As They Turn To Burning Bibles, Portland Rioters Show Their True Colors
By: Jordan Davidson
The true nature of these people is revealed. Taking down western culture and Christian values has been these fascists goals all along. And they burned American flags right along with those Holy Bibles. These people will take us back to the 1930’s if we let them.
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While rioters previously attacked federal buildings, businesses, and even officers, this weekend, they found a new target: Bibles.
A video posted to Twitter on Saturday shows rioters holding Black Lives Matter signs tossing Bibles into a fire. Bystanders stood and watched as the flames licked away at the pages of the books.
“Left-wing activists bring a stack of Bibles to burn in front of the federal courthouse in Portland,” wrote the Twitter user, Ian Cheong, who posted the video.
Later in the Twitter thread, Cheong pointed out that the violent and chaotic nature of these protestors is not correlated with “protesting against police brutality.”
“I don’t know what burning the Bible has to do with protesting against police brutality. Do not be under the illusion that these protests and riots are anything but an attempt to dismantle all of Western Civilization and upend centuries of tradition and freedom of religion,” he continued.
Donald Trump Jr. also commented on the video criticizing it as an escalation of Antifa.
“Now we move to the book burning phase. I’m pretty sure ANTIFA doesn’t actually stand for what they say it stands for. Maybe just remove the anti part of [their] name and it’s perfect,” he wrote.
Other Twitter users acknowledged that burning Bibles confirms what many have thought all along about the riots.
“There is a purpose to this. The protesters are signaling they will dismantle and replace our whole entire narrative,” tweeted another user.
The Portland riots have been raging since George Floyd’s death in early May, even before “the ramped-up federal presence.” While many have claimed that these riots are “largely peaceful,” “gunfire, arson, stabbings, and other violence followed rioters” well through Saturday morning.
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Radical activists in Portland, Oregon, burned Bibles and the American flag in front of a federal courthouse this weekend.
KOIN News reports that Friday’s protest started out as a peaceful assembly but turned destructive at night with crowd members setting fires on the street in front of the federal courthouse.
Twitter user Ian Miles Cheong shared a video of demonstrators desecrating Bibles and the symbol of American freedom.
Cheong wrote, “Left-wing activists bring a stack of Bibles to burn in front of the federal courthouse in Portland.”
“Best use of a Bible,” one protester commented as it is lit on fire.
In a later thread, Cheong wrote, “I don’t know what burning the Bible has to do with protesting against police brutality. Do not be under the illusion that these protests and riots are anything but an attempt to dismantle all of Western Civilization and upend centuries of tradition and freedom of religion.”
News reporter Danny Peterson posted a video of protesters burning an Bible along with an American flag while chanting about the police.
Some in Portland have made an effort to rally without violence, but the unyielding activists who are determined to destroy anything that opposes their ideology remain in the area.
According to the Jewish Press, a severed pig’s head wearing a police hat was placed on top of an American flag and set on fire at the city’s Justice Center last Thursday night.
Following “repeated requests” from Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, the federal government agreed to begin withdrawing federal officers from Portland last week.
Brown argued that the officers “acted as an occupying force, refused accountability, and brought violence and strife to our community.”
CBN’s Chuck Holton also witnessed a disturbing incident in Seattle in which a peaceful street preacher was violently threatened by antifa thugs. You can watch that incident and Holton’s reaction in the report below:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ke0A58CPU7w
It just proves, there is good in everyone for the most part.
The good little nazi book burners.....
We both know that this did not happen and that it is the far right wing that tends to burn books. Why do right wingers insist on promoting lies and propaganda? It's been going on for thousands of years.
We know for s fact that it did happen and there’s plenty of video proof that it did. Antifa is not anti, they are themselves fascists.
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oh, man, you will give someone a stroke or something if you dare to tell the truth about the "peaceful protests"!
Rioters carrying “Black Lives Matter” signs threw Bibles into a fire in front of the federal courthouse in Portland and burned an American flag, leaving bystanders wondering what that act of arson had to do with protesting against police brutality.
