Armed Right-Wing Group Oath Keepers Banned From Twitter For Violating Extremism Policy | Talking Points Memo

[discobot]

Twitter has banned the armed right-wing group Oath Keepers and its founder Stewart Rhodes for violating the website’s policy on violent extremist groups.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1331516

[teenlaqueefa]

Yeah well, that sucks for those assholes.

[LeeHarveyGriswold]

killin’ in the name of…

[noonm]

“The first shot has been fired brother,” said Stewart Rhodes, founder of the armed anti-government group Oath Keepers, in a tweet Sunday. “Civil war is here, right now. We’ll give Trump one last chance to declare this a Marxist insurrection & suppress it as his duty demands. If he fails to do HIS duty, we will do OURS.”

“Oath Keepers does not engage in unlawful activities or advocate or incite violence. Quite the contrary,” he wrote.

The latter statement is not supported by the former.

[clemmers]

So the Oath Keepers are basically a gang of thugs itching for a fight, like a drunk in a bar with poor impulse control. Now they’e like the drunk who picked out a guy he wants to punch.

Kick them out.

And where’s law enforcement to pick up these bums and toss them in the cooler to sleep it off?

[Clint_M]

@clemmers

And where’s law enforcement to pick up these bums and toss them in the cooler to sleep it off?

Giving them bottled water and a thumbs up?

[LeeHarveyGriswold]

If the drunk was also armed to the teeth, yes.

[sparrowhawk]

@clemmers

So the Oath Keepers are basically a gang of thugs itching for a fight, like a drunk in a bar with poor impulse control. Now they’e like the drunk who picked out a guy he wants to punch.

Kick them out.

And where’s law enforcement to pick up these bums and toss them in the cooler to sleep it off?

The main issues being they’re armed with many guns and they are drunk on hatred and fear, which is being fed to them in a constant IV-drip. So no amount of time in the cooler is going to help. They need a substance abuse facility that can cut them off and remove them from the damaging environment until they can make a full recovery.

[lochsabill]

A bunch of disaffected losers, malcontents, and incels who can only feel important or relevant by waving guns around

[rollinnolan]

@clemmers

And where’s law enforcement to pick up these bums and toss them in the cooler to sleep it off?

Right next to them, egging them on.

[dr_coyote]

Murderous Cosplayer Keyboard Commandos gonna have a sad.

[benthere]

Good! Deprive them of their oxygen.

[clemmers]

@sparrowhawk

They need a substance abuse facility that can cut them off and remove them from the damaging environment until they can make a full recovery.

Yep. Rehab. It’s that serious.

[clemmers]

That’s the scary part. How embedded are these lawless armed assholes? How do you surgically excise them out of our local police force? A terrible problem for sure.

[tena]

This is one reason why you just defund the police, get rid of everyone and start over. Weed out the White Power nutjobs, get rid of the Police Unions. Spend more money on people who can deal with psychiatric problems and negotiators who can help in domestic situations.

[sparrowhawk]

@tena

This is one reason why you just defund the police, get rid of everyone and start over. Weed out the White Power nutjobs, get rid of the Police Unions. Spend more money on people who can deal with psychiatric problems and negotiators who can help in domestic situations.

Make sure you’re bringing everyone in through the front door and with proper background checks and without institutional influence deciding who makes the cut on arbitrary or capricious grounds.

[mondfledermaus]

(The man suspected of shooting the demonstrator was himself killed by law enforcement executed by right wing militiamen while on their day jobs few days later.)

FIFY

[claimsadjuster]

Actually Kyle Rittenhouse fired the first shot.

[lastroth]

Well logic is a stranger to some on the right. This what you get when you let your gut lead instead of your brain.

[occamscoin]

@tena

This is one reason why you just defund the police, get rid of everyone and start over.

Also establish a national database of cops fired for cause, so they can’t just trundle down the road and start up the same ol same ol in a new town.