politics

Ok, so, from actually reading the article:

Assuming this actually happened, and fucking why not, modern insane rightwing idiot podcaster in charge of the FBI goes to 'seasoned' insane rightwing idiot podcaster/radiohost/guy who runs right wing propoganda media company...

Beck claimed to have “split antifa up into three different categories: street groups and soldiers, support groups, and funding sources.” He said that the first category had caused “carnage,” but that any investigation into antifa must go further.

Among antifa “support groups,” Beck included the National Lawyers Guild, which he identified as the “legal arm for antifa” because its members monitor the law enforcement response to protests for abuses, and the Community Justice Exchange, which he criticized for “bailing people out” in 2020 during the “George Floyd riots.”

Based on those extraordinarily tenuous claims linking the National Lawyers Guild and Community Justice Exchange to antifa, Beck went on to identify organizations that fund those two groups as antifa “funding sources.” Those included Beck’s old enemy the Tides Foundation for having a relationship with the Community Justice Exchange; the Alliance for Global Justice, in large part for giving the National Lawyers Guild “over a million dollars from 2018 to 2019 alone”; and Soros’ Open Society Foundations on the grounds that it funded the Alliance for Global Justice.

Beck also listed the Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund and Schwab Charitable Fund. These are both donor-advised funds that allow individuals to donate their own money to charities using an online portal managed by a financial institution — though Beck suggested that the financial institutions themselves were financing antifa in some way, saying, “If I had my money in Schwab or Fidelity, I don't know if I would have it. They’re giving to the people who are supporting these people.”

Beck further listed crowdfunding platforms including ActBlue, Patreon, and others, but he did not indicate the channels by which money had moved through those platforms or to whom.

Ok, so what this means is that any company that has directly funded or has facilitated the movement of funds to basically any big D Democrat campaign, any kind of political organizing campaign to the left of Marjorie Taylor Greene, any kind of liberal to left wing activist group of any kind...

That, that is what these people apparently mean when they say 'antifa'.

I... kind of really doubt any actual, explicitly self-labelled as 'antifa' groups even... have funds or a formal accounting of funds...

So ok yeah, yeah, this is the financial/legal version of outlawing all but the Republican party.

Any resistance to them, of any kind, any money for any of that is apparently 'antifa terrorism'.

So, yep, we are now at the fascism stage where disagreeing with the ruling party is terrorism.

Yep, that tracks with the trajectory of what other historical fascists do once they hold formal institutional power.

Uh, have fun everyone!