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…
From Truthout via This RSS Feed.
That’s exactly what they want. If they have nothing to lose, they fight back, then the right can point at that and use it as confirmation of their originally bullshit claims. Fascism 101.
I see this sentiment a little more frequently than I see the following that I’ll paraphrase:
“They’re doing this to egg on a response [so we should not give them what they want by pushing back]” is an accidental or intentional PsyOp campaign.
If your opponent threatens to fight you if you fight back, you would choose to surrender before the fight begins?
It’s an incredibly effective PsyOp when arguably the largest downside of anti-MAGA people is their rampant apathy, and that sentiment is like gasoline to a fire. “Oh, the enlightened response is to stay home like I did in 2024? Sick.”
Oh, sorry, don’t mistake my explanation for complacency. I’m all for fighting these fascist pieces of shit by any means necessary. You’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t, might as well do.
Label me a terrorist? I’ll show you one.
In other words, Labeling Theory.
You’re goofy…
… are you insulting someone for agreeing with you? That’s pretty goofy.
Didn’t really seem to be agreeing or disagreeing, you’re just saying things lol. Your comments didn’t seem to have much purpose other than describing in further detail what is being said like some kind of AI subtext generator. Hence, goofy.
It’s not a wildly inaccurate accusation that sometimes people who agree do a bit of circlejerking and I can see that angle of what I said if you want to be a bit nasty; I just figured you and anyone else reading the thread would be interested in the fact that what you said is a well-documented phenomenon with a name and Wikipedia page and everything.
Between your first comment that I replied to and your expressed irritation with friendly banter that irritates me in turn, I’ll do us both a favor and go ahead and make it so we can never bother each other again.
Lol okay then. I’m sure you already blocked me, but apologies if I misread your intent. Perhaps I’m too inclined to read hostility into messages on the internet.
Cheers, mate.