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Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective by viccis on Friday August 28, 2026 @01:17PM (#49481682)
The US govt is trying to brand "antifascism" as a terrorist ideology. They host antifa stuff.
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Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective by includenotfound on Friday August 28, 2026 @03:17PM (#49483072)
Antifa is a terrorist organization.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/desi...

It follows that those hosting them are chased

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Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective by pyth0 on Friday August 28, 2026 @03:49PM (#49483374)
Antifa is not one organization, that's ridiculous. It would be like claiming that "Anarchists" are a terrorist organization.
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Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective by includenotfound on Friday August 28, 2026 @05:17PM (#49484350)
Feel free to send the White House a letter complaining. I did not write the big "ORGANIZATION" in the title of that EO. Or is it just bike shedding?
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Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective by SauciestGNU on Friday August 28, 2026 @06:08PM (#49484827)
The objection is the administration is inventing a group wholesale in order to designate those who oppose their policies as terrorists. The executive order can say whatever, that doesn't make it factual.
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Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective by feshbach on Friday August 28, 2026 @06:33PM (#49485057)
Antifa is a decentralized organization: shared branding, shared tactics (borrowed from neo-nazis), chapters/affinity groups, mutual aid and coordination across cities.

Anarchism is a philosophy. Antifa is an actual terrorist network.

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Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective by henearkr on Friday August 28, 2026 @08:25PM (#49485747)
Ridiculous. I am anti fascist, and I have never heard of any of what you are talking about.

I oppose fascism.

That does not magically infuse into my brain mysterious connections to groups of people, nor instantaneous knowledge and mastery of tactics from nazi groups...

That would be actually kind of cool, but no, sorry to disappoint you.

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Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective by logseman on Friday August 28, 2026 @04:06PM (#49483564)
You link to that press release like it means something more than changing a lake's name by fiat.
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Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective by tartoran on Friday August 28, 2026 @03:49PM (#49483380)
Yeah, yeah, soon any opposition to Trump or Israel is deemed terrorist...
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Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective by inigyou on Saturday August 29, 2026 @01:28AM (#49487139)
It's not soon, it's literally right now.
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Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective by tartoran on Sunday August 30, 2026 @01:51AM (#49496047)
It's getting there. Right now there is still free opposition to Trump.
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Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective by pezezin on Saturday August 29, 2026 @07:53AM (#49489116)
Antifa is as much of an organization as Anonymous.
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Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective by wildrhythms on Saturday August 29, 2026 @11:34AM (#49490760)
The United States classified Nelson Mandela a terrorist until 2008.
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Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective by dbspin on Saturday August 29, 2026 @11:52AM (#49490920)
Antifa isn't an organisation at all. It's a loosely defined ideology / set of tactics that leftist movements (everything from black block kids to local democratically organised spaces) sometimes use or follow.
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