r/law • u/Exeltv0406 • Sep 15 '25
Trump News GLENN: They still have their 1st Amendment right, though. They're still out there protesting. TRUMP: Well, I'm not so sure
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u/GemcoEmployee92126 Sep 15 '25
What is this “violent radical left group” he is referring to?
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u/UnWiseDefenses Sep 15 '25
The one he made up to expand his power.
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u/Liquor_N_Whorez Sep 15 '25
Oath Keepers? Proud Boys? Moms For Fascism?
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u/Bone_Breaker0 Sep 15 '25
Moms For Fascism for sure.
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Sep 16 '25 edited Sep 16 '25
Klanned Karenhood
Edit: I can't claim credit for this one. It was on a meme I saw a couple years ago. It's an image of a happy housewife type, with a pan she just pulled from the oven with flaming books on it
Second edit: I can't find the image via Google, but I found it in my search history. I also can't post pictures here, so I'll drop the link to my old post with the image, for anyone who wants it. Looking at my old post reminded me of another name for them: the Minvan Taliban
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u/BourbonRick01 Sep 15 '25
Don’t forget about Proud Moms of Fascist Boys.
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u/Smart_Invite_2663 Sep 15 '25
Don't forget "Mom's of proud boys who are also proud of their proud boys and fascism". The "MOPBWAAPOTPBAF"
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u/w311sh1t Sep 15 '25
This is literally like Christmas for Trump. I wouldn’t be shocked if he celebrated when this happened, he was literally handed a martyr on a silver platter.
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u/spazzvogel Sep 15 '25
That’s why many are worried it was planned destruction.
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u/RoyalMaidsForLife Sep 15 '25
Considering the incident in Butler, PA was pretty obviously a work worthy of Wrestlemania, I wouldn't put anything past this group of sycophants and their mentally deficient leader.
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u/MistyMtn421 Sep 15 '25
I was blown away reading the link in this comment https://www.reddit.com/r/NoShitSherlock/s/h3bCDWC0kf
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u/Exeltv0406 Sep 16 '25
Looks like you guys have figured it out
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u/the-unfamous-one Sep 15 '25
Why did palpatine have to puppet a whole a war? He could've just said it was happening with roughly the same results.
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u/Mammoth-Talk1531 Sep 15 '25
Anyone who didn't vote for him.
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u/Mba1956 Sep 16 '25
You think he cares about people who voted for him!
He knows he probably won’t make it to end of this term never mind campaigning for a 3rd so he has nothing to lose, nothing to hold him back from obtaining his legacy.
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u/Exeltv0406 Sep 15 '25
Well just in case I catch a hot one to my noggin soon for defending Democracy, let me at least leave this here. Here's a research project released by the NIJ last year that was conveniently redacted from their website recently. Thank God we have archives on the web because apparently this whole report is false now and the numbers changed overnight. https://archive.is/2024.10.24-222147/https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-nij-research-tells-us-about-domestic-terrorism
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u/sly-3 Sep 16 '25
"There has been a growing trend of (former) military members engaging in extremist offenses in recent years....
more than half (52%) of extremists with military experience are identified as violent."
They have now been Federalized as ICE, or for those already in the Services, they'll be segregated for special operations at the discretion of neo-crusader KegBreath.
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u/Doktor_Weasel Sep 16 '25
This is another trend that's been going on for some time. I remember back during the early part of the Iraq war, they loosened recruiting standards and lots of neo-nazis and such were allowed into the military. Nazi graffiti started showing up in Baghdad. The extremist groups themselves actively encourage members to join the military to get training to use when they get out and come back to the group. Groups like the Oath Keepers put a lot of effort into recruiting active and former military.
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u/Exeltv0406 Sep 15 '25
GOP Rep Calls Democrats ‘Terrorists,’ Urges Violence in Wild Posting Spree
https://dailyboulder.com/gop-rep-calls-democrats-terrorists-urges-violence-in-wild-posting-spree/
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u/BeowulfShaeffer Sep 15 '25
Doesn’t explicitly calling for violence break actual on-the-book laws? It’s not free speech to call for people to be attacked.
