Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization
www.whitehouse.gov
Section 1.  Antifa as a Terrorist Threat.  Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States
  • Formfiller@lemmy.world
    211·
    2 months ago

    This is where they start disarming, kidnapping and disappearing us for being against fascism. Let the witch hunt begin

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      It’s not an organization. It’s a boogeyman they’re using to try to justify imprisoning and murdering liberals.

    • DegenerationIP@lemmy.world
      171·
      2 months ago

      Antifa Just means Anti Facism. If you’re against facism, you’re Antifa.

      Any means telling you otherwise are either fascists or people making Jokes to fool fascists.

      • Dogyote@slrpnk.net
        1·
        2 months ago

        Thanks I know what it means but there is no existing antifa group, right? I understand a lot of people on lemmy consider themselves anti-facist and that’s nice but they’re not members of an organized group.

        What I’m getting at is the executive order is targeting something that doesn’t actually exist irl. I’m guessing this EO is a reaction to protestors in Oregon during Trump’s first term who were wearing masks and calling themselves antifa. Was it a real organization then? Seemed like a bunch of kids to me with no actual leadership structure.

        • coltn@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          …wait… you aren’t paying your monthly antifa membership dues?

          • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
            71·
            2 months ago

            There is no such group or anything.

            There actually are many groups in the US which have “Antifa” in their name: for instance Rose City Antifa, NYC Antifa, Philly Antifa, Atlanta Antifa, among many others. Obviously this new (completely unprecedented btw) “domestic terrorist organization” designation is also going to be used against many people who aren’t affiliated with any such group.

            • DegenerationIP@lemmy.world
              3·
              2 months ago

              Gotcha. I See it more as identification rather than being an actual group. If you can follow me. I dunno how to explain it better…

        • quick_snail@feddit.nl
          2·
          2 months ago

          There are many antifa groups. Anti fascist action is best preformed in groups. It’s dangerous work.

          See also “affinity group”

  • Tangentism@lemmy.ml
    121·
    2 months ago

    Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law.

    If those institutions are fascistic then fuck yeah!

    • /home/pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      2 months ago

      Wasn’t it one of the founding principles of our government that it can be overthrown and reinstated as the people see fit?

      Edit:

      We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

      Source: Declaration of Independence

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 months ago

    Everyone reading this should be arming themselves and everyone they know as fast as possible.

      • Rusty@lemmy.caEnglish
        71·
        2 months ago

        It’s a political cartoon. I don’t think I can post it as a text.

          • procapra@lemmy.ml
            3·
            2 months ago

            There is certainly something to be said about people asking for someone to fix something rather than fixing it themselves.

            It wasn’t exactly hard to just comment on the image what was said. Multiple people pretty much did this.

            • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
              32·
              2 months ago

              Because the disruption is the point. Not fixing a problem. It’s literally in the CIA’s manual, and I guess the mods really don’t want folks to know that. Pretty suspicious.