• Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works
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    13 days ago

    Oh of course they do 🙄

    Communists? Really? It’s been over 50 years since the Powell memo was released.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell_Jr.

    Stop with the flowery language and just come out and say you represent corporate interests, and will ensure anybody who gets in the way of those interests will be labeled either a communist/terrorist/antifa or some kind of combined threat: commterroant

    I feel like we should all stop using the term antifa and demand they stop using the term antifa. Bc they need to be forced to acknowledge in all official documents that their targets are now officially antifascists.

    Oh btw how’s it going prosecuting LITERALLY ANYBODY in the Epstein files? 🦗🦗🦗

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    “Look, we live in dangerous times,” Johnson said. “We’re fighting communism on our own shores, and we’re fighting evil terrorists and tyrants around the world, and we have to be able to protect our national security.”

    “Our” national security? No, your national security. I’m the enemy. I’m the one who needs to be eliminated, or otherwise removed from this country, according to you, even though I’m a born and raised American citizen. Fuck your security.

  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip
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    14 days ago

    Wonder how they’ll get around the Posse Comitatus Act.

    The same way they got around existing law in a number of other cases in the past years: ignoring it, or letting SCOTUS decide that it’s OK. Or claiming “national emergency”.

    Not saying the courts shouldn’t fight back though.

    Also, sheesh, still with the communism? I thought they’d at least switched to socialism. Talk about an all-time classic boogeyman.

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      14 days ago

      Many in Congress are old enough that McCarthyism still seems like current events.

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      13 days ago

      They looooove the golden oldies. And their target audience is probably Faux News and the hate radio listener.

      Also, nearly ALL of these assholes equate socialism with communism. And the ones that don’t say they are the same thing will typically claim socialism is a slippery slope straight to Soviet style communism under Stalin.