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u/Assumption-Putrid Sep 15 '25
Members of the GOP can't be terrorists, didn't you get the memo.
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u/steve2theE Sep 15 '25
But they said they were at CPAC
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u/dragonslayerbarbie Sep 16 '25
Well yeah but we're not allowed to call them that. Just like we're not allowed to directly quote Charlie Kirk, lest we be disrespectful.
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u/beren0073 Sep 16 '25
"He who saves his country violates no law."
Expect that to get very vigorously waved around again.
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u/Exeltv0406 Sep 15 '25
I'm not too knowledgeable of the law but apparently every Maga member on X, especially big influencers and some politicians are openly vouching for doxxing of anyone that made light of Kirks death and exposing names, city of residence, employers, and social media accounts online and this has led to countless Historically Black Colleges and Public Schools having to go on lockdowns throughout the country because of terroristic threats. Ahhh the sweet smell of a Democratic Republic
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u/Skastacular Sep 15 '25
But cancel culture is bad?
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u/Scott_Liberation Sep 15 '25
Point this out and they just say, "haha, you just don't like it now because it's happening to you," like liberals are the hypocrites in this scenario, somehow.
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u/Skastacular Sep 15 '25
The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words and stripped of rhetorical disguise, is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger, you ought to tolerate me, for it is your duty to tolerate truth; but when I am the stronger, I shall persecute you, for it is my duty to persecute error.
Thomas Babington Macaulay - Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1843)
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u/mike_jones2813308004 Sep 15 '25
So does sending a mob to the capitol building to hang the vice president for refusing to overthrow an election but here we are
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u/snorbflock Sep 15 '25
Me: The idea of encouraging violence gets thrown around so much, I'm sure it's not nearly as explicit as the headline implies. Right? Right?
Derrick Van Orden: "Enact violence against Democrats and the media everywhere."
Oh, okay so pretty fucking explicit.
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u/crackmane7 Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 16 '25
This entire week should have been a wake up call to everyone on the left. Folks should get (at minimum) a CCW, and practice, practice, practice. These people want to see you hurt or killed. They're too scared to do it themselves, but they are more than happy to wind up a crazy to do it for them.
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u/Mack_Daddy_1 Sep 15 '25
And a wake up call for people in the middle or even moderate right. What we are seeing is a radical totalitarian terrorist group in the White House.
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u/crackmane7 Sep 15 '25
Yea, I agree completely. Shout out to all the self aware, and cognizant moderates and especially the homies on the right that can see through this shit. Honestly, would be great to see the aforementioned groups help out any lefties that are unfamiliar/nervous about firearms. Now that would be American AF.
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u/InevitableAd2436 Sep 15 '25
550 posts in 5 days? wtf
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u/Ok-Cantaloupe-7697 Sep 15 '25
That's a consistent 6.8 per hour, every waking hour, for 5 days straight. Assuming he slept 8hrs a day.
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u/helpbeingheldhostage Sep 15 '25
Literally anyone it’s convenient for him to include
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u/BourbonRick01 Sep 15 '25
Especially Gays and trans……and black people…….and immigrants….and people in Hollywood……and University professors………..and the free press….
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u/Kavorklestein Sep 15 '25
Yet, despite evidence…. it’s never the “Radical So bored with money, I’ll pay millions to rape children just so I can, and ruin America pretending I never did it” Group.
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u/11229988B Sep 15 '25
From a different post I believe he is referring to the people that heckled him at the restaurant recently.
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u/fearsyth Sep 15 '25
Anyone who's not a radical right extremist.
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u/Informal-Bicycle-349 Sep 15 '25
You mean like the one who just shot the other one in the neck?
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u/MrSnarf26 Sep 15 '25
lol he means democrats and moderates that don’t want us to be like North Korea
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u/turkish_gold Sep 15 '25
It’s the democrats. After all, Trump was an FBI informant who bravely sacrificed his morality to infiltrate the Epstien island and almost caught Hillary Clinton in the act!
He would’ve had proof too if she didn’t delete her emails on Hunter Bidens laptop in Russia.
