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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Which claims that he attributes to you are you disavowing?

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

in my opinion, all elections are special

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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

It's important we don't let them gaslight us on this. Donald Trump is a historically unpopular president who's approaching the levels of disapproval Nixon had just before he was forced to resign in disgrace.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

When your regime consolidation is going great.

A masked ICE agent sprayed David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois.

Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.

Curtis Evans, of Evanston, a military veteran USMC intelligence during President Reagan’s era, carries a U.S. Flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I am extraordinarily frustrated by about 80% of people (from all directions) treating it as some pedantic thing to reserve the term "antifa" for actual antifa groups. But now here we are. And where else could we be from being so near-universally careless about something this serious? 15/15

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

So then you get things like J. D. Vance using his time on the Charlie Kirk show to insinuate that liberal NGOs were behind the Kirk murder. And if this executive order is acted upon seriously, it will basically *criminalize dissent.* The discursivd conditions here are *tailor-made* for that. 14/15

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Now you have people saying "we're antifa" in connection to innocuous left phrases / imagery, making those identifiers of "antifa membership." And what's "antifa?" The group who brought riots and assassinations. There's no such group, you say? But here are several groups named "antifa!" 13/15

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The danger should be apparent with this executive order. It collides with the right-wing fever dream image of antifa as all-purpose left-wing paramilitary to create an image of a bunch of innocuous left or even liberal groups as involved in organized mass political violence. 12/15

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

This is often done either by low-info hyperpolarized progs or by people defending antifa as it actually exists via obfuscation, so they don't have to seriously confront the very obvious problems with violence against speech and assembly. This is both nauseatingly annoying and dangerous. 11/15

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

And then there's the other loose use of the term, which has been left-of-center people saying braindead things like "antifa just means anti-fascist," and then outright identifying with "antifa" in that insanely tedious way, or saying this or that left-coded thing "is antifa" *positively.* 10/15

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

And if you think there are highly organized groups deliberately planning all kinds of political violence (and now assassinations!), *of course* you're going to want that sharply dealt with. How could a normie who believes this *not* be demanding an executive order like this? 9/15

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

In other words, there's just no way to reasonably expect this loose use of language to *not* result in a lot of low-information people sincerely developing a belief in highly organized all-purpose left-wing paramilitary groups, as well-parodied at the end of Eddington. 8/15

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

And this isn't pedantic. It matters: if you see a bunch of *actual, organized groups* that are self-labeled as "antifa" with members, meetings, etc, and *also* that "antifa rioted" etc, this *invites* the perception of a deliberate organized plan from actual antifa groups. How could it not? 7/15

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

It is no more reasonable or accurate, for example, to say that the Summer 2020 riots involved "antifa rioters" than it would be to say that January 6th involved "Tea Party rioters" or even "NRA rioters." Words refer to particular things, and an overlap of member support =/= an org acting. 6/15

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

First, a lot of people have used it to just mean all left militants with a vaguely black bloc aesthetic. Some people, to my extreme frustration, do this *knowingly*, thinking it's "close enough" or whatever. But it's simply not true: antifa is a *particular* network of orgs. Not a vibe. 5/15

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

But my very strong substantive disagreements with antifa as it actually exists feel a bit beside the point in our surreal political environment. There are two ways that people have carelessly used the term insanely loosely, which are about to collide horrifically. 4/15

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Two clarifications: 1. Re not as bad as popular imagination, I've *never* seen a truly confirmed instance of an actual antifa group labeling, e.g., Ben Shapiro or whatever a fascist. 2. Re Boogs, I also have (strong) issues with them, but the "they're fascists" thing was just bullshit. 3b/15

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

(The video linked is from a major Boogaloo figure discussing the murder of Garrett Foster, a BLM protester who was murdered in Texas while defending his disabled wife. Foster was also a Boogaloo Boy. They simply are not fascists. No serious inquiry suggests that they are.) youtu.be/NddN1vmlvPA?...

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Debunking the Lies About Garrett Foster (Timestamps in Description)

YouTube video by Magnus Panvidya

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I am also very critical of antifa as it actually exists in terms of their ability to identify actual fascists / near-fascists. It's not as bad as popular imagination of them, but their consensus was *confidently* flatly wrong about the Boogaloo Boys. 3/x

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I think antifa's acceptance of aggressive violence for disrupting fascist speech and assembly is both morally unacceptable and a truly horrific strategic blunder (as seen, incidentally, by this and other recent events). For more on that, see this: c4ss.org/content/50169 2/15

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Holding Our Ground: A Critique of the Ethics & Strategy of Violence Against Fascist Assembly

Individualist anarchism is the most radical form of libertarianism, which is in turn a radical form of liberalism. From this perspective, the threat of fascism poses a unique challenge. One reason for...

