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

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        I thought it was clear as day it was sarcastic. But these days people are Idiocracy level dumb, so here it is:

        I WAS BEING SARCASTIC

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          But these days people are Idiocracy level

          They did vote for a pedophile/rapist to “protect” women and children from the gays/transgender.

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            Yeah you’re right, I need to correct myself:

            People these days are far dumber and ignorant than Idiocracy level.

            It is the point I’m trying to make in my initial post though.

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              That’s how science fiction works. Idiocracy was about the 90s, not the far future. We’re waaaaaay past that.

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              People these days are far dumber, and ignorant, and malicios than Idiocracy level.

              FTFY

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      “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

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    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.

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      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.

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      It’s the far left on lemmy who are all saying we aren’t going to vote our way out of this and that’s a call to violence if I’ve ever seen one.

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        The thing that strikes me about 'Murica is the absurdity of voting in all sorts of people, into roles that should not be popularity contests

        It’s not about freedom, it’s about pretending that it’s democratic while the arseholes in what passes for society there have a finger on the scales

        Progressives need to be voting in all the dumb things in their community, because the RWNJS certainly are. Their churches and other institutions are whipping up voter support at that grassroots level and getting their useful idiots voted in.

        This is a part of a very long-term strategy. I hate to admit that it’s genius, and has been incredibly effective

        The average 'Murican is completely disengaged and just doesn’t care, either because they’re too busy trying to survive, too stupid to see the consequences, or too apathetic because they have been beaten into submission by the system

        Compulsory voting is one of the best things about my country, and it has helped to keep it on a relatively even keel, despite the immense influence from 'Murica

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    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?

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.