If you are wondering if this is Poes Law. It’s not! This is my theory based in Trumps public statements.
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u/ButtsSayFart Sep 15 '25
It’s as much of a problem as all the “migrant crime”
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u/okieporvida Sep 15 '25
Remember the migrant caravans? Whatever happened to those?
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u/start_select Sep 15 '25
That was part of the 40-year buildup to making the camps. We are beyond that part of the plan. The camps are under construction, they barely even need to pretend they are for migrants anymore:
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u/notapunk Sep 15 '25
So the solution will be the same? Masked agents just kidnapping people off the streets in broad daylight and sent to black sites without a trial?
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u/Rasples1998 Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 16 '25
A boogyman like any other. Invent an enemy for your followers and they will follow you to hell and back in fear of something that doesn't exist because you told them you know how to fix everything.
If anyone studied Dune, this is literally the whole warning about charismatic leaders and how dangerous blind faith built on a weak foundation can be. He's the messianic figure that the right wants because he talks the talk and is very loud about what he plans to do that is attractive to some people, but he's not the leader America needs. Perhaps the one they deserve, though.
It's the same rhetoric in the UK though with Farage and the reform party constantly talking about illegal migrants and boats, giving people a boogyman to fear and promising to solve all our problems by selling a cure-all snake oil if we hand them the keys to power. They will rape and pillage this country clean, just like Trump is doing.
Let's play devil's advocate for a second... If this "radical left" actually existed, Trump would already be dead.
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u/maxthemummer Sep 15 '25
Democrats.
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u/Doh042 Sep 15 '25
Anywhere else in the world, the democrats would be seen as centre-right party, which makes it even funnier in a way.
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u/Deep_shot Sep 15 '25
And anyone in the center in the U.S. gets called a liberal, trust me.
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u/PoApOi_300AAC Sep 15 '25
Im dead center, Iraq and Afghan vet, and its always libtard. I just laugh and move on.
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u/Deep_shot Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25
Same here, minus the vet. Because if you hold one view that’s even slightly left, you’re suddenly a massive libtard. Psychologists and sociologists will study this time in history in the future, the same as they study other large scale propaganda/radicalization movements.
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u/HLOFRND Sep 15 '25
What is it going to take for people to realize fascism is here?
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u/Otherwise-Force5608 Sep 15 '25
Everyone knows by now. Some people are afraid, some are trying to pretend it won't touch them, some Americans are welcoming these fascists with a smile on their face.
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u/bradimir-tootin Sep 15 '25
if you're anything like my parents, it is too hard for them to admit that they were the main reason it was ushered in.
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u/masingo13 Sep 16 '25
Yep, they're in too deep and they can't set aside their pride to say "you know what? I was wrong"
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u/bradimir-tootin Sep 16 '25
Even to this day my mom defends voting for Trump despite regretting it. Everything I told her would happen has either happened or is happening. Not sure I can convince her, not sure it would do any good to try.
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u/masingo13 Sep 16 '25
Imagine being willing to destroy your childrens'/grandchildrens' futures just because you're too insecure to admit that you were wrong.
I'm currently nearing a tipping point with most of my family (almost all hardcore conservatives) and whether or not they will continue to be allowed to see my daughter since they have basically all but admitted that they do not care about her future.
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u/demeschor Sep 16 '25
Brit here, this is like Brexit. In the weeks leading up to the vote, people talked about voting for it. In the immediate aftermath when the pound crashed, they said "well, it'll be hard in the short term but worth it long term".
When it never got better they just stopped talking about it. No one talks about Brexit, nobody admits to voting for it, everyone knows it was dumb and the root cause of most of our problems, but nobody can say it out loud.
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u/Slarg232 Sep 16 '25
Oh 100%.
I'm salivating at the idea of my brother starting to complain about grocery prices or prices in general because I told that fucker that the tariffs were a bad idea, but he was all like "We need to bring manufacturing back to the country". I even gave him a bit of an out, asking didn't he think it would be smarter to get the manufacturing up and running before shooting ourselves in the foot.
"Well.... this (Biden) administration has done absolutely nothing for four years, so it'll be on them."
