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Should Antifa be considerd a domestic terrorist group?

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Northwest · M
Does ANTIFA have a web site, or something? Like ISIS or the KKK or David Duke or that guy running for the Senate in Alabama?
GunSmoke9 · 56-60, M
@Northwest Oh so they need to have a web site to be considered a terrorist group? Did the Nazis need a web site? Weren't they considered a terrorist group?
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@GunSmoke9 No, the nazis were not considered a terrorist group. Lmao what in the hell kind of a question is that 😂
Northwest · M
@GunSmoke9 [quote]Oh so they need to have a web site to be considered a terrorist group? Did the Nazis need a web site? Weren't they considered a terrorist group?[/quote]

There were terrorist groups, back in the days of Fascism? 😂😂😂😂

This is not however what I was alluding to, and you're too thick to understand.

ANTIFA can be anything, or anyone, who claims to be ANTFA, or anyone else claims to be ANTIFA.

Until someone can identify who this ANTIFA is, or they have a spokesperson, they are simply a convenient scapegoat, anytime someone wants to push a strawman. Get it now?
GunSmoke9 · 56-60, M
@QuixoticSoul Ask the Jews if they were a terrorist group? Call them what you will, that's exactly what they were.
GunSmoke9 · 56-60, M
@Northwest Convenient scapegoat? No they are dangerous fascist thugs, who hate free speech. With or without a web page they do communicate with each other. If the law would do their job we would who they are. We should all worry when thugs attack free speech. That doesn't bother you?
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@GunSmoke9 "The Jews" are not going to be all that sympathetic to you comparing ANTIFA to nazis, dude. Once again, have a sense of proportion.

On one side, we have larping idiots duking it out with other larping idiots - on the other, we have an organization that made a credible attempt at conquering the world, and engaged in genocide.

[quote]dangerous fascist thugs[/quote] Do you even know what fascism is? 😂
Northwest · M
@GunSmoke9 [quote]We should all worry when thugs attack free speech. That doesn't bother you?[/quote]

So, I take you don't care for Trump's daily attacks on the press? Thanks for acknowledging that.

Of course, attacks on the 1st amendment attack me. Part of why I don't like Trump's anti 1st amendment rants.

I was simply pointing out your strawman. Anyone can pretend to be ANTIFA, and attack anyone they want. You could have said: violent people attacked journalist, but you need to give it a label, and associate it with something mysterious, when it could just be any thug, committing violence for the sake of violence. You of course, need to be objective 🤣
GunSmoke9 · 56-60, M
@Northwest So again you think you know me. I don't mind Trump calling out the media for lying, false reporting. I also don't like Trump calling the media the enemy of the people. They are calling themselves Antifa. Please, could be just a thug. All meeting at the same place, all covering their faces, all violent? Wise up.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@GunSmoke9 [quote]All meeting at the same place, all covering their faces, all violent? Wise up.[/quote]
Yes, that's the tactic - has been since the 1930s. ANTIFA isn't an organization, it's a mode of operation. So yes, anyone who shows up is ANTIFA. There isn't a membership, or leadership, or an ideology, even.
GunSmoke9 · 56-60, M
@QuixoticSoul I never compared Nazis to Antifa. But both used violence to attack those they hated. You said that Nazis weren't terrorists. Don't you think that the Jewish people saw them as terrorists? Yes I know what fascism is. Do you.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@GunSmoke9 No you don't, which is why you're drawing these ridiculous parallels. Political street fighting is not fascism, it's just political street violence. It's been used by groups under nearly every ideology in the history of the planet.

Fuck, soon we'll be calling the founding fathers fascists, because some fence-sitting pussy occasionally got tarred and feathered for being a fence-sitting pussy.

Fascism is a form of right wing, ultranationalist authoritarianism. ANTIFA aren't even in the same ballpark.
GunSmoke9 · 56-60, M
@QuixoticSoul So now it's clear, you do not support free speech. You want to write it off as just political street violence. I see it as far worse. An attack on our principles, our free speech. Not just Antifa but big tech. How many conservatives have to be banned? Or conservatives who have trouble speaking at colleges, because leftist hate free speech. If you can't see that, or make excuses for it, you are just as bad.
Budwick · 70-79, M
@Northwest Biden has a web site.
Budwick · 70-79, M
@Northwest
Free Press does not equal - Total free streaming bullshit
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@GunSmoke9 [quote]You want to write it off as just political street violence.[/quote] It is what it is.

[quote]I see it as far worse. An attack on our principles, our free speech.[/quote] Of course you do.

[quote]Not just Antifa but big tech. How many conservatives have to be banned? [/quote] Oh no, not big tech! 😂

Anyone who's bootyblasted about being banned off youtube for breaking the rules, is free to make their own platform.

[quote]Or conservatives who have trouble speaking at colleges, because leftist hate free speech. [/quote] Colleges have better things to spend their money on than providing security for Milo. But in the interests of radical centrism I offer you a compromise - ban left wing speakers too.
Northwest · M
@GunSmoke9 [quote]Wise up.[/quote]

You still don't get it. You're crying ANTIFA foul, and I'm saying that there is no such thing as a verifiable ANTIFA. Does ANTIFA have a manifesto? What is ANTIFA? Isn't it just a scapegoat, used to implicate "radicals", any time a bunch of hooligans do what hooligans do?

Wise up!
Budwick · 70-79, M
@Northwest [quote]I'm saying that there is no such thing as a verifiable ANTIFA[/quote]

They were all over the news yesterday.
Are you blind?
I'm sorry - are you visually impaired?
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@Budwick Either you're playing dumb, or antifa's organizational techniques actually did break your brain 😂
Northwest · M
@QuixoticSoul 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