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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  • nanometer1625@thelemmy.club
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    This wasn’t just Stephen Miller as this article makes it sound. The conference was convened by Marco Rubio, and he also used fascist rhetoric.

    He called leftists “an encroaching darkness” and “the enemies of civilization”.

    Rubio also called the left terrorists:

    Rubio also attempted to link disparate groups together. “Iranian proxy networks”, he said, “are increasingly intimately tied to leftist militant groups around the world”. “We have no choice but to confront this menace together. We will either cooperate across our borders, or the terrorists will continue to exploit the gaps between them."

    This is from another article on the conference, from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/16/political-violence-event-trump-marco-rubio

    Between this and Trump’s recent claims that the USA doesn’t have the ability to secure its elections against Chinese interference, the regime seems to be making a case for cancelling the midterm elections and possibly arresting Democratic “terrorists”.

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    It’s just a new/different version of the tired trope that the black kid in the hoodie is dangerous- BE SCARED OF THE BLACK KID IN THE HOODIE !!!

    Yet it is almost always the white man in the suit that is going to either rob you or kill you.

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    As usual, it’s projection. He knows the real cancer is his own group.

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    Let’s emphasize the fact that he is not saying people who march around carrying rifles and machine guns intimidating Americans in their hometowns. Nor is he talking about people who commit mass shootings. Or people who pollute the air, water, and soil that we need to survive. No, it is people with left wing and liberal ideology, people using their freedom of speech.

    Fucking evil. I hate everybody who voted for this and everybody who didn’t bother to vote.

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      Fucking evil. I hate everybody who voted for this and everybody who didn’t bother to vote.

      Oh yeah, All those Leftists who famously vote blue no matter who. With all that hate in your heart are you sure you aren’t a Republican?

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    Leftists in the States, you know he and his administration are going to come for you. There’s only one way out here and we all can see this as it’s playing out like every other time in history that fascism rose. YOU ALL need to get ahead of these fascists, and there’s only one way, too. You will have two choices: be sacrificed to fulfill Trump’s dream, or sacrifice yourselves now and go out on your own terms. It’s a shit deal, but it’s the responsibility of all Americans, regardless of how you voted, to ensure your country isn’t run by fascists.

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      There’s only one way out

      That’s right, we need to VOTE!

      It’s the one thing leftists have never tried before. So get out there and HIT THE BALLOT BOX!

      You will have two choices

      If there’s one thing a leftist can always trust, it’s someone standing in a position of authority and saying “You’re Either With Us, Or You’re With The Terrorists!” and then demanding we swear unswerving loyalty on pain of death.

      it’s the responsibility of all Americans, regardless of how you voted

      Well, you first. Tell us how your plan works out when you get back.

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      I’m genuinely co fused by this comment… are you telling me to kill myself?

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    It would be wild if the left could actually be as radical as they claim. America might not be so screwed up if they were.

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    I really hope liberals understand that when he says “leftists”, he means you too. Fascism doesn’t stop until people stop it, and it’s usually not with votes.

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    I don’t know what I hate more, that these pricks with fingers feel validated enough to be openly stating this kind of shit, or that there is nobody that is in earshot this verbal diarrhea that puts him on the spot over it. Especially in the broader republican side at large. Just letting this happen because it’s “your guy” is some weak shit.

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      Has the US forgotten already that Hitler looked at the US race laws with admiration in Mein Kampf?

      This isn’t new. This cancer has never been excised, just bandaged over because it became inconvenient to capitalist interests at the time.

      As far as I can see, this shift back towards fascism in the US is the response to the rise of China as an economic and military power.

      Some of this rise is attributable to the decline of favour of fossil fuels, and China’s position as market leader in solar and wind generation technology. This is why Trump has a hate for renewable energy, and such a throbbing micro-peen for oil. The US is being left behind, fast.

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        Has the US forgotten already that Hitler looked at the US race laws with admiration in Mein Kampf?

        Forgotten? Most schools here probably don’t even teach that. I would bet that most Americans are not at all aware of this fact.

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          Many Americans probably think they liberated the entirety of Europe during WW2 with a little help from the British and Canadians.

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      Republicans are spineless cowards. Always have been.

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    It’s a unique talent to project from a skull that so readily lends itself to being a target.

    Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.

    White supremacists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.

    A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

    They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

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    Man, I’m really killing it as a cancer lfg

    Knew I’d figure out my calling in life.

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    If you don’t like what they do you are left wing. Pretty simple concept for really simple minds like theirs.