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cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/65164

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. Representatives from 67 countries gathered in the U.S. on Thursday for a meeting…

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[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nazis traditionally labeled people on the opposite end of their political spectrum the enemy and it's not long before they are disappeared on a consistent basis.

I wonder if the people who are in the place to act are going to be able to stop the next Kristallnacht before it happens.

They already got the concentration camps in place.

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[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago
[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 60 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Let's emphasize the fact that he is not saying people who march around carrying rifles and machine guns intimidating Americans in their hometowns. Nor is he talking about people who commit mass shootings. Or people who pollute the air, water, and soil that we need to survive. No, it is people with left wing and liberal ideology, people using their freedom of speech.

Fucking evil. I hate everybody who voted for this and everybody who didn't bother to vote.

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[–] BlindPenguin@lemmy.world 58 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Americans will listen to this and then just drive to their shitty jobs they hate like everything is normal. They don't fucking care.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 11 points 2 days ago (11 children)

That's basically the average the country is left with between the decent people and the tens of millions who voted for idiotic racist rapist fascism three times in a row.

It's like a third don't care, a third do care, and a third are enthusiastically in favor.

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[–] jerk_splerkin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It’s not that I don’t care. I just need to exhaust all alternatives before I simply accept that my family likely dying is the only option.

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[–] BeUnique@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Well, unfortunately for him if you go far left enough, you get your guns back... Just saying....

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[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Miller is 100% pure Nazi. De-nazification needs to happen soon.

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[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (11 children)

What confuses me about this administration is that they seem to be aiming to make any political belief or action that does not support them worthy of a lengthy prison sentence.

... but [REDACTED] is also a lengthy prison sentence. So they've removed the incentive to not [REDACTED].

In other words... why design a system where your opponents have nothing to lose? They will be pushed towards acting like they have nothing to lose.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because they want an excuse to implement martial law that their base will accept. An "enemy within" that turns violent is exactly the pretense they're stoking for this, even if it's obvious they invented everything that caused it.

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

I see this sentiment a little more frequently than I see the following that I'll paraphrase:

"They're doing this to egg on a response [so we should not give them what they want by pushing back]" is an accidental or intentional PsyOp campaign.

If your opponent threatens to fight you if you fight back, you would choose to surrender before the fight begins?

It's an incredibly effective PsyOp when arguably the largest downside of anti-MAGA people is their rampant apathy, and that sentiment is like gasoline to a fire.

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

"Fascistic" means like fascism. This isn't like fascism, it is fascism.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You know what?

I know in history class, they said some people ignored Hitler rise to power — believing he wouldn’t get very far.

Americans thought that of Trump in 2016. Trump thought that of Trump in 2016.

I’m at a point now where, if you’re spewing fascist shit, you’re a threat. I see you as an immediate threat, because the problem is that we haven’t been taking people like you seriously.

Don’t get fooled a third time.

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

I think a lot of people assume we have to be at full blown Nazi genocide before "fascism" or "fascist" can be reasonably used.

Nope.

It's fascism now. Already. Currently happening. Here in America. Now.

We just haven't reached the apex....yet.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

These loser fascists are so devoid of talent that it appears they're just scraping the internet for what we say about them then turning it around to fit their narrative.

We've been calling conservatism a cancer for YEARS and he's just using our own words as theirs.

As always, conservatives/regressives have no talent or creativity. They can only steal what others create or simply destroy.

If this nation actually brings justice back we'll see this fascist on the chopping block.

[–] raspirate@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

All the "best" conservative arguments are just repurposed left-wing arguments that someone ran ctrl+f and replaced each identifying term with it's counterpart.

The infuriating part is that the reason it works is because left-wing arguments are fundamentally structured better and are more compelling. At some point in the past, a lefty made that argument to the right-winger and they could feel that they were losing the argument, so they quietly adopted the aesthetic of the same argument and later deployed it like they came up with it themselves.

