Trump administration now classifies Antifa and left-wing networks among ‘major’ terror groups
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Nice I get to break out the classics
Dude. I told you it’s in the mail.
Yeah, thats what you said about my cocaine shipment too asshole.
Hey, that was NOT my fault. I thought you said we were cool on that!
The far right is the real welfare queen. They are the ones who always get state funded weaponry.
Not "antifa", anti-fascists. They're just admitting it now.
I also like how the Islamic terrorists are "legacy" as if there's nothing going on right now that could be generating a whole new generation of Anti-American terrorists. It's only some old guys who still hate us for our 2000's freedom.
What is this from? This sounds like it is written by AI and not even proofread.
I swear this whole administration is vibe-coded.
"including Anarchists and Anti-Fascists"...so straight up admitting that they are the target of anti-fascist groups. Aaaaaand what does that make them? Could it be....fascist?
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Does anyone know if these left-wing extremists, anarchists, and anti-fascists are accepting applicants? How are the health plans?
Put my name up with the "not a fan of fascists" people
Same with me, and I want to speak up for Grumpa and the men and women of the 435th as he can't anymore so I'll just say he killed a lot of fascists.
Ignores the one group that literally every reputable study says is the most violent in the US: right-wing extremists...
I am starting to seriously wonder if this instance is safe to use, even though I am very careful to always use Tor.
If it makes you feel any better, AI is great at pattern recognition and will be able to cross-link &/or deanonymize any user that has posted even a relatively small amount of text.
Humans have a very limited and specific vocabulary (stylometry) even without regionalisms. Just don't believe anything you say online will stay anonymous, because it won't... Unless you use a local AI to process everything you write with a different persona (e.g. pirate, yarr).
I'd be interested in this, do you have sources (also ideally to test this myself)?
Here's a general primer https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/introduction-to-stylometry-with-python
It's ultimately just statistics, and AI is far better than humans at finding patterns in massive data sets. They are perfectly suited to stylometry. The more text they have of a given user, the higher the probability of cross-referencing against identified users (Facebook, Twitter, etc).
Even if you never post publicly, the problem is western governments have been engaging in dragnet mass surveillance for decades, which means the US gov — probably many govs, especially your own — almost certainly have every text message, email, etc you've ever written; all are transmitted unencrypted. This means the US, and likely your own gov, have the highest probability of deanon-ing you. They also have the highest budgets ace access to perform such a task.
Again, it's only a matter of time until 99% of "anonymous" accounts, above a certain word count, are cross-referenced; likely only a few thousand words. I suspect they could already do 99% of accounts above 10 or 20k words.
I doubt they would use that to deanonimize random people
Then you don't understand how mentally ill and authoritarian the surveillance state, or fascists, are...
They already have dragnet data capture going back decades. Hundreds of billions spent on data centers. The process can be entirely automated, and will be, soon if not already.
It’s not like it requires much effort for the government to do it at scale.
You underestimate the power of the internet. If ordinary people found out that TOR is no longer safe they will flock to another darknet.
https://git.anarchists.space/nemesis/Lingunymous
Whew, good thing I'm just an old fashioned Trotskyite, I wouldn't want to be in with terrorists.
Woah woah woah, the Subaru Legacy is halal?!
It's consecrated for both Islamists and lesbians.
Unfortunately, only the Crosstrek, and then only the AWD version
The fascist terrorists are classifying everyone else as terrorists like the little pissbaby fuckfaces they are.
I don't think they know what a terror group is.
On the contrary; they just approve of Patriot Front and the Proud Boys.
And those are actual terror groups.
They do, it's someone they can brutalize "legitimately" now.
I don't think they know what a group is
Good News everyone, I'm now among the major terror groups.
So are 6 billion other people on the planet.
While this is just the next phase of fascism we all expected, and as incompetent as the FBI has become, no one should doubt that this is a dangerous escalation. I haven’t been able to fly for almost 20yrs because of “alleged” ties to ALF/ELF during the terror panic that birthed Homeland Security post-9/11. That was when the modern surveillance state was just getting rolling.
“There is no greater misfortune than underestimating your opponent.” -Lao Tzu
Yeah, nevermind the actual terrorists that do things like....checks notes....storm the Capitol, beat up police and were seeking to hang members of Congress and the Vice President in an effort to overturn a free and fair election.
Hey, he got the Georgia ballots, so I'm fairly sure the next step is to "find" 11,780 that were never counted and declare himself the true winner of 2020.
Ergo he would've been elected for a third-consecutive term in 2024, so he should be ineligible and everything he's done since null-and-void? I guess? I dunno where they are going with this except to write the history books in their favor.
He was ineligible but got elected anyway, therefore no Constitution. #MAGAlogic
They're coming for us. This is the real reason for the camps.
