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President Donald Trump said he is designating the far-left anti-fascism movement Antifa as a terrorist organization, announcing the move on his Truth Social platform in the early hours of Thursday morning UK time.

It wasn’t immediately clear what mechanism Trump would use to make the designation, and Antifa lacks centralized structure or defined leadership, making it unclear who or what precisely would be targeted.

“I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION,” Trump wrote. “I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

A White House official told CNN, “This is just one of many actions the president will take to address left wing organizations that fuel political violence.”

Trump — who’s overseas for a formal state visit — signaled the move earlier this week in remarks from the Oval Office following the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

To a fascist government, anti-fascists are "terrorists". It was the same for partisans in nazifascist occupied Europe.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Look, mum, I'm a terrorist

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

Centrists are gonna keep throwing people under the bus to appease fascists.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Next he’s gonna put out a warrant for the bogeyman. Senile fuck.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 11 hours ago

This is him outright stating he is a fascist.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 10 hours ago

Antifa isn't an organization...it's an idea. So, if someone is anti-fascist, they're terrorists?

Make it make sense.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

See that's the neat part: since it's not an organization, you can just call anyone and everyone Antifa and lock them up. How would they prove their innocence?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

If you're not maga you're Antifa. Get it now? The frogs are boiling.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Without "FA", there would be no "ANTI-FA"...

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago

Is Antifa an actual organisation? I always thought of it as a vague lumping together of leftish people by ... well, by people like Trump.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

There's been some twitter accounts! Meanwhile the KKK still exists and has never been declared a terrorist organization despite being an outright terrorist organization

[-] [email protected] 13 points 12 hours ago

It wasn’t immediately clear what mechanism Trump would use to make the designation, and Antifa lacks centralized structure or defined leadership, making it unclear who or what precisely would be targeted.

Honestly, seems pretty clear to me. It's a blank check for them to lock up anyone inconvenient. If you participate in a protest, talk trash about whoever happens to be the MAGA darling of the day, or do anything else they dislike, they can accuse you and/or the event of being associated with Antifa, and job done. Maybe it won't hold up in court (for now), but that's still a threat that will help to chill dissent.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago

"Because the power of law enforcement under President Trump's leadership will be used to find you, will use to take away your money, take away your power, and if you've broken the law, to take away your freedom." -Stephen Miller

This is how they're going to prevent future elections. Any large left-wing donors can be labeled as supporters of terrorism and have their assets seized and be thrown in jail. Anybody who protests can be labeled a terrorist, anyone who says things on the Internet can be said to be 'supporting terrorism'.

After 9/11 we gave the government ridiculous domestic spying powers in order to catch terrorists and the mechanism that they built was described by Edward Snowden as turnkey totalitarianism. They've turned the key, labeled their political rivals as terrorists and are going to use the massive domestic spying tools in order to persecute and jail their political opponents.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Take that anti-fascists!

wait...

[-] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago
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[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Similarities are purely coincidental...

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

They're just fascists. For them to realize they might be the baddies, they'd have to think fascism was evil, which they don't. Neat, right?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

Can we also designate HYDRA while we're at it? And what about COBRA, from G.I. Joe?

It's best we're thorough if we're in the process of labeling fictitious organizations.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 16 hours ago

ANTIFA is not an organization, it's a movement, an idea. Anybody who disapproves of fascism is ANTIFA, by definition, and are therefore now considered terrorists by this administration. This move is so that people can now be arrested, deported, detained, executed for speaking out against this administration. There are STILL people being held in Gitmo without trial because the state considered them terrorists. That's where we're at now with anybody who dares to speak out against Trump or joins a protest against this administration.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

The most powerful act Bernie and the rest of the democrat politicians could do is loudly claim they are Antifa, to dare them to arrest them or do anything about it.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Bernie tried, but Hillary and DWS read him the riot act in 2016 and he gave up. He should have run against Trump in 2016. I blame Hillary and DWC for handing the keys over to Trump and the fascists in 2016. It hasn't been the same since.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

What a gigantic fucking asshole.

[-] [email protected] 51 points 18 hours ago

Where is ANTIFA?

