cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/65164
In a set of fascistic speeches on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House power broker Stephen Miller, and other top Trump administration officials labelled the political left as a “terrorist” threat and vowed to use all of the tools at their disposal to systematically destroy left-wing groups. Representatives from 67 countries gathered in the U.S. on Thursday for a meeting…
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Well, unfortunately for him if you go far left enough, you get your guns back… Just saying…
Unfortunately.for us, in a fascist dictatorship that is as well armed as our, it is incredibly unlikely for a local revolution to succeed. Its almost always external forces that allow a regime of this caliber to be toppled.
External forces are already working on that. We still have a responsibility to resist. They do this because they believe they can afford the consequences.
Make it expensive for them.
If you think im suggesting it is futile and to roll over, you have wildly misunderstood.
The latest episode of This American Life is about this. It’s really fucking scary those protestors got 30 years for moving boxes while the capitol protestors got a slap on the wrist and a presidential pardon.
I am so sick of this pen-faced alien being given a mic.
This individual is proof that evil is not something subjective but actual physical matter that has condensed into the likes of him. Like the black goo that made Aku in Samurai Jack.
All of this bcz his crush in high school didn’t like him back?
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Time for a polypectomy
I used to think it was a bit hyperbolic to say everything they say is projection, but you know…
I only keep saying it because it keeps being true.
I’d like to see one example of where it’s been shown to be hyperbolic, though.
Here in the United States, we have taken the necessary and essential action of formally recognizing left-wing violence as a form of political terrorism that is a direct threat to our national security and survival of our republican form of government,
Oddly telling how he doesn’t say “a threat to our democracy”.
Feels like the R in “republican” should have been capitalized.
Yes and they don’t hide it.
https://www.heritage.org/american-founders/report/america-republic-not-democracy
wtf
yup. If you’ve hung out around American conservatives for a while, this is something you will have heard. I was actually kind of surprised to hear trump and vance claiming to defend democracy
Like, hard “R”?
left-wing violence
Isn’t it interesting how they never give actual examples when they say shit like this? You’d think it would be trivial since it’s such a pressing issue.
He’s a white supremacist fascist piece of shit so he means minorities not imprisoned and enslaved & fair elections where one person holds one vote not weighted by gerrymandered counties or low population states when referring to left-wing violence.
Isn’t it interesting how they never give actual examples when they say shit like this?
Yeah, you know! Left wing violence! Like that gang that wears the masks, always going around dogpiling and point-blank-executing U.S citizens at home, in church, on the street… That kinda violence? Pfffft.
Republican policy is exceedingly simple and always boils down to one simple statement: “It’s okay when we do it.”
Just for perspective, I learned in American public school in the 1990s that the US is a democratic republic, not a democracy. This is correct, even though these rectal tumors are weaponizing it.
A democratic republic is a flavour of democracy, just like a constitutional monarchy is.
A democratic Republic is a democracy though…
Yes, it’s nominally supposed to be, but it lets you put the emPHAsis on the other syllABle so that when you want it to become less of a democratic republic and more of a Republican White-Christofascist Theocracy it doesn’t sound like such a drastic change because it’s still got the same word in it.
No I dont think it is. How often does what the people want happen in congress? like 0-1% of the time right? studies have shown this. We all need to stop pretending this is a school house rock episode. Neither political party cares about their voters issues. This is not a democracy. We are ruled by people accountable to rich donors, and thats that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_republic
A Democratic Republic is a form of democracy, by definition.
You can argue that the US is no longer operating as a democratic republic, you can’t argue that a democratic republic is not a democracy.
The Republican party have been using that line to foster anti-democratic sentiment for decades. My trumper dad is literally at the point where he has told me, “we don’t want democracy. Democracy means ‘mob rule’”.
Red state education? The US is a representative democracy. The word “democracy” does not automatically imply direct democracy.
The magats intentionally play these childish word games so they can justify their authoritarian, anti-American wet dreams.
I don’t actually think so. There are democratic elements but the president isn’t elected by popular vote. There’s universal suffrage but in practice a large percentage of the population is disenfranchised. There’s no power of recall in most instances of public office. Then there are the practicalities of running for office which only allows for a small elite… at what point do you still get to call this a democracy given all of its republican and oligarchic features?
How is that any different from any other democracy? The term was birthed in Athens where only free men could vote and in practice the oligarchy held must of the power. There’s always been a hypocrital element to the word.
That doesn’t mean we should surrender to magat word games.
Sadly ironic, considering that I think I’ve already seen this meme before. :(
It’s actually an original of mine. I used it so often, i can’t even remember on which platform i used it first… Recently i updated it with the Italian flag.
Let’s emphasize the fact that he is not saying people who march around carrying rifles and machine guns intimidating Americans in their hometowns. Nor is he talking about people who commit mass shootings. Or people who pollute the air, water, and soil that we need to survive. No, it is people with left wing and liberal ideology, people using their freedom of speech.
