My brother does that all the time.....putting words in people's mouth. Drives me nuts.
Me: <makes a statement about something> Bro: "So you support pure evil?" Me: ....... Alternate version: "By your logic, <something insane and unrelated to my logic>." He didn't say he supports fascism. And law enforcement or intelligence agencies monitoring potential threats is not fascism. ________________________________ From: AF <[email protected]> on behalf of Bill Prince <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2025 1:44 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Politics (slow day, need my trolling fix, dopamine you know) So you are in favor of fascism? bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 9/18/2025 10:33 AM, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> wrote: They are being tracked on their signal and discourse channels. I think our intelligence branch views them as an “organization”, just decentralized without clear leader. From: AF <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bill Prince Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2025 10:55 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Politics (slow day, need my trolling fix, dopamine you know) What a lot of people fail to understand is that there is no "antifa" organization. It's more of a philosophy (IMO). Sure, a lot of marginalized people probably ascribe to the notion of antifa. However, I would say that the majority of Americans are against the idea of fascism. Tell me you're in favor of fascism. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 9/18/2025 9:46 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: 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 position<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum> 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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