What's so disturbing to me is that all the conspiracy theory nutballs I've known, the ones who...
are hardcore preppers who said the economy was due to collapse into a post-apocalyptic dystopia anytime a Dem is in the white house
kept talking about the FEMA death camps at former railway hubs with barbed wire fences pointing inwards
think black helicopters are running urban pacification drills in cities
keep being up giant fields being leased by the govt to store nothing but thousands of plastic coffins
never shut up about "jackboot" "police states" during the entirety of Obama and Biden terms
They were all either hardcore right-wingers or simple "never trust the govt" types who suddenly started wearing maga hats
They are not necessarily against those things in principle, even within their own country. They just don't want to be the targets of it. Probably some, whether they are being honest with themselves for the reason or not, are wrapping themselves in MAGA for safety, then convincing themselves it's the Good Side by accepting the propaganda.
Which is neither to excuse any other group for accepting propaganda nor to assert Both Sides in any way.
As the leader of Antifa, this upsets me.
(the glorious dead; no leaders, no followers)
This is the leader of Antifa?
Well, not always. You see, we take it in turns every week to be the leader, because we're sort of an anarcho-syndicalist commune....
But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting--
Oh yes, of course, a biweekly meeting of all antifa members, which - Ooo, look at all this nice mud over here!
Haven't done this is a while... just a moment... okay, here we go:
Dawg, you be trippin fr fr
Fucking ridiculous.
What's next, democrats are terrorists?
They're working up to it. Maybe they'll organize a
ReichstagRepublican Headquarters Fire first.Yes.
Shhh, your not supposed to say the quiet part out loud.
Yes
And the Democrats will be decrying Hassan Piker as they are dragged out of their Blackrock housing by Palantir storm troopers and thrown into Amazon reeducation camps
I am Antifa. Antifa means Anti Fascist ... so yea, if MAGAs "hated enemy" is an antifascist movement then they have basically just classified themselves.
I really hate how media gladly reused this label.
Antifa, pronounced ant-tea-fuh, allowed it to be disconnected from the actual words it was shortened from, and then used as a boogieman.
We all know there is no central antifa command center, headquarters, or organization. We are "antifa" because we are anti fascism.
As you say, you can label yourself, but you can also label yourself by your enemies.
The anti-fascists are Trump's enemies, therefore...
on purpose
It is not just MAGA literally the whole world is fascist. This is why Antifacists are so hated amongst leaders of the world.
Did you forgot about the World Trade protests? Antifacists are at odds with the entire business world AKA big money. The leaders of the world cannot let this movement catch on.
-misattributed to Mao, but it makes the point
For the sake of history, its worth noting that it wasn't the left taking the non-violent options off the table. Just saying. When you see this happen, consider it in the context of something like the war in Iran. When the administration does things like this, they do so without a plan and without consideration for the consequences.
Honestly, that is one of the few saving graces of the entire situation. It will make it much easier for genuine resistance to succeed, if only because these evil bastards are innately clumsy.
If you haven't already, I would start talking to your neighbors and organizing.
We already know the camps exist, and if you've seen some of the images that have been leaked you'll know the conditions are inhumane and cruel. These new labels can be applied to anyone, for any reason. And make no mistake, you don't even have to be in left-wing spaces to be accused and disappeared. So it's not just you in danger, it's everybody around you. It's your co-workers, your family, your friends. All it takes is a wrong place, wrong time.
Organize now, before you don't have that option anymore.
Mine are all maga. The people that are not maga do not want to talk about any of this.
You’re under arrest for resisting arrest.
The political shootings were done by Republicans. So, clearly people against fascism are labeled terrorists. That's pure logic.
Don’t let facts get in the way of a good fascist takeover.
They only care about scary headlines in the accepted newspapers.
I will vote for any progressive that will apply that moniker to every single Republican propaganda machine and act accordingly.
Same. These precedents are gonna be a bitch and a half for them when the script flips, and im here and voting for it
This was such a disgusting display.
cpac is leftist now?!
I’m not Antifa but my grandfather was when he fought the fascists in WWII.
Time to start demnding that the memorials to the soldiers that died in Normandy and across Europe come down.
Those damned antifas, the nerve of them to go kick Hitler's ass!!
Recently had a WWII vet visit my parish. Dude was over 100 years old and was in town for a Pearl Harbor commemoration. He told me that he was among the first group of Allied soldiers to fly over Europe after the surrender and he described seeing people trying to make a life among the rubble of their towns and cities. He then compared this to what he was seeing in Gaza and started to lament the US' support of Israel and how he saw clear connections to what is going on there and what he witnessed in Europe. You're absolutely right, there are now too few living who remember...
Where are these Antifa meetings and organizing events happening?
You need to activate your SorosPhone™ to receive the AntifAlerts.