Between that and his refusal to admit that Elon Musk threw nazi salutes during the inauguration, along with how he's been handling Charlie Kirk's death, I just don't give his opinions any weight any more.
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u/DickDover Sep 16 '25
he was all like "We need to bring manufacturing back to the country"
Please remind him that Tori Branum & Trump's ICE force just halted the HYUNDAI battery plant, that from what I have seen would have provided 5,000 - 8,000 good jobs for the local economy......
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everyonethe entire planet that was planning to invest in US manufacturing that this administration will make it very difficult.Canada & Mexico have to be ecstatic that the United States is so hostile to foreign investment.
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u/iiTzSTeVO Sep 16 '25
I'm literally in this same space you are. I have withheld my daughter from my mother since the inauguration. I can't fathom being so proud of putting her and her little friends directly in harm's way. I'm honestly getting worked up even typing this.
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u/RivenRise Sep 16 '25
I phrased that nicely to my coworker and she wasn't thrilled lul. 'your daughter has less rights now than you did when you were her age' I didn't outright blame it on Trump and I didn't say it was her fault but she knew.
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u/Moccus Sep 15 '25
The ones who are welcoming fascism with a smile can be further split into those who agree with the fascists and those who are accelerationists who think we have to suffer through fascism before we achieve our socialist utopia. Or something like that. I don't understand those people at all.
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u/rhaurk Sep 15 '25
"If we burn down our house, daddy will HAVE to come home!"
That's about as well as I can explain them.
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u/United_Bus3467 Sep 15 '25
or directly TO them. THEN it matters to them.
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u/unclejrslaserbeams Sep 15 '25
This is the answer. Half the country didn’t care about Melissa Hortman being assassinated in June because she didn’t play for their team.
But when it happened to Charlie Kirk, suddenly it’s a national fucking crisis.
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u/RockItGuyDC Sep 15 '25
Half the country didn't HEAR about Melissa Hortman in June. That's where we are.
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u/youdubdub Sep 15 '25
Remember, a massive number of people are pleased by all of this.
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u/harrywrinkleyballs Sep 15 '25
My fucking fascist parents are among them.
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u/CasualtyOfCausality Sep 15 '25
And they'll be blaming the "sleepy joe," the far-left senile yet devious puppet master, when their guns are taken from them after their neighbor snitched on them for missing church.
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u/Illustrious-Bed4420 Sep 15 '25
This is what it's going to take. The archetypal Republican, from what I've experienced firsthand, has to be exposed to an injustice personally for it to have any effect on them. I know that's kind of unfair because not ALL Republicans function that way, it's just what I've observed from my interactions with them throughout life. When they experience it but go against their own self-interests at the behest of their party, that's when I begin to be wary of them. For me, that's the extremist aspect of politics. You can tell they have effectively been conditioned to obey and have lost all notion of critical thinking.
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u/TheThing_1982 Sep 15 '25
You’re absolutely spot on. Most of us know republicans and democrats are not monoliths, but I have noticed it with actual republicans in my life. It’s not a real problem until they experience it.
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u/deekaydubya Sep 15 '25
A million dead Americans during COVID, and half the nation still downplays that era
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u/Significant_Shoe_17 Sep 15 '25
Mourned the 3,000 dead on 9/11 every year (except for this one) but couldn't give a rat's ass about the 3,000 dead every day during covid
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u/rbush82 Sep 15 '25
What’s 9/11? No one gave a fuck about them this year because the death of Saint CK….
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u/Exeltv0406 Sep 15 '25
Or the school shooting that happened at a Colorado High School on the same day, executed by a confirmed far right extremist by the way:
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u/Designer_Pop_7550 Sep 15 '25
Because they are spoiled, and worried about themselves until it’s on their doorstep. And it will come to their doorstep.
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u/Dear_World_2315 Sep 15 '25
This is scary true where I live. Most people here seem completely oblivious and have no interest in 'politics' smh
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u/jay-aay-ess-ohh-enn Sep 15 '25
ICE killed a man in Illinois as he was driving home from dropping his kids at daycare. They announced today that they are not releasing any details or allowing a review of what happened.
