One more step toward authoritarian wet dreams.

  • JubJubBird@sh.itjust.works
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    OK so is he even allowed to do that? And if he isn’t are government agencys required to comply with his order until it is overturned?

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    About as useful as the War on Drugs, or Anon. There’s no leader, or organizational structure, but they’ll find someone to pin it on. I imagine there’s already a board with strings of people they hate ready to go.

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

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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 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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              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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      It’s not a distraction, it’s a bigger deal!

      Stop it! We know he’s a pedophile who raped trafficked children, and we know the files won’t be released.

      This is more pressing. You’re distracting from it with your tired meme.

      ANTIFA isn’t an organized group, it’s a term to identify yourself as “anti fascist”, and now that nets you a bullshit terrorism charge. People will start getting arrested and questioned about very mild anti trump sentiments and be charged with bullshit terrorism charges.

      This is a crackdown on the remaining freedom of expression you can get away with. This is a huge deal.

      Activists will be arrested and physically beat over this, we’ve seen this movie before in other authoritarian dictatorship struggling for power before. You’ll soon be dragged into a van and stomped on for posting that stupid meme, but you’re not posting it ironically, it’s actually your main concern.

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        Out a here with your defeatism.

        He didnt win the election.

        He tried and failed to cancel Kimmel.

        This is not like hitler. This is a schoolyard bully that’s massively overplaying his hand.

        Fuck off with they wont be released. They will be, and it will be the end of him.

        Yes, it is a big deal, but it fits his agenda to constantly shock and awe so we forget. And no, the majority of his base thinks he’s an angel.

        Releasing the files and footage is the card that when removed, lots of dominos will topple.

        People have the power, but not when defeatist shit like this gets upvoted.

        /rant

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          What makes you so confident they will be released? Or that if they are - it’s the end? This isn’t defeatism, I’ve just watched this story play out multiple times now on multiple topics, and frankly his supporters and enablers couldn’t seem to give a shit.

          There’s always an excuse, or it’s never “that bad”, or maybe a mouthpiece will spin the victims deserved it and the believers eat it up.

          I simply wish I had half this optimism as I’m asking legitimately, what hope are you holding for with such confidence?

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        Sounds like the kind of thing they would want to do to slow down the release of the Epstein files!

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    Antifa is a loanword borrowed from the German antifaschistisch(antifa for short), which was borrowed from the Italian anti-Fascisti.

    Antifa is domestic, that much is right. The only terror its bringing is to the fascists in power. And the reason they’re scared is because of the last part, there isn’t a single organization to pinpoint and find a way to disable or attack. Antifa is just Americans who are willing to resist the takeover, in little or big ways. They are a specific version of Anonymous.

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      Therefore, anyone who stands up for themselves is automatically Antifa and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

      Therefore, everyone is being threatened into doing nothing for themselves … on anything, for any reason.