“People began starting a fire in the street in front of the federal courthouse which started with burning a Bible, then an American flag, until more and more items were added,” according to KOIN reporter Danny Peterson. “Finally around 1 a.m. (Saturday), yellow-clad members of the group Moms United for Black Lives Matter went over to the fire and put it out with bottles of water and stamped it out.”
“Left-wing activists bring a stack of Bibles to burn in front of the federal courthouse in Portland,” Ian Cheong, managing editor of Human Events, wrote in a post with a videothat shows Bibles being tossed into a fire. “Do not be under the illusion that these protests and riots are anything but an attempt to dismantle all of Western Civilization and upend centuries of tradition and freedom of religion.”
because you fail to accept the truth does not mean that it didn't happen
I know propaganda when I see/hear it. This false flag BS is lame.
Ah yes, those sneaky white supremacists again... Forcing gullible progressives to burn bibles this time.
I just bet you do!!
That's a good one!
Because a bunch of Christian conservatives dressed up in antifa attire and made chants of stuff that goes against everything they believe in in downtown Portland to burn what we pledge allegiance to along with copies of the Word of God. NOT!
So which one of the sources in you link do you want us to believe? The one bible source or the stack of bibles source?
Look at the video. It could be that there was more than one fire, one with multiple Bibles burned as per the video above and another with one such desecration.
Desecration? How ludicrous.
I'm looking at YOUR linked article. Why avoid addressing YOUR own source?
Oh and BTFW, the link provided in the bible thumper's twitter account doesn't work so I guess the one bible source has the more accurate information.
I provided the you tube evidence above thats I frame was not allowed in the seeded article.
I'm talking about the article that you linked in this thread Xx.
BTFW, your youtube video doesn't show anyone burning a stack of bibles either. It would be a hell of a lot clearer if they hadn't posted propaganda over the images.
"Where they burn books they will ultimately burn people"......Heinrich Heine
Exactly and a related comment at 5.1.13 makes that point as well.
All one had to do is put Marxists and bible burning into the same headline and all the progressives would arrive.....
So have the US Christians that burned the Quran burned anyone yet?
You'll have to ask Susan Rice. She's the expert at massaging Muslim outrage.
WTF does 'Muslim outrage' have to do with whether Christians who burned the Quran, then burned people?
Hint: Not a fucking thing.
Muslims were never on topic here and you brought them into the discussion
Actually, I equated sacred tomes, Vic brought up Muslims.
Tell me dulay, why have you condemned burning the Quran (and don't even try to deny that you have) yet seem to defend and condone the burning of the Bible and the desecration of other Christian sites and symbols?
I can’t wait to hear the answer to that! It’s all about true colors. For the record, I am opposed to the burning of any religions materials, sacred books, and places of worship and will not defend the 1/10 of 1% of Christians who who might burn sacred texts of another religion.
I haven't. Since you insist that I did, PROVE IT.
Again, PROVE IT. Post ONE comment that I have made that even implies anything close.
Now, here is a fine place for your interlocutors to simply accept your position. You have told them that you have not condemned burning the Qur'an and that you do not condone burning the Bible or desecrating Christian sites and symbols.
So there you go. Position established. You know your position better than anyone else. Indeed, you are the distinguished expert in your own position. The sole authority of your position has now communicated same.
I'm half Filipino. One entire side of my family is Roman Catholic, including my beloved mother. Her home is decorated with multiple Christian symbols, including a Russian Orthodox icon which was bequeathed to her.
I was brought up to respect others religious beliefs. I draw the line on acquiescing to allowing any religion to govern my country.
I myself own multiple versions of the bible and have actually READ all but one [I don't much like the 'modern' dumbed-down version]. I have also read an English translation of the Quran. As a bibliophile, I would never dream of burning ANY book.
Same here. I will argue passionately that the Bible, Qur'an, etc. are demonstrably NOT divine, but I do not want them burned any more than I would want the Iliad & the Odyssey burned. They are important literary / historical works and are part of our world culture.
Well The Bible is divinely inspired. You are correct that important literature, history, and culture should be preserved including American.
I think that we all know our own position better than anyone else does.
That is merely a claim based on zero supporting evidence.
Exactly! So, given Dulay is a person, who knows Dulay's position better than Dulay?
