I work with a bunch of educated conservatives, finance types. They don’t give a fuck but they get very sensitive about political discussion. They won’t care until their material conditions are (more) substantially impacted. Crash the stock market, they’ll care.
Probably had something to do with the ostracization of Aristotle and Socrates as well
That is the problem with fascism in general. Going back to the Roman emperors, there is always someone waiting to slit your throat and take your place. Not very “fasce-like” in application. It’s one of the practical reasons that system was abandoned.
That’s all good and well but the fact of the matter is that the U.S. and western allies are intervening, and we have intervened continuously since we overthrew their secular democratic government in 1953. Since the Islamic Revolution overthrew our puppet regime in 1979, we have crippled their economy with sanctions, assassinated leaders and civilian scientists, and bombed their country. Even if you believe these revolts are 100% organic, manifesting spontaneously with no assistance or encouragement from Mossad, CIA, etc (doubtful), the context is that the people have already been victimized and pushed to the brink by western powers as much as their own government. That is context that simply cannot be ignored, particularly since this looks a lot like 1953.
Please. Opposing intervention is not the same as “supporting the regime”. By the way, how did that theocratic dictatorship come to be?
And finally:
DHS is doing exactly what it was intended to do. It exists to foment unrest, agitate political upheaval, then neutralize the heads of the activist networks. It’s the same method the military uses to take down insurgent networks in the countries we invaded.
This has never been about immigrants, it’s just pretext.
We could call it “Operation Ajax Part II: The Stupiding”
They’re not chickenshit. They want this. The wealthy need the military in the streets to stop populist uprisings.
Wealthy Democratic Party donors/leaders need the military in the streets putting down populist uprisings as much as Republican ones do. Often they are the same people.
Do it pussy
Frankly the entire DHS is a redundant duplication of agencies that already existed. The reason for this is because the rich need a domestic secret/military police that can go door-to-door arresting dissidents, organizers, and protesters labeled “domestic terrorists”, and violently put down mass protests.
It’s also a graft scheme so assholes like Michael Chertoff, Tom Homan, and Krist Noem can rip off tax payers.
MFW people say the Democrats are “tearing this country apart”
Software licensing will eventually be relegated to the “dustbin of history”, hopefully it won’t be after humanity emerges from a post-apocalyptic hellscape.
Collaborators
The Republicans want violence in the streets so they can implement full martial law, particularly in blue states.
Trump is laying siege on America like Rodrigo Borgia stomping around midaeval Italy.
Every criticism about the United States being bent on world domination is 100% true. Other countries better band together because this will not simply end once the entire western hemisphere is under their control. That is just the first step to re-exerting global hegemony. It’s necessary in order to make war with China, for example.
I don’t desire acceleration, it’s simply what’s happening. There is a reason why the DNC remains a private and undemocratic organization.
Yes of course but they are creating the pretext to suppress and disperse all kinds of organized action. Protests, strikes, etc. Once people are normalized to “ICE agents” shooting people in the streets, going door-to-door raiding people’s houses searching for “illegal immigrants”, then it’s only one step further to do the same for “domestic terrorists” who end up being legal observers, journalists, labor organizers, political activists, etc.
In the 1960’s and 70’s they did these things too with the FBI and whatnot, targeting people with worldwide recognition like Malcolm X, MLK, Fred Hampton, etc. but it was clumsy and blunt as a tool, not feasible for larger scale, plus economic conditions were comparatively better, so they didn’t fear anything quite resembling a complete destabilization or revolution. Now they do, and they figure they have the tools and the capacity to do an authoritarian militarily occupied police state at scale.
Basically the premise of “Robocop”
Where Murphy at?