Instructions unclear. I activated AntifaFlirts and my notifications blew up.
Be glad you didn't buy an AntiFarts device and risk it going off in your car.
Those are the real terrorism devices
Girrrrrl, you shit with that ass? For 4.95 a day, you could shit with two asses.
That's the neat part: Anywhere that the fascists find it useful to claim that they are.
In the fever dreams of the sheep and dupes and criminally insane oligarchs of the United States.
Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.
White supremacists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.
They really are weak and pathetic. They only feel safe when they surround themselves with people identical to them. They would never go to a foreign country or try ethnic food or visit a museum. All of that is too scary. MAGA are nothing but weak, chickenshit snowflakes.
the stupid just keeps getting louder dont it
We're armed too, fuckers. You don't want this.
This is the way. Get armed. Not because you want to enact violence but because you want to protect yourself and eventually they will find some trumped up reason to take away gun or ammo rights. You don't by a sword to become a highway man. You do it because there are already highway men with swords. It's a form of power.
I actually know a few "lefties" that thought guns are stupid killing machines and nobody should have them years ago. After the first trump administration they all took an about face and are now pro gun and think we should all be armed. Our government should live in fear of us. They are there to serve and protect us, and we are the ones feeding them to make it possible. Instead they take our money and give socialism to their billionaire buddies corporations or send it to Israel or bomb random countries. We should not live in fear of our authoritarian regime, it's time to turn the tables. Don't tread on our freedom 🇺🇸 and don't tread on sovereign nations because u want their resources. Time the USA pulls itself up from the bootstraps instead of taking from countries that don't have the bloated military budgets to defend themselves.
Amazing how quickly the meanimg of terrorism changed over the years. When it became ok to hate terrorists, suddenly anyone you hate can be relabeled as one.
I was still an active member of a Baptist Church in the early 2000s and I remember arguing with the leader of my Sunday School group about the dangers of the Patriot Act and how it opens the door to stuff like this. He just waved it away as me being anti-authoritarian and paranoid. Well look who was proved to be right in the end, MATT?!?
Fucking Matt.
We all know who's on the right side of history, you Nazi f*cks.
Wow, I'm a terrorist! Didn't have that on my life's bingo card.
And anyone voting Democrat is among them so they’re gonna start rounding people up to put into those detention centers.
I actually looked up when trump won on DDG if an administration could see who you voted for. "No" I was told. Cool.
And now all the States just handed over voter data to the administration.
It is WAY past time for the US “left,” such as it is, to earn the labels it’s receiving.
The “if you want to cry, I’ll give you something to cry about” angle is what’s needed.
So being anti-fascist is being a terrorist? I sure am glad most of the WW2 vets aren’t here to witness that everything they fought for would make them a terrorist.
Plenty of the American WW2 veterans moved on to fighting in Korea and then Vietnam.
I don't feel like I've earned this. Serious imposter syndrome rn.
Well, heck, I mean they are "radically pro-transgender" aren't they?
I'm imagining that the amount of fascist activity across the U.S. this year will be unmatched. Considering the American techno fascist companies have wormed their way into majority of the world's population's pockets, I wouldn't be surprised if we see this shit globally too. The world is sick and it's really bumming me out.
Don't be too bummed. All this crazy shit needs complex supply chains to even exist, which the regime seems intent on destroying. Soon, the data centers won't run and we can fight over the sheet metal to build huts within the ruins.
What do you think happens to the security services when government fails, when the checks bounce or are not written?
They extort, they steal, they run rackets. They have the heavy weaponry.
Then they'd become the de facto government amongst the ruins. Under the sheet metal huts.
The military will of course be king, Security Service is like Lords and Regional players, yay Neo feudalism with dystopian technology that previous tyrants could not dream of. We are so fucked unless we organize, yet we still fight under the Democrats which is just doomed to fail so fucking obviously at this point.
This kind of feels like you waxing poetic about your apocalyptic fantasy, not really an insightful reply to my comment. I know of no less than FOUR people with 50 cal sniper rifles at my work place alone. None of them are "security" or military. Its not so cut and dry, and believe it or not, people actually like civilization. Things would be very different actually standing in the ruins of your town or city and having to rebuild. There'd be a lot less snooty mcshoot face and a lot more mutual aid. Thats just what people tend to do when faced with extreme hardship. Thats why society is an emergent property of the human condition, because we don't favor tearing each other to shreds, we actually favor helping each other.
Wow, you really don't understand the way things are. Which is odd because it is quite in your face, do you even read the fucking news? Haha hahahaha. It's not funny though. We are on the path to ruin, and you are sleepwalking into it believing people that tell you things are okay which by the way they fucking are not! Jesus fucking Christ.
The US military is currently stomping its own dick as well as the rest of the government. I think you could really use this instead of doomscrolling some more.
