I mean, clearly the circle is expanding. But I think the breathlessness with which a lot of folks are talking about those expansions when they said nothing about the prior stuff is problematic, and is actually making it harder to form a big coalition with the previous targets.
Soon we could all be behind bars, if we speak up. These people are insane!The MAGA method involves spreading hate and fear among its followers. Emotions are always more powerful than facts. I believe love and community is the only way that can break down these barriers.
Our best hope is that Gorka so thoroughly fucks it up so that even the far rightest LE types spend their time imagining how to frag him rather than round up or harm dissidents.
The warning sign came years ago with Trump’s praise for the Chinese leadership after Tienanmen. That’s what he wants do here, has always wanted to, and no doubt thinks is now within reach.
In the 00's we protested against the Patriot Act commonly citing the possibility that one day anyone could be deemed a 'terrorist' and immediately lose their rights and freedom. We were told we were being extreme
The tide will change the moment Congress & the Senate say out loud that trump must be removed. It will get ugly af for a short time, but it *has* to happen. Other than assassination(s), it is the *only* way the regime gets stopped. The sooner it happens, the fewer people will be harmed.
I interned for a judge during law school and what I took away is if the lawyers that appeared in his court passed the bar exam, I wasn’t going to have any issues.
If you frag a tesla property, car, ricketty truck, charging station before they institute this, would you be immune to prosecution because it would be ex post facto?
Interesting that it's an expansion of a Biden initiative:
"When then-President Joe Biden issued the first-ever National Counterterrorism Strategy in 2021, it was a response to January 6, basically casting the MAGA rioters as terrorists threatening the very survival of American democracy."
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Nothing
should surprise us
to spy on visa applicants
for antisemitic discussions
They're already
there
You think it's only that
They're spying I bet
on anti Trump
conversations as well at campuses
go further all over
prominent people or not so much
of anti Trump conversations
Meanwhile Democrats keep voting for it's renewal
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/12/152-house-democrats-join-gop-reauthorize-abusive-government-surveillance-powers
"When then-President Joe Biden issued the first-ever National Counterterrorism Strategy in 2021, it was a response to January 6, basically casting the MAGA rioters as terrorists threatening the very survival of American democracy."