Things like this have happened before…


Ostensibly, the University of Pennsylvania’s leadership refused to submit and cower to the Trump administration’s threats of withholding government grants and other funding if it did not twist to its will.

The Trump regime argued it needed the lists to interview primarily Jewish faculty in documenting supposed antisemitic comments and actions on the campus in order to “protect” Jewish people and organizations. The government claimed that Penn’s resistance had been hyperbolic and radical.

I understand that Donald Trump neither knows about nor cares about history, but even this heartless sociopathic narcissist must know how triggering and insensitive it is to subpoena any institution for its “list of Jews.”

Trump echoed 1936 Germany and the so-called “Nuremberg Laws,” the antisemitic and racist laws the Nazi regime declared as “the Reich Citizenship Law” and “the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor.”

These proclamations codified the systematic persecution of Jews, which culminated in the eventual murder of an estimated six million Jewish people throughout the continent of Europe and elsewhere under the Nazi domain.

If you don’t like being called a Nazi, stop doing Nazi things!

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    19 hours ago

    Oh. So, we’re outraged about this…but when he’s already labeling “leftists” as literal terrorists, we haven’t quite found our outrage yet?

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      18 hours ago

      We can be outraged about more than one thing.

      What is your basis for saying no one is outraged about this administration targeting leftists? I’ve seen nothing but outrage.

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        17 hours ago

        A third of the U.S. thinks that anyone to the left of the most conservative Democrat is a communist, while many centrists normalize fascism on a regular basis.

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            8 hours ago

            Polls have repeatedly demonstrated that around a third of Americans support Trump’s policy positions on nearly everything; here’s a graph with multiple issues listed to demonstrate (source):

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              6 hours ago

              Your statement isn’t about support. You made blanket statements about who thinks what about communism and fascism.

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        16 hours ago

        I’ve seen a lot of whining and complaining online, and a lot of people desperate to signal that they’re the “good Americans.”

        If you were outraged you’d be doing something about it. You’re MUCH too comfortable to be outraged.

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              15 hours ago

              You sound tough, Captain Discomfort. What you bench bro?

              Also, I’m Canadian. Not particularly interested in being a good American. Or any kind, really.

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                  14 hours ago

                  I have no idea what they’re individually doing or not doing.

                  But in the interest of national unity, I’ll join you in the most Canadian of pastimes: talking shit about Americans.

                  Fuck you, you American bastards! Fix your dumb country, you fucking hosers.

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      18 hours ago

      Unfortunately that’s been happening since before most who are going to read this message were even born. Ask the weathermen or the Black Panther Party for self-defense.

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        The Weathermen were, objectively speaking, terrorists. Their praxis was to scare the politicians into stopping the various imperialist wars.

        Noble goals (and that bathroom in the Pentagon had it coming) but they were terrorists.

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          True and if we’re being thorough even Fox News is a form of or feeding terrorism. But I think it would be important to compare and contrast with events such as the move bombing in 1985. Whether or not you were 100% on board with MOVE’s praxis. What the police did was a terrorist attack that destroyed the community in many ways. Not just MOVE. But they can’t be terrorist, they’re police. Tulsa race massacre, ditto. If you really want to get base level, the state itself is terrorist. If you question it’s authority how will it answer.

          It’s a term so misused as we are seeing now. It’s just treated as “enemy” anymore. People need to get used to it, and understand those in power are their enemy. That they should be afraid. That terrorism itself isn’t bad inherently. It’s all about who’s targeted and why. A culpable organization like the Pentagon and the MIC. Or unconnected random, perhaps even ally families and individuals.

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    16 hours ago

    why is he trying to find these people, is he looking for people potentially linked to isreal? it seem odd for him to be suddenly going after jewish people considering the circumstances otherwise. im wondering if he trying to angle them out for some reason.