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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Hairyfishnuts@feddit.online · 160 pts · 18d
MrSelfDestruct@piefed.zip · 142 pts · 18d
protist@retrofed.com · 13 pts · 17d
Time for a polypectomy
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 127 pts · 18d
I used to think it was a bit hyperbolic to say everything they say is projection, but you know...
grue@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 18d
I only keep saying it because it keeps being true.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 18d
I'd like to see one example of where it's been shown to be hyperbolic, though.
_cnt0@sh.itjust.works · 87 pts · 17d
Oddly telling how he doesn't say "a threat to our democracy".
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz · 28 pts · 17d
Feels like the R in "republican" should have been capitalized.
ptu@sopuli.xyz · 21 pts · 17d
Yes and they don’t hide it.
https://www.heritage.org/american-founders/report/america-republic-not-democracy
_cnt0@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 17d
wtf
ChristerMLB@piefed.social · 6 pts · 17d
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
wayward@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 17d
Like, hard "R"?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 17d
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.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 17d
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.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 17d
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."
ZMoney@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17d
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.
Amberskin@europe.pub · 9 pts · 17d
A democratic republic is a flavour of democracy, just like a constitutional monarchy is.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 17d
A democratic Republic is a democracy though...
cecilkorik@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 17d
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.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 17d
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.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17d
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.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 17d
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'".
dreamkeeper@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 17d
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.
ZMoney@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17d
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?
dreamkeeper@literature.cafe · 1 pts · 17d
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.
BlindPenguin@lemmy.world · 76 pts · 17d
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 17d
Sadly ironic, considering that I think I've already seen this meme before. :(
BlindPenguin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 17d
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.
GutterRat42@lemmy.world · 74 pts · 17d
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.
kreskin@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 17d
and the republican-lite crowd who never made fighting this an sort of priorirty while they committed genocide, you hate them too right.
Soggy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 17d
Fuck off, we don't need this "both sides same" crap in every single discussion.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 17d
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.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 15d
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?
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 17d
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.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15d
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.
GutterRat42@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17d
What Soggy said.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15d
yes, well thats what the upvote button is for isnt it.
GutterRat42@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 12d
Upvote isn't strong enough
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml · -22 pts · 17d
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?
ContactClosure@lemmus.org · 7 pts · 17d
Leftists don't vote blue no matter who. With all that confusion are you sure you're not conflating leftists and liberals?
procapra@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 17d
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".
GutterRat42@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17d
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".
sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 67 pts · 18d
If Stephen Miller got ass cancer, I would feel bad for the cancer.
MrSelfDestruct@piefed.zip · 56 pts · 18d
He IS ass cancer
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 16d
Reminds me of a story about Randolph Churchill:
Triumph@fedia.io · 61 pts · 18d
If they come for me, I'm going, make no mistake.
But some of them will go with me.
chahn.chris@piefed.social · 72 pts · 18d
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.
Triumph@fedia.io · 20 pts · 17d
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.
TheGoldenV@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 18d
Make it _expensive
Tango@piefed.ca · 16 pts · 17d
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
Tiger666@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 17d
Check this out
Tango@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 17d
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.
diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 17d
Please post this top level in some community
superkong47@lemmy.zip · 54 pts · 18d
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
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 18d
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!
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 18d
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.
Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip · 51 pts · 18d
Pee Wee German
deft@lemmy.wtf · 5 pts · 18d
Never seen something so ruinous. Hit him again.
Stefan_S_from_H@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 17d
The US Democrats are right of the conservative CDU (Christian Democratic Union of Germany) in Germany.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 18d
Don't do that. There are plenty of actual leftists in Germany.
Edit: and the Nazis modeled themselves on the United States chattel slavery model.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 18d
I think he means PeeWee Herman (Göering).
Wataba@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 18d
Between the Nazi Nostalgics and the Israeli Apologists, I'm having a hard time believing that.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 17d
I hear you. Sometimes we can't see the trees for the forest.
kevinsky@feddit.nl · 48 pts · 17d
I don't know what I hate more, that these pricks with fingers feel validated enough to be openly stating this kind of shit, or that there is nobody that is in earshot this verbal diarrhea that puts him on the spot over it. Especially in the broader republican side at large. Just letting this happen because it's "your guy" is some weak shit.
