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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 14 days ago

Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime

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Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 14 days ago
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Donald Trump’s new security directive labels anti-capitalist beliefs as a predictor of political violence. The irony: left-wing structural analysis actually pushes people away from lone-wolf attacks and toward mass organizing for change.
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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.

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      Americans need to get organized and get their shit together FAST. What’s left of their democracy is disappearing daily.

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        Their democracy has been gone for a while. They’re just getting around to noticing now.

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    He has precrime in his pants

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    If everyone is guilty of crimes against the state, no one is guilty of crimes against the state.

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      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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        That’s really not how that works.

        I expect you’re quite worried about this situation but try not to be so dismissive of others, please.

        Yes, in a very real sense it means that the Government can target their enemies with impunity. But in another very real sense it suddenly throws everyone over the barrier of having committed a ‘crime’ and may well remove any moral or ethical barrier one might feel in opposing the regime.

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          I expect you’re quite worried about this situation but try not to be so dismissive of others, please.

          That’s fair, I can see how starting my comment like that must have been really annoying. Sorry for that.

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    If you don’t be a slave for billionaires you’re a tewwowist. That’s fweedom.

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      Oh no, dont thweton me. :3

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    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.

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      Legal loophole: it’s not anti-capitalistic if you are just stupid

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    What even is a “pre-crime” and since when does it exist?

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      Thought crimes

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      By asking this question you have committed it.

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      It’s a crime that exists only in an alternate factual world. 😶

      When he looks at his daughter, that’s a pre-crime.

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    I mean, he is an expert on crime.

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    I cannot wait to learn he died. Painfully hopefully.

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      If you think his death will change anything in this rotten system, you’ve got another thing coming lol

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        Nothing will change for the positive, but it will be a cathartic interlude in this march to hell.

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          Fair enough. Ill definitely spark one up when hes gone.

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        deleted by creator

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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.

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    Oh my God, did somebody let him watch Minority Report? His grasp on reality is, shall we say, not strong.

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    Crime before crime? So not a crime? Is raping children a post crime. Asking for a friend?

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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.

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    Grandpa wants to change his diaper before it’s been shit.

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    Oh mortal man

    You can bury your humanity

    But you cannot outrun your mortality

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    Finally we can throw the whole admin in jail for being commies?

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