“He’s a former Antifa member. Antifa!”
Every time they say that word, the immediate response should be, “So you’re saying you’re pro-fascism?”
House members erupt into a screaming match following senators forced removal from press conference
Submitted 1 day ago by popjam@lemmy.world to publicfreakout@lemmy.world
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some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
DOPdan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I swear these idiots don’t even know what Antifa is short for. It’s just a buzz word to them.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 day ago
They know, never doubt it.
They also know it makes them the enemy.
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
For them antifa isn’t anti fascism the same way for us “for the children” bills aren’t for the children.
They do a distinction between the organisation/movement and the concept, even when there really isn’t in this case.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Why should we care about them misusing language?
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Democrats can’t follow the rules
Well THAT is rich coming from a lying sack of shit Republican who just can’t stop lying and breaking all the rules that were ever made.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
my guesstimation for how much time we have left before complete collapse keeps getting shorter every day
doug@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Don’t worry the doomsday clock is beholden to daylight savings time so we just have to make it ‘till Fall.
0ops@lemm.ee 1 day ago
It’ll be a hot summer though
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
The riots are planned for tomorrow right?
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
“I swear to God, I’ll pistol-whip the next guy that says ‘Antifa’”
AlexLost@lemm.ee 1 day ago
But he’s a former Autie Fa member!
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
This level of debate would not be acceptable for children in elementary school. Some of you guys elected the worst kids on the schoolyard to lead your country and think this behavior is okay.
What the ever-loving fuck is going on…
derek@infosec.pub 16 hours ago
Preface: I’m American. I grew up in a Christian Conservative home. I was homeschooled, went to Christian Conservative schools, and attended a “Bible College”. I escaped after college and have been self-educating and trying to help others escape since then. The post below got a bit long in the tooth but the answer to your question is tough to explain succinctly. Bear with me if you can.
Most Americans have been coerced since birth into wage slavery that intentionally denies them any legal means of fulfilling their basic needs. This is true for “upper class” and “impoverished” Americans alike but by different methods. American corporate culture and common political propaganda brainwashes people into believing the fault for this lies with their neighbors and extended family. This has trapped many in generational self-oppression and conditioned them to believe that this is both normal and necessary either for their own survival or the survival of some principal(s) without which society crumbles.
They are discouraged from participating in deep introspection, engaging in political dialogue, keeping up with current events, etc. This is perpetuated not only by their peers and leaders (if their leaders speak to them at all) but by the same systems on which they are dependent.
Access to information leads to education and freedom. That’s bad for business. It’s also why almost all of the American Progressive movements (such as they are) are led by those born after Gen X (which is a topic I’ll set aside for another thread).
So… What’s going on?
A plan set in motion during the sixties as a response to the Civil Rights movement and integration; crystalized in the seventies by Paul Weyrich, the Heritage Foundation (yes, that one), and Jerry Falwell et al; normalized in the eighties using abortion as a wedge issue and fabricating the “right to life” movement; and has been co-opted by the survivors of the fall of aristocracy (now known as oligarchs) to seize power over the means of governance, justice, and national self-determination.
Politico has a great article from over a decade ago that covers the rise of the American Religious Right in more detail: politico.com/…/religious-right-real-origins-10713…
Many Americans are completely unaware of the origins and motivations for the beliefs they’ve adopted and now identify with. They vote along party lines without even knowing who the people they vote for actually are or what they intend to do with the power afforded them. This isn’t an accident. It’s a coordinated attack on the common people whose perpetrators wield the people’s ignorance as an orbitoclast and treat misinformation like an opiate. Citizens can’t be appalled by the behavior in that video if they never see it, can’t be convinced it’s real, or are deluded enough to think it’s always been that way.
There’s still hope but we’re short on time and don’t yet have effective strategies against the tacticians at the top of the pyramid. I don’t know what the path out of this looks like yet but I know we’re at a disadvantage, that we’ll need help, and that free information and education are key parts of it. My ancestors were forced to flee from the Nazis. They wouldn’t have survived without the compassion of strangers working for the common good across language barriers and disparate ideologies. I still have family in Europe who lived through that reality. I’ve met them and heard their stories. I know what’s at stake and how bad it can get.
I’ve heard that small men only cast long shadows when the sun is low in the sky. I think that’s true and that night is upon us. If the shadow of America hangs over the world after the sun has set then it is cast by powerful few using the husk of Liberty as a shadow puppet. Her torch a bonfire and its fuel the working class. All made fat and docile: ready to burn while blaming their friends for the inconvenience. The point is not the spectacle though. This Hydra is cold-blooded and it needs the warmth of the flame to survive. We’ve got to figure out how to deny it that foothold.
That’s what the ever-loving fuck is going on.
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Well said.
recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I had a bit of US cash due to some Korean traditions and I’m glad I converted into euros as America’s credibility is rapidly crumbling.
jesus man this is incredibly tragic as it wasn’t even that long ago when things wern’t that bad for yall South of the border.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What a shithole country
doug@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Sometimes I think I’m a chill guy. Then I hear people like MTG and it makes me want to do not-so-chill things to them.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Was she the one who kept ad hominem attacking with “antifa” at the end?
Relatedly, I’ll know we’ve left the worst timeline once it’s no longer a mainstream slur to be anti-fascist.
N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ironically, antifa is a portmanteau of anti-fascist, which naturally republicans view a slur.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 day ago
I'm surprised they've not gone full mask-off on the whole fascism thing. They're anti antifascism but simplifying it is a step too far?
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
If she can define antifa I’ll eat a fucking towel
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Magic the gathering??
doug@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Have you seen it talk since it gained sentience? It won’t shut up about how all existence should be commodified.