One should not argue with another on their position; just accept it.
Then go and do ye likewise when it comes to me and mine.
I always do; pay attention. I challenge your claims, not whether or not you hold the position you state.
That's an ironic statement considering the fact that your seed is about LESS than 1/10 participants at the protest the night the flag was burned yet you insist they are representative a ALL of the protestors.
What they did in Portland then was so terrible that it had to be called out for the intolerance that it represented on the secular progressive left.
By 'they' you mean the less than 1/10 protesters in Portland that night.
I have no idea how many were there egging that on and cheering it as some did the evil deeds
Nor do you have any idea how many Christians were there egging on those that did the evil deeds of burning the Quran, though there is evidence online that they had quite a following.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDthztYjxP1/?igshid=1wcqajsk2bcu8
How many times do I have to tell you that I don't play your instagram game. Use your words.
Burning books...just like their national socialist heroes.
The liberals I know would no more burn the bible than they would burn any other work of fiction.
Burning books has always been a far right wing christian thingy.
So, the protesters doing the burning are far right wing to you?
That's hilarious!
I recall Christians burning their Beatles albums when John Lennon mentioned that the band seemed to be more popular than Jesus.
"I recall Christians burning their Beatles albums when John Lennon mentioned that the band seemed to be more popular than Jesus."
I recall when the Dixie Chicks dared to speak out about President George W., their CDs were burned. Who did that I wonder?
Patriotic Americans burned the cds they owned. See the difference between a controlled fire, burning your own stuff, and the idiots burning OTHER people's property in Portland or Minneapolis?
Stupid idiots is more like it.
Yes, I can agree that the idiots committing arson are STUPID IDIOTS.
You know what I was referring to.
Typical.
You don’t think that people engaged in committing arson are stupid idiots?
She claims it is all fake--no burning of bibles ever happened!
You can't argue with "logic" like that!
I'm not the topic of this seed.
I was referring to the people who burned their Dixie Chicks CDs/records/whatever as stupid idiots.
Try to keep up MAGA and Tex.
That is true, but me pointing out positions you have taken isn't making it about you personally.
I know you think the video you probably didn't even see is fake and that no bibles were burned.
I’ve shown video evidence of it too.
You aren’t but what you said here related to the topic is...
I see a historical trend. Far right wingers tend to burn whatever scares them.
So, I suppose you actually have evidence of liberal, gun-grabbing, bleeding heart hipsters being burned by far right wingers?
Nawwww........of course not!
Still nothing?
Did they burn any Korans?
No, of course not. You can tell because CNN and MSNBC aren't upset about it.
Those two particularly enjoyed the flag burning part.
Probably because it didn't happen.
The far right wing propagandists have become particularly practiced in staging false front events. The fake planned parenthood video is a case in point.
nice deflection!!
The Qanon mindset comes to Newstalkers...
The far right wing Qanon folk have been here for quite awhile.
HILARIOUS!
Project Veritas is FAKE
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This bible and flag burning is fake for one.
Project Veritas is fake for two.
Notice how muva supplied Project Veritas to support this fake news? That fake planned parenthood was done by Project Veritas
Try again. Your are bungling your conspiracy theories.
I had to give you a thumbs up. Your refusal to be bound by reality is pretty amusing.
Nope.
And then there’s the planned parenthood in Washington DC where students for life had a permitted event to use removable paint on the sidewalk to write “black preborn lives matter”. They do this every Saturday and yet they were met by 6 DC Police cars and arrested on orders of the mayor for writing black preborn lives matter. They were interviewed on Tucker and they are well represented legally and they are suing the city on constitutional grounds for viewpoint discrimination.
That's how I feel about tRump supporters.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4f0_XFUtZmQ
As if anyone cares what those biased bigots at wiki think about anything...They are a total joke. Why not use a legitimate encyclopedia?
"And then there’s the planned parenthood in Washington DC where students for life had a permitted event to use removable paint on the sidewalk to write “black preborn lives matter”. They do this every Saturday and yet they were met by 6 DC Police cars and arrested on orders of the mayor for writing black preborn lives matter. They were interviewed on Tucker and they are well represented legally and they are suing the city on constitutional grounds for viewpoint discrimination."
