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Interesting how the article doesn't mention any game of whac-a-mole to root out leftist extremism.

Because there's no serious left-wing insurgency anybody is worried about. There are people who like posting guillotine images on Twitter but little real-world impact.

There were left wing rioters burning down buildings all summer and pushing for extreme policies to be instituted in our government. I'm quite worried about that, and the fact that many power centers fell in line to pretend it wasn't happening.

And what impact have they had beyond a bunch of anodyne "we support black lives" statements? It's not even clear to me that the rioters were particularly well organized or politically engaged so I'm not sure that social media targeting would make much difference (with I guess the possible exception of censoring any police violence videos).

Thousands of houses and businesses burned down, families moving out of cities, huge records set for guns sold and for first time gun buyers, and you pretend nothing happened last year.

It's neither the first time we had race riots nor, most likely, the last. What action do you think is needed?

These riots were lead by avowed Marxists. They received millions in donations from the largest companies in the world. These same companies lined up to shut down any criticism of these riots. At the same time, countervailing forced are censored and demonized (maybe rightfully, but wildly unequally) and swiftly wiped off the internet by coordinated efforts.

I respect the fact that people can think these are good things, but pretending it's business as usual is just laughable.

Is that so? Why would the world's largest companies support the abolition of private property?

I'm not a member of those companies' boards, so I could not say. I suspect because they're politically aligned with the "soundbite" message presented by the leadership of the riots, and that their marketing teams calculated it is beneficial for PR purposes. Useful Innocents.

My suspicion is that the protests are far less coordinated or politically aligned than you suggest. For every "committed Marxist" involved I think you have a lot of plain old liberals and people with no real coherent political ideology at all.

Thousands?

Just the insurance payouts are close to $2 bullion. Also dozens of people were killed.

https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a4...

Of course, these efforts have effectively gone nowhere.

I'm more worried about the multitudes of heavily-armed radicals who believe in the election Big Lie or QAnon.

The Antifa flag bears obvious similarity to the Antifaschistische Aktion flag.

"Antifaschistische Aktion...was a militant anti-fascist organisation in the Weimar Republic started by members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) that existed from 1932 to 1933." [1]

"In the United States, antifa of the early 21st-century has drawn its aesthetics and some of its tactics from Antifaschistische Aktion." [1]

The link between Antifaschistische Aktion and Antifa was drawn within a detailed article [2] published in Jacobin, who is "a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture" [3].

Given that "insurgent" is defined as "a person who revolts against civil authority or an established government" [4], and CHAZ/CHOP were revolts against civil authority, Antifa is clearly a left-wing insurgency.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifaschistische_Aktion

[2] https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/antifascist-movements-hit...

[3] https://jacobinmag.com/about

[4] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insurgent

Leftist extremism doesn't exist. Look how many years they spent telling us Islam is a religion of peace and calling every islamic attach on society a lone wolf attack.

Cognitive dissonance. Populations doesn't know what to think anymore if they think at all.

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