The KKK has multiple independent sects and semi-decentralized governance, but that doesn't mean "KKK" doesn't exist -- it refers to all of them collectively.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/05/31/us/politics/ap-u...
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/12671296442282475...
It implies a collective.
How do we actually know this?
Or to put it differently, how much do we know about the interconnections of such groups? I'm sure that some are just kids who like the look & dress up with their buddies (no connections). Some seem pretty organised. How do we tell the extent from outside?
I would hope there is effort put into infiltrating and studying such things. But presumably any serious FBI or whatever effort isn't going to be keen to spell out how they know what they know. (IIRC this was part of what broke up the KKK, that and anti-mask laws. Which at its height was also a mix of fairly organised & not at all, although I don't claim the same mix.)
Like who? In North America, I haven't seen any evidence of this. The example that's always posted, including in this thread, is a lone actor that hit a few people with a bike lock years ago.
According to the Government Accountability Office of the United States, 73% of violent extremist incidents that resulted in deaths since September 12, 2001 were caused by right-wing extremist groups. That's not even including what they label as Islamist extremists and "incel" extremists which both could also easily be classified as right-wing extremism. In North America, violent left-wing extremism is barely a blip on the radar and yet we keep hearing "conservative" talking heads go on about Antifa. It seems like little more than a politically motivated distraction much like Obamagate.
Wrong.
> The Antifa movement in Germany is a political movement, composed of multiple far-left, autonomous, militant groups and individuals who describe themselves as anti-fascist. The use of the epithet fascist against opponents and the understanding of capitalism as a form of fascism are central to the movement.
>Individuals involved in the movement tend to hold anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist views and subscribe to a range of left-wing ideologies such as anarchism, communism, Marxism, social democracy and socialism
If it would allow nesting, I'm pretty sure somebody would've already accidentally put Al-Qaeda under Ansar al-Sunna and cause a recursion error, blowing up DC.
Just because your criminal organization has chapters, doesn't mean people don't see the organization.
We don't which is why it's weird the current administration is trying to declare 'antifa' a terrorist group without presenting any real evidence. If they know something we don't this would probably be a good time to tell us.