Didn't he already do this? Or has he just been saying it for since forever?
They were a terrorist organization, now they're a 'major' terrorist organization.
C'mon pay attention now, it's not like he changes his mind 17 times a day or something...
(/s)Dammit! Who let Grampa Dementia alone with the TV remote again?
Every damn time he watches Fox, he starts freaking out.
Next he's gonna be seeing brown-skinned immigrants under his bed, tryna steal his compression socks.
Fuckin' hell, people.. can we please remember to lock up the remote before he finds it..
It was probably the Secretary for Weekend Fox and Friends in his cabinet ..
Wait until things finally swing back the other way, fuckface
Democrats: "We don't do that here."
Don't worry, the Democrats will make sure to lose so they never have the opportunity.
If you're atnti-antifa, you're just fa.
I'm not part of that group, but I'm sure I'll get that label, if so, I'll defend myself best I can.
Noone is, it's not a group :D More like a movement I guess
You're a
wizardterrorist, Harry.Aww man, I was about to take reliable mass transit to my local Antifa training camp where we learn about vaccines and renewable energy. I hope they don’t send a supersonic, all-weather, variable-wing geometry stealth bomber equipped with a long-range precision guided munitions platform to bomb the school it’s in!
Declare martial law! Mobile ICE and the National Guard into San Francisco to utilize that 100 billion fucking dollars we gave the DHS to disappear protesters and community activists and destitute immigrants to concentration camps. Burn the socialist community gardens! Shut down the federally funded research labs at those liberal woke mind-virus infested communist Muslim-loving terrorist colleges that are so popular for obtaining the jobs that engineer our glorious new AI cyber-Christ!
Demolish the aborted fetus factories and the genital mutilation clinics masquerading as “healthcare” for the godless baby-killing mothers and the radical anarchist transgenderism sycophants wildly daring to control their own physical destiny! Hunt down every filthy porn spewing whore scrabbling to make a living selling their bodies in defiance of God’s immutable law as interpreted and funded by his male avatars in the US government! We’ll teach them rape is the only socially acceptable form of pleasure!
Siege gun clubs! Burn the safety pamphlets! Confiscate the weapons we paid so dearly for in the lives of schoolchildren to guarantee our “liberty” from the glorious imperial MAGA Trump-worshipping bloodless political revolution! The leftists are arming their militias with bake sales and barbecues!
Take away their so-called “privacy” they use to abuse children while not rich and on a private island and spread intellectual property destroying malware that obliterated media conglomerate profits by 3% this quarter! Scan every license plate, scour every app, correlate every post, and decrypt the entire Internet! We’ll find those VPN-loving terrorists weaponizing algorithms to hide from identity theft and spread their Jew-run, America-hating, liberal-biased “journalism!” The great eye is forever watchful! The three-letter agency KNOWS ALL!
Roll the tanks! Send in the troops! Lock and load! Stage the coup! Raise the flag! Notify your next of kin! Say your prayers! Sing the battle-hymn! Spin up the nukes! Fuel the rockets! Launch the drones! Sail the ships! Sortie the bombers! Set DEFCON 2! Oh, and by the way, shred that stupid fucking piece of paper a bunch of old slave-raping queen kissers scribbled up 300 years ago.
The terrorists are here!
Now might be a great time to get a grip on reality
How could I possibly stay sane when we’re constantly being terrorized?? There’s terrorists everywhere! It could be your neighbors! It could be me! The terrorists could even be… YOU!
The terrorists are coming! Ahhhh!!
Satire truly is a dead genre these days. Which I'm pretty sure that post above you is...
Thank god you get it! Just in case there is genuine worry:
I certainly meant it as over-the-top satire, and I thought about adding the obligatory /s at the end. But by that point, I figured if it wasn’t known it wouldn’t help anyways lol
I’d also like to point out that the horrible things I satirized are, in a more real way, happening in varying degrees of severity. The President is not well, and his administration has successfully weaponized incompetence to make the concepts being satirized possible. Thankfully, of course, the terrorists are indeed not everywhere, they seem to be highly localized in Washington DC.
Sadly, in comparison to the stuff The President of the United States posts to social media, I think it’s rather sane.
As the national founder of antichomo I figure my days are numbered but glad to see I'm only on the list for most of my beliefs and activities.
Then we can't make things worse by burning the White House to the fucking ground.
I guess they'll be beating down the doors of the Antifa headquarters that don't exist any day then?
I long for the good old days when terrorists were the easily identified FOB European settlers
I lost track of how many times he's classifed Antifa as a terror group.
Again?
At what point does the benefit outweigh the risk of driving around with your flak jacket and 3D printed piece? When do you make the switch from locked away and secret to always ready?
just boring old fascism, nothing to see here, move along.