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President Donald Trump said he is designating the far-left anti-fascism movement Antifa as a terrorist organization, announcing the move on his Truth Social platform in the early hours of Thursday morning UK time.
It wasn’t immediately clear what mechanism Trump would use to make the designation, and Antifa lacks centralized structure or defined leadership, making it unclear who or what precisely would be targeted.
“I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION,” Trump wrote. “I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
A White House official told CNN, “This is just one of many actions the president will take to address left wing organizations that fuel political violence.”
Trump — who’s overseas for a formal state visit — signaled the move earlier this week in remarks from the Oval Office following the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
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Where is ANTIFA?
When was the last time someone saw ANTIFA?
Who are ANTIFA’s leaders?
Just another scare tactic to get terrified conservatives to fear an invisible boogeyman even more than they already do.
Also, let’s be clear. ANTIFA stands for Anti-Fascist. In a nation not run by actual fascists, anti-fascism is a good thing.
Plus a vague label they can slap on anyone they don’t like. It’s pulling double dipshit duty.
“It wasn’t immediately clear what mechanism Trump would use to make the designation, and Antifa lacks centralized structure or defined leadership, making it unclear who or what precisely would be targeted.”
Lmao this is the whole point – right wing leaders (for now Trump, but also whatever shithead populists arise after him) can just slap the Antifa label on whoever they don’t like, to justify whatever they want to do with them.
Not that different from the “terrorism” label in the early 2000s. Some people were shouting as loud as they could from as many rooftops as they could, that this label would eventually be used far more broadly than initially intended. Sure enough, look at us now. “Stopping terrorism” has been used to justify all manner of insanely not-OK shit.
I was actually shocked the NY judged dismissed the terrorism charges against Luigi, by citing that it didn’t actually meet the real definition.
All this because Orange man is afraid of releasing the Epstein files.
“Antifa lacks centralized structure or defined leadership”
That was literally my first thought: Is that even a thing? Is that even an organization?
No. Of course not. It’s just another thing he’ll use to put his opposition in prison. He’s learned from his mentors, Putin and Xi.
He never learned “what NATO is” or “that healthcare is so hard”, but he learned this. (Trump has said that when he started his first term he didn’t know what NATO was and at one point he said “who would’ve thought healthcare would be so hard?”)
Still waiting on that ACA repeal…
I am antifascist.
We are all Antifa.
He is following the Nazi playbook to a T.
Come 2026, many of us will be arrested with no due process and put into concentration camps for using the 1st amendment. The dictatorship is here and republicans REFUSE to admit it because the fascist is on their side.
We have to make a decision in the next few months. Continue to work, be a member of society, and ignore what is happening. Or cause massive disruptions that will get change started.
Sadly, i don’t think the majority of the population is willing to fight until they are in the bread line.
Once they are in the bread line they will be too focused in their immediate needs to fight.
In Trump’s defence, this fascism started with the Patriot Act. He is just taking it to a whole new level.
Very well put. In the 80s, Romanians were lining up for rations. In 1989 the regime fell.
This is exactly the thing they are looking to come after. Stay safe
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I cannot stress enough the importance of watching what you say online. They will have an ai search every comment ever posted and identify a list of enemies of the state. I can absolutely see us headed to the point where anything negative ever said about dear leader will be grounds for arrest.
Advanced compliance won’t save you. If they deem you undesirable they will manufacture content on your behalf.
Yep.
This is our future because we were too stupid as a society to avoid it.
Make sure none of your social media points to your real name or phone number or address. If you aren’t sure, scrub it and make new accounts. Get a VPN and use it always.
I’m using Tor over VPN, still too scared to say anything too serious, I’m watering down what I have to say so it doesn’t contain any um… you know… I mean like I’m not gonna make a serious death threat over the internet, that’s gonna make them put more resources into deanonymization.
Good luck with that. ANTIFA is an idea, not an organization. It’s like criminalizing someone who says they are “spiritual,” or “New Age.”
The silver lining to this lunacy is that IF we ever regain control of America, we can use this precedent to declare MAGA to be a violent terrorist hate group, and prohibit it, and arrest anyone who tries to revive it.
