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[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 19 points 6 hours ago

Band Of Brothers is now banned from all streaming, as is saving Private Ryan, fury, and inglorious bastards.

Those are all terrorist propaganda.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Says the extremist domestic terrorist organization currently occupying my country.

Edit: yes where ARE the Epstein files?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago

It's useful because now they can claim anyone they want to ICE that they are Antifa.

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 23 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

When they gonna take down all the ww2 memorials and statues that honor our vets fighting facists?

[–] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Right after they cast the golden statues of the small handed leader.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 44 points 9 hours ago

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.

[–] Inucune@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

"so are you a 'explode something' terrorist, or 'Shares a meme that hurt someone's fefe's' terrorist?"

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

I think I'm just a passive consumer of American life who doesn't think fascism is all that swell, type of terrorist.

I guess they were correct that "we're all domestic terrorists"... Except a lot of the calls to violence are coming from the other side, and I just had this title thrust upon me...

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Oh no, they're going to raid aintifa's home address!

[–] krunklom@lemmy.zip 1 points 46 minutes ago

The antifa is coming from IN the house

[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

If Antifa even was a terror organization in the US it would be one of the most ineffectual ones in existence given the state of the US.

What a fucking joke.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

this is a good sign, as it means antifa will win this war just every like every other war on ideas the US has waged. US is 0 for 2 against Drugs and Terrorism

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Sure, but they ruined a lot of lives and killed a lot of people in the name of the war on drugs and terror. Doesn't have to be successful to be a shit idea and end up hurting a lot of people for no reason.

Im of the opinion that hurting people is bad. But thats a controversial opinion in the U.S. government these days. You should be asking yourself, are you hurting the right people?

[–] MangioneDontMiss@feddit.nl 2 points 5 hours ago

great. come and get me.

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 24 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

https://web.archive.org/web/20250922224626/https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/ in case you don't want to visit that likely russian-compromised site.

  • Looks like they're drafting this with wild ambiguity and setting up for RICO.
  • Being Anti-Fascist is an idea.

This is McCarthyism all over again, which should come as no surprise considering Roy Cohn mentored Donald Trump.

Weird they are focusing on this but not releasing the Epstein Files as promised.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago

Weird they are focusing on this but not releasing the Epstein Files as promised.

Not weird when you take into account that Donald Trump raped children.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

"all over again"

it never went away, it's just one part of the the same cycled playbook being used repeatedly

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 45 points 10 hours ago

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!

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

What a dunce. Does that idiot not even realize--- wait, ofc he doesn't. Antifa isn't a group, it's an idea. The idea is that we hate fascists. By declaring this "group" terrorists is basically saying HI I AM A FASCIST POS. 🖕🤬🖕

[–] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 hours ago

Oh boy, I'm a double terrorist!

[–] irelephant@lemmy.world 16 points 10 hours ago

It's really easy to be a member of antifa, all you need to do is criticize the fascists.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 48 points 13 hours ago (8 children)

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?

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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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[–] irelephant@lemmy.world 16 points 10 hours ago

It's literally just short for "anti-fascist". They're anti-anti-fascism.

[–] DNS@discuss.online 45 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] III@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Jokes on them, I am "against fascism*

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[–] DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 11 hours ago

We all know the Trump regime is the real domestic terrorist organization. Go give more dark money to superpacs that will make the world better.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago

Oh boy I sure hope that this is what helps the economy, lowers the price of groceries, gas, and housing. So much winning everywhere!

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Is that a better or worse classification than Juggalos? Just saying I havent been seeing anyone with a hatchetman tattoo altering their behavior much

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 17 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Understood. I will not oppose Fa. I still, however, oppose Fascism.

We need to stop instantly panicking over "Donald Trump declares ..." headlines. He can declare that pigeons are spies sent by Martian aliens. He has no qualifications to say so, nobody intelligent should be paying attention, his zealots will still follow his orders, and it doesn't matter.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 10 points 10 hours ago

Him getting the normalcy of calling opponents terrorists is still a reason to panick regardless of him being a moron who declares stupid shit.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I wonder if this line would work to console the families of the people his gestapo have already black bagged off the street

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

The fact that evil people have joined ICE to invade communities is due to their own evil - it's not "because of" anything Trump said. He's just a lump of flesh desperately trying to justify the abductions.

Basically, I'm suggesting we reduce how much we view his importance in the current chaos. If he suddenly decided ICE was bad for his image, he'd still be powerless to stop it. Look at how bad he is at pretending to care about Russian invasions.

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[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 13 hours ago (6 children)

As an Uruguayan this gives me a weird feeling. The dictatorship regime here started cause "the need to quash communist terrorists" called MLN or Tupamaros at the time they where revolutionaries at the time but they served more as an excuse, even the Che Guevara warned them at the time. The military repression and overthrow techniques where learnt in the school of americas that now goes by a different name. And you can see how the parallelism happens in the whole region. The scene is very alike and one would dare to think shit gonna be sadly worse on such an influential country. If anything in time you'll learn the meaning of the phrase

Nunca más...

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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

If I ever get to be president I’m gonna designate cauliflower as a terrorist organization

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Antibrassica?

[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Raids on VFWs across the country forthcoming.

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[–] arsCynic@lemmy.ml 40 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

"White House bans the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers for not paying homage to Charlie Kirk."

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