mechwarrior2 [he/him]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 days agoMarjorie Taylor Greene introduced congressional resolution to designate "Antifa" as domestic terrorismarchive.phexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up199arrow-down10
arrow-up199arrow-down1external-linkMarjorie Taylor Greene introduced congressional resolution to designate "Antifa" as domestic terrorismarchive.phmechwarrior2 [he/him]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-squareCruxifux@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·3 days agoYeah after I posted that I figured it’s going to work more like “being openly against fascism is illegal”
minus-squareSacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·edit-23 days agoIt may not even be that It’ll just be “Oh you’re in favor of X? Well, X is part of the ‘antifa’ creed”, where ‘X’ can be any nebulous thing they want it to be It will just be a pretext to allow arresting of any ‘undesirables’
minus-squareanarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 days agoYeah, and that definitely includes communism or even any other Left ideology. They want to classify believing in communism as being part of a terrorist organization. Tough times ahead.
minus-squareCruxifux@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoAnd they often have classified the democrats as communists. This is the first step to outlawing anything that isn’t in support of fascism. Which is at least 3/4ths of the country. Seems short sighted to me.
Yeah after I posted that I figured it’s going to work more like “being openly against fascism is illegal”
It may not even be that
It’ll just be “Oh you’re in favor of X? Well, X is part of the ‘antifa’ creed”, where ‘X’ can be any nebulous thing they want it to be
It will just be a pretext to allow arresting of any ‘undesirables’
Yeah, and that definitely includes communism or even any other Left ideology.
They want to classify believing in communism as being part of a terrorist organization. Tough times ahead.
And they often have classified the democrats as communists. This is the first step to outlawing anything that isn’t in support of fascism. Which is at least 3/4ths of the country. Seems short sighted to me.