On Monday, just one day after the Republican Party staged a Horst Wessel-style memorial for Charlie Kirk in Glendale, Arizona, President Donald Trump signed an executive order designating “antifa” a “domestic terrorist organization.”
The order claims that antifa is a “militarist, anarchist enterprise” that uses “illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide.”
Antifa, as even FBI Director Christopher Wray was forced to admit in a September 2020 congressional hearing, is not an organization but a broad current of opposition to fascism. “Antifa is an ideology, not an organization,” said Wray, who also testified that the bureau had no data showing any lethal violence committed by the organization.
Since antifa as a formal organization does not exist, Trump’s executive order amounts to a blanket authorization to brand political dissent and opposition to his fascist regime as “terrorism.”
He signed an executive order making the entire US army oppose him.
Ima stay outa this now.
Looks like we’re all terrorists.
Everyone arm up.
CPAC is finally correct now!
The far right which has taken over ICE and the Federal government under Trump is terrorizing many, many people in this country. JD Vance, Noem, and Trump know it (the cruelty is the point) and yet all cast any criticism of this fact as “terrorist rhetoric.” That kind of table-turning projection is foundational in the authoritarian playbook.
But what I don’t understand is - why does the American public discourse seem to tolerate all these tactics?Because allowing these tactics let’s them “hurt the people he needs to be hurting.” They’re authoritarian themselves.
why does the American public discourse seem to tolerate all these tactics?
Because most people aren’t very smart and will only care about something once it directly affects them, which is too late.
Which is why this is probably going to get a whole lot worse and everyone that is smart should be preparing themselves for that.
I prefer the term freedom fighter.
I am a terrorist now I guess.
If you’re a terrorist to a fascist regime, you’re one of the good guys.
Oops, guess I’m a terrorist now.
The next big protest is going to be interesting for sure…
October 18th.
We need everyone that can walk & hold a sign to turn out.
I think I’ve figured out Trump’s Reichstag moment.
It’ll be the White House burning down, because of something going wrong with the ballroom construction. Then he’ll get to move the presidential residence to Mar-A-Lardo like he’s always wanted, and charge the American taxpayers for renovations and rent forever.
I normally don’t want hurricanes to hit Florida since I live there but that scenario would change my mind.
Kirk was the reichstag fire
It’s gonna be like nailing jelly to a wall.
… in case you weren’t sure what he stands for
They are not even hiding that they are fascist now, wow.
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Since that name is now burned, maybe we could start a new organization to fight fascism. And to let the world know that we’ve reached a point of fascism we can’t turn back from, we can call it Turning Point.
It’d be fun to let them wrestle with calling brand Turning Point a terrorist group.
You could even call it turning point USA cause it’s happening in the USA right now
Its all the smoke screen for the epstein files.
You think making opposition to fascism a criminal offense is a distraction from releasing the files that we already know the man is in?
This is why we are fucking doomed. Get a grip.
The birthday book is the List. People have the thing they demanded and they’re still just repeating the line and nauseum to themselves.
It’s terminal brainrot. Nobody knows how to resist a fascist government. All they know how to do is shitpost
Its like your mind cant consider more than one thing.
Epstein files or no, this motherfucker is making it very easy to jail his critics so maybe consider giving this threat a little more weight.
This HAS to be satirical, right?
I mean, it makes sense doesn’t it?
Historically the War Dept was anti fascist… Which means Trump just declared the U.S. military a crimanl terrorist organization… Time to go arrested those serving in the military. Let’s start at the top: The
goodold commander in chief.Historically the War Dept was anti fascist…
Under which president? Not Jackson. Not McKinley. Not Hoover.
Roosevelt.
Not the first one
I had a horrible stepgrandfather. He’s done two good things: first, die, second, instill in us the value of fighting fascism. He fought nazis in europe. He went off about Constant Vigilance or something. Fighting fascists is a traditional united states value.
Don’t suppose he had signs of PTSD? Not defending him for any horrible actions but WWII messed with a lot of men’s heads and gave lasting repercussions generations down the line. Helps to identify toxic traits that flow from it to stop it in your family and community.
Men of america were known to weep in the streets prior to WWI. Being open to showing emotion was robbed from men due to war.
oh definitely had that. he got ptsd after the war. it’s a very long story that would probably identify me. short version, he served in a different theater than just about everyone from where he lived and thus felt ostracized by the veterans groups. because of that he never got the support he needed, which was partly a self-inflicted wound. as one of his favorite targets, i find i’m more able to empathize/sympathize with other folk who’ve been in his position than him.
Idk historically the war department was used to push fascism on people outside the country. Go ahead and ask the Vietnamese or the Iraqis how they feel about the US military.
After WWII the war department became the department of defense (and still is,just this year it has a nickname of war depart.) So Vietnam and both the gulf war and war on terror was a different department. However the war on terror and this year for Venezuela the DoD actions are very much like terrorism. The nickname executive order and the antifa executive order lays out the return of the historical war dept which the last war was WWII against Nazis (and against racism) as such the 2nd executive order rightly names the DoD as a terroristic organization
