Plenty of the American WW2 veterans moved on to fighting in Korea and then Vietnam.

Dude. I told you it’s in the mail.

I also like how the Islamic terrorists are "legacy" as if there's nothing going on right now that could be generating a whole new generation of Anti-American terrorists. It's only some old guys who still hate us for our 2000's freedom.

Ignores the one group that literally every reputable study says is the most violent in the US: right-wing extremists...

Does anyone know if these left-wing extremists, anarchists, and anti-fascists are accepting applicants? How are the health plans?

Yes

They're working up to it. Maybe they'll organize a ~~Reichstag~~ Republican Headquarters Fire first.

Yes.

Shhh, your not supposed to say the quiet part out loud.

I really hate how media gladly reused this label.

Antifa, pronounced ant-tea-fuh, allowed it to be disconnected from the actual words it was shortened from, and then used as a boogieman.

We all know there is no central antifa command center, headquarters, or organization. We are "antifa" because we are anti fascism.

As you say, you can label yourself, but you can also label yourself by your enemies.

The anti-fascists are Trump's enemies, therefore...

While this is just the next phase of fascism we all expected, and as incompetent as the FBI has become, no one should doubt that this is a dangerous escalation. I haven’t been able to fly for almost 20yrs because of “alleged” ties to ALF/ELF during the terror panic that birthed Homeland Security post-9/11. That was when the modern surveillance state was just getting rolling.

“There is no greater misfortune than underestimating your opponent.” -Lao Tzu

Recently had a WWII vet visit my parish. Dude was over 100 years old and was in town for a Pearl Harbor commemoration. He told me that he was among the first group of Allied soldiers to fly over Europe after the surrender and he described seeing people trying to make a life among the rubble of their towns and cities. He then compared this to what he was seeing in Gaza and started to lament the US' support of Israel and how he saw clear connections to what is going on there and what he witnessed in Europe. You're absolutely right, there are now too few living who remember...

On the contrary; they just approve of Patriot Front and the Proud Boys.

And those are actual terror groups.

What's so disturbing to me is that all the conspiracy theory nutballs I've known, the ones who...

• are hardcore preppers who said the economy was due to collapse into a post-apocalyptic dystopia anytime a Dem is in the white house

• kept talking about the FEMA death camps at former railway hubs with barbed wire fences pointing inwards

• think black helicopters are running urban pacification drills in cities

• keep being up giant fields being leased by the govt to store nothing but thousands of plastic coffins

• never shut up about "jackboot" "police states" during the entirety of Obama and Biden terms

They were all either hardcore right-wingers or simple "never trust the govt" types who suddenly started wearing maga hats

I was still an active member of a Baptist Church in the early 2000s and I remember arguing with the leader of my Sunday School group about the dangers of the Patriot Act and how it opens the door to stuff like this. He just waved it away as me being anti-authoritarian and paranoid. Well look who was proved to be right in the end, MATT?!?

This is the way. Get armed. Not because you want to enact violence but because you want to protect yourself and eventually they will find some trumped up reason to take away gun or ammo rights. You don't by a sword to become a highway man. You do it because there are already highway men with swords. It's a form of power.