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Can someone please give me the phone number to antifa because I am deadass gonna make a donation

This would be like the police going to the set of Law and Order asking how to catch DB Cooper.

Knowing who is in charge of the FBI, it actually wouldn’t surprise me.

This definitely happened.

We should seek antifa's advice on what to do about Glenn Beck.

Ok, so, from actually reading the article:

Assuming this actually happened, and fucking why not, modern insane rightwing idiot podcaster in charge of the FBI goes to 'seasoned' insane rightwing idiot podcaster/radiohost/guy who runs right wing propoganda media company...

Beck claimed to have “split antifa up into three different categories: street groups and soldiers, support groups, and funding sources.” He said that the first category had caused “carnage,” but that any investigation into antifa must go further.

Among antifa “support groups,” Beck included the National Lawyers Guild, which he identified as the “legal arm for antifa” because its members monitor the law enforcement response to protests for abuses, and the Community Justice Exchange, which he criticized for “bailing people out” in 2020 during the “George Floyd riots.”

Based on those extraordinarily tenuous claims linking the National Lawyers Guild and Community Justice Exchange to antifa, Beck went on to identify organizations that fund those two groups as antifa “funding sources.” Those included Beck’s old enemy the Tides Foundation for having a relationship with the Community Justice Exchange; the Alliance for Global Justice, in large part for giving the National Lawyers Guild “over a million dollars from 2018 to 2019 alone”; and Soros’ Open Society Foundations on the grounds that it funded the Alliance for Global Justice.

Beck also listed the Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund and Schwab Charitable Fund. These are both donor-advised funds that allow individuals to donate their own money to charities using an online portal managed by a financial institution — though Beck suggested that the financial institutions themselves were financing antifa in some way, saying, “If I had my money in Schwab or Fidelity, I don't know if I would have it. They’re giving to the people who are supporting these people.”

Beck further listed crowdfunding platforms including ActBlue, Patreon, and others, but he did not indicate the channels by which money had moved through those platforms or to whom.

Ok, so what this means is that any company that has directly funded or has facilitated the movement of funds to basically any big D Democrat campaign, any kind of political organizing campaign to the left of Marjorie Taylor Greene, any kind of liberal to left wing activist group of any kind...

That, that is what these people apparently mean when they say 'antifa'.

I... kind of really doubt any actual, explicitly self-labelled as 'antifa' groups even... have funds or a formal accounting of funds...

So ok yeah, yeah, this is the financial/legal version of outlawing all but the Republican party.

Any resistance to them, of any kind, any money for any of that is apparently 'antifa terrorism'.

So, yep, we are now at the fascism stage where disagreeing with the ruling party is terrorism.

Yep, that tracks with the trajectory of what other historical fascists do once they hold formal institutional power.

Uh, have fun everyone!

By “antifa”, Beck means any person or organization with beliefs that disagree with the administration, or work to counteract the administration, or support those who oppose the administration.

Beck, the administration, and law enforcement are just adopting this as a framework to violently assert power, further dismantle democracy, and suppress any form of dissent. This is straightforward fascism, in motion, in the open.

I know that these points are obvious, but I just feel compelled to articulate them.

Hm, we DO have evidence of real terrorists in our midst who pose a real danger to our country, but we cannot go after them?

I mean - neo-Nazi groups, Proud Boys, the Oathkeepers, the 3%ers, and anyone else listed on SPLC's list?

Instead, we are going after some shadows the right wing likes to tell ghost stories to each other about?

People still listen to what this jackass has to say?

So, you want me to believe that the FbI, an organization that was basically built to do this kind of investigation into domestic organizations and finding people and has done so for over a century...went to some random old ass guy, whose sole job is saying dumb shit into a microphone, for advice?

Glenn Beck trying to stay relevant

With a fascist government anti fascism is an enemy of the system, and that is clearly where USA is today.

Naughty naughty Mormon, Glenn. No saying the swearsies