This is so much worse than most of y’all seem to be taking it. This officially, with the force of law, turns anyone against the regime into a terrorist. The government has extra resources and abilities to go after terrorists, and the charge carries heavy prison time.
To my mind, nothing Trump has ever done is this scary. Now that he’s upped the ante, let’s just say they’re not taking me alive.
Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Hasn’t it always been treated as such?
The fedboys were moving around Occupy like they were engineering a coup in a poor brown country.
So orange boy made it official?
MurrayL@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s McCarthyism 2.0, as American as apple pie
bigfondue@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Considering Roy Cohn was Trump’s mentor you could consider it a continuation of the original
Fandangalo@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Between this and the recent NSPM-7, the difference is the outward rhetorical combined with a directive of “pre-action”: stop these things before they commit crimes.
This changes the state of things into truly thought policing, not through unspoken, implicit societal norms, but with the authority and blunt force of the regime’s might.
It feels like we’re being fomented into a civil war while strategically weakening us on the global stage. It’s almost like the duty to the constitution & country has “left the chat.” I say “almost” because I have 3 kids and don’t want to be disappeared.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 days ago
Yes. What was the name of that movie again… Anyhow this sort of shit has been quietly happening in many countries now, all of course inspred by the USA’s “War on Terrorism”.
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The problem is not that he says it, but that he says it out loud.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 days ago
Yes. Though others before him weren’t exactly quiet about it either.