One more step toward authoritarian wet dreams.

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    They know that Antifa isn’t real. This way they can call anything Antifa and it’s now a terrorist that has no human rights.

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        The vast majority of these tweets allege that Soros is paying protestors to riot, and that he funds antifa. A smaller number claim that he plans to radicalize African Americans in order to undermine society and enable the globalist takeover of America, while some go so far as to claim that George Floyd’s death was actually a false flag deployed by Soros in order to precipitate the current crisis.

        White supremacists are so fucking stupid. And so fucking in charge of the USA.

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              Israel is required to exist for some interpretations of Armageddon in the Bible. They hate them, but they need Israel to exist because it’s central to moving forward with the end of the world and their gods cleansing of the forces of evil and the ushering in of a new world order.

              So keep that fun fact in mind when you hear Christians being really pro Israel.

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                Christianity - A doomsday cult so committed to fulfilling prophecy that they’ll kill all of us for the chance to prove their interpretation of God has a bigger dick than every other deity ever conceived. /s

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                  To make it even more WTF, the religions they have the most issue with don’t even have a different diety, just different people saying he told them an updated message on the rules of life.

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              Israel is pretty great for anti-Semites; it’s a “somewhere else” to send all the Jews (with much better optics than Auschwitz) and it’s also pure fucking evil, and has its fingers all through many other governments, making their nutjob conspiracy theories actually look plausible sometimes.

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                Yeah, the actions of Israel are the number one cause of antisemitism in the world.

                People who don’t know better start at accurate descriptions and righteous outrage over the atrocities committed by the IOF and the Knesset and the rage bait algorithms of social media take them down rabbit holes that lead to the actually antisemitic nonsense.

                Hell, even if you know enough to avoid that, it’s sometimes hard to not be instinctively prejudiced against all Israeli people even if you’re not an antisemite.

                Given that the vast majority of the population has been successfully brainwashed by decades of government indoctrination into thinking of all Palestinians as subhuman threats to their lives and thus are in favor of the oppression as long as the Israeli casualties are kept to a minimum, I must admit that I sometimes struggle with it myself…

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              As S. Ansky said ca. 1900 in his poem In Zaltsikyn Yam, [translated] “We (Jews) have heard this story before from our enemies, ‘A ghetto for the eternal kyke.’”

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                "Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interests in the region.”

                Fascists of any stripe don’t have any problem with their perceived enemies fighting their other enemies on their behalf.

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      Antifa is very real. They started fighting the Nazis in Germany. Today we fight fascists all over the world.

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        It feels weird that people say that “antifa isn’t real”. There’s tons of groups using that name and symbols while doing Antifa type stuff. It’s just not a singular organization but rather a loose collection of separate groups.

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    Well, considering ANTIFA doesn’t exist, I’d say it’s pretty safe to say they’re doing this so they can label anyone they don’t like as ANTIFA and disappear them.

    Everyone should be arming themselves and helping everyone they know arm themselves.

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    Congratulations everyone! We are all now domestic terrorists if we don’t agree with nazi’s and the fascist government we have!

    Thanks republicans! You got what you wanted! Free speech for right wing extremists, and everyone else is labeled a terrorist who can be sent to a concentration camp with zero due process!

    All law and order is now gone, our economy is quickly crashing, and the job market is destroyed. Just as Donald Trump told his voter base he would accomplish, he actually did it. I give Project 2025 more credit than i did before. They streamlined us into Fascist US in less than a year!

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    Is Antifa even a group? Like, do they send out newsletters or some shit? Can you buy a hat? Vote for leadership roles?

    I thought it was more of a political belief. Wouldn’t that just be calling all left wingers terrorists?

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    Band Of Brothers is now banned from all streaming, as is saving Private Ryan, fury, and inglorious bastards.

    Those are all terrorist propaganda.

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    https://web.archive.org/web/20250922224626/https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/ in case you don’t want to visit that likely russian-compromised site.

    • Looks like they’re drafting this with wild ambiguity and setting up for RICO.
    • Being Anti-Fascist is an idea.

