The FBI’s domestic terrorism watchlist is set to double in the coming months, according to journalist Ken Klippenstein, who has been reporting on President Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum titled ā€œCountering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence,ā€ also known asĀ NSPM-7. The memo identifies potential domestic terrorists as someone expressing ā€œanti-Christian,ā€ ā€œanti-capitalismā€ or ā€œanti-Americanā€ views. Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna responded on X, writing, ā€œTrump’sĀ NSPM-7 represses freedom of speech & association, investigating any organization with ā€˜anti-capitalism’ or ā€˜anti-American’ views. I ran a primary in 2003 against the Patriot Act and war in Iraq.Ā NSPM-7 is a greater infringement on freedoms than the Patriot Act.ā€

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    Non American here and correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this the reason the 2nd amendment is for? I mean the goverment overstepping their power?

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      There is no amendment for courage though.

      Americans will roll over and expose their bloated belly like they always do.

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        Lots of tough talk from the other side of the Atlantic when you know damn well you wouldn’t go shooting at politicians or whatever dumb and suicidal thing you seem to be advocating that we do.

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    Whelp, guess I’m now waiting for a call from my dad where he calls me a terrorist.

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    Atheists are now terrorists

    Man, every day I commit another crime I didn’t know I was committing

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      They use to use ā€œGodlessā€ as a slur. I guess they can’t anymore because they also want to punish people who don’t believe in a god the same way they do.

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          No, my point is that they can’t dismiss the ā€œGodlessā€ as the enemy, because that technically includes the other religions. They now need to say ā€œAnti-Christianā€ to mean the same thing

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      Atheists are now terrorists

      So are Native Americans I assume. Not a helluva lot patriotism in the reservations, at least the folks I’ve known. Great folks. Honest opinions on America.

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    The fact that NSPM-7 wasn’t THE headline since it was signed on September 25th is an utterly damning indictment of our media and what they focus on. There have been a multitude of things since then that are also utterly damning indictments of our media, but NSPM-7 was like, the whole fucking game. It’s saying ā€œI’m gonna paint with a broad brush and tell the FBI and other DHS orgs and internal security bullshit to surveil and persecute people I don’t like, and whose ideas I don’t likeā€.

    So much for keeping the republic.

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    This is from the dictators handbook. Make everyone guilty so you can pick up anyone you like, whenever you like.

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    On what fucking grounds? I love how in america today nothing has to make sense and no one even feels the need to argue in favor of nonsensical views. They just state them as fact and get emotional about them if challenged.

    It’s ā€œterrorismā€ to wish for a better society if that view of society conflicts with the current economic system. What a fucked up joke of a world. I guess this is an accidental admission that we’re an oligarchy, since you’re seen as an existential threat if your views would make the 1% less rich.

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    The memo identifies potential domestic terrorists as someone expressing ā€œanti-Christian,ā€ ā€œanti-capitalismā€ or ā€œanti-Americanā€ views.

    Fuck Jesus. Fuck working 60 hours a week for minimum wage. The USA can eat my asshole.

    Come get me, bitch.

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      This is the funniest shit I’ve read all day. Godspeed, you savage pork chop!

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    Come and get me Big Brother lmao

    Fuck capitalism, fuck the government, and fuck Donald Trump.

    I’ll scream for guillotines and billionaire cuisine through my dying breath.

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      Don’t give Peter Thiel ideas. Whenever someone suggests finding ways to read people’s thoughts his third set of nictitating eyelids flicker in excitement as he secretes another layer of mucus from his flesh-layer. (He’s the guy who plans on running the country if Trump turns out to not live forever.)

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    Capitalism is evil and this government should be disbanded and everyone running it should be in prison at minimum.

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    Well, antifascist, anticapitalist, anti-colonialist, atheist, pro-trans, I guess I would be arrested right at the border at the land of the free. Good luck with the pedo-dictatorship USA.

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      Here’s a horrible fact, almost every dictatorship in history has been a pedo dictatorship.

      Authoritarianism and pedophillia seem to go hand in hand, but because the pedo dictator almost always focuses on teenagers, this aspect of authoritarianism tends to go under reported.

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      Pretty soon we won’t be able to get out. Fuck I hate what this country has become