In Major Shift, Trump Admin Prioritizes Fight Against ‘Left-Wing Terror’ Over Islamic Extremism
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/in-major-shift-trump-admin-prioritizes-left-wing-terror-over-islamic-extremism
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Eldritch@piefed.world · 141 pts · 17d
Islam was a target of convenience. His numbers are tanking at home over his handling of; well everything. So now he has an enemy of necessity. Everyone that wants to hold him accountable. This is going to get ugly folks. Arm yourselves and be ready. Be ungovernable. Because they plan to govern you out of existence.
cmbabul@slrpnk.net · 52 pts · 17d
This is frighteningly correct, if you ain’t got a piece get one, a shotgun is probably best for most.
The one thing that give me hope is how big and dispersed the US is overall. There’s no physical way for the government or really any entity to quell uprisings or enforce “right think” there just ain’t enough manpower even if you bring in all law enforcement down to the municipal level. My suspicion is they believe they can use “AI” and drone surveillance to fill that big gap.
It’s a gamble on their part which reeks of desperation, but it might work. It may come down to whether or not Palantir is actually competent and no one does anything direct to stop them in time(this does include a general strike not just a Luigi)
crusa187@lemmy.ml · 40 pts · 17d
I think you’re right about this, and the extra $350 Billion they’re trying to get right now for the “pentagon to fight communism domestically” is actually for rapid R&D and deployment of additional spy apparatus.
Be aware it’s not just Palantir. There are like half a dozen new companies popping up each week as part of the military industrial complex that are chasing this money to further violate our rights and erode our societal foundations. Stay vigilant friend.
zd9@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 17d
They also just suspended the DOD's cyber maturity model which evaluates contractors and their ability to safeguard classified information, all with the intent of bringing in all kinds of defense startups without vetting their security. It's all part of the plan for venture capitalist extremists to collapse the United States and rebuild as network state monarchies.
stopdropandprole@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 17d
yes yes yes thank you!
more people need to know that billionaires are literally conducting an open coup to destabilize the US government.
they want to make Galts Gulch real, a libertarian fever dream cooked up by narcissistic egomaniacs.
zd9@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 17d
literally every thread about this kind of stuff I see on reddit and lemmy I share this link and also the youtube version of it (in a different comment below). You and everyone else reading this should do the same. I'm doing my part to spread awareness, are you?
crusa187@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 17d
Very interesting, thanks for the links.
zd9@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 17d
Also you can watch/listen to an It Could Happen Here/Behind The Bastards podcast with the journalist who put this info together
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 15d
Wish it wasn't too little too late, but it's nice to see someone familiar with The Network State manifesto and not just blaming Evil Foreigners for everything
zd9@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 15d
I've been sharing it all over reddit and lemmy for the last 2 years, just to try to get the word out there. It's crazy more people don't know it, and when you say it, it sounds like you're a fucking schizo conspiracy theorist
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 15d
It's just Jim Crow for business goons.
What if, instead of segregating by race, we segregated by employer? And we used id cards?
It's not exactly a revolutionary idea. It's just something you'll get screamed at for talking about, because it sounds too scary.
zd9@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15d
I mean it's company towns from the 1800s and 1900s but with high tech surveillance, AI, and military force.
bedifferent@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 15d
@zd9 @UnderpantsWeevil when musk and his gay men children March 2025 were chopping up the country, I warned people about the FDIC and NCUA probably not backing losses. It wasn't a conspiracy theory. I was attacked like crazy on reddit and I ended using it for anything other than a browsing pretty much after that.
cmbabul@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 17d
Thanks for furthering my point and you’re right it’s not just Palantir, I should’ve added a “and their ilk” to it
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 16d
And know how to use it. You don't have time to fumble.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · -25 pts · 17d
Who are you planning on shooting?
The police? Your neighbors? The Army?
It sounds like you learned your survival skills from a bad video game.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net · 33 pts · 17d
If it gets to the point where left wing people are genuinely being rounded up, and there are no other options left, then being armed at worst lets us make the round up more costly in a last stand, or hopefully if there has been enough community building beforehand, helps us more effectively prevent a round up from occurring..
It would also help for a French resistance or Irish Troubles style long-term push-back.