Fluke@feddit.uk · 24 pts · 17d
Has the US forgotten already that Hitler looked at the US race laws with admiration in Mein Kampf?
This isn't new. This cancer has never been excised, just bandaged over because it became inconvenient to capitalist interests at the time.
As far as I can see, this shift back towards fascism in the US is the response to the rise of China as an economic and military power.
Some of this rise is attributable to the decline of favour of fossil fuels, and China's position as market leader in solar and wind generation technology. This is why Trump has a hate for renewable energy, and such a throbbing micro-peen for oil. The US is being left behind, fast.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 17d
Forgotten? Most schools here probably don't even teach that. I would bet that most Americans are not at all aware of this fact.
stark@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 17d
Many Americans probably think they liberated the entirety of Europe during WW2 with a little help from the British and Canadians.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 17d
[Nervous laughter remembering my history class textbooks...and the History Channel specials...and appreciating how games like Medal of Honor and Call of Duty showcased many other countries' contributions to the effort I was never even aware of]
Heh. Heh? :3 lol
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 16d
I remember really liking, I think it was Call of Duty 4 (?) as a kid because the main character was a Soviet soldier, and it was such a fresh perspective for that kind of game.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 15d
Are we thinking of World at War maybe? The one where you were a sniper stealthily sneaking through the Red Square with a Mosin Nagant?
That game was amazing. Along with Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, I've played it through multiple times.
MoH:AA also featured a brief stint as the Soviets, too.
Both also made sure we knew the PPSH "pe-peh-sheh" is one of the coolest SMGs ever made. :D
I remember Call of Duty 3 on the Wii had a section where you played as a Polish tank crew!
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 15d
Yeah I think it was World at War. MoH games were cool too, but back then before online, CoD single player games were so much more cinematic
sol6_vi@lemmy.makearmy.io · 2 pts · 17d
I didn't know about this until I read it on lemmy a few months ago. And I grew up in deep blue.
Toga77@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 17d
Republicans are spineless cowards. Always have been.
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 17d
For example, Lady G.
ironchico@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 17d
I think until I see real Americans taking to the streets on mass, all Americans are spineless cowards.
Dotdashdot@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 17d
2nd amendment cosplayers been larping this whole time!
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 17d
This pisses me off beyond all reason.
EDITS: Lol I kept remembering more and more empty platitudes every few seconds...
"Rah rah, sheepdog. Rah rah the fedz are comin. Rabble rabble Ruby Ridge and Waco. Rah rah learn mixed unit tactics to take on the glowies. Muh gunz protec muh free speech. Live free or die. Molon Labe. 1776 no step on snek! Remember the rooftop Koreans! It's our Constitutional right to open carry at protests! The feds are planning death camps for dissenters! An armed society is a polite society! When tyranny becomes law rebellion becomes duty!"
[Armed gangs of LARPing fatasses in Walmart gear and balaclavas start killing Americans in the streets and dragging citizens into unmarked vans to take to blacksites on foreign soil without due process of any kind.]
"WeLL, tHeY'rE LaW eNfOrCeMeNt ThO...tHeY aRrEsT cRiMiNaLs. . ."
[crickets]
"...Wut?"
For the record, they were mostly right about all that stuff, on the surface.
But when it comes time to show that American spirit and "nut up or shut up" ...they choose to shut up.
...Or they actively goosestep in line with a pedo-billionaire mass murdering megalomanic nazi who's robbing them and selling them out by the day. . . because that makes sense.
Bluedragon012@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17d
As an American, you are somewhat right. But there is massive swaths of people who are not even looking or self reflecting at all. Not because they choose to, but because they hear the word government and run. Most are super short sighted. It isn't fear they drives thier actions, it's that they are currently not in danger in thier minds. They will get a rude wake up call, but know there are pleanty of people who will gladly do harm to evil people, but I implore you to understand that physical distance to evil is a huge factor slowing rebellion.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17d
The entire party are fascists. Simple as that.
