Trump targets Antifa movement as 'terrorist organization'(reuters.com)
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Trump targets Antifa movement as 'terrorist organization'
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-targets-antifa-movement-terrorist-organization-2025-09-18/
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Discussion (77 points, 14 hours ago, 75 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283795
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Antifa is an ideology, not an actual organization, AFAIK.
What this will usher through is the persecution of his opponents. Just label anyone you don't like as antifa, and now they're terrorists. Charlie Kirk turned out to be MAGA Horst Wessel, and now they're going to do everything in their power to dismantle their political opponents, in the name of Kirk.
What this will usher through is the persecution of his opponents. Just label anyone you don't like as antifa, and now they're terrorists. Charlie Kirk turned out to be MAGA Horst Wessel, and now they're going to do everything in their power to dismantle their political opponents, in the name of Kirk.
> U.S. Vice President JD Vance, in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, repeatedly blamed what he called left-wing political radicalization for the assassination.
From an external non-US point of view, it looks like the opposite: the radicalization has been hard to the right. In a post-truth environment where loud speech is the most effective, it is natural for this to be denied and weaponized.
From an external non-US point of view, it looks like the opposite: the radicalization has been hard to the right. In a post-truth environment where loud speech is the most effective, it is natural for this to be denied and weaponized.
Are you saying that the shooter was hard right?
Why would that be relevant? The politics of the shooter can be entirely separate from the general trends of radicalization within the culture.
As far as I know we don't yet actually know enough about the shooter's motives to draw conclusions, although obviously conclusions will be drawn regardless.
As far as I know we don't yet actually know enough about the shooter's motives to draw conclusions, although obviously conclusions will be drawn regardless.
No they are not.
Well, I had wondered when the Niemöller poem was going to reach me. It's sooner than I expected.
I don't recall donating to anything that was specifically anti-fascist, but I'm sure that there's some kind of connection to be made. I've certainly spoken out against what I see as an increasingly fascist set of policies... and I suppose this proves me right.
I'm not particularly wealthy so I don't expect to be on the top of the hit list here. But I'm certainly being told not to make myself any more vulnerable.