When was the last time someone saw ANTIFA?

Who are ANTIFA's leaders?

Just another scare tactic to get terrified conservatives to fear an invisible boogeyman even more than they already do.

Also, let's be clear. ANTIFA stands for Anti-Fascist. In a nation not run by actual fascists, anti-fascism is a good thing.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

This is far more than a scare tactic. Its a way to designate anyone who disagrees with the current regime to be legally designated as an enemy of the state and allow for dissidents to be arrested, held indefinitely, and tortured through legal loopholes(at least until they stop needing to actually follow any semblance of the law).

This is a major step towards trump consolidating his power and he's wanted it since his first term.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Plus a vague label they can slap on anyone they don't like. It's pulling double dipshit duty.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 15 hours ago

Is antifa even an actual organization?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 24 points 17 hours ago

This is the pretext they will use to start disappearing democrats. Under the PATRIOT act, someone that is designated a terrorist can be held without charges, indefinitely; and in most cases so far, be subject to torture. All the extraordinary renditions throughout the 2000s were done under this pretext. The best part is, once someone says you’re a terrorist, that’s it! No evidence needed because the protections of the law no longer apply to you, so no due process or habeas corpus. They’ll just disappear you, and it will 100% be legal.

[-] [email protected] 43 points 18 hours ago
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[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

So next democratic president should sue Fox News, cut off access to all right wing propaganda sources, designate CPAC a terrorist organization, move Trumps portrait to the basement of the Whitehouse, encourage people to raid mar a Lago then pardon them afterwards.... You get the idea.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

I don't recall the last time I actually heard anything about antiFA..I didn't realize that was even still a thing

[-] [email protected] 35 points 18 hours ago

"It wasn’t immediately clear what mechanism Trump would use to make the designation, and Antifa lacks centralized structure or defined leadership, making it unclear who or what precisely would be targeted."

Lmao this is the whole point -- right wing leaders (for now Trump, but also whatever shithead populists arise after him) can just slap the Antifa label on whoever they don't like, to justify whatever they want to do with them.

Not that different from the "terrorism" label in the early 2000s. Some people were shouting as loud as they could from as many rooftops as they could, that this label would eventually be used far more broadly than initially intended. Sure enough, look at us now. "Stopping terrorism" has been used to justify all manner of insanely not-OK shit.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 18 hours ago

I was actually shocked the NY judged dismissed the terrorism charges against Luigi, by citing that it didn't actually meet the real definition.

[-] [email protected] 51 points 20 hours ago

He is following the Nazi playbook to a T.

Come 2026, many of us will be arrested with no due process and put into concentration camps for using the 1st amendment. The dictatorship is here and republicans REFUSE to admit it because the fascist is on their side.

We have to make a decision in the next few months. Continue to work, be a member of society, and ignore what is happening. Or cause massive disruptions that will get change started.

Sadly, i don't think the majority of the population is willing to fight until they are in the bread line.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

It's not ACTUALLY about Antifa:

"I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices."

This is his excuse to go after George Soros based on the anti-Semitic lie that Soros is funding Antifa:

https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/soros-conspiracy-theories-and-protests-gateway-antisemitism

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/15/vance-white-house-promise-to-crack-down-on-radical-left-lunatics-00564766

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/fact-checkfalseclaims-about-george-soros-idUSKBN23P2X7/

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

"Antifa lacks centralized structure or defined leadership"

That was literally my first thought: Is that even a thing? Is that even an organization?

No. Of course not. It's just another thing he'll use to put his opposition in prison. He's learned from his mentors, Putin and Xi.

He never learned "what NATO is" or "that healthcare is so hard", but he learned this. (Trump has said that when he started his first term he didn't know what NATO was and at one point he said "who would've thought healthcare would be so hard?")

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[-] [email protected] 43 points 21 hours ago

Let me fix the headline... Ahem.

Trump admits that he is pro-fascism.

[-] [email protected] 71 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Antifa is not an organization, it's an ideology. To be a patriotic American is synonymous with Antifascism. MAGA on the other hand, is a terrorist organization that has hijacked the United States Government in an ongoing coup.

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