So what? Who cares?
Lol! 👍👏
You're saying Wikipedia are biased bigots?
An encyclopedia? I doubt this fake right wing organization is in the encyclopedia? How weird.
Again, so what? Who cares? Let them sue. See how far that gets them.
That’s what the biased amateurs at wiki pretend to be, an on line encyclopedia.
They did nothing wrong and will be vindicated and get damages awarded.
They're not biased. Don't be ridiculous.
Oh wait, look who I'm talking to.
Oh wait, look who I’m talking to
As there are some NT'ers who aren't impervious to facts, recognize objective reality and don't like looking like fools by perpetuating discredited conspiracies, I'll provide some edification.
Contrary to your statement, Project Veritas had nothing to do with the Planned Parenthood videos. But that's not even your most egregious error.
When the videos were released, Planned Parenthood quickly paid the infamous crowdstrike to issue a press release claiming the video had been edited. Democrats, and their allies in the media, then quickly and unquestioningly adopted and pushed that narrative. It's their favorite play in their playbook that we've seen time and time again. Covington, Michael Brown, the dossier etc.... Push out a lie and trust their gullible supporters will unquestioningly accept it and their friends in the media will amplify it without bothering to investigate. CNN and its ilk have an agenda, and reporting reality is not it.
But the story didn't end there. The videos became a central piece of evidence that Texas used to defund Planned Parenthood. And guess what happened? The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals noted Planned Parenthood could not show any deceptive editing and the State proved the authenticity of the videos. The vaunted "experts" relied on in the media to create the lie became silent when they had to testify under oath.
So, as a matter of law, the videos were not "fake" or "deceptively edited." This has been pointed out numerous times, but reality plays no part when progressives want to cling to a narrative.
Uh, you might ain't to let your friend know then, because she posted an article that clearly states that bibles were burned.
Did she post a fake story?
No the flag and bible burning were sadly very real. Project Veritas is a legitimate investigative organization even though you don’t like it that they investigate organizations that you tend to like and support.
I care because it’s another example of viewpoint discrimination. They let large crowds gather for one kind of event and let a slogan be painted on city streets and then arrest a small group for drawing on a sidewalk with chalk? Only an Obama appointed judge could possibly find that in any way to be ok.
And we have an equivalent one (encyclopedia) on the right online as well, Conservapedia.
Why don't you ask her?
I don't give a shit.
I was waiting for you to bring up conservapedia. LOL!
Project Veritas is fake fake fake fake fake
Obviously...
Conservapedia is a lot better than Wikipedia.
What do you want me to ask her?
Of course not!
Why?
Because its Christians that are the most persecuted minority in the U.S.--- hardly Muslims! Here's proof:
Anti-Christian Bigotry Is The Last Acceptable Prejudice
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDeyrZolnN3/?igshid=1orsy9druef15
Burning the Bible or the flag is a pointless act of stupidity. In both cases the protestors are alienating the American people from their cause.
For once I actually agree with you. [deleted.]
Excuse me? Are you claiming that I called you a liar or that you made 'it' all up? If not, why did you tack on that entirely inapplicable allegation in your reply to me?
Care to re read what I wrote? Do so and then I’ll accept your apology...
I re-read it. It reads exactly the same. You agree with me regarding the Bible (of course) and then in your next sentence you toss in the entirely unrelated notion that I did not call you a liar in my comment like what happened earlier in the seed.
That reads as though I had called you a liar in another comment. Otherwise, to the casual reader, why would you choose to include that in a reply to me?
But other than that your comment was good. At least you did not try to get others to gang-flag my comment as has been done before.
See 1.1.3. , 1.1.5. , 1.1.10., 2.2 , 2.1.2., 3.1.2., 3.1.3.
Yet again, you fail to acknowledge that your mentioning labeling you as a liar in your reply to me implies that there is some connection of that allegation to my comment.
Apparently my hint by example was too subtle:
( See how my including the entirely unrelated nonsense in blue implies that you have this time refrained from trying get gang-flags? )
Come on down off of that cross now!
