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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    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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        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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        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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      It’s like the war against DEI. They say the acronym because if they say “I’m against diversity, equality and inclusion” they look like assholes

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    So everybody who fought in WWII is now classified as a terrorist since they were fighting fa(cism).

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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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      Yes, this is an attempt to label any sane person who is anti-fascist a terrorist. The irony is the likelihood of WW2 grandkids voting in favor of the current fascist. We’re truly fucked as a nation.

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      Wouldn’t that just be calling all left wingers terrorists?

      Bingo.

      I’m just over here waiting for the majority of Americans to grasp that we now have a fascist government. Literally.

      Lot of denial going on in America right now. People are really going to have to start suffering before it sinks in. The suffering is coming. Guaranteed.

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        the denial won’t end until trump is dead (ideally, in as embarrassing and compromising a manner as possible), coping for a “return to normal” that won’t manifest

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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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    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.