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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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Must mean they’re pro fascist, then.
Oh… it absolutely does, no doubt about it
Always have been
So being Anti Fascist is now a terrorist org? Fuck you Trump , goddamn pedophile rapist. I say Trump administration as terrorist organization.
No, antifa. The organization that doesn’t exist ;)
The organization that doesn’t exist
Exactly so they can label anything or anyone antifa and use it as pretense to remove dissent without due process.
He’s also cracking down on Bigfoot and the tooth fairy
How about we get this changed to “Kamala Harris: I am pleased to inform our many real U.S.A. Patriots that I am designing MAGA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL RIGHT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. I will also be strongly recommending that those funding MAGA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”, which I think would sound a lot better here.
Well, that’s cool. Can we apply for asylum in Canada yet?
Canada will not shelter terrorist designees from the us. Few countries would. None you would want to move to.
Canada still considers the USA a safe nation; refugees cannot enter Canada from the USA and apply for asylum.
How do they decide someone is antifa? Is it going to be just everyone they don’t like?
Anyone who is not sufficiently anti-antifa, which means anyone not a fascist.
anti-anti-fascist.
Yes, exactly.
Mostly true but I’m guessing exceptions are made for speaking badly of dear leader.
Anything not in line with the fascists, yes. Anti-Trump will be illegal.
America seems to want this.
“Are you against fascism?”
yes
“So you’re anti fascist?”
yes…
“We have a confession boys, prepare the firing squad”
…
Firing squad? Buddy, you’re going to Gitmo for a few years of “enhanced interrogation” so they can shake some accomplices outta you
America may be ignorant but the majority certainly doesn’t want this.
The majority never voted for the Nazi party either. It doesn’t matter. If they don’t rise up against fascism, that’s enough for the fascist to win.
A lot of people were saying that the last election was the choice between democracy and fascism - and still enough people either didn’t know or didn’t care.
I’m afraid that the erosion of the education system did what it was designed to do: produced enough uneducated people to allow propaganda to break democracy.
Agreed.
49.8% voted for this, more than any other option. 0.5% voted for RFK Jr so it’s highly likely that over 50% of people who felt bothered to actually vote seemed to be ok with it.
I suppose you could say they were misinformed, but people were pretty loud about it…
They also did everything they could to block, purge, or straight up steal Democrat votes. Any number coming from the gov’t at this point is likely bullshit.
Am I the only person who remembers Trump all but admitting on national television that Musk rigged the voting machines in his favor?
And then all the highly irregular ballots that appeared that are, and I quote, “consistent with vote manipulation” as per the neutral third party assigned to investigate?
And then nobody investigated it at all because we “couldn’t be taken seriously about it” because of the huge Stop The Steal right wing uproar the prior election.
Don’t trust those reported numbers, they are almost certainly fabricated.
What American middle-class wants versus what they’re willing to actually DO about it might as well be on opposite sides of the solar system.
Sites like this have the most informed people with the most thought-out positions and understand what’s at stake and most people here still aren’t willing to organize or mobilize or even ally with people slightly less left of themselves.
Most people are still too comfortable, too poor, too scared, struggling too hard or too caught up in their own lives to want to break anything or rock the boat. Until it’s too late.
If you’re anti-trump you suffer from trump-derangement-syndrome, ie. are mentally damaged.
If you’re anti-fascism you’re part of antifa, a terror risk.For both rules and regulations are on the table to help them give you your own cot at a crocodile swamp-camp.
Literally exactly it.
But don’t worry, we have people ALL over Lemmy still shouting about the Epstein files, so I’m sure we’ll all be just fine.
anyone that is probably black(which trump hates alot he got it from his father), blm, anyone protesting the gop, or kirk.
I think you accidentally figured out their whole plan. It was always made to be as ambiguous as possible so they can do whatever they want. Classssic dictator shit.
Every dictator does this
Tshirts
I mean that’s also the same way they decide who is a terrorist too. So, really, it’s just more of the same with new buzzwords.
Didn’t he already do that in his last term? I still remember the jokes people made back then, like “how can it be a terrorist organization if it’s not receiving weapons shipments from the US government!?”
