We’re All “Domestic Terrorists” Now
1d 10h ago by lemmy.world/u/return2ozma in politics from newrepublic.comI wish we'd do something to earn that title.
Goddam as a European I wish so too.
Republicans are.
CPAC Dallas panel proclaims 'We are all domestic terrorists'
https://www.chron.com/politics/article/CPAC-Dallas-we-are-all-domestic-terrorists-banner-17359959.php
As always, it was projection. They want to label anyone to the left of Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich a "terrorist", and in many cases, these people want a permission structure to murder "the other". So they pretend to be the victims and that the likes of Biden (or, in the past, it was Bill Clinton or Janet Reno or Obama or Hillary - they've been doing this shit for so long) was going to treat them like terrorists and put them in "FEMA camps" or whatever the fuck.
I fear you’re about to get downvoted and whined at by a bunch of cowardly US liberals who can’t handle the fact that their good intentions accomplish fuck all. I’ll go ahead and cover their canned responses so they don’t have to bother:
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“We can’t fight back because then the Nazis will take the opportunity to punish us harder”
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“it’s not as EASY as you seem to think”
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“Yeah, well what have YOU done??”
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“Did you not see the VERY effective and not-at-all-a-huge-joke No Kings protests?”
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“Keyboard warrior!”
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“I can’t have principles, I might lose the shitty job I hate!”
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“No matter what we do the US military will always be stronger so we’d better just keep our heads down and hope our own government doesn’t decide to murder us.”
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“I believe that every historical revolutionary to whom we owe our prosperity and whose legacy we’ve been dining out on for a couple centuries was a Disney character with no family or livelihood at stake and who never really had to risk anything because in my child-brain their victory was guaranteed.”
Fuck this guy
But he's the wizard of FrObOzZ! Show some respect!!!
And for those same whiney liberals are triggered by this and are ready to write an essay about how "nuh uh! Actually...!"
- they will do that regardless.
- everclear and socks are cheap and easy.
- I plead the 5th. Don't post your crimes online. Don't take your phone with you when you do crimes.
- peaceful protests only work with direct action. The march on Selma was about getting a lot of people to be told they can't vote more than it was about being seen being angry. You've been lied to about how peaceful protests work on purpose. People in power will not give you the education you need to overthrow them.
- go ahead and like that pride meme, really show the algorithm you're an "ally." Allies get in the trenches when the war is on.
- you will probably lose that to a video card anyway.
- strike and move. If you stick around you're a target. The US military has never been good at dealing with insurgencies.
- see: John Brown.
Ah well now that you wrote out that list of valid replies, they suddenly became invalid, and it doesn't matter that you haven't practiced what you've preached.
that list of valid replies
Imagine telling on yourself like this
Some of us are frauds and some of us are truthful. We both know which you are. I could pretend I'm a violent revolutionary too but I don't get off on lying on the Internet.
Related to #3 is "you first tough guy" as though foreigners are going to cross the border (lol) and fight their battles for them.
Number six, actually in reality translates to food security safety for your family and children. Only like a teenager would think that it's just a shitty job.
Further, you seem to think that people who have revolted just decided based on a technical argument that they should just revolt and that they were just simply smarter more responsible and motivated than us? The hard, true reality is that things are just simply still too good for us. Once they take away enough people's true livelihood, once every family is personally affected, either by having members shot or tortured or taken away or deported, etc., etc. Once people feel like they have nothing to lose by letting their monkey rage start making decisions for them, it will happen. You'll get your revolution. Things need to get much worse though. If I turn off the news, my life is fine. Single family house, wife and kids, etc. I make plenty of money and there's plenty liesure ly activities to do and plenty of money going into my retirement accounts, shit's fucking fine. I am not picking up a gun and giving that up. I'm so sorry for your imagination, but this is real. I'm not gonna do it until I absolutely have to. And if it actually starts even getting really close to that point, I will move out of the country. I'm not your hero. I am my family's hero.
You have to read history like an adult with experience, not like a child with an imagination. Those revolts that you admire so much were fucking horror. Nobody felt like they were doing such a great and wonderful thing for everyone. The people that revolted were fucking furious angry because they experienced real losses pain, suffering, and hopelessness.
I'm very, very sorry for your personal narrative, but we are not there yet. The vast majority of people are fine. The revolt won't come. The puppet masters of this dump of a country and world know that they can't push the majority that hard. Only dumbass dictators in smaller countries that are easier to control were dumb enough to have crossed that line.
Have you ever heard how much a successful data scientists makes? You know, those assholes, I'm sure of which many are on Lemmy. The ones that write all the code to collect and catalog all of the data that's collected from everywhere? All the surveillance data, all the facial recognition, all the tools that the evil will use to strangle us?
I saw one such guy that makes over 600k a year plus giant bonuses. There's a lot of those guys out there. They're helping the evil powers. I'm sure some of them are hypocritical enough to go and protest online that we should all be revolting as well. I'm just saying, in the real world, things are still too good and the revolution doesn't come because people simply just choose to do so as a potent and prudent strategy. When shit's really bad enough, it will happen all on its own. No thanks to fools online whining about their little imaginary scenarios. And it won't be pretty. And it won't get you what you want.
Do you live in the USA?
- ‘I’m sorry , I personally didn’t vote for this’
You forgot "I'm tiiiiiiiiired!"
Unless you are a MAGA white supremacist.

So, it isn’t illegal to shoot and kill terrorists you know? It is merely using a reasonable and proportional force to defend a third party from the death the terrorists advocate for.
Was this meant to reply to my image?
If "we" are the Republicans/conservatives, then the answer is most definitely yes.
But I realize in the upside down universe of Bullshit Mountain, that means anyone that disagrees with Taco or even films his goons going about terrorizing Americans is subject to being labeled a "terrorist" by this white trash administration.