From the article:
Antifa, short for “anti-fascist,” is generally described by experts as a loose, decentralized movement rather than a structured organization, raising questions about how such a designation would be applied in practice.
raising questions about how such a designation would be applied in practice.
By allowong the government to declare you are antifa, thus a terrorist.
The whole reason for the fuzzy definition is a design, not a flaw. Russia does the same thing.
Yes, exactly! Looking at the USA it hasn’t been in dubio pro reo for a while now. You’ll end up having to proof you are not a member and you won’t be able to.
Sounds like something antifa would say. /s
Wilders is a racist, fascist cunt that loves hanging out and sucking up to other fascists in other countries.
Wilders is a racist, fascist cunt that loves hanging out and sucking up to other fascists in other countries.
And recievied a large portion of Dutch votes last election, assuming the trajectory continues, he’ll win even more next time. :(
They are polling at 14 seats vs their current 24. There is some reason for optimism. https://nltimes.nl/2025/09/18/vvd-drops-polls-now-equal-d66-ja21
To clarify: the Dutch government will now discuss this issue and decide if they want to move forward with it. If they do, there will be a legal process to decide if the original request is feasible. Something similar happened in 2016 and the result was that they are not terrorist in nature.
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Fascistische_Aktie
A report from the National Coordinator for the fight against Terrorism and Security (NCTV) from March 2016 stated that AFA counter -demonstrations against Pegida could be accompanied by violence, but that there are no indications for left -wing radical terrorism.
I would prefer if people would not immediately claim that we are just as fucked as the USA or that our judicial system is just as broken. Sure, it doesn’t look good, but it’s very much a matter of degrees.
Copying the us in designating those standing up to their paramilitaries being nurtured to target critics and opponents, as terrorists is more than a bad look fuck your degrees.
Apparently the netherlands is ruled by fascist tools of more powerful nations. The netherlands can get fucked.
The point is that they haven’t done so yet. This is just a motion to tell the responsible minister to explore whether or not it can or should be done. They don’t have the power to simply instate such designations.
The very fact that they are asking that, in appearance Alliance or should we say subservience to the American fascists trying to quash opposition to their Brown Shirts they want to extra judicially Target opponents and critics with is more then a little worrisome no?
Ewww, it’s spreading like a disease
An insult to the memory of every Canadian who died fighting to free their country from fascist occupation.
With the motion now adopted, the Dutch government must formally respond and decide whether to implement the request.
And they won’t.
Wilders is a right wing nut job whose popularity is decreasing rapidly. His party was now elected twice into the government and in both cases they blew up the coalition, causing new elections.
The sentiment regarding his party is now that they are unable to govern and just cause chaos. This is becoming clear even among his followers.
Before the elections they promise the impossible. When they are in the opposition it’s easy to maintain that the ruling parties are messing stuff up, but now that they were actually part of the government they have shown twice now that they are unable to deliver any of their fantasy solutions and that they can’t govern.
Thanks for the insight; we currently have a very similar situation in Finland. The current government including far-right populists, conservatives and neoliberals is just fucked up both in discussions and actions, both internally and externally so to speak.
In the last decade or so people often said “just let them govern once to show the people how bad they are at it”. I always thought it’s a playing with fire scenario, but so far it seems to work out.
Bad time to try it out, the us and russia are helping them behind the scenes now, stuff you would not even think of, like what other polits are doing and saying.
It is playing with fire, they are trying to fix their hack allies in place, like hungary. It can happen there.
So by definition, they’re now Antiantifa, so just Fa(scists).
I’ll take “Things fascist do when elected to government” for six-hundred please, Alex.
Fascists make move to criminalize free thinking. Good luck you hateful motherfuckers.
Anytime someone brings up Antifa you should always play dumb and ask them what it stands for. You need to lead them on a journey that concludes in Antifa meaning anti fascist.
I would even pull out my phone and act like I am genuinely curious and learning with them,
“Oh it means anti-fascist, the people who are against the Nazis like my great grandfather that fought in WWII. Why would anyone go after him for doing his duty?”
And just deadpan them.
Does the parliament decide who’s a terrorist and who’s not? I mean… shouldn’t it be up to the judges and based on factual evidence? (asking because sincerely curious)
With the motion now adopted, the Dutch government must formally respond and decide whether to implement the request.
Is this a formality or is the adoption more of a “pwease listen to mwee” type of action?
The motion is adopted. Meaning the request is allowed to be discussed.
So it’s in the debate/statements phase but not yet voted on.
Cheers!
Well, guess I can’t go to the Netherlands because of a sticker on my laptop now