I think you can relax, TiG. MAGA said the lying accusation had happened previously in the discussion, not that you did it. It seemed like an expression of relief, to me. Not an accusation at all.
Correct. Note what I wrote:
The word 'implies' is operative here.
But thanks for at least not making it personal this time.
You are the sole person here making things personal right now. Tacos got it exactly right and that should have been clear from the beginning and certainly should be now. Also since I was referring to comments earlier in the discussion and you had not participated in the discussion earlier there is no logic or reason for you to assume that it was in any way directed at you.
Words and meanings are important---until they aren't!
LOL Again you completely miss the subtlety.
Tacos! was absolutely NOT making it personal. What I did was use the same pattern you used — to illustrate by example . I included a completely unrelated closing comment of:
There was no reason for me to do that. It was unrelated to his comment yet it leaves the impression that Tacos! was earlier being personal. I did the same thing on my comment to you to illustrate by example :
The part in blue has absolutely nothing to do with my comment but leaves the impression that you have engaged in gang-flagging (and I have no reason to believe you have ever done that).
The examples were an attempt to illustrate to you why I asked you to clarify this little blurb you tacked on to a reply to me:
This reads as though I had called you a liar earlier in the seed. See? Same pattern.
Also note that my reply @ 5.1.1 asked you to clarify. I did not accuse you of anything, I asked you to be clear. You refused to do so and demanded an apology; an apology for asking you to be clear.
Words do indeed have meaning.
No tacos was not making anything personal nor was I. Only you are doing that here.
Just to get the seed back on topic....
Surge Summary: Having created general havoc for weeks now, including vandalism of memorials and attacks on churches, radical, neo-Marxist rioters burned a flag and Bibles this past weekend in Portland. These people destroy what they hate, in this case a symbol of America and the Christian/Jewish holy book.
by Gary Bauer
The ritualistic burning of American flags continued in Portland over the weekend. I know you understand that a hallmark of the left, whether it’s kneeling professional athletes or neo-Marxists in the streets, is to disrespect and burn the American flag.
Well, now the left is sending a new signal. Bibles were also thrown onto the bonfires in Portland this weekend. That shouldn’t surprise anyone. The left burns what it hates.
We have already reported how they have attacked churches and synagogues, vandalizing them and, in some cases, burning them to the ground. All of it happened while the major media and virtually the entire leadership of the Democrat Party and the progressive movement are completely silent.
It’s one thing to say that the demonstrators should remain peaceful. It’s something completely different to ignore the regular attacks on houses of worship and now Bibles. After all, the social justice warriors are always telling us, “Silence is violence.”
You’ll remember that the left and its media allies were more furious and vitriolic about Donald Trump walking over to a church in Washington, D.C., to defend religious liberty than they were about the fact that left-wing arsonists the night before tried to burn the church down.
When I say “neo-Marxists,” I’m not trying to be provocative. A lot of what we see in today’s “woke” left is Marxism, plain and simple. Whenever adherents of Marxism have taken power, it has meant pain and suffering for many people, but particularly for Christians and Jews.
Marxism, believing in no God other than the state, has resulted in tens of millions of deaths in the old Soviet Union, communist China, Cuba, North Korea — wherever it has put down roots.
First it burns Bibles. Then it burns churches. And then they burn Christians.
We must defeat the radical left!...
https://dailysurge.com/2020/08/burning-bible-an-american-flag-christianity-and-the-united-states-under-assault/
Well that is proof that you do not read what I write. Not even when stated with clear emphasis:
There is no excuse for you to miss that. I suggest you read what people write instead of scanning and presuming (or whatever flawed approach you are using).
I suggest you drop this. You are not paying attention to what I write and keep perpetuating this pointless crap by making uninformed allegations.
All but one here gets that.
Marxism, believing in no God other than the state, has resulted in tens of millions of deaths in the old Soviet Union, communist China, Cuba, North Korea — wherever it has put down roots.