Get ready everybody that opposes fascism, you are now a terrorist!
So what terrorist attacks is antifa guilty of pulling off?
Mass destruction of aspiring paramilitaries’ image of toughness.
They can use the state to Target anyone that fights back against these groups like The Proud boys and whatever, and they will become monsters targeting people with impunity while being protected by the state. Something they tried to do in 2020.
WW2, obviously 🙄
Psychological attacks in Nazis, even executions, and forcing them into a comfortable & respectful NASA and Pentagon jobs.
Also corruption of Nazi youth via education.
Let’s rebrand as antipedo.
Like nailing jelly to a wall or punching the shit out of smoke.
How long until they outlaw the Fediverse? How long until Lemmy becomes Illegal?
HOLY FUCKING SHIT IS THIS NOT BAD ENOUGH ON IT’S OWN!!! THIS WILL LITERALLY BE USED TO LOCK UP REAL FUCKING PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE, YET THE ONLY LANGUAGE YOU CAN UNDERSTAND FOR OPPOSING HIM IS “HA HA, HE’S A PEDO.”
I’m genuinely tired of people acting like this is some instant kill move. His friendship with Epstein is old news that is only relevant and salient now because some Trumpians are mad at him for other reasons. They recognize that Trump hasn’t delivered what they wanted, but they lack the understanding and vocabulary to actually articulate the reasons for their anger. What they do understand is accusing people of being a pedo, and oh boy is Trump a certified Pedophile.
I understand memeing on him about it, and I often find it funny, but for the love of fuck, please stop acting like Trump’s crimes against humanity are a distraction. Yes he personally abused kids in the past, but he’s also systemically abusing kids right now for simply being born in the wrong country. It’s fucking disgusts me when people do this.
They have bred a nation of children and adults with child-minds who think that by having one single moral position, that it protects them and shields them from danger or that it just takes sticking to one issue and then you’re “doing your part.”
We’re cooked. We have no opposition, we have a million splinter groups of so-called leftists who can’t figure out how to prioritize problems and still think there’s such thing as “law.”
His friendship with Epstein is old news that is only relevant and salient now because some Trumpians are mad at him for other reasons.
I agree that this is equally important news and an incredibly dangerous turn of events, but let’s not pretend that the president of the nation with the most powerful miltary in the world raping kids is no longer relevant.
I dunno man, he doesn’t really follow through with the vast majority of the shit he says lately. I’m not worried about his words, I’m worried about his actions. The day he actually DOES something bad to someone and says he did it because “they’re antifa” then I’ll be concerned.
What a forward thinking point of view.
You’re a fucking idiot if you think this is just a distraction
Just go away.
Getting people to cry about Epstein is the distraction from the much bigger issue we’re facing right now.
It’s deliberate. They want us to bicker about it, they want you to reply to me about injustice and evidence and how we can’t let pedophiles get away with this and that, etc. and the rule of law.
So that I will argue with you about what the bigger problem is, and we go back and forth until nuance is lost and we end up with hardline positions against each other.
DON’T YOU GET WHAT THEY’RE DOING JESUS FUCK IT’S RIGHT INF RONTY OF YOIUREPSIUTYPRIEHGROPIGHRGHIO I HAVE NEVER WANTED TO SLAP SO MANY PEOPLE SO HARD
Well in this case I hope they can’t legally claim to not be fascist anymore.
“Because the power of law enforcement under President Trump’s leadership will be used to find you, will use to take away your money, take away your power, and if you’ve broken the law, to take away your freedom.” -Stephen Miller
This is how they’re going to prevent future elections. Any large left-wing donors can be labeled as supporters of terrorism and have their assets seized and be thrown in jail. Anybody who protests can be labeled a terrorist, anyone who says things on the Internet can be said to be ‘supporting terrorism’.
After 9/11 we gave the government ridiculous domestic spying powers in order to catch terrorists and the mechanism that they built was described by Edward Snowden as turnkey totalitarianism. They’ve turned the key, labeled their political rivals as terrorists and are going to use the massive domestic spying tools in order to persecute and jail their political opponents.
