About the Antifa bullshit

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14. At what point does this denial become conspiracy thinking?

They exist. I've seen them with my own eyes and experienced them in the Bay Area. I don't usually argue with people heavily armed with, uh, Twitter and google, but this is such a ridiculous statement to make.

Were they involved in Jan. 6th? No, of course not. But they are an actual thing.

Every time someone says, "Antifa doesn't exist!" I begin to wonder why this blatant, highly provably false statement needs to be repeated so often. What is this reinforcing? What ideological purpose does this bizarre falsehood serve?

We're people of facts and reality or we're not.

Antifa exists. They grew out of other left-wing movements like those who existed during the economic protests in the 90s and 00s. Sometimes they're militant and violent. Sometimes not. They kind of get meshy and indistinguishable from groups like Black Bloc and By Any Means Necessary. When looking at left-wing professional protesters, it can get very fluid and amorphous about who belongs to what and where.

And I'm speaking from my own experience and my own witness. I think anyone who has lived in the Bay Area more than six months has stories about them.

Are they the biggest problem before us? No. Not by a long way. They are certainly not the Great Enemy the Right would have one believe.

But pretending they don't exist entirely, repeating that, trying to spread that. Why? It's so easily disproven. Just stop saying this ridiculousness. It's a pure credibility loss for no useful purpose whatsoever. It makes us look really weird.