If you don't stand up to fascism in your own party, you are also a fascist.
If this country had its shit together we'd end the Republican party here and now. There's no room for a fascist party in any functional nation.
kyub@discuss.tchncs.de · 43 pts · 17d
Miller is 100% pure Nazi. De-nazification needs to happen soon.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17d
Indeed, the racist sack of shit is Joseph Goebbels reincarnated.
mattyroses@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 17d
He needs the wall. Now.
canniest_tod@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 17d
I really hope liberals understand that when he says "leftists", he means you too. Fascism doesn't stop until people stop it, and it's usually not with votes.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 17d
That's almost exclusively who he means. Republicans don't know what a "Leftist" is.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17d
Republicans don't even know what a conservative is because they call themselves conservative but don't practice conservatism.
Interestingly, many also call themselves Christian without following the teachings of Christ.
ifalas@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 17d
Actually, what's happening right now in the US would indeed have been stopped with votes. You don't vote to make the perfect world, you vote to minimize the damage. You can do all those other things that you imagine are more impactful the other 364 days of the year in addition.
TronBronson@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17d
He openly said liberals too plenty of times lol, he's not trying to hide it. They want to erase the liberal philosophy from the continent it's not about party affiliation.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 17d
"Fascistic" means like fascism. This isn't like fascism, it is fascism.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 17d
I think a lot of people assume we have to be at full blown Nazi genocide before "fascism" or "fascist" can be reasonably used.
Nope.
It's fascism now. Already. Currently happening. Here in America. Now.
We just haven't reached the apex....yet.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 17d
You know what?
I know in history class, they said some people ignored Hitler’s rise to power — believing he wouldn’t get very far.
Americans thought that of Trump in 2016. Trump thought that of Trump in 2016.
I’m at a point now where, if you’re spewing fascist shit, you’re a threat. I see you as an immediate threat, because the problem is that we haven’t been taking people like you seriously.
Don’t get fooled a third time.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 17d
Wow, welcome to fucking 2003. Are you going to actually do something now or have you tired yourself out already?
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 17d
2003? Hmm… I may have been barely walking around that time. Alls fair though, because that ought have been the public reaction this entire time.
binux@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 16d
Not necessarily. It can describe both fascism in action as well as things similar to it. This is the Merriam-Webster entry:
: advocating for or working to further the aims of fascism : fascist
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 17d
What confuses me about this administration is that they seem to be aiming to make any political belief or action that does not support them worthy of a lengthy prison sentence.
... but [REDACTED] is also a lengthy prison sentence. So they've removed the incentive to not [REDACTED].
In other words... why design a system where your opponents have nothing to lose? They will be pushed towards acting like they have nothing to lose.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 17d
Because they want an excuse to implement martial law that their base will accept. An "enemy within" that turns violent is exactly the pretense they're stoking for this, even if it's obvious they invented everything that caused it.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 17d
I see this sentiment a little more frequently than I see the following that I'll paraphrase:
"They're doing this to egg on a response [so we should not give them what they want by pushing back]" is an accidental or intentional PsyOp campaign.
If your opponent threatens to fight you if you fight back, you would choose to surrender before the fight begins?
It's an incredibly effective PsyOp when arguably the largest downside of anti-MAGA people is their rampant apathy, and that sentiment is like gasoline to a fire. "Oh, the enlightened response is to stay home like I did in 2024? Sick."
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17d
Nah, but we should wait until we know a democratic method (voting) won't work to remove the fascists. Once we cross that line, then we can resort to the actual fighting back.
Because the best case scenario here is that they want us to actually fight back so they can impose martial law, but we don't, then we win by voting them out without any widespread violence and they never got to play their martial law card.
If it doesn't work, and we realize they've corrupted the electoral process and stolen an election, then we grab our pitchforks (guns) and properly do what a bunch of inbred redneck traitors failed to do on Jan 6, because they're stupid and of course they didn't have any semblence of an actual plan.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17d
"We should wait until it is too late. That will be the perfect time to act. Just a little longer..."
Okay, if you say so. Again, accidental or intentional PsyOp.
