Designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization

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.

Also, Antifa is the name of a political ideology, not any particular organization.

Exactly. It's like calling feminism a terror organization (at the risk of giving them the idea).

Reminds me of Russia:

>Russia outlaws ‘international LGBT public movement’ as extremist

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/30/russia-supreme...

>Russia’s top court bans nonexistent ‘Satanist movement’

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-supreme-court-bans-sa...

TBH i feel a lot of what is happening was easily predictable in recent years BUT i did not have "US follows Russia path" in so many words because i felt given our more generally liberal society and economic conditions i couldn't imagine such a path in my head. But it really clicked when i went to listen to the last few podcasts of the recently deceased and realized how it felt precisely like Russian propaganda; now here i am second guessing the risk of things i type when only a few short years ago i bragged that being able to yell f** Obama without concern was the quintissential example of how America was still quite different.

The real struggle is i have true believers and apologists in my own family, and its just so... unreal how unreachable they are. For all the talk of what to do about it, i feel for people who havent really explored the depths to which many reasonably intelligent and reasonably kind people have fallen. And just wandering what if anything will shake them out of it.