cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6218255
https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1970256528532754771#m
https://xcancel.com/RapidResponse47/status/1970250137193644374#m
https://archive.is/S5OS7 (whitehouse gov)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/22/trump-executive-order-antifa-terrorist-organization
I really don’t understand these comments. There is no distraction; both are symptoms of the same disease, and everyone in power is past worrying about diverting attention.
They’re starting to remind me of “it’s been X days since Sean Hannity agreed to be waterboarded for charity” that used to be on Reddit all the time. At a certain point, you just have to realize it’s not gonna happen.
My one exception here is that Hannity being waterboarded would ultimately be a stunt with a meager charity benefit. The Epstein Files would actually cause a whole lot of damage to power structures.
Fuck the Epstein files, eroding rights isn’t the distraction. The Epstein files ARE the distraction. You’re a fool.
The Epstein Files are absolutely important and still relevant, but let’s be real… he’d be doing this whether or not the Files were hanging over him. And although I would argue that the US government has never stopped repressing antifascists, this is at least a signal that it’s gonna get worse for us or anyone the government can paint as an antifascist…i.e. anyone with a conscience. I.e., I don’t think this meme applies.
As far as I’m concerned, that was our last chance to change the minds of the cult. That being dropped as quickly as it was plus all the Charlie Kirk shit cemented it imo
Who’s to say (nice username) it’s been really dropped? I think a lot of MAGA people are still very upset about Epstein even if they are momentarily distracted by Kirk dropping a new public toilet. Which is why for almost any other mainstream news story I would absolutely agree with the meme, but I do think that openly repressing antifascist groups is more than just a distraction from Epstein.
Agreed
There was never a chance to change the minds of the cult. Late stage capitalism will collapse into fascism as sure as gasoline will burn when exposed to fire. The absolute best case scenario would be that a new (likely more competent) fascist demagogue would get into power. Epstein is and has always been a bust.
they could murder your whole family in front of you and you’d say “why would you distract me from the epstein files like this?”
A lot of people are pretending that this is a nothingburger, but I’m afraid it’s probably not - they are manufacturing consent for a crackdown.
I mean I’m not pretending it’s a nothingburger, but IMO this is nowhere near the first piece of “manufacturing consent” in recent memory for repressing antifascists. Like IMO it’s like there’s an indicator is going off…but like 69 other indicators are going off that indicate the same condition. You feel me?
You feel me?
Sure thing… but two things.
First, thanks to ICE, the Trump regime now knows how to disappear people without getting stuck on any legal or institutional obstacles. Two, thanks to ICE (again), they now know exactly what reaction (or, rather, lack of it) to expect from the wider US public and/or media when they do.
It’s one thing to get hold of the hammer, it’s another to figure out how to turn every problem into a nail - and I’d say they have now managed both.
That might be why this feels… different.
Okay those are great points.
Hear ye! Hear ye! King Trump the Defiler has issued another decree!
Crowd of peasants groans
this is great (/s), cause even though ‘antifa’ is not and never has been an organization or group of any kind, the way they’ve written this, they can just have an “anonymous” plant claim that “antifa” provided assistance to anyone the administration doesn’t like, and bing bang boom, they can upgrade anyone they don’t like to terrorism charges. course i’m sure they’ll also use this in plenty of other fucked up ways too.
Were they not repressing antifascists before, but just in “”“norm-preserving”“” ways that didn’t upset pearl-clutching liberals? Like what does this change other than making it even easier to argue that America is a fascist country?
Always has been. [insert relevant meme]
" . . . involves coordinated efforts . . ."
Lol, there’s nothing coordinated about antifa.
Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate <- The Onion straight up reporting the news once again.
So now you’re either a fascist or a terrorist. There’s no alternative. You’re either one, or anti.
Wait, isn’t it like second time he did it?