It’s like criminalizing someone who says they are “spiritual,” or “New Age.”
In fairness we should probably consider this
ANTIFA is an idea
This is what is confusing the obese orange cunt, he has no idea what an idea is.
He’s never had an idea, they’ve only ever been spoon fed to him by his cronies and, obviously, putin/russian handlers.Good luck with that. ANTIFA is an idea, not an organization. It’s like criminalizing someone who says they are “spiritual,” or “New Age.”
That’s the point, anyone can be part of Antifa. The Trumpie Regime can arrest anyone on bogus charges with bullshit evidence. EDIT: The lack of hierarchy and goals outside of being anti-fascist is what would allow Trumpie and Blondie to charge/kill anyone for being part of Antifa.
Protested at No Kings Rally? Antifa. Jail.
Said mean things about Trumpie? Antifa. Extrajudicial killing.
Made a Republican cry? Antifa. El Salvador Death Camp.The US Public already green lit stripping rights away from terrorists was fine. The next will be drug smugglers and drug dealers. Then it will be the mental ill and hey look at that the Regime has been saying LGBT people are mental ill, better take their rights away. Homeless camps have a lot of crime and we should take away their rights. This just keeps going and going.
Trumpie is a giant walking piece of shit, who raped women and girls, committed numerous criminal offences, and actively corrupt. Trumpie should have been in prison a long time ago. Yet, Trumpie still deserves having rights. If you take away Trumpie’s rights, you have demonstrated that rights are privileges. Guarantee, another government will find ways to expand the situation of removing Trumpie’s rights to fit that government’s agenda.
The silver lining to this lunacy is that IF we ever regain control of America, we can use this precedent to declare MAGA to be a violent terrorist hate group, and prohibit it, and arrest anyone who tries to revive it.
Centrists will make sure that never happens.
Centrists will make sure that never happens.
Maybe, but at the same time a Centrist arguably just added more holes to Charlie Kirk.
The guy wasn’t a Centrist. Frankly, we don’t know what he is. The only information we get comes from Chameleon Patel’s DOJ, which has negative credibility/ integrity. I literally don’t believe a single word they announce. I assume literally EVERYTHING they say contains lies.
IF we ever regain control of America, we can use this precedent to declare MAGA to be a violent terrorist hate group
Just like democrats and Biden used the SCOTUS’ ruling on presidential immunity to assassinate Trump?
Valid.
Up next, famous hacker 4chan and anonymous are now on FBI most wanted!
The hacker known as LMAO
Ok, now USA is officialy a nazi country. Nice to know.
Fash gonna fash.
Rebrand as Antipedo and see what he does.
Looks at books, hmm…look at that 74.75 million people I need to designate as ANtifa.
This is a call for civil war.
ARREST STARMER AND LAMMY, War criminal, authoritarian, pandering orwellian pieces of shit. Ironically got so bad the conservative MPs, same people who got absolutely finessed by russian donors, lobbyists and spies started pushing back on pissraeli ties and weapon donations.
The labour party inherited the shittest govt of all time, and somehow decided to do an even worse job in only a year. Suppressing freedom of speech, passing the Orwellian online safety act, and using the dystopian terrorist act to arrest people for disagreeing with them with no due process, and doubling down on austerity, and also blaming migrants. All this shit is fuelling the far right and amplifying their racist voices 100x.
We in UK are fucked. Labour is the best government we’ll have for the next 20 years. This is only going down hill.
Labour is the best government we’ll have for the next 20 years.
Bro are u high, they are literally worse than the late tory govt, which might’ve had the worse stinker any european govt has had since yugoslavia. We aren’t a 2 party state unlike the states, the lib dems won a record 72 seats in the last election and Corbyn just founded his new Your Party. Lib Dems are the most promising established party in Parliament right now and Corbyn’s Your Party is gaining traction and support due to the weight of Jezza’s name.
I hope reform doesn’t win, but my area is looking bleak. Too many at work are openly open reform. But you couldn’t find a whiter area, so I guess that explains it.
Call me pessimistic, but I don’t have faith in general public voting in their favour any time soon. Too easily manipulated.
