Here is the State Department's rationale: https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/20...
Basically, far right extremists targeting antifascists through mechanisms of political repression while having the gall to call themselves pro free speech.
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#152Really sad, and also a testament of the fact that as much as we think we try to be indipendent, eventually once somebody starts putting enough pressure on the people around you (and you turn from "a neutral customer" to "a liability") the path to isolation is very short.
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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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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 al…
No one is claiming that Amy Klobuchar or Gavin Newsom is a member of antifa.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
Basically, far right extremists targeting antifascists through mechanisms of political repression while having the gall to call themselves pro free speech.
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#156Hmm, I would have expected more outrage from the US "free speech absolutists" over this US government decision ;)
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#157Hmm, I would have expected more outrage from the US "free speech absolutists" over this US government decision ;)
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
... 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.
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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?
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#160A DNS alt-root and something like x402 would fix this