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 17d
I don't know that they're going to worry about rounding people up. It's enough for most people to make them too scared to think. Drone strike a protest on American soil and that'll break the will of a lot of people. Of course, it will also embolden resistance, but then that's exactly what he wants. If he can get the most serious resistors to huddle up where he can take them out with tactical units and scare the rest into hiding, he wins.
AmyAye@nord.pub · 8 pts · 16d
There is no "he", its a "them."
And FWIW, Trump is not even part of them. He is just a loud stooge distraction.
ContactClosure@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 15d
People keep falling into the trap of thinking he's the one doing any of this. He just wants money and fucking trophies. Yarvin and Thiel are taking advantage of the bullshit machine to built their techno feudal wet dream.
cmbabul@slrpnk.net · 17 pts · 17d
If someone tries to arrest me or someone I care about and throw them in jail for a belief they hold or something they said then yes I will go down shooting whoever is trying to.
Sounds like you get your self esteem from being condescending on the internet
Have a bad day!
fizzle@quokk.au · 2 pts · 17d
This is a really unusual position to take.
As a husband and father the idea of committing suicide-by-ICE on ideological grounds is an absurd proposition.
Obviously there will always be more opportunities to secure better outcomes for the people I care about if I'm not dead.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 17d
Nah, it isn't.
When the options are a) possible suicide by ICE or b) freely allowing your wife and/or daughter to be whisked away to Little St James never to be seen alive again, I'm taking option A 11 out of 10 times. No one is taking my family away to some blacksite unless they do it over my literal corpse. You'll have to kill me first. End of story.
If you don't agree, go ahead and get a divorce and move out right now because you don't deserve that family.
fizzle@quokk.au · -8 pts · 17d
That's the thing though...
This only happens in movies. You seem to be imagining some kind of apocalyptic leftist purge.
At the moment your family is "detained" you quite simply do not know what the outcome is going to be. Are they just going to be interviewed, and released in an hour, or are they never going to be seen alive again. A violent confrontation, no matter the outcome, dramatically increases the likelihood of the latter.
Sometimes caring for people means considering their well-being before your own ego.
If you don't agree, god help anyone you ever "care for".
AmyAye@nord.pub · 13 pts · 16d
They have been doing EXACTLY this scenario to all kinds of people who are even remotely "Mexican" for over a year and a half now.
People just... dissappear. They were "illegals". Then there is no paper work and sometimes they shipped off to fuck knows where.
cmbabul@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 17d
Relevant user name
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · -6 pts · 17d
It's the American hero complex.
When the government sends the military to round up
die judenthe commies they dream of standing their ground with the gun they bought last week against a team of well equipped motivated professionals. Only to die heroically and have their family raped and killed in retribution anyway.It'll happen the same way it did a hundred years ago.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15d
ICE are not motivated professionals. They are well armed dipshits. Cowards by definition.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 15d
It won't just be ICE.
Constructing a domestic "terrorist" enemy is a prelude to deployment of the military, or national guard, or whatever. They are professionals.
fizzle@quokk.au · -2 pts · 17d
It's so weird.
Auli@lemmy.ca · -8 pts · 16d
Ah the good old American loud mouth blustering.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 16d
Is your plan to give up?
The idea is to make it costly to round people up.
cunnililgus@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 14d
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 14d
Sounds like you are paying attention to our billionaire-approved media. Thats what they want.
edible_funk@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 16d
See the bootlicker engaging in its namesake behavior.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15d
It ain't about surviving.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · -5 pts · 17d
Yeah that’s a bunch pf terminally online leftists here LARPing militia badasses and it’s almost laughable if it wasn’t so pathetic.
Eldritch@piefed.world · 9 pts · 17d
Nothing to do with being too online or military larping. They're already killing innocent people in the streets with impunity. Escalation isn't going to make that any better. Being armed isn't going to stop them either. It isn't about stopping them. It's about making it cost them. It's your choice if you want to be kidnapped, beaten, starved, and even killed peacefully. Its shameful that its gotten this far even. Personally, if they're going to do that to me, I'd like to make it hard for them.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 2 pts · 17d
Owning a gun increases your chance of being shot much less whatever you’re advocating for here.
