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        Most antifa don’t even hide their faces and to the extent they do it’s because the government has (falsely) labeled it a terrorist organization, so participating in resistance against fascism could get you decades in prison.

        These people face no such risks. They’re just pathetic cowards who want to intimidate others.

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          Antifascists, in the rare occasions where they need to mask up, hide their faces from the state (incl police) and from neo-Nazi terrorists who have murdered antifascists in the past.

          Fascists hide their faces from their communities. They’re such scumbags that everyday citizens know they deserve to be identified and ostracised for their personality and actions.

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          Most antifa don’t even hide their faces

          I feel that this might vary region by region. Atleast in my experience in my part of the world most try to obscure their faces.

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            Could be true. Depends on how you’re using the term too. I think people who self-identify as antifa might be more prone to masking. Whereas if you include all people who engage in anti-fascist resistance, which includes a lot of normie liberals and various people, I don’t think most of those people are masking.

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        Antifa hides their faces from authorities because they would otherwise be persecuted by the state. Patriot Front has the backing of the state (many of them are police themselves), they’re hiding their faces from the people. Antifa are protecting their lives, Patriot Front are protecting their reputation. One is pragmatism, the other cowardice.

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          If Patriot Front was a state asset then no one would have gone to jail for Jan 6th.

          antifa originally hid their faces so they could commit crimes and not be identified. Granted now as an enemy of the State hiding their faces is a necessity because mere associating w/ antifa is a crime.

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            Honestly 10/10 trolling

            Has that real “I’m just asking questions” vibe to it, you sound just like a brain dead MAGAt! Lmao keep up the excellent satire

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            Trump pardoned everyone for Jan. 6, and he’s the Despot In Chief. Will be forever, with the help of Patriot Front. They’re his personal army.

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            If Patriot Front was a state asset then no one would have gone to jail for Jan 6th.

            Saying this after they all got presidential pardons is just insulting.

            Granted now as an enemy of the State hiding their faces is a necessity because mere associating w/ antifa is a crime.

            Antifa is an enemy of the state because the state is an enemy of the people. Also, it truly exposes the hypocrisy of right-wingers like yourself when you celebrate guilt by association with an ideological stance (antifa is not even an organized group) after years of proudly proclaiming yourselves as free speech absolutists. You’re libertarians when Democrats are in power, but fascists when Republicans are in power. Pretty convenient for you guys, huh?

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    We found it: the situation in which people are standing on public transportation and you’re sitting next to an empty seat without moving over, but you’re not the asshole

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      Ain’t possible to be impolite to a fascist or a klansman.

      Scum sucking shitheels deserve less than nothing.

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      I’m the kind of weirdo where if someone puts their bag on the chair or if they’re sitting on the outside, then I’ll take the seat next to them.

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    In light of the popularity of these images in response to their stunt, I’d like so share this. It discusses the Australian neo-Nazi equivalent org (the totally-for-real disbanded National Socialist Network), but the message is universal.

    https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/9-principles-for-journalists-reporting-on-neo-nazis

    So let’s talk about Patriot Front:

    • Leader is a trust fund kid
    • Their messaging server and other comms were repeatedly hacked
    • They unwittingly hired an antifascist to be their official photographer, which needless to say, allowed activists to gather evidence and resulted in multiple PF members losing their jobs, and attempting to sue as a result (Plaintiffs Paul Gancarz, Daniel Turetchi, Colton Brown, James Johnson, and Amelia Johnson vs. David Alan Capito II)
    • Antifascists have repeatedly ambushed them, including locating their secret car park where they hopped into a U-Haul to go to a rally
    • There are videos of them getting beaten into retreat in Philly when they tried to march
    • There are videos of the Proud Boy fascists attacking up PF-splinter members (‘Rose City Nationalists’) and ripping off their balaclavas
    • There was an incident where a regional leader “spent the money on drugs” [source: a neo-Nazi drama podcast called The Absolute State of White Nationalism]
    • They so poorly planned an action against an antifascist neighborhood, that when retreating, a member almost got hit by a train [same source]
    • They stopped allowing women when two of three woman members snitched (one of them cheating on a member first) [same source]
    • They stopped allowing teenagers to join (still grooming them, they just can’t officially join) due to a ‘homosexual femboy’ incident, whatever that means [same source]
    • Their training videos show such incompetence that they literally can’t turn the correct direction when marching [you can find their training videos on the Patriot Fail leak]
    • At least former one member, when identified as Dillon Oakes, tried to snitch on their org and pretend they were undercover the whole time - “While we do work with former white nationalists who sincerely want to leave the movement, Nazis who pretend to have never been Nazis to escape consequences do not qualify.”

    Plenty more, might add some more in replies. They’re a serious issue, make no mistake, but there are far better jabs to make than “they wear masks and conservatives don’t - gotcha!”

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        I’ll have to give that a read, thanks for the recc!

        I’ve started watching an interview video with the author and Kris Goldsmith and already Kris has mentioned they witnessed PF members in 2020 “talk their way through a cost-benefit analysis about deliberately contracting [COVID] and traveling to black and brown neighborhoods to try and spread it” in the belief that members were biologically superior and had better access to healthcare, making potential death “worth the risk”.

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      Sounds like the same wack ass shit that was going on before the Nazis rose to the top of the shit heap in Germany. The Nazis came out of a cesspool situation just like this with rival gangs splintering and reforming and fighting amongst each other until they were distilled into the Nazi party we know and hate today under a charismatic leader.

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      Whenever I see Socialist used by morobic organizations that obviously don’t understand what socialism actually means it makes me want to will smith that name out of their mouth -_-

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    Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.

    White supremacists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.

    A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

    They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

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    Welp.

    The Watchmen HBO show got this part nearly 100% correct.

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=zymgtV99Rko

    These fucks did another rally in DC.

    “Life! Liberty! Victory!”

    You know, with just a few Confederate flags mixed in there.

    https://xcancel.com/millerwtop/status/2073398580006551652

    Klan’s back, in force, looks to me.

    Sherman really shoulda killed the fuck out of even more of these bastards’ grandpappies… we still got a lot of trash to take out, a lot of vineyards to trample.

    Guess we get to do this all over again, then.

    For a long time I wondered why nothing seems to piss me off more than a racist white man, despite myself being a white man.

    … found out it runs in my blood.

    I’m descended from an abolitionist pastor that moved to Kansas and to start a free church and town… who more likely than not at least once crossed paths with John Brown.

    Or, maybe I’m just not an evil son of a bitch.

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    “look all all these chickenshit losers who blame other people for their problems”

    if you’re all so proud show your faces, look at how white some of those dudes are, first time they been out of the basement in a year

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    I think these are the same worms strutting down the street in DC right now. They are so ashamed they hide their faces it would appear.

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    Domestic terrorists ride the metro and intimidate a good person*

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    I thought they were PROUD boys?

    If you are all such big macho manly men and proud of what you are doing, then why dont you show your pudgy bitch-boy face?

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    Are they the group who split from the Peoples Front of Patriotism?

    Or am i thinking of the Patriot Peoples Front?

    Or, even worse, the Peoples Patriotic Front?