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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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[–] MangioneDontMiss@feddit.nl 36 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This is him outright stating he is a fascist.

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

Get ready everybody that opposes fascism, you are now a terrorist!

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What's really bad about this is that the moment you are officially labelled by the government as a terrorist they can violate any rights you have

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[–] Today@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

Let's rebrand as antipedo.

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Antifa is so 2016 dude, it doesn't exist anymore.

It's another distraction for his base to not realize they are being screwed so royally by their daddy trump.

You can't just declare random people who hate Nazis a terrorist group and then ignore proud boys, the KKK, and MAGA.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (5 children)

You are completely wrong. Antifa always exists. Anyone that is against fascism is "antifa." It isn't an organization. It's ideology. Antifa = Freedom.

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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Don't be ignorant, they can label any opposition groups they don't like as "antifa" and then send them all to Guantanamo, PLEASE I BEG OF YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING.

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[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 week ago (4 children)

HOLY FUCKING SHIT IS THIS NOT BAD ENOUGH ON IT'S OWN?!!!!! THIS WILL LITERALLY BE USED TO LOCK UP REAL FUCKING PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE, YET THE ONLY LANGUAGE YOU CAN UNDERSTAND FOR OPPOSING HIM IS "HA HA, HE'S A PEDO."

I'm genuinely tired of people acting like this is some instant kill move. His friendship with Epstein is old news that is only relevant and salient now because some Trumpians are mad at him for other reasons. They recognize that Trump hasn't delivered what they wanted, but they lack the understanding and vocabulary to actually articulate the reasons for their anger. What they do understand is accusing people of being a pedo, and oh boy is Trump a certified Pedophile.

I understand memeing on him about it, and I often find it funny, but for the love of fuck, please stop acting like Trump's crimes against humanity are a distraction. Yes he personally abused kids in the past, but he's also systemically abusing kids right now for simply being born in the wrong country. It's fucking disgusts me when people do this.

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[–] lmagitem@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 26 points 1 week ago

Projection, but I’m sure it will be another tool to abuse citizens.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So when conservatives routinely go on shooting sprees they're mentally troubled, but when one MAGAt kills a hateful shitlord, it's antifa's fault. Makes sense.

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[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

He is building the excuse he will use to declare Martial law the last year he is in office keep from having another election.

This is what he meant when he said "You will never need to vote again"

Here we are and yet 93.7% of people will keep denying it as they watch everything this country worked for burn to the ground.

I would not be surprised if trump ordered all Whitehouse bathrooms to use Constitution toilet paper since he shits all over our constitution daily anyway.

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[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Antifa isn't an organization...it's an idea. So, if someone is anti-fascist, they're terrorists?

Make it make sense.

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[–] Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

This is the pretext they will use to start disappearing democrats. Under the PATRIOT act, someone that is designated a terrorist can be held without charges, indefinitely; and in most cases so far, be subject to torture. All the extraordinary renditions throughout the 2000s were done under this pretext. The best part is, once someone says you’re a terrorist, that’s it! No evidence needed because the protections of the law no longer apply to you, so no due process or habeas corpus. They’ll just disappear you, and it will 100% be legal.

[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I hate the fact I have to come to terms with a world that wants me dead, I hate the fact I have to come to terms with abandoning nearly everything I own. I hate my life.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 22 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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. EDIT: The lack of hierarchy and goals outside of being anti-fascist is what would allow Trumpie and Blondie to charge/kill anyone for being part of Antifa.

Protested at No Kings Rally? Antifa. Jail.
Said mean things about Trumpie? Antifa. Extrajudicial killing.
Made a Republican cry? Antifa. El Salvador Death Camp.

The US Public already green lit stripping rights away from terrorists was fine. The next will be drug smugglers and drug dealers. Then it will be the mental ill and hey look at that the Regime has been saying LGBT people are mental ill, better take their rights away. Homeless camps have a lot of crime and we should take away their rights. This just keeps going and going.

Trumpie is a giant walking piece of shit, who raped women and girls, committed numerous criminal offences, and actively corrupt. Trumpie should have been in prison a long time ago. Yet, Trumpie still deserves having rights. If you take away Trumpie's rights, you have demonstrated that rights are privileges. Guarantee, another government will find ways to expand the situation of removing Trumpie's rights to fit that government's agenda.

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.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

LOL, the Nazis are just showing their true colors...if you are anti-antifa, what are you?

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[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] hraegsvelmir@ani.social 20 points 1 week ago

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.

Honestly, seems pretty clear to me. It's a blank check for them to lock up anyone inconvenient. If you participate in a protest, talk trash about whoever happens to be the MAGA darling of the day, or do anything else they dislike, they can accuse you and/or the event of being associated with Antifa, and job done. Maybe it won't hold up in court (for now), but that's still a threat that will help to chill dissent.

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So Final Fantasy VII is basically happening. Got it.

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[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

"Antifa lacks centralized structure or defined leadership"

That was literally my first thought: Is that even a thing? Is that even an organization?

No. Of course not. It's just another thing he'll use to put his opposition in prison. He's learned from his mentors, Putin and Xi.

He never learned "what NATO is" or "that healthcare is so hard", but he learned this. (Trump has said that when he started his first term he didn't know what NATO was and at one point he said "who would've thought healthcare would be so hard?")

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[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

To a fascist government, anti-fascists are "terrorists". It was the same for partisans in nazifascist occupied Europe.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In other words, Trump says that anyone who is against him, or worse, hurts his feelings with a quip, will be designated as a terrorist.

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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So what terrorist attacks is antifa guilty of pulling off?

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

WW2, obviously 🙄

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[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Epstein files. Yall terrorists to children.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i'm confident i've read this headline during his last administration, right before there was a wave of right wing terrorism

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[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is antifa even an actual organization?

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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Antifa doesn't exist; it's not an "organization" at all.

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[–] BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I cannot stress enough the importance of watching what you say online. They will have an ai search every comment ever posted and identify a list of enemies of the state. I can absolutely see us headed to the point where anything negative ever said about dear leader will be grounds for arrest.

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