• Riskable@programming.dev
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    antifa, the decentralized far-left movement

    What bullshit is this? Being against fascism isn’t “far left”. I mean, what kind of bar have they set, here? If someone is straight up communist are they far, far, far, far, far left? There’s so much between antifa and “far” left that you could fit dozens of countries in that space.

  • AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.social
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    Of course, by the headline, you’d assume “shooting at Texas immigration facility” and “8 accused” would mean “8 people fired shots at the facility”…

    But the reality is that 8 people had guns on them, (claimed for self defense), ONE guy in the group shot a police officer pulling up to the (already mostly dispersed) protest OUTSIDE an immigration facility, and ALL of them then got accused.

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    The Justice Department called the violence an attack plotted by antifa operatives but attorneys for the accused denied that characterization, saying there were no antifa associations and that it was merely a demonstration with fireworks before gunshots broke out.

    The regime lied about what happened, lied about the protesters having any links to antifa groups and grossly misapplied terrorism charges.

    But even if it had been exactly what the regime falsely claims it was, it’s undeniable that attacking the guards at a concentration camp deserves a medal of valor.

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      They are making this general principle into an invisible organization and anyone they have a problem will will be labelled as a kind-of-terrorist. Their base is lapping it up already, so prepare to see more of those “ties to antifa” in the coming months if you stick around…

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        Bondi has already said that this is the first of more charges like this, they’re ramping up efforts to ‘dismantle’ and ‘find Antifa cells’ across the US.

        There’s a reason the concentration camps are permanent structures, while the reasoning we’re being told at the moment is for temporary use. That reasoning is dishonest and will disappear as we see the truth, in which case case they won’t need to lie any longer.

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        Also Texas is easy place to set up legal precedent, making it easier to pull the same shit in other states

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        Basically, taking any steps to defend yourself in general:

        • being armed
        • wearing a mask to obscure your face
        • wearing nondescript clothing
        • wearing PPE to defend against pepper balls etc.
        • having GrapheneOS on your phone
        • using an encrypted messaging app
        • etc.