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A lot of people are freaking out over Trumps Executive order to disrupt leftist activity (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by dastanktal@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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I keep seeing people talking about NSPM-7 which directs all federal agencies to basically monitor, disrupt, preemptively arrest leftist activists.

In my mind this has always been a thing. This isn't so much a policy change as voicing out loud what the policy has been. Materially US spying and abusing their citizens is pretty much par for the course.

Is this something I am not taking seriously enough or are the libs whipped up into a frenzy again?

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[–] dead@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What point are you making? There were events in the past where leftist activists were treated as terrorists and it was really fucking bad. There have been many times in that past when leftists were persecuted by the US government and it was really fucking bad. Now with NSPM-7, the MAGA regime is saying that they are going to persecute leftists and people are predicting that it will result in something really fucking bad.

Your post presumes that other people are overreacting. You mock people for reacting to it. Do you think that because something happened before then it won't be bad when it happens again? Do you think that things can't get worse? Maybe you're not afraid because you know you personally won't be affected.

The whole point of analyzing history is to figure out how things will change in the future. History is a pattern of changes. If you look at modern events and you think "nothing is happening", then you have failed.

[–] dastanktal@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Had not consider this point of view, I appreciate it.

Will chew on this for a little while.