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Dulcinea

(9,199 posts) Tue Sep 23, 2025, 04:23 AM Tuesday

Trump has designated 'antifa' a terrorist group. Here are the questions that raises

(NPR) President Trump on Monday issued an executive order declaring "antifa" a "domestic terrorist organization." The order was widely expected since Trump posted his intention to do so following the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

The order references antifa — a diffuse, politically left movement that is shorthand for "antifascist" — as an "enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States government," and urges departments within the executive branch to investigate and prosecute activities related to antifa, including "those who fund such operations."

It is unclear how the order will be operationalized, given antifa's decentralized nature as a movement and the lack of any federal legal provision to designate domestic terror groups.

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/19/nx-s1-5545764/trump-antifa-domestic-terrorist-organization

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Trump has designated 'antifa' a terrorist group. Here are the questions that raises (Original Post) Dulcinea Tuesday OP

I'm thinking of all the groups and organizations that Trump could no_hypocrisy Tuesday #1

J6 was not an effort to overthrow the US government? bucolic_frolic Tuesday #2

I wonder if this includes HarryM Tuesday #3

Origins of Antifa robleb Tuesday #4

So anyone against fascism is a terrorist. Got it. ancianita Tuesday #5

trump is a fucking moron, for ever and ever, until we fall into the sun LymphocyteLover Tuesday #6

TACO Announced to the World MissouriDem47 Tuesday #7

A leaderless, diffuse, disorganized group with no charter or manifesto cannot "EXPLICITLY CALL" for anything Bernardo de La Paz Tuesday #8

So, are they admitting that the U.S. Government is fascist? BWdem4life Tuesday #9

antifa does not exist mike_c Tuesday #10

no_hypocrisy

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1. I'm thinking of all the groups and organizations that Trump could

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 05:51 AM

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put under the umbrella moniker of "Antifa" by virtue that any or all oppose his political, social, societal, and religious agendas.

bucolic_frolic

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2. J6 was not an effort to overthrow the US government?

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Tue Sep 23, 2025, 06:15 AM

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"If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore."

HarryM

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3. I wonder if this includes

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Tue Sep 23, 2025, 06:24 AM

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Anyone who fought in WWII. That would make a whole lot of us and them as children, grandchildren, or even great grandchildren of ANTIFA. Wouldn't that make it possible to say that we are all guilty of being ANTIFA via ancestry?
This has to be one of the most stupid things that this idiot has done. (no offense to idiots.)

robleb

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4. Origins of Antifa

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Tue Sep 23, 2025, 06:29 AM

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ancianita

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5. So anyone against fascism is a terrorist. Got it.

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Tue Sep 23, 2025, 06:55 AM

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LymphocyteLover

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6. trump is a fucking moron, for ever and ever, until we fall into the sun

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Tue Sep 23, 2025, 07:16 AM

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I do think this order, if used against anyone, will fail in the courts-- like most of his shitty executive orders

MissouriDem47

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7. TACO Announced to the World

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Tue Sep 23, 2025, 07:23 AM

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If one does not support the anti-fascist then that makes that person pro-fascist. So TACO announced to the world that he is pro-fascist.

Bernardo de La Paz

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8. A leaderless, diffuse, disorganized group with no charter or manifesto cannot "EXPLICITLY CALL" for anything

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Tue Sep 23, 2025, 07:27 AM

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It is not an enterprise. There is no group. Nothing is funded.

BWdem4life

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9. So, are they admitting that the U.S. Government is fascist?

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Tue Sep 23, 2025, 12:15 PM

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Otherwise why would an anti-fascist organization want to overthrow it?

mike_c

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10. antifa does not exist

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Tue Sep 23, 2025, 12:42 PM

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It's imaginary. There is no leadership, no members, no money, and no address. It's a boogeyman fascists have nightmares about. The antifa they believe in is a fantasy. We are all antifa.

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