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    Let us note that Trump and his funders might say they’re capitalists, but like all capitalists, actually they aren’t. Actually, they hate competition, free markets, or anything that would make them compete without cheating. What they want to be are rentiers, who get money for nothing, no matter what they do.

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    Isn’t domestic terrorism sending troops into your own cities when there is no reason (or a made up reason) for it?

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    Ok, I am definitely not setting foot in the US for a long while. Let’s be realistic, probably ever again.

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    Hasn’t it always been treated as such?

    The fedboys were moving around Occupy like they were engineering a coup in a poor brown country.

    So orange boy made it official?

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      Between this and the recent NSPM-7, the difference is the outward rhetorical combined with a directive of “pre-action”: stop these things before they commit crimes.

      This changes the state of things into truly thought policing, not through unspoken, implicit societal norms, but with the authority and blunt force of the regime’s might.

      It feels like we’re being fomented into a civil war while strategically weakening us on the global stage. It’s almost like the duty to the constitution & country has “left the chat.” I say “almost” because I have 3 kids and don’t want to be disappeared.

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        “pre-action”: stop these things before they commit crimes.

        This changes the state of things into truly thought policing, not through unspoken, implicit societal norms, but with the authority and blunt force of the regime’s might.

        Yes. What was the name of that movie again… Anyhow this sort of shit has been quietly happening in many countries now, all at least partly inspired by the USA’s “War on Terrorism”.

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    This is so much worse than most of y’all seem to be taking it. This officially, with the force of law, turns anyone against the regime into a terrorist. The government has extra resources and abilities to go after terrorists, and the charge carries heavy prison time. Also, district attorneys love terrorism charges as wins on their record. They’ll happily nail any one of us.

    To my mind, nothing Trump has ever done is this scary.

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      You can and should care about more than one thing at a time. Don’t let the Epstein files blind you to everything else happening