Eldritch@piefed.world · 4 pts · 17d
You say that, and I don't strictly disagree. But that hasn't saved the unarmed people from being killed yet. In fact they're the only ones that have. Make of that what you will.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 1 pts · 17d
You’re forgetting about Alex Pretti.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · -1 pts · 17d
You and I are both getting downvoted to oblivion, which kind of proves the point.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 15d
Does it matter?
Seems like he has enough support to cling to power, especially given that lackluster opposition.
zd9@lemmy.world · 67 pts · 17d
We're going to see the full fascism mask come off starting September through January. Be aware that there will probably be violence too.
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 17d
I mean if I'm going to be accused of violence regardless...
zd9@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 17d
I won't comment on that either way, but just stock up on everything you need now because shit may get crazy. I reallllly hope it doesn't, but every step they've taken is communicating they're not simply going to let themselves be democratically removed from power.
iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 17d
I know right? Like don't promise me a fun time like that
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 49 pts · 17d
Clearly another fascist plot to silence dissent. Sometimes the truth sounds like an outrageous conspiracy theory.
aarch0x40@piefed.social · 26 pts · 17d
Policies of compassion are the biggest threat to republicans in this cycle. Can't have any of that now.
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 17d
A government of the morons, by the morons, for the morons.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 16d
As an American, my preferred insult is "muppet" if you dont mind.
A government of the muppets, by the morons, for the rich.
Bwaz@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 16d
I wonder jow many people experienced any terror resulting from the Left Wing. As compared to from, say, ICE?
dirthawker0@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 15d
Actual terrorism - rare. The manufactured fear of potential terror - plenty. These scary transgender people who wanna invade women's bathrooms and molest children. The scary brown people who might be drug cartel gang members. The scary black people who might be druggies, muggers, and welfare thieves. The scary Asian people who may eat unimaginable foods and develop diseases to spread to nice clean white Americans. The scary educated people who protest against censorship of global points of view. The scary women who compete with men and make those poor men feel so insecure about themselves.
raspirate@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 16d
Kinda sounds like the imperialism has turned inward now. We should have a term for that...
tacoplease@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 15d
Fascism
ragepaw@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 16d
Shift from what?
He's been blowing this fucking dog whistle for 40 fucking years.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · -3 pts · 16d
Who "he"? He was 10 40 years ago.
madcaesar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15d
The entire right wing apparatus since Nixon and Regan.
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 16d
Because the parasitic kid-fuckers know if they don't start eliminating the competition they are getting voted out next election and then going to fucking prison.
That is as long as the Dems remember we do not want olive branches, reaching across the aisle, or compromise AT ALL. Fuck to Pedo Party.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 16d
Only reason to reach across the aisle is to grab them and make them stop.
bagsy@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 16d
LOL, elections....
dan1101@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 17d
I can't help but think calling decent people that want a decent government terrorists will backfire spectacularly.
orlyowl@piefed.ca · 9 pts · 17d
I hope you are right but I fear it's going to be more like the thought police and midnight raids against anyone who openly dissents.
sportsjorts@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 16d
I’m antifascist as fuck. Fuck Trump. Fuck everyone in his admin they are all traitors and need to be in prison.
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 16d
I agree, FOXTROT DELTA TANGO
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 15d
FLAYED
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 16d
Expectations: They arrest the literal far-left that lurks the internet threatening to "take down the government" and making literal death threats (if you've never stumbled upon one, I envy you)
Reality: they arrest Mamdani, Sanders, AOC and also any centre-right liberal they can't win an election against
EDIT: (Rubio) "They can call themselves anti-capitalist or anti-imperialist, communist, anarchist or Marxist,” Rubio said, according The Guardian. “It’s always the same. It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice liberation — an overwhelming need to tear down, to wreck, what is beautiful and what is right on behalf of people who are only filled with ugliness and have nothing else to offer the world through violence and through terror.”
Rubio's gonna shut down Lemmy ML. Finally. 😂
Snowies@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 16d
If they start arresting their competition, and we don’t get violent, it’s over. They win.
You wouldn’t just stand idle and watch as someone put you in chains.
You’d fight to stop them and/or escape.
We are all standing idle and watching our democracy fall.
Bristlecone@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 17d
What a surprise, they're moving into the final phase right before the midterms...