Fucking evil. I hate everybody who voted for this and everybody who didn’t bother to vote.
and the republican-lite crowd who never made fighting this an sort of priorirty while they committed genocide, you hate them too right.
Fuck off, we don’t need this “both sides same” crap in every single discussion.
Fuck off, we don’t need this “both sides same” crap in every single discussion.
then maybe people shouldnt start the same topic over again if you dont like the same answer to the topic. If you dont like a dirty nappy dont shit in it every time and expect a different outcome. You’ll get the same answer every time this is brought up, and that surprises you?
We don’t need to blame the people who did not vote, either. But let’s be fair; there are a section of the Democrats who enabled the Republicans. Fetterman is the latest example.
No, because I’m not a dipshit that needs to both sides this.
Because even if I hadn’t been paying attention to both parties for 20+ years and knew beyond question that one party was way, way, way , way, way, way, way more capable and willing to vote in favor of average Americans, I still wouldn’t be stupid enough to both sides this because one side is just so obviously better than the other, and in the current political climate, and for the foreseeable future, one of those two sides will be in power at any given time.
TL;DR - Take this trash both sides garbage to a platform stupid enough to fall for it.
No, because I’m not a dipshit that needs to both sides this.
You’re a dipshit because you vote as you’re told in exchage for precisely nothing. And then you tell yourself stories about had you had no choice. And its pathetic.
What Soggy said.
yes, well thats what the upvote button is for isnt it.
Upvote isn’t strong enough
Fucking evil. I hate everybody who voted for this and everybody who didn’t bother to vote.
Oh yeah, All those Leftists who famously vote blue no matter who. With all that hate in your heart are you sure you aren’t a Republican?
Leftists don’t vote blue no matter who. With all that confusion are you sure you’re not conflating leftists and liberals?
A lot of people misunderstood the original comment you replied to. They know leftists don’t vote blue no matter who. They were bullying the original commenter for talking down to “everybody who didn’t bother to vote”.
I can hate them and not be actively trying to take away their freedoms. I can hate them, and see them as humans. That’s the difference. Republican politicians dehumanize the “other” to make their racism, fascism, and the attack on civil liberties more “palatable”.
If Stephen Miller got ass cancer, I would feel bad for the cancer.
Reminds me of a story about Randolph Churchill:
In the mid-1950s, surgery revealed that a tumor on his lung was benign. His friend Evelyn Waugh burst into the bar at White’s Club: “They’ve cut out the only part of Randolph that isn’t malignant!”
He IS ass cancer
If they come for me, I’m going, make no mistake.
But some of them will go with me.
I really hate that my entire life I thought this sentiment was just crazy talk from loons.
This is the first time in over 50 years I feel like it’s now the right sentiment.
I hate this.
The crazy loons thought they would win such a confrontation. I am fully aware that the best possible outcome is lose-lose. I just have to try and make them lose more.
Make it _expensive
In 1944, the US Office of Strategic Services published the Simple Sabotage Field Manual; a document aimed at the unhappy citizens of fascist nations, to instruct them on how to sabotage the economic and military capacity of their own nation. I’m not saying that Oskar Schindler ever read it, but the movie line “Stern, if this factory ever produces a shell that can actually be fired, I’ll be very unhappy” is definitely in the same spirit.
One need not work in weapons manufacturing, either. The manual suggests sabotage techniques for every kind of worker. For example, office workers could help decrease their fascist nation’s economic power by insisting that every decision be made by committee, slowing output.
The manual is fascinating in that it’s focused on people who are afraid to be “heroes”, instead suggesting sabotage methods that entail little to no personal risk.
https://archive.org/details/SimpleSabotageFieldManual/page/n2/mode/1up
Yes. Large-scale sabotage is, well, large-scale. And it tends to be investigated until the saboteur is found. Whereas a widespread movement of many small individual acts of sabotage can often be harder to detect as having been sabotage at all. For example, clogging a coolant system with adulterants that are plausible to have found their way in through laxity in operation, so that when the machine it cools goes kaput, a post-mortem makes it look like the work of wear-and-tear, operator error and insufficient maintenance. Such a saboteur can go undiscovered and live to sabotage another day.
And the same principle applies to non-mechanical sabotage. As mentioned with “every decision by committee”, it can often be done entirely in the open and still be undetectable as sabotage.
Please post this top level in some community
The only cancer is this fucking Nazi ghoul and his merry band of shitstains, the rhetoric is ramping up from these pukes as they literally try to legitimize extermination of their opponents. Fuck these traitor pukes, damn sure ain’t the time to cower
How dare you peasants think you get “rights” and shouldn’t have to work till you die for oligarchs! Just shit out more kids we can molest and get back to your twelve hour shifts that aren’t going to pay for your rent while we continue to destroy the world around you!
It’s crazy to me that if you look for more than 10 minutes, that’s the exact truth you’ll find.
No one will do it.
