Post #3827083

2026-07-07 23:59 UTC

Two of them were not even present at the time of the shooting. This regime used NSPM-7 and the PA to get leftists on terrorism charges. They will do this again, it will be worse next time. We are very close to masked men knocking down our doors and dragging us out in the middle of the night. Do you think this is just going to go away? That everything is just going to work out? The tyrants will stop at precisely this amount of abuse of power and no further? Not once in history has a slide into authoritarianism just “worked out”.

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@testfactor@lemmy.world 2026-07-08 00:58

They were the functional equivalent of Jan6 rioters. Sure, not all of them killed a cop. But they were at minimum actively involved in the destruction of property during a riot that escalated to violence. I’ve already agreed the elevation to terrorist charges were bad. But let’s not pretend this was the gestapo pulling people from their beds for wrongthink. Trump surrendered power after his first term. The pendulum was swinging away from authoritarianism. Everything was on the path to “just working out.” Then the Dems screwed the pooch by putting forward crap candidates and it began swinging back. The answer to this isn’t continuing to put forward awful candidates. And I have trouble coming up with one worse than a serial rapist with a Nazi tattoo.

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