First it burns Bibles. Then it burns churches. And then they burn Christians.....https://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/9438/as-they-turn-to-burning-bibles-portland-rioters-show-their-true-colors-as-they-turn-to-burning-bibles-portland-rioters-show-th#cm1376434
Not only is this a ridiculous definition for Marxism, having nothing to do with what Marx wrote, but it portrays the State as the objective. How can anyone who actually understands what Marx wrote think that the man sought a powerful State? His objective was for a classless, stateless society. The State (which exists in the Socialism phase) was to be at best an interim that would atrophy out of existence. (In theory of course.)
The stubborn, willful lack of understanding on this topic is staggering.
The incorrect use of Marxism, Socialism and Communism interchangeability is depressing since it's used as a pejorative. Even after it's been explained time and time again. It would be so much more effective if they understood what they were talking about and applied even basic logic to it.
Given it has been explained (for years now) in considerable detail with examples, analogies, logic, fact and history yet the same mindless mantra is all that ever returns, there is no doubt in my mind that this is willful ignorance. A stubborn refusal to actually learn something that clashes with cultural indoctrination.
To me one of the indicators of an objective mind is the ability to intelligently discuss a topic that one holds in disagreement. So I think it is perfectly reasonable for someone to understand what Marx was proposing and conclude that his views were unrealistic (or otherwise). I, for example, can make a rather strong case as to why Marx' viewpoint is unrealistic. But one needs to actually understand (through research and thinking) a subject to make a sensible criticism.
Contrast that with the slogan-level, mindless repetition of mantras. There is never any argument of substance, it is always ignorant declarations and confused correlations. When asked to define 'socialism' for example, most every time there is silence or deflection. When shown how the word 'socialism' has many contradictory meanings and is thus rendered meaningless unless qualified by a definition, the response is mindless tripe like 'I know it when I see it'.
It is one thing to not be aware of a subject. We are not omniscient. But there is no excuse for stubborn, willful ignorance.
Because the Russians, Chinese, Germans, Romanians, other Eastern Europeans, Vietnamese, Koreans, Laotians, Cambodians, Cubans etc. all got it wrong except for the state atheism and persecution of Christians.....
I know you understand that a hallmark of the left, whether it’s kneeling professional athletes or neo-Marxists in the streets, is to disrespect and burn the American flag.
Well, now the left is sending a new signal. Bibles were also thrown onto the bonfires in Portland this weekend. That shouldn’t surprise anyone. The left burns what it hates.
We have already reported how they have attacked churches and synagogues , vandalizing them and, in some cases, burning them to the ground. All of it happened while the major media and virtually the entire leadership of the Democrat Party and the progressive movement are completely silent.
https://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/9438/as-they-turn-to-burning-bibles-portland-rioters-show-their-true-colors-as-they-turn-to-burning-bibles-portland-rioters-show-th#cm1376479
This is incoherent.
The 'left' hates Bibles? All those people who you consider 'on the left' (which is probably the majority) hate Bibles?
Do you think I hate Bibles?
See, my position on the Bible is that it is an incredibly influential piece of literature (an historical fiction). It is mostly very well written, contains many brilliant tidbits of wisdom and offers (in select parts) very good moral teachings.
My problem with the Bible is that it is deemed to be the divine Word of a perfect God. My problem is that many people believe that (in various degrees) and then act on the directives as if they really are the wishes of the singular most powerful and knowledgeable sentient entity possible. Yet the Bible is demonstrably errant and thus is imperfect. It defines a God that is a contradiction and thus does not exist as defined. It simply is the words of ancient men with pens.
If people viewed the Bible as the perspectives and imaginations of ancient men rather than the divine Word of a perfect God, that would be entirely cool.
But, and this is key, in spite of my disagreement with how people view the Bible, I am entirely against destroying it or attempting to hide it from others. Not only do I not hate the Bible, I find it to be a critical part of our history. Just as I am against trying to erase our own domestic historical sins. We should preserve our history: good and bad and strive to make a future history that is better based on (ostensibly) a stronger foundation of knowledge, wisdom and perspective.
No, it isn’t.
The post had nothing to do with what you personally think or my impression of it. It had to do with the topic of the seeded article.
I think it is time for you to stop peppering your own seed with these pokes and try to focus on the topic.
Try offering something on the topic instead of making obnoxious posts directed at me.
You stated that the left hates Bibles. I weighed in on that. Do you have a topical response?
