This is Trump we’re talking about. It’s a distinction without a difference.
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It’s an “ignorance” shared by congress:
But ultimately they don’t care about the law - it’s just about perceptions, which in the current climate are just as good as laws (because then no one blinks when the actual laws get violated).
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I wish it was ignorance, the ignorant can learn.
Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum, et tertia non datur
(To err is human, to persist in committing errors is of the devil, and we’re not given a third option).
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Twitter is racking up the points with the radical right, man.
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I get that.
I was pointing out that “antifa” is a far vaguer concept than even most coverage of how vague a concept it is describes.
As with most things, though Trump is picking this up it isn’t a Trump thing. Ted Cruise has been pushing a law to officially designate antifa a terrorist group for a good long while. And right wing media has been discussing them as a defined thing for a couple years.
They’ve basically crafted a fictional organization to distract blame and criticism from the Proud Boys and Milia groups that are organizations and actual domestic terror groups.
Media ran with it uncritically because both sides, and compelling narratives. Giving us what’s basically another “what is gamer gate” or “oh no the alt right” moment because they’re unfamiliar or didn’t notice it on their own. Ceding the conversation on the subject.
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Also very likely an implicit nod to the armed right wingers who could take his words as approval to go around shooting protesters …er… terrorists, or commit false flag operations, the latter of which probably has already happened.
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Ignorance of the law is not a hindrance when you have no intention of obeying the law.
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They’re not fictional, just ask their leader Emmanuel Goldstein.
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Everyone knows they’re George Soros’ interns.
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It was in reply to something else, but still relevant:
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Totally agree with you. As you said, using Antifa as an adjective allows Trump and the far-right GOP to assign the label to anyone who opposes them politically.
And to take the even more extreme stance of labeling them as a domestic terrorist group now provides cover to say “anyone who is against me is a terrorist”.
The President of the United States, with support from the GOP, has just laid the groundwork to label his political opponents terrorists. Let that sink in for a moment.
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He TOLD us… and now he’s dead, and do we appreciate his insights… not really. But maybe that’s what french theorists get for being so fucking impenetrable in their prose… people who aren’t experts won’t grok you and ignore you no matter how well you describe the world.
Trump didn’t want her in, so now she’s brown nosing to get the Trump vote in November. Asshole.
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I confess, while I am 100% behind the idea of antifa, I am not always behind their actions. But they are not a terrorist org. And remember, anything we allow done to them, will one day be used against us.
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No what I said is that Antifa is an adjective. It’s a description more than a movement, and it certainly isn’t a single group or involved in a single activity.
By claiming Antifa is an entity they get an easy enemy to point at, as an alternative to their own heavily armed buddies.
But because that entity isn’t, they can conveniently define it however they’d like.
Also she and her husband gave a huge campaign contribution to Trump. (And like magic, the investigation into her insider trading went away…)
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Not sure if you’re aware but I’m agreeing with you.
First step is allowing Trump to define what antifa is - basically anything he needs it to be;
then allowing Trump to assign the label to anyone he opposes;
and then taking it even one step further and saying anyone in this group are now terrorists…
the implications here are truly scary.
He not only gets to define the bogeyman but he also gets to call them enemies of the US requiring military repression. This is how he gets to instigate violence freely in the name of “protecting” us while his rabid cult members cheer him on. Right out of the authoritarian handbook.
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If he begged me to let him suck my balls and film it to show the whole world how he had begged to suck my balls and then sucked them, I would still not let that **** near my balls.
The wilfully ignorant do not want to learn, therefore they cannot learn.
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I don’t really agree. At least “Discipline and Punish” and “Madness and Civilisation” are quite readable and very good. (They are only ones I have read, maybe the rest is impenetrable) And I have a STEM degree, so it is not like French theorists are close to my specialisation or aptitude.
I appreciate his insights. Every sad day in this fucked-up timeline.
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True, I always say that his most approachable book is Discpline and Punish, but much of his work is not really approachable for someone who is a “layperson” not familiar with the French academy at all (I have a history phd, so have a little experience reading postmodernists)… One of his American colleagues actually asked him about that with regards to French theorists, and he said that they won’t take you seriously if you don’t write in such a way in the French academy.
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