    This is McCarthyism all over again, which should come as no surprise considering Roy Cohn mentored Donald Trump.

    Weird they are focusing on this but not releasing the Epstein Files as promised.

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      Weird they are focusing on this but not releasing the Epstein Files as promised.

      Not weird when you take into account that Donald Trump raped children.

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      “all over again”

      it never went away, it’s just one part of the the same cycled playbook being used repeatedly

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    “White House bans the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers for not paying homage to Charlie Kirk.”

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    Pretty safe to say America is officially, explicitly, pro-fascism, then? Does this qualify us for any refugee status or something?

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      I think there’s ground for it honestly.

      Even before, but now it can be argued even more easily.

      Were I American, I’d definitely leave before it gets uglier (it will). I wish all my fellow « antifa » Americans strength in the times to come. You guys are gonna need it 😞

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        Leaving is, unfortunately, a lot easier said than done. The easiest method is probably getting a foreign employer to sponsor a work visa, and that’s not an easy pathway. Other ways are harder.

        Don’t get me wrong, I have an escape plan in mind if push comes to shove and Canada starts accepting asylum claims from trans and nonbinary people, but uprooting everything to change countries is prohibitively expensive for almost everyone.

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          I guess it is. I’m really sorry to read that. Good luck to you all!

          Most of our countries will soon fall for the fascist agenda pushed by the billionaires anyway, so I’m not even sure if there’ll really be a place to run to….

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            Thank you, I appreciate it! We’re going to need all the luck we can get…

            I hope that other countries can look at what’s happening here now and learn what not to do, rather than follow in our footsteps

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      Yeah, there’s already a rise of Americans from persecuted groups seeking asylum in Canada, Europe, and elsewhere.

      With the rise of fascism, the US has increasingly become unsafe for marginalized people to the point that many are legitimately qualified for asylum in safer countries and it’s going to get much worse before it (hopefully, but not very likely soon) gets any better.

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        This would be time for Canada to rip up the safe third country agreement and start letting Americans claim political refugee status

        Edit: for those who don’t know, the STCA means Canada only accepts refugees if we are the first “safe country” they enter. Since Canada still considers the US a safe democracy, American citizens / people entering from the US cannot claim refugee status

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        Why does Newsweek care about this .00007 percent of the population who want higher taxes, worse health care, and anti-American trade policies?" White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly told Newsweek.

        Ugh, I remember when our government would have acted like adults and just said “no comment” when Newsweek reached out to them.

        These people are insolent fucking children

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        That’s the neat part, it is the default. the only way to opt out is to praise the leader loudly and often, and never in any way be critical of or inconvenient to the regime.

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        Evolution is slow, we’re still wired to kill anything that doesn’t look exactly like who we grew up around.

        Everytime a society starts taking society for granted, like it’s some inalienable right that will always be there no matter what, we stop socializing our kids and stop enforcing social norms.

        Then everybody acts shocked that humans are really just animals.

        Being against fascism is 100% opt in, and even with socialization some people are gonna want it because it involves almost zero thinking

        Like, if you wanted to design a system for producing people who hate thinking and just want ordered around…

        It would be hard to do better than No Child Left Behind.

        But for lol ke 30 years now no one has wanted to fix it. This is the natural result

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          Evolution is slow, we’re still wired to kill anything that doesn’t look exactly like who we grew up around.

          Explaining socio-historical phenomena by appeal to evolution is a pretty dodgy move, and a defeatist one. People can do better, and in many places and times they have done and still do. Fascists are responsible for their fascism. We’re not evolved to be fascist; we have slipped into it due to very particular circumstances.

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            People can do better, and in many places and times they have done and still do.

            Because they were socialized…

            I had a buddy back in the day with a very well trained dog, the guy used bird calls instead of spoken commands, and the dog understood perfectly.

            But go out and start whistling at some wolves and see what happens.

            We’re not evolved to be fascist

            Oh yeah?

