We should be fighting capitalism based on the harm it’s doing to people and places.
Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.
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.
Yeah, I heard communism is spreading like wildfire. The Federal Government wants to take over elections, there are subsidized gas stations, the President is telling private companies that the federal government needs stakes in their companies, and the president has told groceries to lower their prices or else, secret police on the street shooting at people at traffic stops… Communism!
Or are we talking about the fake communism Republicans point to to scare constituents into voting Republican against their best interest?
Threatening to use the military to attack American citizens? Seems like a good reason to say NO! to your request.
If you can’t beat 'em, rig the elections.
If that doesn’t work, throw 'em in jail.
Straight out of the autocrats’ playbook.
They already made “antifascism” illegal.
If you can’t beat 'em, rig the elections.
If that doesn’t work, throw 'em in jail.
And if that doesn’t work, start prepping your military for the inevitable civil war.
Or buld out your own new Independent Criminal Enterprise army that is anonymous, removes their license plates, can sweep anyone off the street based on profiling, whisks them away to a private for profit detention center without due process and answers only to dear leader
Oh vait
Don’t forget “is getting their own airline operating 24/7 specifically for deportations and transporting people to international blacksites”.
You see, our Originalist interpretation of the Constitution allows us to not only do what ever we want, but justify it
How about fighting fascism in the government instead?
Same thing. What they mean by “communism” and “socialism” is just “we need more money for fascism”. Plain and simple projection.
The enemy within is making its move outward.
Yeah, for SOME reason, communism is becoming incredibly popular in the United States.
Could it be the fascists running everything?
Oh, I’m sorry, ruining everything.
Two things can be true!
In the weeks following a series of Democratic primary victories by progressive and democratic socialist candidates in New York, Colorado, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas, and elsewhere, Trump and his allies in the GOP have relentlessly hammered on the idea that the nation was under siege by “godless Communists” who want to “completely destroy the traditional American way of life,” rhetoric that echoed McCarthy era red-baiting to many critics.
These “Godless Communists” who are looking to “destroy the traditional American way of life” are doing it by winning elections. So, what Trump and Johnson are saying is that we should send the military after these office holders because he doesn’t like their politics.
Yep. If you think shit is dark now, it’s gonna get way darker before it starts to get better. I’m the most worried I’ve ever been about the few months of October through January. They’ve come way too far and committed way too many crimes to simply let themselves be democratically and constitutionally removed from office.
Little Mikey Johnson has said he’s running a protection racket.
They’ve come way too far and committed way too many crimes to simply let themselves be democratically and constitutionally removed from office.
I’m cautiously optimistic.
Not long ago, I would have said the same thing about Orban as well. But they voted him out, he left, and things seem to be improving greatly in Hungary.
Hungary is not America.
We might as well call them “Prideful Sadducees and Pharisees”
You wouldn’t be using the government to punish political speech and expression, would you, Mikey-boy? Wouldn’t want that pendulum to swing back the other way to you and your fascist pals, would you bud?
Man I wish we had communism on our shores.
Bringing back the Red Scare to make America Great Again?
Fuck.
The red scare has been their playbook for a long time.
It’s been the red scare ever since the reactionaries stopped New Deal progressivism in the 1950s. If that didn’t happened, we would’ve kept pace with the rest of the world.
What a fantastic way to inspire a socialist revolt as a reaction to oppression.
These people are so thirsty for a civil war. Personally, I’d rather just see the union fracture apart. Let these buttwads have their backwards-ass fascist states, while leaving the rest of us out of it.
A well funded socialist organization is now going to be used to fight socialism.
Wow, deploy the army to sort out the domestic communists! What a bold plan for the coup!
Yeah, because the real threat today isn’t fascism having taken over government, or christian nationalism, or billionaires bleeding us dry and stripping our rights. Nope. It’s the red menace. All those communists who we all know in real life, who [checks notes]… oh wait… do not actually exist meaningfully in government.
Also, Bigfoot is coming for your children. Better watch out! 🙄
e: don’t get me wrong, I wish leftism was a real threat to fascism in the US, but it’s just not yet.
do not actually exist meaningfully in government.
Yeah, that’s what they want you to think!
It’s also true, but are you really gonna let facts get in the way?
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