It's why every right-wing argument has to construct a fiction where their enemy already holds all the power and has been in control for decades. Everyone can intuitively feel that they're being scammed by an unfair system that's rigged for the benefit of the wealthy. All right-wingers have to do is convince people that the structure of society can't be blamed on the people with the power to shape it. They just need people to blame someone they've already been convinced to hate. Immigrants, minorities, queers, and anyone else who would tell them who their actual enemies are.

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[–] Hairyfishnuts@feddit.online 123 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think we found the cancer right here.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

I am so sick of this pen-faced alien being given a mic.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

As usual, it's projection. He knows the real cancer is his own group.

[–] canniest_tod@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I really hope liberals understand that when he says "leftists", he means you too. Fascism doesn't stop until people stop it, and it's usually not with votes.

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[–] kevinsky@feddit.nl 35 points 3 days ago (8 children)

I don't know what I hate more, that these pricks with fingers feel validated enough to be openly stating this kind of shit, or that there is nobody that is in earshot this verbal diarrhea that puts him on the spot over it. Especially in the broader republican side at large. Just letting this happen because it's "your guy" is some weak shit.

[–] Fluke@feddit.uk 18 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Has the US forgotten already that Hitler looked at the US race laws with admiration in Mein Kampf?

This isn't new. This cancer has never been excised, just bandaged over because it became inconvenient to capitalist interests at the time.

As far as I can see, this shift back towards fascism in the US is the response to the rise of China as an economic and military power.

Some of this rise is attributable to the decline of favour of fossil fuels, and China's position as market leader in solar and wind generation technology. This is why Trump has a hate for renewable energy, and such a throbbing micro-peen for oil. The US is being left behind, fast.

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[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 101 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I used to think it was a bit hyperbolic to say everything they say is projection, but you know...

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[–] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 55 points 3 days ago (18 children)

Here in the United States, we have taken the necessary and essential action of formally recognizing left-wing violence as a form of political terrorism that is a direct threat to our national security and survival of our republican form of government,

Oddly telling how he doesn't say "a threat to our democracy".

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 27 points 3 days ago

It would be wild if the left could actually be as radical as they claim. America might not be so screwed up if they were.

[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 18 points 2 days ago

he is a fucking ghoul

The latest episode of This American Life is about this. It's really fucking scary those protestors got 30 years for moving boxes while the capitol protestors got a slap on the wrist and a presidential pardon.

[–] sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If Stephen Miller got ass cancer, I would feel bad for the cancer.

[–] MrSelfDestruct@piefed.zip 36 points 3 days ago

He IS ass cancer

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[–] Triumph@fedia.io 45 points 3 days ago (5 children)

If they come for me, I'm going, make no mistake.

But some of them will go with me.

[–] chahn.chris@piefed.social 50 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I really hate that my entire life I thought this sentiment was just crazy talk from loons.

This is the first time in over 50 years I feel like it’s now the right sentiment.

I hate this.

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[–] superkong47@lemmy.zip 39 points 3 days ago

The only cancer is this fucking Nazi ghoul and his merry band of shitstains, the rhetoric is ramping up from these pukes as they literally try to legitimize extermination of their opponents. Fuck these traitor pukes, damn sure ain’t the time to cower

[–] nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This wasn't just Stephen Miller as this article makes it sound. The conference was convened by Marco Rubio, and he also used fascist rhetoric.

He called leftists “an encroaching darkness” and “the enemies of civilization”.

Rubio also called the left terrorists:

Rubio also attempted to link disparate groups together. “Iranian proxy networks”, he said, “are increasingly intimately tied to leftist militant groups around the world”. “We have no choice but to confront this menace together. We will either cooperate across our borders, or the terrorists will continue to exploit the gaps between them."

This is from another article on the conference, from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/16/political-violence-event-trump-marco-rubio

Between this and Trump's recent claims that the USA doesn't have the ability to secure its elections against Chinese interference, the regime seems to be making a case for cancelling the midterm elections and possibly arresting Democratic "terrorists".

[–] SaintNectar@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hope Miller ending will ressemble Mussolini. Can't wait to spit on his hanging corpse

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It’s a unique talent to project from a skull that so readily lends itself to being a target.

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.

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[–] Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip 37 points 3 days ago (6 children)
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