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Celerity

(43,138 posts)
Sun May 31, 2020, 04:40 PM May 2020

'antifa' will quickly start to mean ANYTHING anti-Trump in terms of Trump defining 'terrorism'

RW agents provocateur will dress up in all black, use black bloc tactics, and 'act' like 'antifa' to trigger massive crackdowns via hundreds (thousands?) of small localised false flag ops.

They have picked the perfect 'enemy' to weaponise as 'antifa' is extraordinarily nebulous and can be applied to a multiplicity of things, anything Rump wants to attack and kill-off.


This is a major inflection point on the road to an outright fascist coup d état.

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Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
1. That also means any of us who are anti-racist can be arrested for anything and have no rights.
Sun May 31, 2020, 04:43 PM
May 2020

Think Gitmo.
Think torture.
Think no rights at all after being arrested, simply for being against racism and against fascism.

He is saying anyone who is against fascism is a terrorist. So, only MAGAs, the KKK, neo-Nazis, and other extremist right wing hatemongers are Americans now. The rest of us are terrorists.

Let that sink in for a while.

sop

(10,106 posts)
4. Well, since Trump is a Fascist, being anti-fascist is being anti-Trump. Trump is trying to label
Sun May 31, 2020, 04:51 PM
May 2020

his opposition "terrorists" because in his diseased mind being against Trump should be outlawed.

CousinIT

(9,225 posts)
5. And THAT is precisely the reason for the definition.
Sun May 31, 2020, 05:26 PM
May 2020



It is extremely common for authoritarian states to broadly expand the definition of an activist group so that anyone they oppose can be accused of being a member, and thus be arrested and surveiled according to their invented pretext. That is what they will try to do with antifa.
 

StTimofEdenRoc

(445 posts)
6. So did the Minneapolis cop play the good soldier for Trumpism and ...
Sun May 31, 2020, 05:42 PM
May 2020

Very publicly kill a man so Dear Leader could label all opposition terrorist?
Seems like I remember similar things happening in Germany in the 1930’s from history

Celerity

(43,138 posts)
7. That is far too CT for me, and assumes that they would have had the predictive skills to ascertain
Sun May 31, 2020, 06:06 PM
May 2020

that the one act itself would have triggered events to this level nationally.


Occam's razor is the way I roll.

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