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It's also worth noting that the idea of Antifa as any sort of organization is 100% shitty fiction. It's a fucking hashtag (and the spiritual predecessors of ha
by sophacles 29d ago
It's also worth noting that the idea of Antifa as any sort of organization is 100% shitty fiction.
It's a fucking hashtag (and the spiritual predecessors of hastags like email label, etc for the years prior). Anyone organizing or "promoting" an event (demonstration, protest, whatever) would label it antifa if they felt that the people who were strongly opposed to fascism would find it worthwhile to support the cause.
Yes there are people out there who primarily focused on supporting anything that opposed fascism, and weirdly some of them know each other. (Strange things happen when people congregate, some of them talk to each other and even form friendships... shocking I know).
The idea that its anything other than people in a scene knowing each other is just as dumb as people saying OSS is a terrorist organization because Anonymous released loic under a public domain license.
- philipallstar 29d agoYes, and Isis is a bunch of independent cells held together by an ideology too.
- rithdmc 29d agoIs Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness a bunch of independent cells held together by an ideology... or is it just an ideology?
- philipallstar 27d agoI guess it depends on how you define ideology, but I suppose I mean a more killing-based belief. "Rich Jews are to blame for all of Germany's problems" or "Death to the West" or "From the river to the sea" are statements with murder as the goal, as is "Everyone I disagree with is a Nazi and also it's fine to kill a Nazi".
- sophacles 29d agoSo is Christianity and the GOP. What's your point?
- diydsp 29d agoAntifacist, styled "antifa," and Republican are adjectives like Christian. Christianity and the GOP are massive, documented networks with representatives and hierarchies.
- sophacles 29d agoSo without a hierarchy, things scare you to the point of declaring them terroists? So why aren't you screaming about the horrors of OSS and family parties? (BTW Christianity does not have a hierachy, not a universal one anyway, some groups do of course, like the Catholics... but the baptists, various orthodoxies, and many many more groups don't recognize that hierarchy).
- philipallstar 19d agoThe GOP isn't a bunch of independent cells. It's a single organisation with a strong hierarchy. Like the Democrats. Or most Western political parties.