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by tzs 1292 days ago
Has CameronNemo's post been edited after your comment to add that link to the article at The Intercept?

If so, check out that article. It should clear things up.

If not, and you have read the article, you probably skimmed it and mixed up antifascist and antifa. Generally the later is a subset of the former.

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I read the Intercept article, and clicked through and read some the screen captured tweets from the “antifascist” accounts that were banned that the article did not care to include.

The Intercept article is not journalism. It’s a PR piece for the accounts that were banned and quotes spokespeople for the impacted groups totally uncritically.

Calling them antifascists seems a misnomer too, they seem to me to be actually anti-capitalist rabble-rousers and professional rioters. Educating, equipping, funding and inciting violent riots seems a clear TOS violation to me.

The “no true antifa” arguments sounds like the sort of ploy that was used when these riots kicked off and democrats in Congress and MSM talking heads were trying to laugh off the idea of “antifa” as a violent domestic terrorist organization simply because they don’t have an org chart.

What does it tell about people who wants to paint black mark on antifascist label in thread about unbanning far right?
Ah, classic. So this is actually all just shitposting and looking for ideological battle then.

The “antifascists” literally wore the mark themselves while committing upwards of a billion dollars of property damage over the course of a year+ of riots.

But seriously, please just take it elsewhere. Your innuendo is borderline if not actual libel.

> Calling them antifascists seems a misnomer too, they seem to me to be actually anti-capitalist rabble-rousers and professional rioters. Educating, equipping, funding and inciting violent riots seems a clear TOS violation to me.

So I take it you think everyone involved in the January 6 riot including Donald Trump should be banned from Twitter then?.