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.
  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.socialEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Ballsy from a guy who concentrates economic decision making into his own cabinet. The word for that is statism not capitalism

    • ceoofanarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      6 months ago

      except capitalism as a system has always included that “statism” isn’t a economic system separate from your imaginary"capitalism"

      • nymnympseudonym@piefed.socialEnglish
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        6 months ago

        your imaginary"capitalism”

        I grok you’re angry. Please don’t take it out on me. I didn’t make any economic systems, real or imaginary.

        capitalism as a system has always included that “statism”

        When discussing abstract and slippery ideas it is really important to use words according to their precise meanings.

        DDG LLM summarizing Studocu & Wikipedia:

        Capitalism is an economic system characterized by private ownership of the means of production and minimal government intervention, focusing on profit and free market competition. In contrast, statism involves significant state control over economic activities, with the government owning key industries and regulating the economy extensively for collective welfare.

  • canajac@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 months ago

    How long do we have to keep on reading dementia Don’s dumbass ramblings?

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      6 months ago

      If everyone’s guilty of crimes against the state then everybody’s in for a bad time. The population of the USA is going to go way down over the next few years.

    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      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.

      • Zarathustra@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        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.

        • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          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.

  • motor_spirit@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Is there a category of pre crimes? You’d think being associated with the most egregious offenders would land you in such places. This could get interesting for republicans if they start tracking themselves and employing honesty.

    • Typhoon@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

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

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        6 months ago

        It’s ironic that the country with the most guns per citizen is the country least likely to defend its democracy with those guns.

      • Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca
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        6 months ago

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

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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      6 months ago

      The lesson of history, which we ignored, is to first come for the fascists.

      Then we don’t have to see that fucking copypasta everywhere.

          • Art3mis@lemmy.world
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            6 months ago

            Anybody right of socialism can stuff it and even that shit is pretty centrist. Working within the system will never solve our problems. It is specifically designed to prevent that and maintain the power structures of capital and empire.

            But im sure you probably think socialism is far left lmao

  • Blade9732@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

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

  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    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.

  • FreeMindFreeAss@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The emperor has no clothes, and the frogs are starting to notice that maybe the water is a little hotter than it’s worth.

  • FirstCircle@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Inventing and punishing thoughtcrimes seems to be a favored tactic among dictators. Trump-MAGA and ICE remind me most of Stalin and his NKVD (secret police). Solzhenitsyn wrote about how ordinary citizens would frequently be arrested/shot/sent to the gulag over mere assertions that they held anti-Soviet/anti-Communist beliefs, or had counter-revolutionary sympathies. It was illegal to not rat out others who you suspected held such beliefs and inclinations - if you didn’t you could be shot yourself.

    I think we’re getting there. I soon expect to see federal government websites and apps where you can report your friends/neighbors/family members for anti-capitalist and/or anti-fascist and/or anti-evangelical-Christian leanings.

    From Wikipedia (Great Terror article)

    The purges were largely conducted by the NKVD, which functioned as the interior ministry and secret police of the USSR. Soviet politicians who opposed or criticized Stalin were removed from office and imprisoned, or executed, by the NKVD. The purges were eventually expanded to the Red Army high command, which had a disastrous effect on the military. The campaigns also affected many other segments of society: the intelligentsia, wealthy peasants—especially those lending money or other wealth (kulaks)—and professionals. As the scope of the purge widened, the omnipresent suspicion of saboteurs and counter-revolutionaries (known collectively as wreckers) began affecting civilian life.

    The campaigns were carried out according to the general line of the party, often by direct orders by the Politburo headed by Stalin. Hundreds of thousands of people were accused of political crimes, including espionage, wrecking, sabotage, anti-Soviet agitation, and conspiracies to prepare uprisings and coups. They were executed by shooting, or sent to Gulag labor camps. The NKVD targeted certain ethnic minorities with particular force (such as Volga Germans or Soviet citizens of Polish origin), who were subjected to forced deportation and extreme repression. Throughout the purge, the NKVD sought to strengthen control over civilians through fear and frequently used imprisonment, torture, violent interrogation, and executions during its mass operations.

    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      It’s chilling.

      None of this should sound plausible in the USA. These simply aren’t the kind of concerns citizens should have to have in a free democracy, because it shouldn’t be possible to let things get this far.

      It truly breaks my heart to see the US as it is now. It’s frightening, and it’s extremely disappointing. I think of all the people who give these totalitarians their vote, and I’m deeply disappointed in them.

      • Typhoon@lemmy.ca
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        6 months ago

        These are exactly the kind of concerns citizens should have in a free democracy because that’s how you keep your democracy free. We only have rights because normal everyday citizens fought for them and continue to fight for them. The problem is that we’ve all become complacent and lazy about it and let things slide to where things are now.

        • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          These are exactly the kind of concerns citizens should have in a free democracy because that’s how you keep your democracy free.

          I do hear you, and I know, and I agree… It’s just that I always expected to fight against the slow creep of totalitarianism. I expected to have to look out for veiled threats, or hidden signs of tyranny. I never expected to face overt, blatant totalitarianism. I never expected the US president to openly endorse white nationalist organizations. I never expected so much of the public to be on board with what are so clearly unethical policies, with an administration that closely mimics the rise of the Nazi party…

          If politics is a tug of war, I expected to have to constantly pull in the right direction, I didn’t expect the other side to light the rope on fire.

          • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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            6 months ago

            If you thought this was all sudden you just might not have been paying attention. Every president whether its a D or an R has continued the slide.

            • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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              6 months ago

              I don’t think that’s really an accurate portrayal of events… I mean, how much did Obama or Biden work to add to political polarity and divisiveness? When did they try to pit Americans against each other?

              I think that argument breaks down when you get to the most recent presidents we’ve had.

              • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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                6 months ago

                The only difference between parties is what group of people in the world we will take advantage of. Democrats take advantage of “third world countries” and republicans take advantage of “fake americans”.

                The whole country is based on greed and abuse of power.