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"terrorist" has been so overused it no longer means much of anything. Like so many other words.
Good to know that all that "George Soros interfering with muh freedums" was bullshit projection.
You hate him. Good. Then the time has come for you to take the last step. You must love Big Brother. It is not enough to obey him: you must love him.
That makes me an international terrorist, i guess 😂
Me too, you wanna hijack a plane? /s
That dude is EMBEDDED.
Is it still terrorism if you destroy a Tesla on January 6th at the U.S. Capitol?
I think those Teslas spontaneously incinerated themselves out of embarassment.
Trying to pin it on Democrats who supposedly funded it is pretty far out. Come on. How much funding does someone really need to make a fire?
Dude I want to live in this world where the Democratic party is so far left that they're burning Teslas and talking about seizing the means of production from Elons factories. I really wish the Democrats were HALF as radical as these idiots on the right pretend they are.
She looks so happy!
I say we declare the GOP a terrorist group.
They did declare themselves that at one of the CPACs, so only seems fair to make it official.
J6
"We Are All Domestic Terrorists."
Only people on the Left and Democrats hate Musk... this is what happens when a Republican is POTUS. The same shit happened when Biden was POTUS... the Right hated everyone and anyone associated with a Dem POTUS...
Yep. White supremacists groups backing Trump and shouting "the Jews will not replace us" is definitely the same as destroying private property.
The only difference is that the Trump told the proud boys to "Stand By". The left couldn't even get the Democrats to allow a Palestinian to speak at the DNC.
Let's not pretend the "far left" is represented in DC. The "far right" is literally sitting in the white house as we speak. God, I wish we lived in this delusional world you crafted.
There is a lot of shit people aren't doing because they don't want to cross the line and become domestic terrorists. You do NOT want to move that line over them.
Well then I guess I'll see y'all at gitmo.
OK, I'm going to commit international terrorism: fuck muskrat! muskdie!
Serious question: Historically, has a fascist movement ever been put down without the use of violence?
Not once the ball gets rolling, no. Plenty of Fascism has been averted through preemptive nonviolent action though. In fact, that's basically how Democracy works; Constant nonviolent vigilance keeping Fascism at bay. But once Fascism gains traction, the only thing that works to get rid of it is violence. More people need to understand this. It's like that Kyle Reese speech in the first Terminator movie.
"It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!"
It always ends in violence. The kind of person that creates these racist movements simply does not operate with a human mentality. They wake up in the morning and their first conscious thought is to benefit themselves, the second one is hurting others to benefit themselves. They are pure evil.
Quick history moment:
The US government has always treated politically motivated vandalism as domestic terrorism.
The FBI defined Earth First!, Earth Liberation Front, and similar radical environmental groups as terrorist organizations decades ago, because they spiked trees and burnt subdivisions and SUV dealerships.
The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act makes it an act of terrorism to vandalize a factory farm or animal research lab - even nonviolent protest that "intimidates" employees is illegal.
Some of y'all are acting like burning car dealerships was protected speech before Trump. Come on.
It's not that. The law will be written vaguely enough to apply to people keying cars or slapping a sticker on them. You should probably start paying more attention. Fascism loves to creep like this.
This coupled with the Laken Reilly act will be used to disappear people. They'll continue writing even more vague laws to classify people as terrorists. And the whole time half this country will just nod their heads and say "yea, makes sense to me. Those guys are bad guys". At least until they come for them or someone they know personally.
If they revoke your greencard then they'll use the same logic to revoke citizenship for immigrants. Then they'll start revoking citizenship for children of immigrants born here. Then anyone that is a "terrorist threat".
Your history is correct. But this is not the same. Don't fall for the reasoning given by fascist for why they want to implement new laws. Ask yourself: if the laws are already on the books to allow these acts of violence to be classified as domestic terrorism then why do they need a new law?
It's because that new law is gonna give them much more power while needing far less (or no) evidence.
This goes a bit further than that. They are trying to make spray-painting "ASSHOLE" on a Tesla an act of terrorism akin to burning down a Tesla factory. The two are not the same. This kind of law would make every graffiti artist a terrorist. That's not what anti-terrorism laws should be used for.