I keep seeing people talking about NSPM-7 which directs all federal agencies to basically monitor, disrupt, preemptively arrest leftist activists.

In my mind this has always been a thing. This isn’t so much a policy change as voicing out loud what the policy has been. Materially US spying and abusing their citizens is pretty much par for the course.

Is this something I am not taking seriously enough or are the libs whipped up into a frenzy again?

  • dead [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    20 days ago

    NSPM-7 doesn’t just say to disrupt leftist activities. It designates leftist activities and even liberal activities as a indicator of terrorism.

    The terrorism designation means “the government wants to kill you” and “you don’t get to have a trial”. The US sends designated terrorists to Gitmo. The US government kills designated terrorists without trial.

    Why does Israel say that all of its enemies are Hamas? Israel says that Hamas is a terrorism organization. Israel has crafted a permission structure that Israel is allowed to kill anyone who is Hamas. When Israel says that somebody is Hamas, that is a death threat.

    Trump is saying that his political enemies are Hamas. Trump is saying that you are Hamas.

    • dastanktal [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      10·
      20 days ago

      Yes, but the United States government has been calling leftist activists terrorists for the longest time and terrorist supporters for the longest time, even without the official designation. Not only that, the three letter agencies of the United States constantly do their own shit anyway and often treat these activits as hostile.

      • dead [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        12·
        20 days ago

        What point are you making? There were events in the past where leftist activists were treated as terrorists and it was really fucking bad. There have been many times in that past when leftists were persecuted by the US government and it was really fucking bad. Now with NSPM-7, the MAGA regime is saying that they are going to persecute leftists and people are predicting that it will result in something really fucking bad.

        Your post presumes that other people are overreacting. You mock people for reacting to it. Do you think that because something happened before then it won’t be bad when it happens again? Do you think that things can’t get worse? Maybe you’re not afraid because you know you personally won’t be affected.

        The whole point of analyzing history is to figure out how things will change in the future. History is a pattern of changes. If you look at modern events and you think “nothing is happening”, then you have failed.