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I refuse to believe those groups are terrorist organizations because the CIA has never armed them.
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if there were syops to radicalize anti-fascist groups to make them less appealing to the masses.
This is essentially my pet conspiracy theory about Alex Jones. He was a plant by the CIA, to make all conspiracy theorists look absolutely batshit crazy. By having him peddle the extreme theories right alongside the “these are a little too close to reality, and the people are getting dangerously close to figuring it out” theories, they’re able to discredit those accurate theories. Because now they don’t need to attack the individual theory; They can just attack the face of conspiracy theories.
Anti-fascists aren't conspiracy theorists, though, they're just people who oppose fascism.
Which is funny
I'm now a violent extremist because I am anti-facism.
But are you willing to fight for it? Maybe take up arms, defend your friends and neighbors, or even travel the world to resist fascism wherever it arises?
Labeling antifascism as violent extremism isn’t new, it’s a way that Americans were punished for fighting fascists in other countries before we went to war with them like in Spain.
You better believe it. If I don't defend my friends and neighbors when they need it, who will defend me when I need it?
Anti-fascists aren't a single thing.
What utter monsters. /s
I prefer udder monsters.
Kinky.
Only if they get bent at too sharp an angle.
I feel like that conspiracy is too smart for the CIA. Remember this is the same organization that regularly had employees secretly drugging each others coffee with LSD so much that it became common place around the office. And also tried to convince communists in the Philippines that vampires where real despite Philippine culture/mythology not having vampires.
That's exactly what they want you to think!
See I believe that for 20th century conspiracy theorists. I fully suspect there was an effort to combine aliens, government mind control (and what would eventually be revealed as MK ULTRA), the remnants of the protocols of the elders of Zion and other similar conspiracy theories, COINTELPRO, and other things all together by the FBI. It’s part of COINTELPRO style tactics. Make them sound ridiculous and drive them so far to the extreme they’re hard to listen to.
That said Alex Jones seems pretty much an unintended consequence of all the conspiratorial milieu
The alien thing is especially bad.
This guy - Paul Bennewitz - was a radio operator in WWII and opened a radio repair shop near an Air Force base. He picked up some encrypted signals from the base and went public with them, claiming they were from aliens.
The Air Force decided this was a great cover story, and teased him with information including sending "Men in Black" to look for him, until he was convinced. He got so convinced he became a paranoid schizophrenic, and died in a mental institution not tool long ago.
All of that alien sci fi stuff has its origin with this poor man. The X Files, two Will Smith movies, and everything in that oeuvre including the excellent Resident Alien, all have their roots in the mental abuse my government perpetrated on this poor, curious man.
This is literally on one of those declassified 3-letter agency docs. Dunno about Alex Jones but they do shit like this.
Oooh, I've noticed this, too. That there are some 'conspiracies' that are / could be true, but if you talk about them to anyone you are instantly one of the crazies. They have weponised the stupid.
Alex Jones says the same thing the FBI does about antifascists. He edges for violence daily, and is using radical christianity to do so. He is absolutely not a plant; he is the face of radical christofascist terrorism. It doesnt matter if he's serious or not; it doesnt matter that he's just bilking listeners for money... The fact is that he is a terrorist leader and agitator and should be arrested or executed. If the FBI hasnt done so then we know where their allegiances lie.
Umm , why's it gotta be execution tho?
Putting him in prison and taking away his business/ dissolving it and taking away his assets should be enough. There's no reason for two wrongs when You're trying to go for justice ⚖️ / just society.
Eye for an eye never got us no where ( xept sometimes)
I did say either/or. I am fine with taking all his assetts and doing both.
Yet...have yet to arm them you mean...or they have and we won't know for 50 years.
All I know is I'm still waiting on my check
According to highly credible german far right Qanon followers german antifascists get paid 600€ (656,15$) per demo they visit. They also get 20€ (21,87$) per sticker they spread. I demand the same payment for any antifascist worldwide! International Solidarity!
Wait. Why the fuck am I still paying for my own guns and ammo?
Somehow I feel like selling the future short is a bad idea
Someone at the Pentagon just had PTSD flashbacks to that time they armed Castro because of this comment