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The Madcap

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13. This kind of action has another possible result

Reply to dwayneb (Original post)

Thu Sep 18, 2025, 03:17 PM

Sep 18

People get sick and tired of all this nonsense and actually do end up banding together to create an organization called Antifa.

It's almost like he is provoking it.

He fails to understand that radical actions end up with radical responses. The pendulum has to swing back at some point. This is why we really need to cool off the crazy rhetoric, or lots of people on both sides are going to be hurt or worse.

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Implications of Antifa being declared a "terrorist organization" [View all] dwayneb Sep 18 OP

Kafkaesque by design. C_U_L8R Sep 18 #1

And that was probably our original sin: we took it all for granted. Biophilic Sep 18 #2

I never took it for granted dwayneb Sep 18 #4

I still don't know if he can do this legally. LeftInTX Sep 18 #3

I remember the 60's differently from you Fiendish Thingy Sep 18 #5

Lol @ the idea of "Antifa" being any sort of a real organization AZJonnie Sep 18 #6

No one knows who antifa is bob4460 Sep 18 #7

The implications are zero, Ms. Toad Sep 18 #8

Unless this is successfully opposed as a concept, there will be other real organizations next. Can't let this one go nt wiggs Sep 18 #14

Well, since the entity with legal standing to sue doesn't exist . . . Ms. Toad Sep 18 #15

The MaddowBlog-The unsettling consequence of Trump designating antifa as a 'major terrorist organization' LetMyPeopleVote Sep 18 #9

This is playing to the MAGA crowd. Aunt Tifa is still a big bogey man to them. progressoid Sep 18 #10

I accidentally fell into that while searching a source of rumors about the death of a local LeftInTX Sep 18 #16

There is no organization named Antifa LetMyPeopleVote Sep 18 #11

Antifa, the word, needs to be put to rest. Prairie_Seagull Sep 18 #12

This kind of action has another possible result The Madcap Sep 18 #13

If you are anti-AntiFa, then you are a fascist LetMyPeopleVote Sep 23 #17

Will they be arresting the CEO of Antifa first? Ping Tung Sep 23 #18