AmyAye@nord.pub · 5 pts · 16d
Yeah, they see the writing on the wall as even the Idiot Cult is starting to turn against them.
nonentity@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 15d
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.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 15d
Well I'm only two of those things so jokes on them!
Almacca@aussie.zone · 12 pts · 16d
They're always terrified of something, aren't they?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 16d
Always. MAGAs are afraid of EVERYTHING.
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 16d
Fear is the conservative mindset. It is why they're so full of bluster and always, always have scapegoats to aim their fear and anger toward.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201612/fear-and-anxiety-drive-conservatives-political-attitudes
https://insight.bibliotech.us/the-fear-based-psychology-of-conservatives/
https://www.psypost.org/fear-predicts-authoritarian-attitudes-across-cultures-with-conservatives-most-affected/
And on and on...
normalentrance@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 16d
Currently they are afraid of losing the midterm elections and getting investigated and impeached. Jail comes after for some.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 16d
It never has in the past. We always mouth some platitudes about moving forward and abandon all concepts of accountability. America has always championed lack of accountability by default. Unless its about brown or poor people, those people get the book thrown at them by default.
BassTurd@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 17d
If there were a huge, unprecedented, flip giving a supermajority to Democrats in both the house and Senate, what are the odds trump flees the country?
electric_nan@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 17d
Why would he? Dems would make pious noises about "moving forward", "bringing the country together", and "reaching across the aisle".
BigMacHole@thelemmy.club · 13 pts · 16d
1 MILLION PERCENT because Democrats are KNOWN to Hold Rich People ACCOUNTABLE INSTEAD of Letting them do Whatever they Want! That's why Trump ended up in PRISON after STEALING TOP SECRET Documents!
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 16d
When have they ever gone after Trump with a meaningful amount of energy? They didn't even try when he committed treason.
BassTurd@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15d
I like to think that if there were an unprecedented flip that ended in a dem super majority, that it would lead to direct action.
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 15d
I would too, but I know next time they get one, they'll find some excuse to not go after Trump and his minions.
We could barely arrest all the Nazis after WW2. We let some work for the government, NATO, and West Germany.
If we couldn't stop the literal Nazis who organized the industrialized massacre of millions, because they knew good rockets and how to slow the USSR, we can't stop Trump when he makes American companies richer.
mthomson@forum.macaque.social · 11 pts · 16d
So anyone that doesn't agree with the Trump regime is now a terrorist?! That's an awful lot of people. He's just going to use this to start locking up anyone that doesn't agree with him.
discocactus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15d
Dingdingding
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 15d
Everything looks left wing when you're so far right you're trying to dig through the overton window further right.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 17d
That's not a major shift. That's just the primary goal of fascism.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 16d
Yeah, and can't believe I had to scroll to literally the bottom of the thread to read this
BigMacHole@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 15d
If you DONT want a Data Center in your Backyard you're a LEFT WING TERRORIST!
-People wondering why Far Left Politicians keep WINNING!
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 16d
Well they can’t arrest us all right?…right?
bagsy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 16d
They certainly will, and they will do it one by one like they do now. Everyone will stand there and watch it happen while recording on their phone. If we dont work together we'll be picked off one by one. Wolves dont eat an entire herd in one sitting.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 16d
Agreed we all need to organize and have a plan.
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 15d
When they get bored of jailing us, they'll have us dig mass graves to bury us in.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 16d
kreskin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 16d
I still cant believe we attacked Venezuela and are still taking all their oil industry money as if this was 1700's colonial times. WTFF.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 16d
Here they come!
Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15d
They've been funding, training, arming, supporting and fostering extremist Sunni Islamist militias to fight their proxy wars since Reagan. It never stopped. The jihadis kamikaze tactics and ability to manipulate basic idiots to blow themselves up have been devastating on the battlefield. He lavishes praise on the former al-qaeda leader that is now the president of Syria.
So yeah it doesn't surprise me.
nonentity@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 15d
This was litigated 8 decades ago, they lost.
The US has been on the losing side of every armed conflict they’ve been involved in since. Their current leadership believes that streak is at least twice as long.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 16d
calling terrorism in/by the US a greater threat to the world than islamic "terrorism" is maybe the first honest thing this administration has ever done, albeit almost certainly by accident.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 16d