No more Fascism!!

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[–]cunninglingus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Nope - not in the least. Think of how much control authoritarians and fascists already have, and think of the lack of various disconnected groups of anti-fascists who have absolutely no influence on anything, nor do they cause any trouble. The US is supposed to be anti-fascist, but....

[–]Mazurro 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Having control is not equal to being dangerous. Facism is just a buzzword for whatever doesn't follow leftist propaganda.

[–]cunninglingus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's generally appreciated that anything left of the far right is 'liberal' (rather than potentially 'progressive conservative'(Candada), or 'liberal conservative', or centrist, which are terms long lost in the US in the polarized far right rhetoric of the past 8 years). Your only potential argument here is that Libertarianism is somehow left of the far right, but for many reasons, we can argue that Libertarians are absolutely right wing (focusing on letting corporations run everything, and no effective representation for the 99%).

[–]Alphix 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, the language, the media, the politics, the rhetoric of the past century has ablated most English speakers' ability to think on the whole possible spectrum of political and economic ideas and systems.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You are right, antifa has no political power, they are just mischief makers. I think what people object to is that antifa promotes censorship of ideas they don't like, and do violence to protesters they disagree with, which is not really very anti-fascist of them. Fascists tend to similiarly demand ideological conformity

[–]WoodyWoodPecker 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Antifa is a bunch of domestic terrorists just like Black Lives Matter.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Antifa is a bunch of domestic terrorists just like Black Lives Matter.

Misusing the term 'domestic terrorist' to refer to extreme political groups is a tactic the liberals have been using against conservatives for a long time, I'm not sure why you would want to help propagate this trend, as normalizing this idea is mainly harmful to the right, who the media has an easier time painting as the bad guy

Antifa is essentially the left wing equivalent of the Proud Boys, they both want to censor things they don't agree with, wear matching outfits, and start fights at protests with the other side. The main difference being that Antifa is somewhat more hypocritical since they advocate for some of the same things as the ideology they are against

[–]WoodyWoodPecker 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Antifa is violent and throws bombs at protests.