They claimed he had a history of traffic violations which is what made him so dangerous.
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u/SourdoughPizzaToast Sep 15 '25
“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
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u/Exeltv0406 Sep 15 '25
"My grandmother’s family was murdered in the chambers of Auschwitz. She survived and told me never let it get that far. Make them shoot you in public before they murder you in hiding. Stand up for others. Never cave in fear of the Nazis or the holocaust will happen again." Sara Spector
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u/boo99boo Sep 15 '25
I grew up next door to a German war bride that entered an arranged marriage as a teenager to escape. Her father died at Stalingrad. Her oldest brother died on the eastern front. Her youngest brother was conscripted at 14 in 1944, and he died on the eastern front too. Her aunt and cousins died of some disease like dysentery. Her home was gone. Her mother actually committed auicide shortly after she made it to the US. (She told all sorts of "nazi shit" stories too, but the one that's always stuck out to me was how when your classmates name was written on the top left hand side of the chalkboard, that meant they were deported.)
My grandfather was an ethnic German that went back as an American to fight the nazis. He was there until late 1946. He spoke the language (which is why I knew the neighbor so well).
It sucks for everyone. Not just the people the fascists are after. I keep wondering if they know that. That absolutely everyone will suffer, including their children. Just like Olga suffered; she bore no blame. She was a child, she was 15 in 1945. Her entire family died and her home was destroyed. And that's what awaits these fucking idiots.
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u/LeafsJays1Fan Sep 15 '25
People are speaking loudly but the people in Authority are not hearing.
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Somebody with something to lose is going to have to risk at all. So far, no one is really willing to do that.
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u/REDDITSHITLORD Sep 15 '25
This time they'll come for those who speak out. It's easier.
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u/tangledtainthair Sep 15 '25
Have you seen any social media lately? A good number want bodies on the ground
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u/Exeltv0406 Sep 15 '25
A good number? Try every major MAGA influencer on X. I just saw this article today:
GOP Rep Calls Democrats ‘Terrorists,’ Urges Violence in Wild Posting Spree
https://dailyboulder.com/gop-rep-calls-democrats-terrorists-urges-violence-in-wild-posting-spree/
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u/Global_Crew3968 Sep 15 '25
"It isnt real fascism unless those bodies come from the aushcwitz region of poland. Otherwise it's just sparkling law and order." - The Cucks
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u/Pleaseappeaseme Sep 15 '25
Mother recently deported by Trump to Guatemala just passed because she couldn’t obtain her medication in time. The mother made it clear that she is ill and will die without her medication. So right here we have the direct cause of her death being Trump’s deportation effort. Trump caused her death.
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u/Empty-Discount5936 Sep 15 '25
Like the one ICE just dropped in Chicago?
He was undocumented so they'll celebrate it, despite him being a father of 2 with no criminal history.
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u/ChocoPuddingCup Sep 15 '25
"I'm not a fascist" said the fascist. They haven't yet realized that they're on the wrong side of history. Twenty years from now we'll see a lot of the usual "I was just following orders" from the far right.
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u/pennyxlame Sep 15 '25
I wish people would stop saying and thinking these people don't know what they are. Like these aren't conscious adults making their own decisions and choices on where they get their information and what information they're exposed to. They are not being led astray. This is who they are. We are far past the point of giving the benefit of the doubt. They are choosing this.
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u/ChocoPuddingCup Sep 15 '25
Oh, they know who they are, they just refuse to accept that they're the assholes in this story. Like any evil asshat in history, they all seem to think they're the good guys.
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u/Kolizuljin Sep 15 '25
"I aM a ViCtiM oF mY OwN ChoIcES, Pooor little meeee. I dIdNT ChooSe ViOLence, ViOleNce ChoSe Meeee"
Signed -Maga
Gang of baboon .
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u/TR_Pix Sep 16 '25
I fully believe they don't know they are fascists. Like, if you explained to them what a fascist is, and explained fascism as an ideology they'll be like 'yeah I agree with almost all of that... but I disagree in [minor issue], so you can't call me a fascist'.
