
Nice I get to break out the classics

Nice I get to break out the classics
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? </churchlady>
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
Ignores the one group that literally every reputable study says is the most violent in the US: right-wing extremists...
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.
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?!
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.
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.
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--
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 Reichstag Republican Headquarters Fire first.
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...
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.
“Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.”
-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.
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.
I will vote for any progressive that will apply that moniker to every single Republican propaganda machine and act accordingly.
The political shootings were done by Republicans. So, clearly people against fascism are labeled terrorists. That's pure logic.
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.
I’m not Antifa but my grandfather was when he fought the fascists in WWII.
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.
AntifAlerts
Instructions unclear. I activated AntifaFlirts and my notifications blew up.
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.
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?!?
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.
And anyone voting Democrat is among them so they’re gonna start rounding people up to put into those detention centers.
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.
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