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geardaddy

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Fri May 10, 2019, 11:28 AM May 2019

An alt-righter protests Minneapolis' MayDay parade. It does not go well [VIDEO] [View all]

http://www.citypages.com/news/an-alt-righter-protests-minneapolis-mayday-parade-it-does-not-go-well-video/509600751

May Day is an ancient Northern European spring festival that evolved into an honor for working people here in America. But lately it’s gathered another meaning for the alt-right: It’s a day to protest lefties, and to celebrate a dominantly white culture from centuries past.

Never mind that said culture was one of abject misery for most. Historical scholarship is not a conservative strong suit.

So it was only fitting that a protester showed up at Minneapolis’ MayDay parade, which ran through the Phillips and Powderhorn Park neighborhoods. His was a one-man procession, featuring a Make America Great Again hat and the flying of the Kekistan flag.


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“I saw him earlier in the day and he was flying the flag,” says Alexander Just. “I didn’t pay much attention to him. I just thought it was weird.”

Then he heard yelling, a confrontation. A photographer by trade, Just began to videotape.

The footage shows a lone man, seemingly trapped between anger and fear. A crowd surrounds him, with some calling him a “Nazi.”

“He wants people genocided!” one man repeatedly shouts.

Others urge peace and attempt to calm. But it isn’t easy to tame emotions when people believe a Nazi’s in their midst.

The protester tucks his MAGA hat into his jacket and disassembles his flag pole, brandishing the pipes in the international signal for go-time. “We can either talk or we can fight,” he announces to his tormentors. Then he draws a line in the sand.




Geezus, the nut jobs just can't keep to themselves.
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