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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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He is following the Nazi playbook to a T.
Come 2026, many of us will be arrested with no due process and put into concentration camps for using the 1st amendment. The dictatorship is here and republicans REFUSE to admit it because the fascist is on their side.
We have to make a decision in the next few months. Continue to work, be a member of society, and ignore what is happening. Or cause massive disruptions that will get change started.
Sadly, i don’t think the majority of the population is willing to fight until they are in the bread line.
ARREST STARMER AND LAMMY, War criminal, authoritarian, pandering orwellian pieces of shit. Ironically got so bad the conservative MPs, same people who got absolutely finessed by russian donors, lobbyists and spies started pushing back on pissraeli ties and weapon donations.
The labour party inherited the shittest govt of all time, and somehow decided to do an even worse job in only a year. Suppressing freedom of speech, passing the Orwellian online safety act, and using the dystopian terrorist act to arrest people for disagreeing with them with no due process, and doubling down on austerity, and also blaming migrants. All this shit is fuelling the far right and amplifying their racist voices 100x.
Good luck with that. ANTIFA is an idea, not an organization. It’s like criminalizing someone who says they are “spiritual,” or “New Age.”
The silver lining to this lunacy is that IF we ever regain control of America, we can use this precedent to declare MAGA to be a violent terrorist hate group, and prohibit it, and arrest anyone who tries to revive it.
Good luck with that. ANTIFA is an idea, not an organization. It’s like criminalizing someone who says they are “spiritual,” or “New Age.”
That’s the point, anyone can be part of Antifa. The Trumpie Regime can arrest anyone on bogus charges with bullshit evidence.
The silver lining to this lunacy is that IF we ever regain control of America, we can use this precedent to declare MAGA to be a violent terrorist hate group, and prohibit it, and arrest anyone who tries to revive it.
Centrists will make sure that never happens.
Centrists will make sure that never happens.
Maybe, but at the same time a Centrist arguably just added more holes to Charlie Kirk.
To bring some nuance here: many times “antifa” labels anything that’s different as fachist without doing proper research. For example, people doing viking/medieval cosplay for fun. Not to say that antifa are terrorists, just to say usually they are oppressing people by false accusations in my experience.
Paraphrased: Man who terrorises minorities declares an organisation that’s against such terrorism as terrorists
Rebrand as Antipedo and see what he does.
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.
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.
Has the same energy as Micheal from The Office screaming “I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY” except Micheal is the president and we’re all fucked
Ahaha yes, good one, The Onion!
…wait…
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.
This was foretold. Early in this fuckstick’s presidency, they changed the rules about what they can do to “terrorists.” I don’t remember the specifics, but basically making it so they can go all secret police on them. I think it was one of the earliest EOs.
And the author of this article I read was saying “this is a dangerous step, because the next block to fall is trump labeling ‘antifa’ a terrorist org and throwing anyone he wants into a deep dark hole.”
Looks like it only took less than a year. Full-on fascism.
I am deeply saddened that we are gonna need a bunch nore Patrick Henries to make this true.
Fuck you, orange pig.
Antifa doesn’t exist; it’s not an “organization” at all.
Sure it does. Whoever tries to run against MAGA in office is Antifa, for example. That’s why they’ll have to be thrown in jail.
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.
Perfection.
