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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.


In his remarks, Miller spoke of the Trump administration’s goals under National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7) “to disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest, and prosecute these political terrorists.”


He said, without evidence, that there is an epidemic of violence among left-wing groups, and labelled leftists and left-wing organizations as “enemies of civilization” and a “cancer” that can “destroy a society” if not dismantled.

Miller went even further to say that not only left-wing groups, but also anyone who supports left-wing causes, must be subject to persecution. The issue with U.S. institutions, he said, is that they have grown too “soft” in cracking down on left-wing beliefs.

“Nothing that we do works if the threat of violence and terror goes on unchecked. Our political systems don’t work. Our judicial systems don’t work. Our legal systems don’t work. Our jury trials don’t work,” said Miller. “At the same time, we have to understand there’s a real threat that those who are not themselves terrorists but who support left-wing violence will create the conditions that allow that violence to go on.”

He even appears to acknowledge that a threat of widespread left-wing violence isn’t imminent, instead suggesting that the U.S. must work to “prevent a threat from occurring” and called on fellow Americans to work with the administration in targeting the left.

“It is the burden and the duty of good people of all walks of life to understand that you will always be accused of raising the alarm too loudly,” said Miller, invoking images of a “perfect family … that goes to church every Sunday” being destroyed by the left. “If you wait until the point where the worst outcome is so obvious that no one can deny it, you’ve already lost the battle.”

I honestly suspect Miller helped organize the tiki torch march.

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[–] Carmakazi@piefed.social 73 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think we gotta start understanding the dynamics of this country as "might makes right" because any semblance of a common social contract has been shredded. Anything is on the table come the midterms and the subsequent fallout.

Don't even bother pointing out their hypocrisy. It's like rolling in the mud in front if them, it only amuses them that you care. What's going on is no longer in the realm of scholarly debate.

He is correct, in a sense. Left-wing activism and even terrorism, such that it exists, is a threat to "civilization." But not your civilization or our civilization, the one they're trying to build. The one where America has been ethnically cleansed, where workers have been utterly cowed, where women are breeding stock to patriarchs, where the Will of God and the State are interchangeable, where we are free to unleash our military chauvinism on the entire planet.

Left-wing terrorism is a threat to a fascist regime in the same way antibiotics are a threat to a viral load.

[–] logos@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

-Sartre

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

And now the same can be applied to Zionists

How the worm has turned...

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

PeeWee Himmler is very aware that the clock is ticking, andhe knows that if he doesn't have the entire nation under his total control by Inauguration Day 2029, he is likely to spend the rest of his life in prison - IF he's lucky.

They entire MAGA High Command will know it, if for no other reason than HE will tell them, and make them aware how perilous their situation is. They will get increasingly desperate and violent as they get closer to the end, and find that the American people still aren't playing along.

PeeWee Himmler thinks he can follow the Nazi playbook to success, but he's too dumb and hatedrunk to understand that there is a big difference between controlling 65 million Germans in 1933, and controlling 340 million Americans in 2026-2028.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

nobody elected him.

nobody likes him.

[–] breezeblock@lemmy.ca 37 points 2 days ago

Every accusation is a confession

[–] hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago

Anything left of center is equivalent to Stalinism with these clowns.

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Leftism is a cancer. Rightism, aka hate, violence, fear, crime, inequality, pedophilia, corruption, bad economy, etc. is the better future. Everyone knows that.

[–] Corvidae@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Political violence is a deep subject, but in the article snippets above, Miller has redefined the word "terrorist" to mean folks peacefully petitioning government for change as the First Amendment allows. The dictionary definition of "terrorist" is someone who uses violence. Peacefully petitioning government is not "terrorism", unless the Trump Admin is successful in redefining the term.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Terrorism is so overused by the Republicans to distract from real societal problems that the word has lost all practical definition. Terrorism/terrorist means whatever they want it to in the moment.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The last four people to try and assassinate the President lived somewhere between Pete Buttigieg liberalism and 4chan Libertarian on the political spectrum.

So much of this screaming and crying about the "political left" is Republicans trying to work themselves up into a big enough lather to burn down a Synagogue with a "In This House We Believe" flag out front.

It's the same hysteria that got whipped up over Muslims after 9/11, "Woke" during Obama, or COVID masks/vaccines. As deranged as it is misplaced.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

So much of this screaming and crying about the “political left” is Republicans trying to work themselves up into a big enough lather to burn down a Synagogue with a “In This House We Believe” flag out fron.

They're trying to whip their base into such a frenzie that they do another Krystalnacht. They want to do a genocide, and they want as much of their base to sign their names into the Book of the Beast as possible through the base's support for genocide.

[–] _chris@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

He’s right in the sense that yes, I do want to destroy our current society where billionaires hoard the wealth and intend to make the lower classes slaves.

The elite are just ready to say it out loud against us and whip up idiots to their side before tossing them aside like useful tools.

[–] ulkesh@piefed.social 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’m going to laugh when this penis gets literal cancer and dies from it. Assuming the universe will be that kind to the rest of us.

[–] hohoho@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago
[–] don_kiedyck@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

The only violent terrorists in the US are ICE agents and cops.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This little asshole needs a wedgie and a swirly.

This stupid little dweeb hates everything about America. The notion that institutions have been too "soft" on....beliefs? This dickweed wants the government to prosecute people for thoughtcrimes?

I guess he doesn't know or care what the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are about?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago

Fucking human cockroach

[–] KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

To cancer cells, the surrounding healthy cells are like cancer cells: they take resources away for growth, and keep multiplying until they kill the cancer.

[–] KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 8 points 2 days ago

What I'm trying to say is the Stephen Miller is a fucking cancer and he needs to be chemo'ed out of the US political system.

[–] Unsealed9041@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Year of the medium length knives.

[–] NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I was trying to think of another democracy that rooted out leftwing parties ...

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

You think they're not going to do it?

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 2 days ago
[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

s/leftist/fascist/g ?

He’s not wrong… unchecked threats of violence and terrorism by the far right aren’t getting rid of leftist ideas, and neither are the schools or the justice system.