Looks like the imperial boomerang is getting closer and closer to finishing its return trajectory.

  • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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    16 days ago

    Yep exactly. I mean if I was an activist I would just stop referring to anything I do as “antifa” or anything affiliated with me as “antifa” and just keep doing it, as it’s not an actual organization and doesn’t really matter.

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      The thing is, “antifa” is a blanket term used by reactionaries to describe any kind of left-wing thought or opposition. So by branding “antifa” as a terrorist organization, it gives them the power to persecute any kind of left-wing thought if they desire. So just think of this as the third red scare, I suppose.

      But what can I say, I’m not John Antifa an-tifa

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        Yeah but I feel like you still are going to have to prove that these people are antifa if you’re going to kill them on US soil. I feel like there will be SOME kind of push back at that point, right?

        I mean liberals will HAVE to see that they need to actually do SOMETHING at that point, right?

        RIGHT?!

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      Right, but then they’d kill activists anyway and classify them as ‘suspected terrorists’; they’ve done this for decades abroad and at least Republicans will be cheering, and libs who are too cowardly to criticize the military (most of them) won’t stand up for activists