd probably need to go to to Marion, or Riker's Island or Leavenworth or San Quentin and punch half the inmates as they're released if all you require is a swastika for proof.

I'd probably have to use something similar to @typefitter's demarcation line and reserve punching for overt public displays of Nazi behavior

 

The violence began in/at the park:

Kessler scheduled the Saturday rally to start at noon. By the time BuzzFeed News arrived at 10:30 a.m., violent conflict was already in full swing.
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The area of most intense conflict was on the steps into Emancipation Park. Each side squared off against the other in a schoolyard turf war. At around 11:00, counterdemonstrators deployed a large sign made from plywood spray painted with “alt-right scum your time has come” and a decapitated Pepe the Frog. It doubled as a barrier and quickly became a prize, with each side fighting to gain control of it. Eventually it fell, right-wingers stomped on it, and people continued fighting.

Each side also threw dozens of water bottles at the other. It was the preferred projectile of the day, along with rocks, tomatoes, broken flagpoles, and balloons filled with paint, one of which splattered a police car.

Right-wing extremists carried a variety of different flags — the libertarian “Don’t Tread on Me” with the familiar sliced-up snake, flags with symbols of the racist neo-pagan cause Odinism, Confederate flags, Blue Lives Matter flags, Kekistan flags, and others. Counterdemonstrators made a game of stealing the banners, though right-wingers would beat them with the shorn flagpoles.

The weapon of choice — for the police, right-wing fighters, and antifa alike — was pepper spray. Police used the most, blasting it from large canisters at protesters. None of the fights that broke out lasted very long because one side or the other would use pepper spray to rescue their combatants.

Around noon, both state and local police declared Unite the Right and the demonstrations in the surrounding streets an unlawful assembly. They evicted everyone from Emancipation Park by a police line.

Here’s What Really Happened In Charlottesville

 

Charlottesville: An FAQ

 

Meh ... you're never going to impress the badass wing of the board with that sniveling approach.

 

This does nothing to support the "THEY HAD A PERMIT" argument.