TronBronson@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17d
people are just scared. rightfully so.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17d
I totally get that. It's certainly why I'm not doing more.
But "let's not oppose them because they want opposition" is playing more into their hands than opposing them is. I get it's a Lose-lose but let's not go for the Lose because we don't want to lose.
TronBronson@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17d
yea im not arguing with that part. Im just at the point where I can't do what I want, which is to prosecute and properly punish all these fuckers according to the laws of the country they stole.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 17d
You won't.
Watch.
kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 17d
Not confusing at all, they have built an enormous police, secret police full of chuds. They want things to escalate.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17d
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 17d
The only constant goal has been to get us to turn on each other. It's been constant for at least 10 years. I figure "destroy America from within" was Putin's directive.
nomy@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 17d
I wish we could just blame this on Putin but the truth is our own ruling class have been working towards this for the last 70 years.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17d
Porque no los dos?
The ruling class is generally international. Russia's oligarchs have more in common with US oligarchs than the US working class has with either of them.
nomy@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 17d
I don't disagree but the concerted effort was specifically undertaken by the U.S. ruling class to undo the progress made by The New Deal and FDR. The Soviet Union of 70 years ago is drastically different than the Russia of today. Of course oligarchs are going to oligarch and at the end of the day there's no war but the class war but wealthy Americans specifically set out to fund think tanks to shift American politics to the right.
I feel like it's important they own this, blaming foreign interference gives the domestic ruling class a pass they shouldn't get.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17d
I just really dislike the idea of blaming the peanut butter for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
nomy@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 17d
The peanut butter was there first though and organized and actively worked to make the bread softer and more ignorant about salami and pepperjack.
Jellys arrival mighti've been the death knell but if they're ever put against a wall, the peanut butter should be first in line.
We're basically in agreement though and I'm just splitting hairs, ultimately there's no war but the class war.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 17d
Temporary allies
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17d
That's exactly what they want. If they have nothing to lose, they fight back, then the right can point at that and use it as confirmation of their originally bullshit claims. Fascism 101.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 17d
I see this sentiment a little more frequently than I see the following that I’ll paraphrase:
“They’re doing this to egg on a response [so we should not give them what they want by pushing back]” is an accidental or intentional PsyOp campaign.
If your opponent threatens to fight you if you fight back, you would choose to surrender before the fight begins?
It’s an incredibly effective PsyOp when arguably the largest downside of anti-MAGA people is their rampant apathy, and that sentiment is like gasoline to a fire. “Oh, the enlightened response is to stay home like I did in 2024? Sick.”
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17d
Oh, sorry, don't mistake my explanation for complacency. I'm all for fighting these fascist pieces of shit by any means necessary. You're damned if you do, damned if you don't, might as well do.
Label me a terrorist? I'll show you one.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15d
In other words, Labeling Theory.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 14d
You're goofy...
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 14d
... are you insulting someone for agreeing with you? That's pretty goofy.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 14d
Didn't really seem to be agreeing or disagreeing, you're just saying things lol. Your comments didn't seem to have much purpose other than describing in further detail what is being said like some kind of AI subtext generator. Hence, goofy.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 18d
This little dweeb so desperately needs to be thrown into prison for decades.
discocactus@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 18d
Or a pit of some kind, maybe snake or trash...
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 17d
Acid, lava, oil on fire, hungry rats. Anything, really.
exixx@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17d
I'd just like to see someone slap him around like the little bitch he is.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 17d
I'd pay money to see that. Even better if it's trans people and people of color doing it.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17d
He's calling half of US citizens America's enemy.
That's treason.
The punishment for treason is death.
MasterBlaster@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 17d
Nazis traditionally labeled people on the opposite end of their political spectrum the enemy and it's not long before they are disappeared on a consistent basis.
I wonder if the people who are in the place to act are going to be able to stop the next Kristallnacht before it happens.
They already got the concentration camps in place.
RidderSport@feddit.org · 3 pts · 17d
Please use the term Progromnacht. Kristallnacht is how the Nazis named it and is highly euphimistic.
OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.works · 34 pts · 18d
He looks like Vladimir Putin’s bastard son.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 17d
These loser fascists are so devoid of talent that it appears they're just scraping the internet for what we say about them then turning it around to fit their narrative.
We've been calling conservatism a cancer for YEARS and he's just using our own words as theirs.
As always, conservatives/regressives have no talent or creativity. They can only steal what others create or simply destroy.
If this nation actually brings justice back we'll see this fascist on the chopping block.
raspirate@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 17d
All the "best" conservative arguments are just repurposed left-wing arguments that someone ran ctrl+f and replaced each identifying term with it's counterpart.
The infuriating part is that the reason it works is because left-wing arguments are fundamentally structured better and are more compelling. At some point in the past, a lefty made that argument to the right-winger and they could feel that they were losing the argument, so they quietly adopted the aesthetic of the same argument and later deployed it like they came up with it themselves.
It's why every right-wing argument has to construct a fiction where their enemy already holds all the power and has been in control for decades. Everyone can intuitively feel that they're being scammed by an unfair system that's rigged for the benefit of the wealthy. All right-wingers have to do is convince people that the structure of society can't be blamed on the people with the power to shape it. They just need people to blame someone they've already been convinced to hate. Immigrants, minorities, queers, and anyone else who would tell them who their actual enemies are.
MasterBlaster@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17d
One easy way to tell the difference is that one makes their accusations based on documented facts and actions. The other makes their accusations based on the nature of the human being in question.
Additionally, that perceived nature is usually a caricature of the actual nature in the first place.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17d
This is how narcissists behave in their personal lives as well
echodot@feddit.uk · 31 pts · 17d
It would be wild if the left could actually be as radical as they claim. America might not be so screwed up if they were.
apftwb@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 18d
Speech if anyone wants it.
https://youtu.be/uIY_Digw9Jo?t=22m56s
Yeah it is that bad.
Fermion@feddit.nl · 12 pts · 18d
The state department published a full transcript.
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/07/remarks-at-the-opening-of-the-ministerial-on-the-resurgence-of-political-terrorism/
notfromhere@lemmy.ml · 34 pts · 18d
It’s always projection with these clowns.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 17d
Fixed it. This would go great with bodycam footage of the countless ICE atrocities this year alone--Oh yeah, they conveniently stopped recording those, didn't they?
JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social · 7 pts · 18d
Things nobody asked for for $1000 Alex.
rayyy@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 17d
As usual, it's projection. He knows the real cancer is his own group.
P1nkman@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 17d
Miller deserves a shot in the groin, then let the medical team take care of him WITHOUT anesthesia.
Oh, and I hope he would die from sepsis a couple of days later, after agonising pain.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 17d
Wow, just wow. Calm down. Only a couple of days of pain!! That's a bit lenient, isn't it? Days...why not months?
BlindPenguin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 17d
That would cause more costs to the tax payers
nonentity@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 17d
It’s a unique talent to project from a skull that so readily lends itself to being a target.
Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.
White supremacists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.
A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
Dotdashdot@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 17d
And they clearly have what they need…
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 17d
Centrist democrats nod in respectful agreement.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 17d
All while even right-wing democrats get called "left-wing" by these fascists, for not being sufficiently right-wing enough.
nanometer1625@thelemmy.club · 22 pts · 17d
This wasn't just Stephen Miller as this article makes it sound. The conference was convened by Marco Rubio, and he also used fascist rhetoric.
Rubio also called the left terrorists:
This is from another article on the conference, from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/16/political-violence-event-trump-marco-rubio
Between this and Trump's recent claims that the USA doesn't have the ability to secure its elections against Chinese interference, the regime seems to be making a case for cancelling the midterm elections and possibly arresting Democratic "terrorists".
TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 21 pts · 17d
he is a fucking ghoul
ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 17d
What I wouldn't give for an opportunity to encounter Stephen Miller in a dark alley with no witnesses.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 17d
Who knows, maybe one of his gigolos will be feeling particularly brave one evening.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 17d
Americans will listen to this and then just drive to their shitty jobs they hate like everything is normal. They don't fucking care.
