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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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Let me fix the headline… Ahem.
Trump admits that he is pro-fascism.
Dear US frogs, the water is boiling. If you have the possibility to either leave or organize armed resistance, you should do it fast. Your window of opportunity is about to close.
Has the same energy as Micheal from The Office screaming “I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY” except Micheal is the president and we’re all fucked
Last time anti fascists were labeled as terrorists was during the 1940’s in nazi occupied countries. So this is a strong message from Adolf Trump.
Also, most of all radicalized gun violence and terrorist attacks the past years have been from the radical right. But fuck facts and statistics, eh? You orange deranged muppet.
Ahaha yes, good one, The Onion!
…wait…
Antifascists being labeled as terrorists before the KKK. lmfao i hate kkkrackers.
Antifa is not an organization, it’s an ideology. To be a patriotic American is synonymous with Antifascism. MAGA on the other hand, is a terrorist organization that has hijacked the United States Government in an ongoing coup.
I am deeply saddened that we are gonna need a bunch nore Patrick Henries to make this true.
Fuck you, orange pig.
At some point they have to run out of masks to take off you’d think
Antifa doesn’t exist; it’s not an “organization” at all.
That’s what makes it so useful to them. If Antifa doesn’t exist, then they get to make it up. And that means they get to decide who’s in it.
And of course, once they decide you’re a member of Antifa, that makes you a suspected terrorist. And suspected terrorists don’t get things like a right to a trial. Suspected terrorists get shipped off to Guantanamo. Oh but you’re not actually a terrorist? How do you plan to prove that in court, if you don’t have a right to a day in court?
All that shit that everyone let slide when it was being used to hunt AL Quaida or whatever; this is where it leads. Once you decide that certain people don’t get human rights, all they have to do is expand the definition of certain people.
I mean, it exists, but as an idea, a label of sorts. A movement, some would say, or a principle. But yeah, it isn’t a specific organization that can be shut down. It’s just there are some people who do some things that are anti-fascist, and by that virtue they “are” “Antifa”. I’d argue that even that status is ephemeral.
As of I give a damn about what this illegitimate government thinks about me. Come and get me pussies!
Perfection.
In other words, Trump says that anyone who is against him, or worse, hurts his feelings with a quip, will be designated as a terrorist.
the more they use that word, the less meaning it has.
Antifa is so 2016 dude, it doesn’t exist anymore.
It’s another distraction for his base to not realize they are being screwed so royally by their daddy trump.
You can’t just declare random people who hate Nazis a terrorist group and then ignore proud boys, the KKK, and MAGA.
Don’t be ignorant, they can label any opposition groups they don’t like as “antifa” and then send them all to Guantanamo, PLEASE I BEG OF YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING.
You can’t just declare random people who hate Nazis a terrorist group
He just did. The rules mean less and less by the minute.
You are completely wrong. Antifa always exists. Anyone that is against fascism is “antifa.” It isn’t an organization. It’s ideology. Antifa = Freedom.
You are completely wrong. Antifa always exists.
IT. DOES. NOT. MATTER.
This is not about ideology or group structure, this is a political tool so that they can label any person, group, website (like this one) who opposes the administration as “antifa” and then lock everyone up and either ship them off to Guantanamo or put them to work as slave-labor to replace the migrants.
There is no law, there is no check or balance system anymore. We are going to lose everything including our freedoms just by talking about it if we don’t mobilize as a whole country, even if it means doing uncomfortable things and uniting with people who don’t share our every ideal… and this is where I know we’re already lost.
You’re all too entitled, too comfortable, to scared. Every negative, child-like emotion is what led us to this point without opposition.
Antifa has no roster or structure. That’s why designating antifa a terror organization is such a powerful move: if you are opposed to Trump, you are antifa, and therfore a terrorist.
The War on Terror has come home.
You say that but that is what they are doing.
Who is going to stop them? There’s nobody left. This shit will go from ugly and stupid to uglier and stupider. There is no bottom to this.
I mean, there’s like thirty kids on Lemmy every post who keep spamming about the Epstein files, so surely we’ll be fine 🙄
