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.
That’s funny because Trump isn’t a capitalist. In an open market, his businesses fail. He needs government interferencey China style.
Capitalism =/= free market
I remember running around twenty years ago asking people (generally educated successful people) how they define capitalism.
Most people are not 100% sure, so they usually guess some form of market and blend it with consumerism.
My guess is that most of this came from Mikhail Gorbachev advertising for Pizza Hut.
That’s a very narrow definition of capitalism. If free markets hinder the main function of the capitalist system (accumulating capital at the top), it will be eroded and abolished. Monopolies for example are much more profitable than competetive situations. Getting rid of or circumventing open market competition is always good business.
Are we starting to use the word “capitalist” the way the Nazis or Soviets used the word “socialist?” As a meaningless label for “the dictator’s side?”
Every day I hope he gets Julius Caesar’d. Every day… disappointment.
Just wait till he learns Ben Franklin socialized Fire Departments
“support for the overthrow of the United States Government,” is also one pre-crime per that report. That’s reflection right there.
So Marx and Trotsky seemed to be against individual murdering of factory owners et alia. Does that imply that they would’ve been against the atrocities of Communist states that were perpetrated in their name, or would that have been fine because it was done by the masses in some sense?
Neither saw it happen in great numbers: Marx died before any of his ideas manifested properly, and Trotsky of course was murdered by Stalin in 1940. Holodomor and Soviet Union purges had happened already at that point, but perhaps Trotsky might’ve thought that those were just the evil of Stalin instead of being a more general mistake of his whole ideology. People tend to think that their political philosophy cannot do bad things.
“support for the overthrow of the United States Government,”
Ahh the crime he tried to commit a few years back. Can’t have anyone else ever try the same thing.
Okay, now it’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. With hints of Minority Report, Fahrenheit 451, Brazil, and our old friend Idiocracy, of course.
“don”'t build the torment nexus"
“make me”
This makes me think of the of the right wingers calling themselves deplorable or terrorists in response to being labeled as such.
Let’s not own up to their labels, let’s reject everything they have to say rather than amplify their messaging.
Conservatives: “why not both.”
Since when is there even such a thing as a “political crime”, let alone any kind of “pre-crime”?
You can’t criminalize someone’s political beliefs, unless you’re talking about making “thought crimes” a thing. And last time I checked “pre-crime” implies you haven’t actually committed any crimes yet…which makes you not actually guilty of anything.
This whole fucking premise is based on stupidity.
This whole fucking premise is based on
stupiditycontrol and power.FTFY
See, if it were based on stupidity, that would imply these measures are based on good faith efforts to solve a real problem.
What we have here is fabricated issues being “solved” with measures that don’t need to make sense. They just need it to give them more power, more control. It doesn’t matter if they look “stupid”. They aren’t acting in good faith to begin with.
Tell that to the Communist Control Act of 1954.
This is the entire goal of Palantir, presictive policing using mass surveillance data on citizens. Tie in digital ID and you have an even worse version of the CCP’s Social Credit system.
Just wait until the dream police come, get jailed for dream crimes.
You joke, but my wife gets mad at me for stuff I did in HER dreams, sometimes. The injustice is real.
Omg for real. To be fair, I’m a huge prick in her dreams.
My partner has face blindness, mine is one of a handful of faces that she recognizes on their own because I have a facial feature that’s distinctive enough that she recognizes it. So I am a frequent character in her dreams. Luckily she’s not the type to get mad at me for something I did in her dreams.
“classifies” as a crime?
What does that even mean?
He isn’t a lawmaker.
Basically providing a framework for who law enforcement should investigate as “suspicious”
Read the article
I hereby characterize MAGA as early dementia.
Not that early.
Lol, okay, to enforce that, they’d need to spend hundreds of billions on new prisons and police–oh.
He looks up to Russia. I heard the literally imprisoned half the country because they were such dicks. ( exaggeration, but you get what I mean.)
What did I even just read? Is it a crime to budget or something?
Thought crime is here.
Beat down your local magats for subjecting us all to this
1984