Zink@programming.dev · 13 pts · 17d
That's basically the average the country is left with between the decent people and the tens of millions who voted for idiotic racist rapist fascism three times in a row.
It's like a third don't care, a third do care, and a third are enthusiastically in favor.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 17d
A third “do care” as long as “caring” requires literally no real effort, risk, or sacrifice on their part. They care performatively, which is as good as not caring at all.
Areldyb@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 17d
Edit: lol the meme generator's US flag drop-in only has 49 stars
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 16d
I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missouruh.
Alternatively, the meme generator is from between July 4, 1959 and July 3, 1960.
mriormro@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 16d
Quit your bitching and state how you’re helping. You keyboard warriors are fucking annoying, man.
hamid@crazypeople.online · 0 pts · 16d
US Americans, especially white US Americans, are incapable of doing anything because a violent revolution of their state is against their material interests and they know it. This is why settler US Americans are not part of the global proletariat. For the global proletariat violent revolution is a either a side step in material reality or a benefit but the settler US Americans, like Israelis, benefit materially from their state via subsidy and sharing in the global extraction from the empire.
binux@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 16d
You don't even know if he's American or not.
And even if he is, what difference does it make? You're in a Lemmy comment section. People are going to write what they're thinking. Even if they don't, this sort of thing will still be in their heads. Which you can't even blame anyone for considering how impotent the masses are in the US. Thoughts like these are perfectly understandable regardless of who it's coming from.
mriormro@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 16d
No, they’re not “understandable”.
And I’ll keep telling them how much of a useless fuck they are when, they too, aren’t putting their fucking necks out on the line to stem this.
binux@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 16d
Do you care to explain exactly why it's not understandable?
In any case, you're getting angry at the wrong people. This is counter-productive.
Areldyb@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 16d
I am American, I was making fun of the keyboard warrior I replied to, and Poe's Law is way too fucking strong in this space. 🙄
binux@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 16d
Yes, my point was more that you being or not being American is irrelevant in this context, considering the USA's status as the global hegemond (thereby causing everyone to have a stake in it regardless). My thoughts still stand.
daychilde@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 16d
It's really fucking easy to be a tough guy on the Internet. Congratulations.
jerk_splerkin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 16d
It’s not that I don’t care. I just need to exhaust all alternatives before I simply accept that my family likely dying is the only option.
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 16d
Americans wouldn't mind if leftists are "rooted out".
PhoolOfATook@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 17d
I can’t wait for his ass to get assassinated
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 17d
Put the ass in assassination. He's cowered on a military base.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 17d
who would do it? Except for Luigi Mangione, all the assassination attempts and violence are by republicans. Thats the thing, there is no resurgence of left wing violence whatsoever. The American left is utterly placid, even the far left. At best they chant and hold signs, where they are told, without causing public disturbance or affecting traffic, peacefully. I imagine some kids somewhere have slashed some cop tires once or twice, and thats about it.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 17d
He seems like someone who's death will be recorded. You know those drinks being saved for when tRump kicks it? I bet at least a few are for when Miller finally gets his.
bstix@feddit.dk · 16 pts · 17d
What kind of people can listen to shit like that with a straight face.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17d
Bigots. I mean conservatives.
ForceTen@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 17d
He’s awful. Rotten to the core.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 17d
100% fascist projection.
SaintNectar@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 17d
Hope Miller ending will ressemble Mussolini. Can't wait to spit on his hanging corpse
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 17d
https://youtu.be/1B9PS5Wzv_U
Playing this?
GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 17d
It's just a new/different version of the tired trope that the black kid in the hoodie is dangerous- BE SCARED OF THE BLACK KID IN THE HOODIE !!!!!
Yet it is almost always the white man in the suit that is going to either rob you or kill you.