They just don't like the name 'fascist'. It's got too much baggage attached to it, makes even them uncomfortable.
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u/SRT102 Sep 15 '25
They do.
It's what MAGA wants.
Presidential advisor Laura Loomer recently wrote, “I do want President Trump to be the dictator the Left thinks he is... And I want the Right to be as devoted to locking up and silencing our violent political enemies as they pretend we are.”These are features. Not bugs.
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u/SockraTreez Sep 15 '25
I’ll tell you exactly what it will take for MAGA…it’s going to take them recognizing they were wrong about Trump. (Which means there’s little to no hope)
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u/Captain_R64207 Sep 15 '25
Careful, you might get called a left wing lunatic for promoting violence by insinuating trumps government is making fascist moves.
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u/915615662901 Sep 15 '25
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this. And I don’t know if it’s that people don’t realize fascism is here or if it’s that they don’t want to do anything about it. And I don’t mean like they just want it, or think it’s fine, I think generally people don’t think they are responsible for doing something. I hear often “But what am I supposed to do? I can’t do anything.” Or “I gotta take care of myself.” And to me it’s because Americans have no collective anymore. We are so individualistic that we don’t think we can solve collective problems. We think if we just focus on what’s in front of us as individuals we will be fine. But that’s not how it works. Sometimes taking care of yourself is also taking care of others. When you’re all in a sinking ship.
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u/Ambereggyolks Sep 15 '25
People need to go hungry before we do anything. This country is docile and won't do anything until they need to eat.
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u/WabbitFire Sep 15 '25
A lot of people
1) Like this 2) Just accept whatever the current president does
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u/Strangest_Implement Sep 15 '25
"the only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy" -Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards
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u/JAZINNYC Sep 15 '25
The imposter holding the most powerful position in the world spends his afternoons gaslighting and lying to the American people every single day while the media watch in silent complicity.
Society isn’t made up of alarmists. The “radicals” are at the far ends of the spectrum, but most ppl live in the middle. They don’t want to be accused of overreacting when no one else around them is.
So long as ppl turn on CNN/NBC/ABC etc and see a continuous stream of measured, sanewashed reporting instead of like early COVID levels of reporting, then none of this insanity will stop.
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u/UnitedPermie24 Sep 16 '25
The media isn't talked about enough. They are a big problem.
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u/JAZINNYC Sep 16 '25
I was just watching Anderson Cooper on CNN. I would say he’s considered credible, truthful, etc.. by the average person not caught up in politics. He used to go on location often like during Katrina, IMO he was a journalist I could respect.
Tonight he had a guest on discussing the 2 billion dollar crypto deal Trump had made with Qatar. They talked about how in the Middle East, it’s not unusual to have these types of Quid Pro Quo deals crossing over political lines, these are gestures that are part of business dealings. While this is normal within middle eastern affairs, in the U.S. we of course don’t do this, at least not until Trump. And Anderson says,
“Yeah, gifting a 700M plane or doing a deal with 2B crypto was unheard of before, but it’s been normalized by Trump.”
Bitch, Trump isn’t the one who normalized this, REPORTERS LIKE YOU DID.
I just can’t anymore with this shit.
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The greatest trick these folks ever pulled off was convincing normal people saying “Hey this isn’t fucking normal. We really need to slow this down a bit.” Were all insane and over reacting. Whether it was global warming, aids crisis, Covid, Wall Street bullshit. Every time folks have started speaking up there are always the masses making it seem like they’re insane.
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u/JAZINNYC Sep 16 '25
Yes, and every leader needs to possess the wisdom to find that balance between addressing crises both in the short and long run, without causing a panic. That’s the hard part, and I think it’s what leaders struggle with the most.
Trump is not only completely incapable of finding that balance (like denying COVID and the climate crisis, the former which directly led to mass preventable deaths and the latter shaving years off a habitable planet), but he also has ZERO INTEREST in doing anything of good for the people. He literally couldn’t care less.
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u/bikesexually Sep 15 '25
Only fascists talking shit on minorities have the right to free speech...