I quoted from an article...
Are you stating that when you put forth a post which uses someone else's words that you do not necessarily agree with the quoted words?
Whether I agree with them or not, they aren’t my words as you stated.
Well then what is your position?
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDecmcuH2L3/?igshid=3r0og5cj1dlp
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDex35yFNpx/?igshid=1q0eyjzq9mnmk
What exactly are you rambling on about now?
Say what?
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How was this "off topic" ? It was directly related the the above seed.
This article is pure hysteria. There were a couple of idiots that burned bibles and a flag, that's it.
It’s against the rules to go on another members seeded article and post a link to one of your own to draw traffic away from one toward your own.
All right I'll give you that but it still was not "off topic".
Ask Perrie. I flagged it under terms of service...
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It looks like a reporter tweeted that a Bible was used to start a fire. The video of the initial event shows a book that may be a Bible, but it looks too thin, and the overall dimensions don’t seem to work for a Bible. There’s no indication that a “stack of Bibles” was ever used. The fire is set by two people, and put out by yellow clad members of the group Moms United for Black Lives Matter.
This possible Bible burning has exploded into a major cultural event on right-wing websites — Leftists are attempting to destroy American culture by burning large numbers of Bibles. That is simply not what happened. Conservatives seem to have their “clutch pearls’ sensitivity permanently set to 11. Conservatives need to calm down. Even if the book was a Bible, it’s one Bible, and two people possibly making a statement.
The video at the beginning shows an American flag being paraded around burning and then they put the burning flag on the ground and burn multiple Bibles in that particular fire. There’s a you tube of it in a post near the top of the posts.
“Now we move to the book burning phase. I’m pretty sure ANTIFA doesn’t actually stand for what they say it stands for. Maybe just remove the anti part of [their] name and it’s perfect,” he wrote.
Other Twitter users acknowledged that burning Bibles confirms what many have thought all along about the riots.
“There is a purpose to this. The protesters are signaling they will dismantle and replace our whole entire narrative,” tweeted another user.
The Portland riots have been raging since George Floyd’s death in early May, even before “the ramped-up federal presence.” While many have claimed that these riots are “largely peaceful,” “gunfire, arson, stabbings, and other violence followed rioters”
https://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/9438/as-they-turn-to-burning-bibles-portland-rioters-show-their-true-colors-as-they-turn-to-burning-bibles-portland-rioters-show-th?g=89#cm1379492
Looks like this is Russian misinformation. It's exaggerated troll farm stuff, meant to make it look like a much bigger deal than it really was.
From the NYT:
From the Independent:
The Russians want to sow chaos before the election again. Try not to just blindly accept crap like this, especially when it originates from a Russian state-owned media outlet.
For as long as America's enemies specially craft such ugly harmful divisive propaganda and rank misinformation they will have their willing dupes who gladly spread it on American social media.
Interesting to watch the secular progressives take thee own actions they do do America and then turn sound and accuse Russia of committing their real crimes instead just to make them look bad. Lol at that nonsense. Our secular progressive left 5th column is more dangerous to America and her future than any present foreign threat.
👏👍🇺🇸🗽🦅 Well said
So you’re saying that Russian agents burned our flag and then once it was on the ground threw the Bible’s into the flames and filmed it?
Don't be daft. The point is that the misleading, hyperbolic content of the seed you posted originated with Ruptly, which is owned by RT.
Take this claim: "“Left-wing activists bring a stack of Bibles to burn in front of the federal courthouse in Portland.”
Did you just believe that without batting an eye? Because, as the article I quoted from the Independent points out: "The video does not show the location of the fire, does not include more than two protesters, does not show a stack of Bibles, and does not indicate the political ideologies of the people burning the Bible."
See how that works? It's like magic. It's the power of suggestion in propaganda aimed at duping people already predisposed to believe it. The purpose is not to report well-evidenced facts with honesty and integrity, but to twist a story in such a way as to mislead and manufacture outrage.
Don't let yourself be played like a fiddle.
Thanks for posting the truth DS. Not that the tRumpers will believe it.
The Russians had nothing to do with American secular progressives burning our flag and Bibles in the Portland riots.