SalmonTractor@discuss.tchncs.de · 14 pts · 17d
Herr Müller the Nazi troll was once cursed by a wizard for being too evil.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 17d
He can start by accepting my challenge to a fist fight.
grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one · 14 pts · 18d
The Great White Worm has spoken!!!
manniesalado@piefed.social · 13 pts · 18d
What a dark time for the Yanks. And they throw toxins everywhere.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 18d
You know, I've always been out of tune a bit with my country, but the past decade -, after a couple decades of strong media gaslighting - has been surreal to experience. It's crazy how well the propaganda has worked. So many things (and people) that I had previously thought were illegal and/or morally abhorrent seem to just be accepted.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 17d
Yeah, I know people will say "It's been happening this whole time maaaan"
But for real, it feels overnight, watching how quickly all of this "That doesn't happen in this country." Piles on at once...
I mean heck, 2020 feels like it was a year ago, and things sucked really bad, but it's crazy how much "flooding the zone" with bullshit really manufactures a sort of resigned compliance.
We need to be pushing back at every turn. Even though it's exhausting. I myself have been (respectfully) badgering my lawmakers to strike down these Internet ID bills, for instance.
BeUnique@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 16d
Well, unfortunately for him if you go far left enough, you get your guns back... Just saying....
Art3mis@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 16d
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.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 16d
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.
Art3mis@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 16d
If you think im suggesting it is futile and to roll over, you have wildly misunderstood.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 17d
Oh boy.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 17d
This dude thinks he's in a movie and he's agent Smith telling everybody that disagrees with him that they're a virus. Smfh. Congruent absolute loser behavior.
Avicenna@programming.dev · 10 pts · 17d
A great example of accusation in the mirror technique from alt right play book.
We all know which group is more similiar to an opportunistic organism that tries to forcefully spread everywhere, even at the expense of every other being in the system.
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 17d
Man, I'm really killing it as a cancer lfg
Knew I'd figure out my calling in life.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 17d
If you don't like what they do you are left wing. Pretty simple concept for really simple minds like theirs.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 16d
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 18d
Stephen Miller can’t wait to kill me. I won’t let him.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 18d
That little shrieking pussy won't do anything himself. In fact, the little dweeb is hiding out on a military base last I heard. Because of the fear of chalk.
slingstone@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 17d
Funny, I feel the same about Nazis like him.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 16d
I am so sick of this pen-faced alien being given a mic.
TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 17d
Mrkawfee@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 17d
Zionazi
Maeve@kbin.earth · 4 pts · 18d
https://www.journeywithjesus.net/poemsandprayers/661-martin-niemoller-first-they-came
https://archive.fo/MJUgf
bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 16d
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.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 17d
every attack is a confession
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 17d
I thought Miller was a beer, but apparently it's also a "White House Deputy Chief of Staff", whatever that is. What does that person do? It sounds like a glorified HR title for an insecure person.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 17d
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 17d
Oh, right.
TronBronson@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17d
Chief of staff basically is the ring leader who coordinates all the other flunkies in the cabinet.
BillCheddar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17d
Did it hit differently in its original German?
SwissArmyKazoo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17d
Embarrassing how these thugs are still assigned to control the country
tigermountain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17d
Not just the United States, the whole world.
Loce@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17d
Every accusation is a confession
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17d
All of this bcz his crush in high school didn't like him back?
MithranArkanere@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 16d
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.
UpAndAtThem@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17d
Ok there, Temu Agent Smith...
keyhoh@piefed.social · 0 pts · 17d
Leftists in the States, you know he and his administration are going to come for you. There's only one way out here and we all can see this as it's playing out like every other time in history that fascism rose. YOU ALL need to get ahead of these fascists, and there's only one way, too. You will have two choices: be sacrificed to fulfill Trump's dream, or sacrifice yourselves now and go out on your own terms. It's a shit deal, but it's the responsibility of all Americans, regardless of how you voted, to ensure your country isn't run by fascists.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 17d
That's right, we need to VOTE!
It's the one thing leftists have never tried before. So get out there and HIT THE BALLOT BOX!
If there's one thing a leftist can always trust, it's someone standing in a position of authority and saying "You're Either With Us, Or You're With The Terrorists!" and then demanding we swear unswerving loyalty on pain of death.
Well, you first. Tell us how your plan works out when you get back.
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 17d
I will bet you 50$ this person isn't American.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 17d
I’m genuinely confused by this comment… are you telling me to kill myself?