            Why does humanity have less genetic diversity than any other mammal that’s not critically endangered?

            Why are we one of the few species that “coincidentally” had all our relatives close enough to resemble us on the family tree all just happen to die out?

            Modern humans have been unchanged for 300k years, we’ve lived thru multiple ice ages and societal collapses without any change.

            We evolved for chaos and rebuilding. The whole time narrowing down our genetic tree to the point it’s basically a telephone pole.

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              Why does humanity have less genetic diversity than any other mammal that’s not critically endangered?

              Probably because of some event in the past that few individuals survived, so that all humans since have been descended from them. Homo Sapiens is a relatively recent species and genetic diversification takes time, so the genetic narrowing effects of such population reduction would still be felt today.

              But it has nothing to do with character or temperament, and as far as I know there’s no evidence Homo Sapiens actively killed off its close relatives. For whatever reason they died off, while at some point we almost did too, but we just scraped through with less diverse genes as a result. That’s how it goes in evolution: tiny differences can sometimes be amplified due to environment and chance. It’s absurd to draw political conclusions, and to do so shows a misunderstanding of evolutionary processes and history.

              An article about this:

              https://www.science.org/content/article/how-we-lost-our-diversity

              And a fun (but long!) video about the misuse of evolutionary theory to support psychological, political and social conclusions:

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31e0RcImReY

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                The system responsible for “love” and in group bonding also causes out group bias.

                And in/out group is just based on who you’re socialized around as a very young child.

                Overall, our findings suggest a pivotal role of the oxytocinergic system in the RIBE-modulated neural activities and revenge intention in human interactions with the modulatory effect of interpersonal trust

                https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39244015/

                Oxytocin, he wrote, “motivates in-group favoritism” and “derogation” of outsiders. According to the study, oxytocin had “a role in the emergence of intergroup conflict and violence.”

                According to a Vice report published this week, the study’s participants — all Dutch males — were told that they had to choose five persons out of six that would gain access to a life-saving lifeboat.

                The men on oxytocin were more likely to deny men with Muslim or German-sounding names access and save the men with Dutch names, while the men who were given a placebo didn’t pay attention to the origin of the names.

                https://time.com/49399/oxytocin-racism-study/

                Oxytocin is incredibly important. It’s why we stick around with mates and raise children, it’s why we live in groups instead of solitary. And it is directly tied (especially to men) to bias and aggression to outgroup individuals (especially other men).

                Which is literally what fascism is. It’s an institutionalized bias against “them” which uses fear and violence to control everyone.

                Just because you can’t immediately see the connection doesn’t mean it’s not there.

                But out group bias, whether by chance or because it’s beneficial, has always existed in modern humans. It’s tied to such a fundamental neurotransmitter that it couldn’t have made a sudden change, and again, humans are essentially unchanged for 300k years.

                The problem like I said in the beginning, is that after a couple centuries of civilization socializing humans, humans start thinking that socialization isn’t important and any random human can just magically grow up into a well adjusted person.

                It takes fucking work

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          this ignores how many precolonial societies were wholly nonviolent. there are three kinds of culture: pure cultures, remix cultures, and domination cultures. pure cultures resist outside influence on their culture. remix cultures integrate ideas and concepts into their culture very fluidly. domination cultures attempt to eliminate other cultures they encounter. the only reason you perceive it as a biological imperative this way is that domination cultures seek to acquire and justify the power to eliminate pure and remix cultures, and then they do, and the evidence that the pure or remix culture they eliminated is gone, no longer able to speak on how they see the world and the other cultures. give this process 20k years and eventually you have an extremely small number of domination cultures subjugating the remnants of the other cultures.

          this is the situation we find ourselves in today. there is nothing saying it must be this way, except for the domination cultures themselves. we can work to stop the domination cultures, but as we do this we must learn to listen to the pure and remix cultures. part of why we must do this is that the domination cultures if treated as pure cultures will continue on their course. they must be converted to remix cultures, integrating into themselves the idea of remix and pure cultures that they don’t have to be so fucking violent all the time