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Designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization

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147 points Kye | 3 comments | 22 Sep 25 23:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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elgenie ◴[22 Sep 25 23:47 UTC] No.45341073[source]▶
This is an incoherent blog post.

1. The concept of "domestic terrorist organization" not a thing under any US law. Further, there exists no such organization in observable reality.

2. "All relevant executive departments and agencies shall utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations" is … nothing, because that's what federal law enforcement is already charged with.

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odo1242 ◴[23 Sep 25 00:02 UTC] No.45341208[source]▶
Also, Antifa is the name of a political ideology, not any particular organization.
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1. pacomerh ◴[23 Sep 25 03:00 UTC] No.45342352[source]▶
It still blows my mind most people that agree with this post actually don't know what the word means. This is just a catchy word to divide us.
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2. addandsubtract ◴[23 Sep 25 08:01 UTC] No.45344127[source]▶
I have no problem being divided from fascists.
3. scoofy ◴[23 Sep 25 08:53 UTC] No.45344484[source]▶
What words mean is actually pretty complicated. When groups of people start co-opting one word as a symbol, rather than having a name that word can easily become a name for that group.