Really funny that they include "originally designed to cover swastikas" there, and "antifa stands for anti-fascist" elsewhere, and no one at the FBI even blinks.
Oh you have these too. It wasn't that long ago that I read a similar classification of terrorism on the webpage of my countrys public health (an offive of health and welfare) of all places and they had listed "extreme left" as one form of extremism.
They then went on to state that this leftist "terror" tends to be non-violent, but I don't know... both-sidesing is a helluva drug it seems.
Today MSNBC is doing something totally unlike them. They're having on "reasonable" house republicans to try to explain the mess the republicans made of half of congress. It's insane level of both sides-ing because these "reasonable" GOP are the sorts of people that in the next hour could go on Fox News and say how the 2020 was "stolen" from Trump. They are just as fascist as the "maga wing" and always put themselves and their party above country.
Do you have a link to this? I want to see some brainworms.
Funny how they always have to do the both sides shit, when was the last time there was left-wing violence in Finland? Maybe something minor may have happened in the 70s at a push.
US anarchists confuse me. The ones I've met weren't impressive and didn't seem like they were capable of much, and yet the federal government is completely terrified of them and treats them like an ISIS terror cell.
Iβm of the opinion that the feds donβt actually understand the principles of communism or anarchism. Iβve seen people ask the question here about βdo you think some of the feds / deep state folks are actually really well versed in Marxist theory?β and I really think they arenβt. I have never seen a right winger be able to correctly articulate the principles of Marxism, even when they seem to genuinely try and study it to critique it (Iβm talking about people like the Austrian economists). I donβt think theyβre distinguishing between anarchists, communists, et al other than βscary lefties who want to destroy society and make everyone equalβ or whatever.
I'm currently getting a degree in political science, and while there are definitely Marxists in the field, doing Marxist analysis (usually under the labels Political Economy, or World Systems Theory, everyone nods and agrees with Marxist analysis, as long as you don't call it that), my university happens to be associated with a nearby air force base, and is therefore swarmed with ghouls who wanna be CIA agents, and shit.
The amount of PHD's who's area of expertise overlaps with Marxism, but who knows nothing about it except for the shit they hear from the base (ie, east Asia "experts"), is agonizing.
I had a professor try to tell me Bourgeoisie still meant Middle Class, and that Marxism asserted a class above them which controlled everything, that he couldn't define when I pressed him on it....
I remember watching a documentary about that guy who famously gamed some McDonalds promotion and it included interviews with the actual FBI agent that had been called to investigate it. They agent spoke like an absolute idiot. Seriously he had the air of a 13 year old frat boy.
I absolutely agree that the feds don't actually understand politics. They're just dog brained assholes that never grew out of their high school bully phase and have enough tools to make their job idiot proof.
the state maintains a view of the world that justifies the excesses of power. anarchists want to Abolish Everything Now, and therefore provide a convenient reason to treat the population like enemy combatants.
I saw a tiktok about this that posited that the feds recognize that anarchism is a real threat to the state and communism isn't because all the listed symbols were anarchist. so there you have it
Thank you for reporting on this. The Antifa cell in southern California being prosecuted by the San Diego DA's office on felony violent conspiracy charges used some of these symbols when they carried out an attack. Several have been convicted already and a trial is set for the remaining suspects.
In Georgia, 61 suspects from all over the country have been charged with RICO, domestic terrorism and/or money laundering charges in connection with a violent series of attacks that also featured some of the Antifa symbols in the FBI document.
Inshallah: A term used by Muslims to mean βGod willingβ
US foreign policy: Used to represent the Russian claim that the United States is racist, despite electing a Black president.
PPBPPB: Literally βpig poop balls,β this is used by extremists to represent the alleged corruptness of cops being like a poop stain that they cannot remove.
Yeah fr the worst anarchist is better than...maybe not the best socdem cause I would say third world socdems can be based, but certainly better than 90% of socdems