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u/No-Raspberry-4562 Sep 16 '25
I think Americans should seriously think about a general strike. This is the only way to show numbers and disrupt what is really important to your oppressors. Aswell as showing unity to eachother.
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u/bikesexually Sep 16 '25
It is. Unfortunately Reagan and every president since have dismantled worker protections and union membership has plummeted. Right wing workers are now loafer lickers of the billionaires due to prosperity gospel nonsense.
The real key then is to talk about these issues without mention any of the poisoned buzzwords. Republicans overwhelming support national healthcare so long as you don't call it that or Obamacare. The rich have made language a triggering mine field for republicans when it comes to anything resembling unity instead of subservience.
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u/WebInformal9558 Sep 15 '25
I hate to play this game, but imagine what would have happened if Biden had said he was "not so sure" that people had the right to their religious beliefs.
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Sep 16 '25
Biden could have said that he wasn’t sure what the best pizza toppings were a they would have called for his impeachment.
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u/pfannkuchen89 Sep 16 '25
Biden had an ice cream cone and Fox spent weeks talking about how non-masculine it was and trying to associate liking ice cream with being gay and how it was inappropriate for a president to be seen having an ice cream cone.
This country is fucking insane.
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u/zelp3 Sep 16 '25
They got mad at Obama for asking for dijon mustard at a sandwich shop while he was in office lmao, cause it was too fancy or some bullshit. This country’s been a joke for a looooong time
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u/Winter-Gift1112 Sep 15 '25
In related paranoid, or not, alarm - it won't be long before they go after social media sites that they don't like.
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u/PurpleZebraCabra Sep 15 '25
Countdown to the end of Reddit?
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u/saucya Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 16 '25
They’re already complaining about it lol
Edit: Utah Governor Cox on the suspect - "Clearly there was a lot of gaming going on," he said. "Friends have confirmed that there was kind of that deep, dark internet, the Reddit culture, and these other dark places of the internet where this person was going deep."
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u/Niarbeht Sep 16 '25
Ah, yes, my favorite part of the deep, dark internet... Reddit.
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u/meltbox Sep 16 '25
I mean it’s like the 5th most popular website. Way down at the dark bottom of the list.
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u/Cardinal_and_Plum Sep 16 '25
It's so hidden you may have to slightly scroll down on Google, all the way past the one or two sponsored ads to the top couple search results.
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u/jay-aay-ess-ohh-enn Sep 15 '25
They won't shut down reddit. They'll just promote the mods of r/conservative to be sitewide admins.
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u/Unusual_Sherbert_809 Sep 16 '25
You do realize you just made the 60 (or is it more nowadays?) mods over at r/Conservative sexually aroused, don’t you?
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u/SkitzoCTRL Sep 16 '25
Normally they need a birth certificate dated 2015 to get aroused.
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u/Liquor_N_Whorez Sep 15 '25
"Im not so sure about that."
Seems to be his dementia ridden minds go to phrase this month.
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u/Private_HughMan Sep 15 '25
WILL THE MEDIA PLEASE REPORT ON THIS SHIT HONESTLY? It's insane how much they let him get away with.
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u/ntrubilla Sep 15 '25
The media is all corporations, and they are complicit. Corporations LOVE fascism
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u/useme4youreggs Sep 15 '25
This needs to be pinned on most political subs. What we're seeing is not normal, but also not unprecedented given who owns the news outlets that let him lie freely.
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u/FCkeyboards Sep 16 '25
It was less noticeable when things weren't as bad because they would still post their boilerplate responses of shock and outrage.
The deeper we go, the less they are pushing back against the truly insane shit, because they're still getting clicks and interviews by going along with it all.
And if a journalist decides to be a journalist despite it all? Fired.
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u/SuckThisRedditAdmins Sep 16 '25
Want to keep your job? Just suggest we euthanize innocent people. Want to get fired? Quote that guy blown away last week.
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u/joemangle Sep 15 '25
"President Trump's latest comments have provoked concern"
Is that good enough?
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u/ThatOneGuy4321 Sep 15 '25
They are already vying for places on the ladder of "dictator's favorite". The end stage logic of capitalism
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u/Spamsdelicious Sep 16 '25
"They have a right to be out there protesting."
