Meta uses a tired horseshoe theory argument to justify suppressing antifascist posts.

“They will call you a terrorist even if you comply.

So why comply?”
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Functionally, anyone who is taking a stand against antifascism is a fascist. Conservatism has taken such a hard right turn - not that it wasn’t bigoted before - that it would be hard to parse it from fascism these days.

Unfortunately, what we got in the trade off for not having quasi-fascists in power was more neoliberal austerity.

Conservative MP searches for ‘antifa’ in federal government, Canadian Armed Forces - National | Globalnews.ca Federal departments and the Canadian Armed Forces must answer by April how many members of anti-fascist groups work for the public service and the military.

So much of the discussion about antifa on the right is projection of their strategies onto the left. The right has billionaire financing, so the left must also. The right joins the military for training, so the left must also. Hopefully, this doesn’t go beyond grandstanding.

This would be funny if it wasn’t so dangerous. Of course there’s no leader of a decentralized, loosely networked political tendency; but the feds have been tasked with finding one, and no one is safe as long as they keep up their paranoid search.

Trump and His Party Have Put Ilhan Omar in Danger for Years The Minnesota congresswoman has weathered years of racist smears from Trump and his right-wing lackeys, in the lead-up to Tuesday’s attack on her.

"Trump and His Party Have Put Ilhan Omar in Danger for Years"

The Minnesota congresswoman has weathered years of racist smears from Trump and his right-wing lackeys, in the lead-up to Tuesday’s attack on her. Zeteo has the receipts.

Screenshot of tweet from the ONEBC party quote tweeting Dallas Brodie who is quote tweeting Cosmin Dzsurdzsa. ONEBC tweet says “ANTIFA is planning on attacking US targets in Canada and the Canadian government still cannot find a reason to list ANTIFA as terrorists. They are terrorists!” Brodie’s tweet says, “Canada must list ANTIFA as a terrorist organization. The fact that it has not been yet is worrying. Are there ANTIFA sympathizers in the federal government?” Dzsurdzsa’s tweet says, “BREAKING: Antifa cells in Canada are calling for “attacks” on US businesses & “riots” to spread terror over Maduro’s arrest The call came from a Montreal-based cell and spread across affiliated sites. Ottawa has refused to label Antifa groups terror orgs” with a link to a Juno News story about supposed antifa calls for violence.

Over on that other fascist site, BC’s far-right party is trying the same antifa are terrorists narrative as their US compatriots.

This is just white nationalist rhetoric. This administration has moved from being fascist to straight up nazi.

The Criminalization of Antifa In the wake of the shooting of Charlie Kirk, and in response to ongoing protests against snatch and grab raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, the Trump administrat…

I wrote this summary of the criminalization of antifa. Labelling antifa as a terrorist group has major implications for repression of left-wing activism but doesn't seem to have much public support outside of the right-wing echo chamber.

Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.

They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!

Pepper spray can cause serious harm to adults, let alone a one year old.

Trump celebrated that extrajudicial killing in a campaign rally. He and his supporters want to see antifascists and leftists killed.

Bear in mind that during the first Trump administration, U.S. Marshals engaged in the extrajudicial killing of Michael Reinohl after he allegedly killed a far-right activist in Portland claiming self-defense.

White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret Domestic Terrorist List The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries.

The administration is willing to engage in extrajudicial killing of antifa activists and others on the left.

The way the word elites has become devoid of all meaning is interesting. It’s a placeholder for “someone I don’t like” and it fascinates me that the people who use it most are wealthy, went to “elite” schools and hold positions of power. Look in the damn mirror. You’re talking about yourself.

People should take a page out of New School faculty's book and start doing forensic accounting for their own institutions using public documents

Part of the Chanukah tradition is to place the light menorah either outside or in a window where outsiders can see it. This is supposed to advertise the miracle of Chanukah. These days, it is also a way of saying, “This is a Jewish home.”

Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.

At best, that makes Chomsky a liberal on the issue of fascist speech, but it’s a strategically and tactically unsound position. For this to work, the subject of the ridicule needs to care about others’ view of them. Fascists just don’t care if their enemies mock them.

From his defense of the free speech rights of Holocaust deniers to his more recent statements opposing antifa activism, Chomsky has been consistently wrong on fascism in its social movement form.

In case you have never seen this.

They’re trying so hard to make antifa a terrorist threat because it gives them a broad brush to criminalize and persecute the left. They will go after locally based antifascist affinity groups to try to look like they’ve made progress on their threats.

The DOJ is moving from vague threats against antifascists and the left to targeted persecution.

Pam Bondi tells law enforcement agencies to investigate antifa groups for ‘tax crimes’ Move is part of Trump’s broader crackdown on leftwing groups, including designation of antifa as ‘domestic terrorism’ group

This is indicative of how little these people actually know about antifa activism, but it’s still a dangerous open-ended method for persecuting antifascists and the left.

The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment.

Apparently, possessing anarchist zines makes someone “antifa.” Further proof that this is just a war on the left. The administration is going for more radical and marginalized activists before it turns its attention on more mainstream ones.

Identifying fascists is a thorough, methodical, and verifiable process.

The administration is going to have a hard time proving any link between domestic antifa groups and any of the networks listed in today’s designation, but that won’t stop them from bringing the full force of federal law enforcement against antifascists domestically.

Antifa Ost is no more an organization than any antifa group in North America. The “terrorism” that people affiliated with it were convicted of engaging in was violent attacks on a neo-nazi bar owner who was instrumental in fascist violence in Eastern Germany.

There seems to be no justification for how they determined any of these groups are foreign terrorist groups. And certainly no evidence that they have direct ties to any U.S. antifa groups. Just like with the rest of this antifa panic, they’re just randomly creating boogeymen.