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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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i’m confident i’ve read this headline during his last administration, right before there was a wave of right wing terrorism
ANTIFA is not an organization, it’s a movement, an idea. Anybody who disapproves of fascism is ANTIFA, by definition, and are therefore now considered terrorists by this administration. This move is so that people can now be arrested, deported, detained, executed for speaking out against this administration. There are STILL people being held in Gitmo without trial because the state considered them terrorists. That’s where we’re at now with anybody who dares to speak out against Trump or joins a protest against this administration.
This is the pretext they will use to start disappearing democrats. Under the PATRIOT act, someone that is designated a terrorist can be held without charges, indefinitely; and in most cases so far, be subject to torture. All the extraordinary renditions throughout the 2000s were done under this pretext. The best part is, once someone says you’re a terrorist, that’s it! No evidence needed because the protections of the law no longer apply to you, so no due process or habeas corpus. They’ll just disappear you, and it will 100% be legal.
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.
Anyone with guns who is hostile to government power?
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.
I am antifascist.
We are all Antifa.
i learned a few things from
spartacusand you know what i’mspartacustooExcept the fa, obviously.
“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?”)
I somehow missed the “healthcare is so hard” quote (or I forgot). Kind of like when Michael Bay was surprised that astronauts are scientists.
Still waiting on that ACA repeal…
All this because Orange man is afraid of releasing the Epstein files.
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.
the patriot act was cover for surveillance they were already doing on statesians, just legalizing the capabilities they had been developing and using extrajudicially on citizens.
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.
Cowardice alone will not save you. There will always be further demands to erode your freedoms and your morals and ethics. Find where your line is now or they will continue to chip away at who you are and what you care about until you fit the mold they want you to.
Ok, now USA is officialy a nazi country. Nice to know.
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.
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.It’s like criminalizing someone who says they are “spiritual,” or “New Age.”
In fairness we should probably consider this
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
Let me fix the headline… Ahem.
Trump admits that he is pro-fascism.
