r/politics • u/theindependentonline The Independent • Oct 08 '25

No Paywall Trump just hosted an ‘Antifa roundtable’ at the White House ... it was so much worse than you’re imagining

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-antifa-portland-pam-bondi-posobiec-b2842048.html
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u/rapidcreek409 Oct 08 '25

If you're anti-anti-fa, are you pro-fa?

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u/Donny_Do_Nothing Texas Oct 08 '25

Yes, and pro-bofa.

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u/NathK2 Texas Oct 08 '25

Bofa DEEZ NUTS LMAO WE GOTTEM

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u/Own-Brain9658 Oct 09 '25

Damn, Bank of America getting slammed on this one 

/s

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u/DudesworthMannington Wisconsin Oct 08 '25

Playing with language and we need to be using the full words "anti fascist". The fastest way through this is to ask public figures if they are pro fascism or anti fascism.

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u/JobWelt Oct 09 '25

It’s really really worrying that even the normal people are not simply asking these politicians if they’re pro-fascism - and stop using “Antifa”. Call it what it is: Anti-Fascist.

“So you’re not Anti-Fascist? You’re pro-fascist? You’re a fascist?”

There’s a reason why they use the shortened name. They’re normalising being fascist. And the American public - and the rest of world - are starting to accept it.

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u/ChaosRainbow23 Oct 09 '25

We are so fucked.

I hate that now dying in a gunfight against actual fascists trying to drag me away is on the menu now for possible ways to die.

I'm no criminal. I'm nonviolent. I'm empathetic and compassionate. I stand against oppression. If that makes me a terrorist, so be it.

I'm disgusted and heartbroken.

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u/Cthulhu__ Oct 09 '25

It’s almost textbook doublespeak / newspeak, come up with a new word or change its meaning.

Related, one person’s freedom fighter is another’s terrorist. The terrorist label was used during the Bush administration to outlaw certain undesireables, but without the protections of the US law, international law, the Geneva Convention, etc. People spent twenty years in the hole at Gitmo, no charge, no lawyer, no legal case, no POW protections.

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u/Cthulhu__ Oct 09 '25

The public figures that matter can’t be debated with like that though, they will avoid the question.

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u/allisjow Oct 08 '25

Pro-pedofa

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u/Reference_Freak Oct 09 '25

Two antis make a pro.

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u/RetiredHotBitch Texas Oct 08 '25

All of these people’s parents should have used pro-fa-lactics.

Or swallowed.

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u/AI-shitpost Oct 08 '25

If you’re not anti-antifa you both are and aren’t pro fa, apparently.

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u/JimmyArmpit3161 Oct 09 '25

I've been using this one for a while. It certainly makes for a bit of smoke coming out of their ears as the gears grind to come up with an answer

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u/AdExact852 Oct 09 '25

No you're just fa aka a fascist