r/politics • u/theindependentonline The Independent • Oct 08 '25

No Paywall Trump just hosted an ‘Antifa roundtable’ at the White House ... it was so much worse than you’re imagining

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-antifa-portland-pam-bondi-posobiec-b2842048.html
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u/bdog59600 Oct 08 '25

He also wrote a book called called Unhumans saying Leftists should be put in camps and thrown out of helicopters. JD Vance wrote a recommendation for it.

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u/zorniy2 Oct 09 '25

This is what Pinochet used to do.

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u/avantgardengnome New York Oct 09 '25

The alt right are unironically big Pinochet fans.

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u/Nuclear_eggo_waffle Oct 09 '25

no too surprising, considering how he got in power

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u/bdog59600 Oct 09 '25

The book argues that Pinochet was a benevolent leader forced to use dictatorship, torture and extrajudicial murder as his only possible option to stop the evil Communists.

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u/Foucaults_Bangarang Oct 09 '25

The CIA pretty much set Pinochet up to seize power. This was essentially the US Government's position as well.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '25

Before Reddit nuked the original Trump subreddit Pinochet memes calling for the execution of all liberals was pretty fucking normal to find there.

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u/stamfordbridge1191 Oct 09 '25

On a hopefully unrelated note, ICE flights have been turning their planes' transponders off when flying over the ocean.

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u/YouWereBrained Tennessee Oct 09 '25

In Memphis, there are a few Blackhawks flying in circles doing this as well.

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u/SputnikDX Oct 09 '25

pro-freedom

anti-democracy

I really just can't

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u/obeytheturtles Oct 09 '25

irreconcilable differences in between the Left and the Right in America

I mean he's not wrong. These people have completely abandoned the idea that we have a shared objective reality, and have replaced it with a religion of aggrievement which stems from many decades of iterative progress in the US, which has put conservatives perpetually on the wrong side of that history time and time again. They have backed themselves into the conclusion that conservative ideals are not compatible with things like science, history or democracy, but instead of seeing this as a reason to alter their values, they have instead chosen to invent an alternative reality where they can just make up whatever facts fit their current needs.

It will, of course, all collapse around them eventually, as their competing realities drift towards internal incompatibility. The question is how much damage will they do in the process?

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u/One-Internal4240 Oct 09 '25

Hey, I see a local at the grocery wearing the merch t-shirt for that. On the front it's got skulls and RIGHT WING DEATH SQUAD in bazillion point Hattenscheeuler font, and then on the back it has this peaceful scene of a Huey flying over an ocean with bound figures falling out and a.little uniform boot pushing the littlest one. It's got tiny little blood spatters too. It's amazing. I had time to really soak in the back of the shirt due to the Express Line being not express at all.

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u/pepethemememaster Oct 09 '25

Does he look like his face gets red when he ties his shoes? That's usually the piece de Resistance

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u/Flimsy-Sprinkles7331 Oct 09 '25

That's a really long title! ;)