| ▲ | arcticfox 3 hours ago |
| Could someone point me to some background on this whole incident or write a quick one? I don't know who they are or what's going on but it seems important. |
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| ▲ | coldpie 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The US Republican party has been inventing an increasingly elaborate alternate reality fiction in order to convince their voters to keep voting for policy positions that obviously work against those voters' own interests. One component of this alternate reality is a fictional terrorist organization called "antifa." They claim that anyone who does not align with their policies is a member of this organization. This allows them to use the anti-terrorism laws passed in the wake of 9/11 and similar incidents against their political opponents. The US government claims someone who used the A/I service was a member of this fictional organization, and used those anti-terrorism laws to declare that A/I is supporting terrorism and so threatened sanctions against the banks A/I was using. No access to banking means A/I is shutting down. |
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| ▲ | mc32 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | ipython 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Let me fix that for you. Lots of maga are idealists (even if their ideas are not based in the real world), a number of them are LARPers and a small number are hard core intent on eliminating “the enemy”. To think that no maga member is violent and entertains violent options, is denying reality. Also it’s disingenuous to think they are all out of their minds looking to overthrow the government. Many just have ideals that don’t align with the mainstream. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1153982516232... https://www.gettyimages.com/videos/jan-6 | | |
| ▲ | anon7725 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | That doesn’t work. maga aren’t idealists, they are deeply cynical, atavistic reactionaries. | |
| ▲ | mc32 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | phoghed 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > That violent criminals were pardoned doesn’t change the fact It pretty explicitly changes that fact. Inb4 ehrm actually, we all know bro. |
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| ▲ | sdenton4 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | ... But also, there's no organization called antifa, and no antifa members. It's an accusation levied against people the right wing wants to call terrorists. | | |
| ▲ | mc32 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | customguy 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > Why do so called anti fascists act fascistically Because anyone call themselves anti-fascist, doesn't make them so. While most people who are, well, not fascists probably don't wear or care about the label. You basically confirmed the point of the comment you replied to. > I’m sure there are supremacists “organizations” that are also hard to pin down. You mean the ones that aren't organizations? Let's say all the people who are racist in the world, are they an organization? Even all the people who really hate the same "race", if that's all they do, does that make them an org? Is everyone making inane arguments be part of a global group of people working in concert trying to diminish the cognitive capacity and level of discourse in society? | |
| ▲ | vrganj 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Because opposing fascism gets fascists to target you and people are concerned for their safety. | | | |
| ▲ | mschuster91 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > If so, why carry those flags and bandanas on their faces? The flag just symbols that this person is against Nazis. Nothing more, nothing less. It can be held by anyone. Here in Germany, we have (amongst others, just a list of what I have seen) religious Christians (often of Lutheran Protestantism), Marxists, Leninists, Stalinists, other denominations of Communists, Anarchists, Greens, Social Democrats, Antiimperialists, Zionists and sometimes even the occasional Conservatives showing up under the Antifa banner. | |
| ▲ | throwaway-11-1 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | People sharing similar values does not make them an organization. “Why do they wear masks?” because they don’t want nazis to interfere with their jobs, friends and families? You’re asking questions there are very obvious answers to. Seems like a disingenuous comment or you’re unable to do the most basic research |
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| ▲ | iwontberude 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | strictnein 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > "They claim that anyone who does not align with their policies is a member of this organization" No one is claiming that Amy Klobuchar or Gavin Newsom is a member of antifa. | | |
| ▲ | paimapi 33 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | that's what a call a straw-man. NSPM-7 exists and is providing funding and direction for LEOs to target ideologically leftist organizations as tame as BLM or 50501 [0] this, in combination with the rise of Flock, Clearview, Axon, and other mass-surveillance programs is leading us down an incredibly dark and Orwellian state - something that feels almost ludicrous given how anti-Big-Brother your average person is [0] https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/how-nspm-7-seeks... | |
| ▲ | SpicyLemonZest 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | You're just not confronting reality, man. The President of the United States personally called for Gavin Newsom to be arrested in June 2025. In September of that year, in response to Newsom's post calling Gestapo chief Stephen Miller a fascist, Miller went on TV to complain that nobody is allowed to call him a fascist and Newsom was encouraging violence by doing so. | |
| ▲ | 1271z23 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | [flagged] | |
| ▲ | queenkjuul an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yet |
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| ▲ | giov4 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| also for context this is a shorter version and represents well the situation
https://www.inventati.org/who/collective "After 2005 we have been constantly pestered by prosecutors and security forces (and even by the Vatican! [4]) asking us to hand over users’ data and identities and we are proud to say we were always able to answer: we are sorry, but we do not have them." This is tech guys supporting with infra real freedom of speech! even more important nowadays!
jumping to the violent antifa narrative means ignoring a lot of important things. |
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| ▲ | sltkr 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | aetch 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Not wanting to provide free services to someone isn’t the same as not supporting free speech | | |
| ▲ | sltkr an hour ago | parent [-] | | It's also not the same as supporting free speech. That's why I asked: what did the authors ever do to _support_ free_speech, i.e., speech that they _don't_ agree with? You don't get credit for supporting dissemination of your own views only. That's just “free speech for me, but not for thee”. |
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| ▲ | layer8 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autistici/Inventati#United_Sta... |
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| ▲ | fl0id 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| there is a good interview with someone from the collective here: https://sabot.media/post/a-network-called-resistance |
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| ▲ | hiddencost 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The US government is labeling anyone who says they're "anti fascist" as terrorists, and shut down a major Italian private email provider using that rationale. |