Maybe they are saying this in an ironic or humorous way. Like if grumpy old people are terrorists, I must be a terrorist.
Since antifa (upper or lower case a?) is a leaderless and decentralized movement, not sure it could be declared an organization, terrorist or otherwise. Kind of like idiots or assholes or for that matter good samaritans, they exist, but are they organized? Can you raid their clubhouse and imprison their leaders? Seems we are trying to categorize people who disagree with us as an organization, no doubt funded by George Soros (but not Elon Musk or Peter Thiel). From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2025 11:53 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Politics (slow day, need my trolling fix, dopamine you know) Real life people, relatives, former employees etc. It is coming up due to Trumps trying to declar antifa to be a terrorist organization. Some of these people are saying they must be terrorists now. From: AF <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2025 10:46 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Politics (slow day, need my trolling fix, dopamine you know) Is your sphere of influence real life people you know, or online stuff? I honestly have never had a single person IRL mention Antifa, much less belong to such an organization. And Utah seems an unlikely place to have Antifa cells. But Howard from Big Bang Theory reminds us you don't need to experience something to know you want it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXXcqDHEC0o Maybe you mean nihilism and not literally Antifa. There seems to be a bumper crop of disaffected nihilists these days. Not sure that fits neatly into a left/right political narrative. More like there will always be people who think the world has screwed them over and want to burn the whole thing down. From: AF <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2025 11:16 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: [AFMUG] OT Politics (slow day, need my trolling fix, dopamine you know) Odd that the majority of the people in my sphere of influence that are espousing the goodness of antifa are all uniformly: uneducated, pot smoking, un churched, and in many cases with minor criminal records, but all of them are as poor as dirt it seems. Poverty is what drove the Russian revolution. Perhaps that is the driver here. I just cannot get behind the ideology. This is what Wikipedia says: Ideology <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_ideologies> Anti-fascism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fascism> Anti-authoritarianism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-authoritarianism> Anti-capitalism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-capitalism> Anti-statism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-statism> Anti-Trumpism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_Donald_Trump> Anarchism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism> Socialism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism> Communism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism> Political <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum> position Left-wing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics> Major actions Direct action <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_action> Community organizing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_organizing> Mutual aid <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_aid> Harassment <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harassment> Digital activism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_activism> Doxing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing> Picketing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picketing> Political violence <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_violence> Protest marching <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest_march> Status Active
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