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 17d
They're telling you to go get killed being a lone gunman.
keyhoh@piefed.social · 0 pts · 17d
Not quite that, as lone gunmen usually wind up hindering their cause after the media has its say. But group action, your choice of method, will certainly create a much bigger splash, and others would join in too.
keyhoh@piefed.social · 1 pts · 17d
No. I'm saying people need to rid America of it's problem. Sadly, this problem has only ever gone away with violence so pick your poison here. Sabotage ICE, hurt finances, and more, or, if you choose (I'm not condoning it), find more extreme measures to fix the problem. The longer Americans take to wake up, the more drastic the violence needed to end the fascism.
Bluedragon012@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17d
The only reason I don't go out shooting and hunting is because I'd be alone, I'm not in good enough shape to pull that off. But I've been ready since his first rigged election. For now I'm willing to play along, but as November nears well see how realistic it is that voting will work.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 17d
There are very few leftists in the States.
They're coming after anyone who's in their way and who isn't a fascist.
There's a third choice: organize, fight back and win.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17d
The vichi DNC dems will do nothing but collaborate. Same as always, and in a pinch they will sell out every progressive they know, same as always. After that the right will come for them too, same as always. We all know exactly how this will play out.
keyhoh@piefed.social · 1 pts · 17d
That third choice is a sacrifice, tbh. You have to give something up to accomplish that, and you'll be branded a terrorist for using your free speech. So, like I said, two options, as that third one you suggested will be met with force eventually.
whereitsat@lemmy.zip · -3 pts · 17d
not taking a rich, successful bald guy seriously in the 2020s. he was a young man in 2005 with a full head of hair and could have popped a finasteride and gotten a hair transplant to fill in the gaps.
that shows a lack of awareness and intelligence that disqualifies him from judging anyone else ever for his entire life. or it just means he was afraid of side-effects, which leads to other judgements that are no less embarassing--he's a wimp, a loser.
he's a hateful, pathetic piece of shit that's also married to a person of color, which puts it on blast in full HD that he doesn't even possess a shred of integrity.
this guy is another obvious symbol of the decline of america and its culture. now we have to listen to the insane ramblings of the pathetic hanger-on's of the elite.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 17d
Being unwilling to risk vascular and hormonal health for basic vanity is not short-sightedness. Your insecurities and weaknesses about the natural progression of life are not everyone else’s problem.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 17d
Or he could have cue-balled it but have chosen not to be a fascist. The hairstyle is irrelevant.
A lot of people (including me) choose not to dose ourselves with unnecessary medication or undergo unnecessary surgery in order to satisfy our vanity. If you want to, fine, but don't assume you're brave for not overcoming your body dysmorphia or succumbing to peer pressure.
No, he's married to Judith Miller, who's Ashkenazi Jewish like he is (and a rabid fascist piece of shit in her own right). So they're either both POCs or neither are. I'll let someone who gives a shit decide how to apply arbitrary racial categories in this case.
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 17d
It's important to point out that he said "Violent Left-wing groups". It's bad enough without embellishing, because they'll just label any resistance as "violence", but let's not embellish the words like Republicans, please. It makes us look no better than those assholes.
wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 17d
From the article:
So no. Anyone who supports (what they deem) left-wing causes is targeted.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 17d
You may not want to accept it, but to them, people who go out and protest peacefully are "the violent left", it was "violent antifa" that attacked the reflecting pool. Any left wingers who so much as says a peep about this fascism is "violent left" to these fascists.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17d
Dem presidents too From LBJ to Clinton to Obama to Biden criminalized protests and whistleblowers too. There will be no help from the Dems.
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17d
I have no problems accepting it. I literally said they'll just "label any resistance as violence". I just think it's important not to "adjust" words to make what is already insane shit sound more insane. It's already fucking nuts.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17d
It's not adjusting though, that's the thing. You're right its already unreal.
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com · -33 pts · 18d
Bruz western culture is a cancer that raped the human species. One day the strength of the universe in some natural way will manifest the downfall of both right an left.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 11 pts · 18d
What exactly do you think the left is?
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com · -14 pts · 18d
Wait... Are you saying he's saying the same thing I'm saying?