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Antifa exists, and it's a pretty small number of groups narrowly tailored to frustrating organization by perceived fascists. I am *very* critical of antifa as it actually exists, but this is awful for the usual reasons + two loose uses of the term that make this even worse. 1/15

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Just posted a thread on the old world site about the executive order designating antifa as a terrorist organization, and I think it's also worth saying here:

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Armando Iannucci would reject the storylines from this WH as being too incompetent for even his characters.

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Tbh in need of socializing; let me know if you're in the DC area and want to get coffee with another Online weirdo

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

It's Miller. It's always been Miller. ⬇️

Miller touches virtually every policy and executive action (especially as it relates to domestic initiatives), effectively all documents, Trump directives, constitutionally dubious orders, and memos. The architecture of Trump’s military crackdowns (in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and coming to a Democratic-dominant city near you) is in part a product of Miller’s vision for dominating liberal strongholds he despises.

“It’s a blast for Stephen,” says another fellow Trump adviser, in describing Miller’s role in orchestrating the domestic deployments of U.S. armed forces.

The Trump administration’s sweeping clampdown on diversity programs, higher education, and free speech Trump does not care for is a direct expression of Miller’s ethos, bringing to life a long-held ambition of federalizing the conservative “culture war” in ways once thought uncouth. Trump’s sprawling immigration and border enforcement is just “The Stephen Miller Show,” brought to you by Stephen Miller Productions LLC, and personally stage-managed by Stephen Miller.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

We are ready. But we are not worthy.

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Can you make your likes on here private? That and Community Notes seem like the two design things that the Everything Website still has over this place.

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The Nativity in Black ones were so OP.

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Hot Blooded Tough Guy Rusty Shackles @rustyshackles.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

that streak in the 90s of insanely great variety packed cover/tribute albums tho

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

3/ Here is the latest post from Laura Loomer, who clearly has the ear of President Trump, calling on Trump to use dictatorial powers to destroy his political opposition. This kind of rhetoric is gaining traction in MAGA world, and Trump is now echoing it.

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Yeah, but I think the conspiracy theory about antifa only emerged after there was linguistic slippage from a combination of genuine confusion and "who cares, they're both bad" indifference. I've in general gotten more insistent about terms like this the past few years for this reason.

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

And I could say much of the same here for the way "Critical Race Theory" has started being used to describe things that are *very* at odds with actual CRT but have a vague "lefty stuff on race" feel. The conspiracy theory is baked into the way the word is being used.

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

It's basically just *necessarily* going to encourage a hallucinatory view of the world where there's an organized paramilitary force that wants to kill you and destroy everything you care about. Especially when you start hearing "the shooter was antifa" after things like the Kirk murder.

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

And then if you see people donating or promoting the more inoffensive, nonviolent groups that fall under the actual antifa banner, you think that they're supporting coordinated destruction of private businesses or whatever. How on earth could you not?

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

If you see all the actual organizations that use the term for themselves, plus you think those are also the people with masks rioting whenever there are riots, you're going to think it's all planned and coordinated. How on earth could you not?

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Antifa refers to a lot of *actual organizations,* many of which aren't even violent (despite agreeing with the use of violence), and which sign onto violence only in a specific sort of case (which has little relevance to ordinary politics).

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The problem is *that* people are using it as "a label conveying a generic sense of militant far-leftism." I don't see any way that goes on without inviting low-information right-of-center people into this paranoid view of the world.

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Neoconservatism hasn't been very neo for decades, but I don't think that creates much of a problem for the word.

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I don't see what "alt-right" doesn't capture here.

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

That's exactly the kind of misuse that I think is most destructive.

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

And it's hard to see how a low-information right-of-center normie *doesn't* slide into a siege mentality when they've been invited into that hallucinatory sense of the world.

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

If you're a normie who sees (1) people talking about "antifa" as loosely as they do to describe left militants, and (2) sees plenty of people actually organized in groups under the antifa name, you're going to think there's a coordinated all-purpose left paramilitary group no one's addressing.

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

What do you think is a good example of "actual fringe far-leftists comparably similar?" I'm pretty emphatic about this -- I think using "antifa" to generically describe e.g. black bloc rioters has been enormously destructive on public discourse and our shared sense of where we are.

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Yeah, but my read at the time was that that was a very temporary thing that would ultimately not continue to get enforced. I've definitely said "cis" several times without incident since then. I guess "cisgender" specifically is the issue.

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Why think this wouldn't distort people's perceptions of the world in a way similar to how "antifa" slipperiness has? bsky.app/profile/wors...

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Charles G. Koch 🏴 @worstaccount.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I don't see what misusing "Groyper" helpfully adds that "Online far-right extremist" doesn't give you.

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