What the fuck is a zine? A magazine?
Yes, zine is short for magazine, but the word carries additional connotations such as handmade or low production, anti-capitalist/fascist, and freely distributed
I’ve never heard the term zine but since last week I suddenly see it popping up everywhere
yeah that’s called the Frequency Illusion
A small pamphlet.
When I think of a pamphlet I think of the trifold thing or something similar, a zine would be several pages usually, probably staple bound. Though not as big as a proper magazine. I feel like a small pamphlet would be a postcard, or a one-sheet, or a leaflet, or something.
Those things you listed can still be zines. It’s really more about the content and context than the format.
I just looked this up. Why are anti-fascists now looked at as terrorists? Isn’t it good to be against fascism? I am a little confused at this whole thing. Could someone explain in layman’s terms.
When the government is openly facist they label anti-facists as terrorists.
Simply put, if you’re against Anti-Fascism, you might be a fascist.
At the risk of sounding glib, but I’m completely serious, the US state is fascist. It’s not about good or bad, it’s about the state cracking down on its opposition. And it’s not just now. Opposing fascism ‘too early’ in the ww2 period before the US joined the war, say, by supporting the leftists fighting in Spain would get you targeted for repression in the purges of the 50’s we call ‘the red scare.’
You see clearly.
Um, 1950 was after WW2.
Many Amerikans were retroactively targeted in the 50s during the redscare for doing things like sending money to communists in Spain to fight the fascists.
Because the usa is a fascist state
Not if you are a fascist country.
antifacism seeks to disrupt the status quo. their messaging could be anything, national socialism wasn’t actually socialism. people don’t believe we are under fascist rule. all they see is a group of individuals seeking to disrupt the status quo and rock the boat which is analogous to terrorism. Hope you weren’t just being willfully ignorant, as understanding the mindsets of people who aren’t terminally online is important to actual change
Antifa isn’t an organization. You’re “against fascism”. That’s it. It isn’t a statement about being ‘for’ anything, that’s usually the other side of the person’s sign. Fact is, fuck fascism, details unnecessary.
I’m antifa, I’m “against fascism”.
I’m also antishootingmyselfintheface, antitakingmeth, and I’ve been antiexcessivegrassinmyyard for almost 20 years now.
I am highly disappointed in otherwise intelligent people, who I align with repeat this tired response. I never said it was an organization, I know what antifa is and isn’t, and yeah I’m antifacist but this messaging and logic tells you you didn’t really want to address my comment. I said this fails to even attempt to reach the understanding of the average US citizen. If you think like this, and aren’t just repeating the responses you’ve seen online, I don’t think you understand people, period. Acting like antifa is not a modern movement that subscribes to an ideology and is something that is just to be expected of a good member of society is why people are easily convinced of the fascists attacks on the idea under that name and enables the messaging of the movement to be handwaved or persecuted.
I’m anti-entertaining that communicating this way is common sense.
I’ll skip the insults and your self-masturbation and get right to the meat, if you don’t mind.
Acting like antifa is not a modern movement that subscribes to an ideology and is something that is just to be expected of a good member of society is why people are easily convinced of the fascists attacks on the idea under that name and enables the messaging of the movement to be handwaved or persecuted.
Acting like it is makes its own motivations seem like those deemed by a collective and not individuals making their own minds to decide for themselves (and gives the ICEstapo something to target). If a large number of people see something as fascist, it doesn’t make them ‘members of antifa’, if anything, they just have a concience and common sense. What’s the old addadge. “Reality has a leftist bias?”
But that’s all we’re both doing for our own headcanons, isn’t it? ‘Acting’. Neither you or I can speak on what antifa is for everyone claiming it. It doesn’t even represent its own manifesto to question, so it feels a bit irresponsible and ego-driven to deem a purpose for it when we’re just two raindrops in antifa’s gutter, leaderless and self-enlisted.
You claim to be anti fascist while still regurgitating every fascist talking point against anti-fascism.
Don’t hide behind whatever false equivalency you try and claim. Own your opinions with your whole chest and just own that you’re a fascist. I’ve seen you on this site long enough to know what you are.
I read the Guardian article you posted.
When a police officer arrived at the scene, drawing his gun, an armed protester shot her rifle, hitting the officer in the shoulder. The officer survived.
With this detail whole story makes more sense. Still the punishment is way to harsh and injust, especially so because they weren’t ones whot shot the cop.
dont worry, im sure bluemaga will be all over this! Righttttt after november for some reason, vote bluemaga-no-matter-who!/s
Trump is just farming low honor for the bad ending atp
Do not hand Donald Trump any non-progression items, as it will ruin his low% run of the United States Presidency
Can’t wait for the glitchless run. It’s kinda boring seeing him use the Israel exploit for half his presidency
Apparently one of the prosecutors was named Kyle Shideler, truth is stranger than fiction.
pissing and shidding and hitlering over people doing 4th of July fireworks in the wrong location
The US be like :
JFC, y’all! It wasn’t over a zine. It was over moving a zine!
Would explain why mods deleted some of my past posts. So how do we protect ourselves?
Organize.
I agree, but how? This kind of thing tends to scare off the less committed/ Unable to commit for risk of loosing a stable life. I’m not in that camp and stand firmly against the evil fascists, but how do we get people to Amp it up? How do we get people to come armed? Not shoot but to discurage normal anti-protest tactics? How do we ensure others don’t suffer these same fates if not worse?
I have only guesses and I’m not an expert so any ellaboration would be welcome.
Not everyone can be in the same level of organizing, and that’s fine. For those who can, joining a communist party that engages with the people, and correctly brings them up to their level of political awareness and analysis, is what sets up the basis of a successful revolutionary apparatus.
A brief google search suggests he was arrested for being part of Antifa/evidence obstruction?
Edit:
Corruptly Concealing a Document or Record, by transporting a box containing numerous Antifa materials, such as insurrection planning, anti-law enforcement, anti-government, and anti-immigration enforcement documents and propaganda from Sanchez Estrada’s residence to a location in Denton, Texas, intending to conceal the box’s contents and impair its availability for use in a federal grand jury and federal criminal proceeding.
edit: Not sure why I’m downvoted for providing facts. The post says it’s about zines when it’s not. You can think Antifa being designated as terrorism is removed and you’d probably be right, but the post is still wrong
ya. fuckin dangerous antifa terrorists. I heard you were one.
What person are we talking about here? Sorry I came into the comments to look for the article and I didn’t find anything
After a three-week trial, a jury found eight of nine protesters guilty of “providing material support to terrorists”, among other crimes. For the Sotos, this “material support” included owning a “printing press” used to print anarchist zines and being part of a leftist book club, the federal government argued. The couple had already left the scene by the time guns were drawn. All eight of the defendants sentenced so far have received unusually harsh sentences – 30 to 100 years – essentially life in prison.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/24/prairieland-texas-ice-protests-zines
being part of a leftist book club, the federal government argued.
God forbid.
Fuck that sentence. Terrorism my ass
Bless you for providing an article. Spreading the word to my friends. They never belive me about stuff like this.
Honestly, being as cynical as I am, even I did a double take reading it.
the least racist liberal has logged on everybody
What’s the point? Why are you posting this in a thread about the United States? Whatabout China? Complementing Xi is a very weird thing to do randomly.
Why are you doing this? Are you just being racist to get a reaction from people?
