On Monday, just one day after the Republican Party staged a Horst Wessel-style memorial for Charlie Kirk in Glendale, Arizona, President Donald Trump signed an executive order designating “antifa” a “domestic terrorist organization.”

The order claims that antifa is a “militarist, anarchist enterprise” that uses “illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide.”

Antifa, as even FBI Director Christopher Wray was forced to admit in a September 2020 congressional hearing, is not an organization but a broad current of opposition to fascism. “Antifa is an ideology, not an organization,” said Wray, who also testified that the bureau had no data showing any lethal violence committed by the organization.

Since antifa as a formal organization does not exist, Trump’s executive order amounts to a blanket authorization to brand political dissent and opposition to his fascist regime as “terrorism.”

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    He signed an executive order making the entire US army oppose him.

    Ima stay outa this now.

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    The far right which has taken over ICE and the Federal government under Trump is terrorizing many, many people in this country. JD Vance, Noem, and Trump know it (the cruelty is the point) and yet all cast any criticism of this fact as “terrorist rhetoric.” That kind of table-turning projection is foundational in the authoritarian playbook.
    But what I don’t understand is - why does the American public discourse seem to tolerate all these tactics?

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      Because allowing these tactics let’s them “hurt the people he needs to be hurting.” They’re authoritarian themselves.

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      why does the American public discourse seem to tolerate all these tactics?

      Because most people aren’t very smart and will only care about something once it directly affects them, which is too late.

      Which is why this is probably going to get a whole lot worse and everyone that is smart should be preparing themselves for that.

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    I think I’ve figured out Trump’s Reichstag moment.

    It’ll be the White House burning down, because of something going wrong with the ballroom construction. Then he’ll get to move the presidential residence to Mar-A-Lardo like he’s always wanted, and charge the American taxpayers for renovations and rent forever.

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    Since that name is now burned, maybe we could start a new organization to fight fascism. And to let the world know that we’ve reached a point of fascism we can’t turn back from, we can call it Turning Point.

    It’d be fun to let them wrestle with calling brand Turning Point a terrorist group.

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      You think making opposition to fascism a criminal offense is a distraction from releasing the files that we already know the man is in?

      This is why we are fucking doomed. Get a grip.

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        The birthday book is the List. People have the thing they demanded and they’re still just repeating the line and nauseum to themselves.

        It’s terminal brainrot. Nobody knows how to resist a fascist government. All they know how to do is shitpost

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      Epstein files or no, this motherfucker is making it very easy to jail his critics so maybe consider giving this threat a little more weight.