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submitted 2 weeks ago by apftwb@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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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[-] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 86 points 2 weeks ago

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".

[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 27 points 2 weeks ago

Feels like the R in "republican" should have been capitalized.

[-] prole 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

left-wing violence

Isn't it interesting how they never give actual examples when they say shit like this? You'd think it would be trivial since it's such a pressing issue.

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[-] BlindPenguin@lemmy.world 75 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 74 points 2 weeks ago

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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[-] sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] MrSelfDestruct@piefed.zip 55 points 2 weeks ago

He IS ass cancer

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[-] Triumph@fedia.io 60 points 2 weeks ago

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

But some of them will go with me.

[-] chahn.chris@piefed.social 70 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] Triumph@fedia.io 20 points 2 weeks ago

The crazy loons thought they would win such a confrontation. I am fully aware that the best possible outcome is lose-lose. I just have to try and make them lose more.

[-] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Tango@piefed.ca 16 points 2 weeks ago

In 1944, the US Office of Strategic Services published the Simple Sabotage Field Manual; a document aimed at the unhappy citizens of fascist nations, to instruct them on how to sabotage the economic and military capacity of their own nation. I'm not saying that Oskar Schindler ever read it, but the movie line "Stern, if this factory ever produces a shell that can actually be fired, I'll be very unhappy" is definitely in the same spirit.

One need not work in weapons manufacturing, either. The manual suggests sabotage techniques for every kind of worker. For example, office workers could help decrease their fascist nation's economic power by insisting that every decision be made by committee, slowing output.

The manual is fascinating in that it's focused on people who are afraid to be "heroes", instead suggesting sabotage methods that entail little to no personal risk.

https://archive.org/details/SimpleSabotageFieldManual/page/n2/mode/1up

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[-] Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip 53 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] superkong47@lemmy.zip 53 points 2 weeks 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

[-] switcheroo@lemmy.world 52 points 2 weeks ago

How dare you peasants think you get "rights" and shouldn't have to work till you die for oligarchs! Just shit out more kids we can molest and get back to your twelve hour shifts that aren't going to pay for your rent while we continue to destroy the world around you!

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[-] kevinsky@feddit.nl 47 points 2 weeks ago

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 25 points 2 weeks ago

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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[-] Toga77@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

Republicans are spineless cowards. Always have been.

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[-] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[-] canniest_tod@lemmy.world 41 points 2 weeks ago

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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[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[-] OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 weeks ago

He looks like Vladimir Putin’s bastard son.

[-] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago

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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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago

This little dweeb so desperately needs to be thrown into prison for decades.

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[-] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago

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 27 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 31 points 2 weeks 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.

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[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

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[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

Miller deserves a shot in the groin, then let the medical team take care of him WITHOUT anesthesia.

Oh, and I hope he would die from sepsis a couple of days later, after agonising pain.

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[-] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 weeks ago

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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[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Centrist democrats nod in respectful agreement.

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[-] nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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".

[-] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[-] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 21 points 2 weeks ago

he is a fucking ghoul

[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

What I wouldn't give for an opportunity to encounter Stephen Miller in a dark alley with no witnesses.

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[-] Sunflier@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

He seems like someone who's death will be recorded. You know those drinks being saved for when tRump kicks it? I bet at least a few are for when Miller finally gets his.

[-] PhoolOfATook@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 weeks ago

I can’t wait for his ass to get assassinated

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[-] ForceTen@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 weeks ago

He’s awful. Rotten to the core.

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 16 points 2 weeks ago

What kind of people can listen to shit like that with a straight face.

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

100% fascist projection.

[-] GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's just a new/different version of the tired trope that the black kid in the hoodie is dangerous- BE SCARED OF THE BLACK KID IN THE HOODIE !!!!!

Yet it is almost always the white man in the suit that is going to either rob you or kill you.

[-] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 weeks ago

He can start by accepting my challenge to a fist fight.

[-] SaintNectar@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 13 points 2 weeks ago

The Great White Worm has spoken!!!

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