California Governor Gavin Newsom should be charged criminally for describing Stephen Miller as a "fascist," according to a Republican lawmaker.
On Friday, Newsom's press office posted this on X: "STEPHEN MILLER IS A FASCIST!" MAGA accused Newsom of "trying to get Miller killed" with the simple comment on social media. Miller is currently the White House deputy chief of staff under Trump.
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Lime66@lemmy.world · 174 pts · 328d
Arresting someone for calling a fascist a fascist is pretty fascist.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 328d
Arresting someone for calling
a fascistanyone a fascist is pretty fascist.JakenVeina@midwest.social · 2 pts · 323d
True, but it's good to be specific.
hopesdead@startrek.website · 23 pts · 328d
ADL actually have a list of symbols of hate, Anti-Antifa is one of them. So irony.
Revan343@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 328d
It's a shame the ADL threw away all of their credibility
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 328d
https://youtu.be/zvgZtdmyKlI
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 328d
Look, Steven clearly isn't a fascist, he just talks like a fascist, and acts like a fascist, and does fascist things!
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 328d
Whoa...good thing we didn't step in it.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 328d
Yup, just dived headfirst into the cesspool
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 328d
DreamAccountant@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 328d
Nazis: "Don't call me a nazi, or I'll harass, imprison, deport, or murder you in one of my many death camps!"
Steve@startrek.website · 6 pts · 328d
That kind of honesty would be refreshing
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 327d
At the rate they're going it'll probably be their party platform for the midterms next year
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 327d
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 328d
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca · 30 pts · 328d
I hate being in this timeline where Newsom is the Democratic front-runner. The guy is such a opportunistic slimeball.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 328d
Sure, but you have to weigh that against the other guy, who is straight up a fascist dictator narcissist convicted felon child abusing/rapist piece of sub-human shit.
Next to someone like that, even Newsom looks like a shining star.
warbond@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 328d
I'm so fucking tired of hoping for the lesser of two evils
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 328d
The problem is that the only way I can see to set up a system that will give the pick of the lesser vs greater good is to set up a system in which anyone who desires power has absolutely no channels to access said power. Basically you can only be president if you don't want to be president. This would cause all sorts of other issues such as rapid chains of abdication.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 328d
Who isn't?
stoly@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 327d
That is exactly what politics is: the least bad worst thing. It always has been and always will be.
Aljernon@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 319d
Most people are. It's the big reason (aside from being black and a woman) why Kamala struggled so much; she ran on a platform of "Trump is obviously a bad choice" instead of "here's why I'm a good choice"
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 327d
Awesome, then you by default will be supporting the greater of two evils. Great choice.
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 328d
It was always going to be an opportunistic slime ball. We were never going to go immediately from Trump directly to a Democratic Socialist. Anybody who thinks that possible is delusional.
We just need to steer the ship some and solidify the rules in government.
stoly@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 327d
Didn't we have this same conversation about Biden and so people didn't vote for Biden?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 328d
Yeah....not like those other politicians.
danc4498@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 328d
I like how he shows a definition of “international terrorism” and highlighted the part of the definition that says “appears to be intentional” as though that alone constitutes international terrorism.
teft@piefed.social · 12 pts · 328d
3 months ago Gavin called temu goebbels a fascist cuck (which he is). Evidently calling him just a fascist is over the line though.
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 328d
So about that first amendment
Triumph@fedia.io · 9 pts · 328d
I think they were hoping for a libel suit instead, so we could all watch Miller try to prove that he’s not a fascist.
rayyy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 328d
When the GOP has a felon leader they project furiously.
CobblerScholar@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 328d
Oh I'd love to see that dead eyed weirdo try and prove he isnt fascist in a court
Skavau@piefed.social · 5 pts · 328d
Derrick, the guy calling for his arrest is literally calling an ex FBI member communist. You couldn't make it up. Genuinely shameless hypocrisy.
Aljernon@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 319d
The American Right, alone among Right Wings across the world, has long had an internal tension between Being Right Wing and the Conservative obsession with Tradition and National Origin Myths (which for us is the American Revolution, the Constitution, and buzzwords like Freedom and Liberty). The rise of Fascism has allowed alot of the American Right to be unapologetically Far Right and drop any pretense of caring about the Constitution or the Bill of Rights.
Isa@feddit.org · -6 pts · 328d
But … if it's true ^(edit: that he's a fascist)^? I mean, didn't one of the Ten Commandments declared explicitly, that “Thou shalt not bear false witness ^(edit: like denying, that he is a fascist, when it's clear, that he is one.)^ against thy neighbour”!?