What a strange and dangerous idea: to suppose that a handful of men shouldn't own everything.
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2025
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Wow we moved from the “first they came for the…” to “and then they came for me” in 60 seconds flat.
The lesson of history, which we ignored, is to first come for the fascists.
Then we don't have to see that fucking copypasta everywhere.
Americans need to get organized and get their shit together FAST. What's left of their democracy is disappearing daily.
Their democracy has been gone for a while. They're just getting around to noticing now.
It's ironic that the country with the most guns per citizen is the country least likely to defend its democracy with those guns.
In this real-world case, the “indicia” (indicators) of future political violence listed in the report are:
- anti-Americanism,
- anti-capitalism,
- anti-Christianity,
- support for the overthrow of the United States Government,
- extremism on migration,
- extremism on race,
- extremism on gender
- hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family,
- hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion, and
- hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on morality.
Given that the fascist administration defines "extremism" on migration, race, and gender to basically be the absence of bigotry and the presence of rationality, those are ALL positive viewpoints possessed by most of the sane and reasonable people in the world.
Yeah this just straight up designates every human (and some animals probably) as terrorists
we want to put migrants in prisons surrounded by alligators
not extremist
we don't want that
violently extremist stance on migration, pre-crimed in my jorts
anti-Christianity
Amusing how much being a true follower would contradict the first two "indicators."
Swearing no oaths (of allegiance), to a flag (an idol), not rejoicing in the deaths of others and eschewing violence, not coveting and constantly lusting after what you don't have. Treating even one's enemies with love...I could go on.
The real Christians are going to be hated and punished heavily and brutally by this regime. Caesar nor Herod were on the side of Christ and His followers, why would these twisted, evil fools be any different?
Time to radicalize, brothers and sisters.
Christ only threatened Hell one time, in Matthew 25. He says people will be damned for the following reasons:
- Not feeding the hungry
- Not welcoming foreigners
- Not caring for the sick
- Not showing compassion to the imprisoned
How is the GOP the party of Christ again?
Also
“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Matthew 18:6
What this party has done to the Church is beyond disgusting, what they've done to children is beyond horrifying.
Even if we set The Files aside, they're getting busted for peddling in CSAM all the time.
As it is written, their sins will always find them out.
"their sins will always find them out"
If only that were true.
No gods will save us. The only justice in this world is that which we can enact with our own hands.
And the only time he got so pissed off that he started whipping some fools was when the moneychangers were profiting from religion like pretty much everyone in the fascist GOP are now.
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The short version is that they want to kill everyone who knows more than they do, and that's most of us.
He has precrime in his pants
I think it's very much post-crime at this point.
If everyone is guilty of crimes against the state, no one is guilty of crimes against the state.
That's really not how that works.
It's really more like... If everyone is guilty of crimes against the state, then anyone can be imprisoned at any time.
(All at the discretion of those in charge.) This is really a much worse situation for everyone.
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If you don’t be a slave for billionaires you’re a tewwowist. That’s fweedom.
Oh no, dont thweton me. :3
How does he get punished? He's the most anti-capitalist I know! I mean Free Trade and Open Borders is a Capitalist Theory!! He's anti-free trade, close all the borders! I really don't understand hate politicians.
Legal loophole: it's not anti-capitalistic if you are just stupid
Inventing and punishing thoughtcrimes seems to be a favored tactic among dictators. Trump-MAGA and ICE remind me most of Stalin and his NKVD (secret police). Solzhenitsyn wrote about how ordinary citizens would frequently be arrested/shot/sent to the gulag over mere assertions that they held anti-Soviet/anti-Communist beliefs, or had counter-revolutionary sympathies. It was illegal to not rat out others who you suspected held such beliefs and inclinations - if you didn't you could be shot yourself.
I think we're getting there. I soon expect to see federal government websites and apps where you can report your friends/neighbors/family members for anti-capitalist and/or anti-fascist and/or anti-evangelical-Christian leanings.
From Wikipedia (Great Terror article)
The purges were largely conducted by the NKVD, which functioned as the interior ministry and secret police of the USSR. Soviet politicians who opposed or criticized Stalin were removed from office and imprisoned, or executed, by the NKVD. The purges were eventually expanded to the Red Army high command, which had a disastrous effect on the military. The campaigns also affected many other segments of society: the intelligentsia, wealthy peasants—especially those lending money or other wealth (kulaks)—and professionals. As the scope of the purge widened, the omnipresent suspicion of saboteurs and counter-revolutionaries (known collectively as wreckers) began affecting civilian life.
The campaigns were carried out according to the general line of the party, often by direct orders by the Politburo headed by Stalin. Hundreds of thousands of people were accused of political crimes, including espionage, wrecking, sabotage, anti-Soviet agitation, and conspiracies to prepare uprisings and coups. They were executed by shooting, or sent to Gulag labor camps. The NKVD targeted certain ethnic minorities with particular force (such as Volga Germans or Soviet citizens of Polish origin), who were subjected to forced deportation and extreme repression. Throughout the purge, the NKVD sought to strengthen control over civilians through fear and frequently used imprisonment, torture, violent interrogation, and executions during its mass operations.
It's chilling.
None of this should sound plausible in the USA. These simply aren't the kind of concerns citizens should have to have in a free democracy, because it shouldn't be possible to let things get this far.
It truly breaks my heart to see the US as it is now. It's frightening, and it's extremely disappointing. I think of all the people who give these totalitarians their vote, and I'm deeply disappointed in them.
These are exactly the kind of concerns citizens should have in a free democracy because that's how you keep your democracy free. We only have rights because normal everyday citizens fought for them and continue to fight for them. The problem is that we've all become complacent and lazy about it and let things slide to where things are now.
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I mean, he is an expert on crime.
What even is a "pre-crime" and since when does it exist?
I cannot wait to learn he died. Painfully hopefully.
I will take up celebratory drinking for one day (I don't drink normally)
The country will be the drunkest it's been since the start of the temperance movement
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I wish soooooo deeply that a Trump Gestapo is reading all my anti capitalist and anti organized religious comments. I'm so out and proud it'll be great.
Oh my God, did somebody let him watch Minority Report? His grasp on reality is, shall we say, not strong.
Crime before crime? So not a crime? Is raping children a post crime. Asking for a friend?
If you're wearing the right coloured hat it's virtually impossible to commit any kind of crime at all.
Ballsy from a guy who concentrates economic decision making into his own cabinet. The word for that is statism not capitalism
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The emperor has no clothes, and the frogs are starting to notice that maybe the water is a little hotter than it's worth.
Lol. This guy needs to be tried and executed for treason.
Grandpa wants to change his diaper before it's been shit.
Finally we can throw the whole admin in jail for being commies?
Is there a category of pre crimes? You'd think being associated with the most egregious offenders would land you in such places. This could get interesting for republicans if they start tracking themselves and employing honesty.
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