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Ah, the good old hackintosh routine!

I'm partly repeating what others have replied, but when a nearby synagogue hosted a Zionist corporate event, some of the protesters alongside us were members who normally worshipped at that synagogue and felt disgusted.

And, for an extreme example of anti-Zionist Judaism, here's some Hasidic Jews over in London, including their Rabbi, publicly burning an Israeli flag: https://www.vice.com/en/article/anti-zionist-orthodox-jews-flag-burning-protest-109/

“The whole state of Israel is not legal from the Jewish viewpoint,” said the flag burning’s organizer, Rabbi Elhanan Beck, adding, “The Messiah will not be [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu.”

Sorry, you are correct. I assumed the person you replied to was talking about the whole Middle East region and didn't think twice for posting.

There do exist somewhat legitimate sub-factions that actually take serious actions and do serious ops

Any examples or sources for me to learn more about these? The only Anonymous news I've heard of since the early days is updates on Kirtaner.

Iran, for one example, is a prolific cybersecurity adversary of the USA. One of the top four advesaries alongside China, North Korea and Russia. In fact, Iran is believed to be responsible for disclosing a CIA covert channel to China which led to a critical dismantling of CIA assets. I don't know as much about other Arab states because Iran is most famous for its advanced cyber-warfare capabilities, but honestly, to avoid exploiting the USA would be very foolish.

Obviously this goes both ways. Israel and the USA are infamous for Stuxnet, a computer virus which reportedly destroyed a fifth of Iran's nuclear centrifuges in the early 2000s.

Legality hardly matters at this point. I didn't matter much last time Trump was the US President. Whether something is illegal is irrelevant to whether it's beneficial or harmful.

This ticking data breach is dangerous to citizens and a real threat to the United States of America as a political state.

As for the laughing emoji, the OP (like billions of people) see the self-sabotage of the United States of America's power and hampering its ability to harm innumerable people around the world as a good thing, but it's pretty ignorant of the ways it will harm regular worker-class citizens too.

So for people trying to get attention, identifying as Antifa [...] probably doesn’t help them these days.

People doing actions for clout are likely to be shunned as opportunistic. A well-known antifascist guide to doxxing Nazis straight up says [paraphrasing] "seeking clout will make people skeptical of your actions, just don't do it".

Interesting, you picked two brands which aren't really single groups.

'Antifa' is a social movement which developed from a red united front organization in 1930s Germany[1] and turned into a general brand we see today. Any group of antifascists can identify as antifa using symbols and tactics. You can find a friend and go be antifa.

Similarly, 'Anonymous' grew out of social justice activism on 4chan and, as the name suggests, is a fluid kind of identity. Anyone can use the name, the original chatroom/group is less and less relevant as time goes on.

Both collectives are still present and doing things, but antifa groups are far more relevant. They're just not in the news as often as they were during BLM. Anarchist blogs and media outlets (e.g. Unicorn Riot and It's Going Down) often have updates on recent antifascist actions, including disrupting neo-Nazi protests and infiltrating+sabotaging their organizations.

The yelling about TikTok going to give your data to China is pretty silly now that DOGE is probably exposing far more personal data to all the adversaries along with hacker data brokers who sell it onto scammers and advertisers.

When news dropped that one of them was a former member of a cybercrime group, I thought the same thing as the writer stated: now this big amateur-run data source is a target for cybercrime prestige and rivalry, on top of state sponsored adversaries who are probably already on their way in. I admit I haven't read this article yet, but even already it's clear that DOGE is a threat to the USA on yet another profound level. Even if this government sabotage is an intentional attempt to discredit public services and national government (aligning with the ideological strategy of Elon, Thiel and the rest of their circle) I think they're ripping down their own foundation in the process.

CISA, NSA and the rest are probably screaming right now.

Their point is that Nazis weren't eradicated. They were often integrated.

Remember: these neo-Nazis are usually tourists from interestate. Look at Patriot Front for example, where arrests proved what antifascists already disclosed - the arrested were often from other states around the country. They do these rallies to provide an illusion of decent membership and locality, but it's complete bullshit. Same strategy is used in other countries too.

While I haven't seen a source yet, I see a post already claiming the names of all 5, only one of them is even from Ohio. If true, it's completely unsurprising.

(yes, it isn't even protected speech under 2nd Amendment, but that doesn't even matter; fuck them, even if it was protected speech)

I do not believe in protecting literal neo-Nazis because of some idealistic notion of free speech. They want to exterminate most of the country.

If the police don't combat them effectively, then communities should, by any means effective.

Look into the Vietnam War for a quick reference of some challenges an invading US army would face. I think the big two will be:

• Military morale issues
• Home front resistance/sabotage

Not to mention the likelihood of embargo and other international pressure on a US hostile to NATO countries.

and am not so sure direct democracy is a good idea at all, anymore.

Personally, in an ideal world (and it's feasible to test on a small scale like an organization election), I would advocate a certain kind of mass conditional democracy where everyone has the right to vote but must answer some very basic objective questions to verify they understand (e.g.) the candidate positions and election basics. The answers can all be found in an educational pamphlet published collectively with candidate approval prior to the election. The goal is to allow as many voters as possible, so long as they can demonstrate a basic awareness of the situation.

are actually very well defined

Eh, I can't quite agree with "very well defined". Even Nazism isn't really internally coherent, it's surprisingly nonsensical, let alone all the variants of fascism straying so far from classical fascism.

But that's me nitpicking academically. Fascist organizations are crystal clear about their association, beliefs and what they want. When they heil or wear neo-Nazi symbols in a political context, there's no longer any need to doubt.

It is a concerted effort to redefine or undefine them so there is no longer a word to describe them.

Absolutely. Nazis have been made very aware that most communities reject them on sight and so wolf-whistling and pathetic attempts of plausible deniability are used to pretend they're just 'regular' patriotic nationalists (see: Musk salute, and this related salute overseas a few weeks earlier). But even then, these are paper thin attempts. "You're the real nazis!" "Oh everyone's a nazi these days!" "Actually they were a specific party at a specific place at a specific time!", you just gotta laugh.

Well, in countries like mine there’s donation limits (with teeth).

Refreshing to hear!

That’s not really the issue so much as the majority of voters that barely know what they’re voting for

I haven't looked into this but I'm tempted to believe that immediately. Election awareness is amazingly low, even among people who do have strong political beliefs.

Sell it to who, Ben? Fucking Aquaman?

Good choice, no point throwing it away if it was too late for you to realize, but it's more powerful as a platform to disavow Musk and Tesla.

The US is collapsing and all I got was this lousy car