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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You may not want to accept it, but to them, people who go out and protest peacefully are “the violent left”, it was “violent antifa” that attacked the reflecting pool. Any left wingers who so much as says a peep about this fascism is “violent left” to these fascists.
Dem presidents too From LBJ to Clinton to Obama to Biden criminalized protests and whistleblowers too. There will be no help from the Dems.
I have no problems accepting it. I literally said they’ll just “label any resistance as violence”. I just think it’s important not to “adjust” words to make what is already insane shit sound more insane. It’s already fucking nuts.
It’s not adjusting though, that’s the thing. You’re right its already unreal.