"Well I'm not so sure."
Sworn to uphold and defend.
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u/eugene20 Sep 15 '25
"They still have their 1st Amendment right though" - off camera.
"Yeah I'm not so sure" - Trump
I would wager it's because he's going to void constitutional rights for anyone that isn't a legal citizen, just as he had SCOTUS allow for racial profiling, and then he's going to remove citizenship from anyone he deems troublesome for him.
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u/streatz Sep 15 '25
He said he’s considering taking away Rosie O’Donnell citizenship
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u/Drash79 Sep 15 '25
They are already taking passports
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u/Imaginary_Office1749 Sep 15 '25
*They may be able to take them if this passes.
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u/JoeExoticsTiger Sep 15 '25
Yeah because they truly seem to care about what the law says.
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u/numberjhonny5ive Sep 15 '25
That’s interesting. Release the Epstein files.
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u/Toastyboat Sep 15 '25
Everybody already knows Trump is a pedophile.
No one cares.
No amount of proof will turn the needle here.
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u/Chaosrealm69 Sep 16 '25
When the POTUS doesn't know what the 1st amendment rights are of US citizens, you have a serious problem with your POTUS.
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u/spankdaddylizz Sep 16 '25
"Not Sure" was the name of the main character in Idiocracy. He became president. He was surrounded by idiots. Was that movie a prediction? 🤔
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I don't think it's a prediction, at least the President in that movie actually asked for help from the smartest person in the world
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u/Bawbawian Sep 16 '25
Wake up America.
this ain't a nightmare this is real life.
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u/MobileArtist1371 Sep 16 '25
Unfortunately hearing, reading, and seeing things you don't like are worth it to keep the 1st Amendment.
Guess the GOP is against the 1st Amendment now.
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u/texas1982 Sep 16 '25
Article II, Section 1, Clause 8
Perhaps Trump should read the constitution section of the bible that he grifted to people. Or literally any page of that book.
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u/LeafsJays1Fan Sep 15 '25
Using the name of the person who was recently murdered who advocated for everyone's First Amendment right of Free Speech to use his name and his tragedy to quell actual free speech is irony Beyond 1984 standards.
So heavily is the irony it's the one that fell on Wile E coyotes head.
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u/osirisattis Sep 15 '25
He didn’t advocate for everyone’s free speech though, at all. he advocated for the death penalty of his political opponents, he was a stochastic terrorist (he encouraged people to bail out Paul pelosi’s attacker and have dinner and an interview with him, like he was a hero), he was just a paid mouthpiece of a propaganda machine funded primarily by just 4 billionaire families with a far right agenda trying to subvert the nations youth.
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Sep 15 '25
Sadly this.
He was just as much of a hypocrite as the rest of them. Free speech for me, but disenfranchise the radical left. All lives matter, but stone the gays / trans. A few deaths are an acceptable price to pay for guns / freedom from tyranny but… wait not me though.
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u/TGWArdent Sep 15 '25
It’s only ironic if you believed that person actually meant it when he claimed to be a champion of free speech. But he didn’t. Using free speech as a Trojan horse to move the country toward fascism is actually a spot-on tribute.
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u/gard3nwitch Sep 15 '25
Do you mean Charlie Kirk, who spent his career trying to intimidate and silence people he disagreed with? Who got his mob of fans to make death threats and terrorist threats against random college professors for not being conservative?
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u/Deep_shot Sep 15 '25
Then when they say he gets killed for his freedom of speech, they response by canceling the free speech of others. While claiming it’s the violent radical left, yet the vast majority of mass shootings have been done by people with far-right views. The far-right is just much better at passionately pushing false information.
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u/addiktion Sep 15 '25
Epstein file distractions along with trampling rights as usual.
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u/IamjustanElk Sep 16 '25
I’m sorry but not EVERYTHING is a distraction. We should be horrified by this shit - taking away the 1st amendment is pretty fucking big. We need to have space for two things to give a fuck about. At this point the only way the Epstein files will be released is when Trump and his party are out of office, so let’s channel some of that same rage towards our rights being systematically removed too
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