cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/65164
In a set of fascistic speeches on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House power broker Stephen Miller, and other top Trump administration officials labelled the political left as a “terrorist” threat and vowed to use all of the tools at their disposal to systematically destroy left-wing groups. Representatives from 67 countries gathered in the U.S. on Thursday for a meeting…
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Republicans are spineless cowards. Always have been.
For example, Lady G.
I think until I see real Americans taking to the streets on mass, all Americans are spineless cowards.
2nd amendment cosplayers been larping this whole time!
This pisses me off beyond all reason.
EDITS: Lol I kept remembering more and more empty platitudes every few seconds…
“Rah rah, sheepdog. Rah rah the fedz are comin. Rabble rabble Ruby Ridge and Waco. Rah rah learn mixed unit tactics to take on the glowies. Muh gunz protec muh free speech. Live free or die. Molon Labe. 1776 no step on snek! Remember the rooftop Koreans! It’s our Constitutional right to open carry at protests! The feds are planning death camps for dissenters! An armed society is a polite society! When tyranny becomes law rebellion becomes duty!”
[Armed gangs of LARPing fatasses in Walmart gear and balaclavas start killing Americans in the streets and dragging citizens into unmarked vans to take to blacksites on foreign soil without due process of any kind.]
“WeLL, tHeY’rE LaW eNfOrCeMeNt ThO…tHeY aRrEsT cRiMiNaLs. . .”
[crickets]
“…Wut?”
For the record, they were mostly right about all that stuff, on the surface.
But when it comes time to show that American spirit and “nut up or shut up” …they choose to shut up.
…Or they actively goosestep in line with a pedo-billionaire mass murdering megalomanic nazi who’s robbing them and selling them out by the day. . . because that makes sense.
As an American, you are somewhat right. But there is massive swaths of people who are not even looking or self reflecting at all. Not because they choose to, but because they hear the word government and run. Most are super short sighted. It isn’t fear they drives thier actions, it’s that they are currently not in danger in thier minds. They will get a rude wake up call, but know there are pleanty of people who will gladly do harm to evil people, but I implore you to understand that physical distance to evil is a huge factor slowing rebellion.