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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittesInternal memo from head of DHS I&A formally changing the blame for Portland violence from "Violent Opportunists" (VO) to Antifa.
Glossary: FIR=field intelligence report
OSIR=open source intelligence report
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Zoonart
(11,869 posts)bigtree
(85,998 posts)Link to tweet
Complete, I believe, with real-life boogaloo white supremacists inciting and perpetrating destructive and violent acts for the cameras.
Zoonart
(11,869 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)to make it more clear to the problems just what my problem is.
underpants
(182,826 posts)Just a few days ago.
H2O Man
(73,558 posts)could arrive at today's national leadership conference a few minutes early, we will be handing out the New Super Secret Codes. If you can't be there early, you may have to go through dozens of boxes of Cracker Jacks to find one. Don't tell anyone! Pass it on!
underpants
(182,826 posts)You said Dont tell anyone! Pass it on!
H2O Man
(73,558 posts)I meant to say, "Pass it on! Don't tell anyone!" But I was trying out the new code.
underpants
(182,826 posts)Raven123
(4,844 posts)Seems to me that if a foreign threat is identified they pursue the individual(s).
samnsara
(17,622 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)Acting.......
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)It's really hard to act like "undersecretary of intelligence" if you have no intelligence.
gab13by13
(21,351 posts)I don't even know if the Big "A" Antifa even exists?
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)oh...AntiFA...
nevermind
AllaN01Bear
(18,244 posts)comunist pinko pig. slacker. never amount to anything. liberal snowflake black sin of the devil. anti fascist ! you bet . faggot , oh did i mention queer? and damn proud of it . thank you very much.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)trotted out by the far right (average trumpista) in an attempt to scare people into supporting authoritarianism. I don't see it working, except on those that are already authoritarian or lean authoritarian. George Soros is another boogeyman that gets trotted out regularly. Anyone with two brain cells knows what this is - made up crap. And, if you are not Antifa, you are pro-fascist. I am definitely Antifa. Fascists can suck an egg.
Shermann
(7,423 posts)That's convenient. So if you can't be linked strongly to an actual terrorist organization, you can still be guilty of a thought crime.
Away in the van you go.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Shermann
(7,423 posts)It's the "Scottish Inspired" fallacy, similar to "No True Scotsman":
Person A: "Those people must have been stabbed to death by a Scotsman."
Person B: "No, the guy that stabbed those people was not a Scotsman."
Person A: "Then he was Scottish inspired."
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Person A: "Those people WOULD have been stabbed to death by that Scotsman."
Person B: "No, that guy over there is not a Scotsman."
Person A: "Then he is Scottish inspired and might do bad stuff. Arrest him!"
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)if they're a fascist, if they're pro fascism, if they admire Mussolini, how many times they socialize with fascists, if they're anti fascism. They've painted themselves into a corner.
Silly word games.
People never come out and say they're bad because they typically don't believe they are.
Hitler no more reveled in his evil than Stalin did. Both claimed the side of right and the good, and they were working for das Volk or za narod.
Hitler was fascist.
Stalin, of course, was anti-fascist.
If the label "anti-fascist" is big enough to silently include Stalin and his security apparatus as BFFs, that makes it a pretty useless label.
Toorich
(391 posts)were proud antifa. They were Marines, Army, Army Air Corp, and Navy.
They're task was to kill or capture as many fascists as possible as quickly as possible.
That they did the job so well is why they are called the Greatest Generation.
tRump and his stooges can go to hell.
Thekaspervote
(32,771 posts)we live rent-free in their heads, whatever we call ourselves. I wonder if they check under their beds at night for the "antifa bogeyman"?
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)niyad
(113,325 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)niyad
(113,325 posts)H2O Man
(73,558 posts)I've never really trusted my Aunt Effa.
dweller
(23,640 posts)do i need to be carrying?
my kid brother collected them, maybe he can lend me some?
tia
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bigtree
(85,998 posts)...fascist or anti-fascist.
Guess which team...
dweller
(23,640 posts)mentions the 'Baseball cards of the arrested'
there are antifa baseball teams?
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bigtree
(85,998 posts)dweller
(23,640 posts)guess my pocket Constitution will do ..
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bigtree
(85,998 posts)...that's the best band name EVER.