The list they're creating says so, anyway
  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    47·
    1 day ago

    “Chandler Patey was identified through open-source research as an active participant in the protests,” an IRS-NG entry about him says. “Online platforms indicate he is the leader of Antifa in Portland, OR,”

    Ok so they’re literally just IDing people based on whatever random fuckwit says online with an OSINT tag in their account name/bio.

  • WhyEssEff [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    94·
    2 days ago

    Ridiculous as all of this might seem, homeland security officials tell me that many if not most federal agents have taken all of the rhetoric about shadowy Antifa networks to heart.

    chat is it good or bad when the Deep State realigns towards chasing Hyperborea

    • Drithvan [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      65·
      2 days ago

      Well, since “Antifa” is a non-existent organization, it puts them on a wild goose chase.

      On the other hand, it also gives them a justification to label any sort of leftist action “Antifa”, thereby making it terrorist action.

      EDIT: Just had a great thought: if people really wanted to waste the Fed/ICE’s time, we should just leave anonymous reports of “Antifa safehouses” in the most obscure places. Send them on a hunt for something that doesn’t exist, waste their time.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
    5·
    23 hours ago

    This is a blueprint for how we will deal with MAGA when we take back our country. We are facing an unprecedented situation, and it will take an unprecedented solution to fix it.

    We will declare MAGA to be a National Security Threat, and their members to be Domestic Terrorists. They can’t prove any of their imaginary crimes against ANTIFA, but we can prove that MAGA is responsible for an Insurrection, hundreds of stolen documents, rigged elections, murder, the most extensive international child sex trafficking operation on human history, hijacking and destroying our government, destroying hard fought and negotiated trade and diplomatic treaties around the world, mind-boggling corruption, etc.

    MAGA is a true, proven existential threat to American Democracy, and should be prohibited from existing, their worst members imprisoned, or even worse, and all members and supporters of MAGA prohibited from ever holding elected office under 14A/S3. They are seditious traitors, who have literally tried to destroy America, and we have no obligation to be nice or fair to them.

    And once we can prove that the 2024 election was rigged, we can invalidate the entire Second Trump Administration, roll back all legislation, EO’s, appointments, and PARDONS. All pardoned criminals will voluntarily return to prison to fill out their sentences, and if they don’t show up, they will have 10 years talked onto their sentences.

    Then Presidential Pardons will have to be limited, and will not be valid if they are given to facilitate or cover up criminal activity.

    They aren’t going to like it at all, but it’s what they intend to do to us, and we’re mostly innocent of the charges. They aren’t. They’ve EARNED their punishment, and they are going to TASTE it.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        18 hours ago

        Why can’t it be real? We absolutely cannot keep moving forward doing the same stupid shit that has brought us to this ridiculous point. Like I said, this is an unprecedented problem, and it will require unprecedented solutions.

        Tell me one thing I proposed that wouldn’t be supported by both the Law and the Constitution? If we determined that MAGA absolutely stole the 2024 election, why should we allow their bad behavior to influence American society for the next century? How will that keep traitors from doing it again in the future, if their bad behavior doesn’t result in any real consequences?

        Take it away from them, roll back their agenda, and pay for it with draconian fines on their ill-gotten wealth. They aren’t going to need it in prison, and I don’t care one bit about their families, at least some of which should probably be in prison with them.

        They are seditious traitors in EVERY sense of the word, and we owe them no mercy or forgiveness. They should be harshly punished for every single criminal count that they violated, without a single exception, and their sentences to run consecutively. Unless they cooperate and TALK, then they MIGHT be allowed to serve their sentences concurrently, but no more. Nobody gets immunity, and nobody gets a plea deal. They will all remain incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay until they go to trial, which will be broadcast to the world.

          • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
            1·
            4 hours ago

            They cheated in 2004. The owner of the company that builds the voting machines actually put out a statement that they would do whatever it takes to get Bush elected in 2004.

            Republicans can’t win without a combination of widespread voter suppression strategies, the electoral college, and election fraud. They’d never win in a fair election.

    • tombruzzo [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      64·
      1 day ago

      The article says he’s the leader of antifa because he lives next door to an ICE facility and let’s other protesters come in to use his sink and shower. This makes his place an antifa stronghold apparently.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      41·
      1 day ago

      I think it’s more that the people in charge are just your psycho brain rotted Uncle and they see antifa everywhere. Especially since their directives from up top are to “uncover antifa”.

      Now if they want to detain you indefinitely, or fuck with you, they just say “antifa commander” and you’re suddenly on 15 different watchlists.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    48·
    2 days ago

    “This is my very normal apartment, and it has been referred to by right wing social media grifters as the ‘Antifa safe house,’” Patey told The Oregonian. “But I just let people use my sink and use my bathroom.”