When Antifa says fascism, they just mean anything not on the extreme left. If they disagree with you, you are a fascist. There is no relevance to actual fascism like you think about from WW2, and in fact most of their "actions" are far closer to that fascism than anything the "right" is doing.
On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> <[email protected]> *On Behalf > Of *[email protected] > *Sent:* Thursday, September 18, 2025 11:16 AM > *To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected]> > <[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 > > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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