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Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers are pushing to classify vandalism against Tesla as domestic terrorism.

Trump declared that those damaging Tesla dealerships would face terrorism charges, calling the company “a great American company.”

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and others urged the FBI and Attorney General to investigate alleged Democrat-linked NGOs behind Tesla attacks, though no evidence was provided.

Greene may have violated House ethics rules by advocating for Tesla while owning its stock.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

“Who is behind it? Who is funding it? Is there a link with Democrat-leaning NGOs [non-governmental organizations]?” Greene wrote Wednesday on X, hinting at some kind of nefarious conspiracy.

Have you considering the 2 million or so federal workers who were fired thanks to DOGE with Musks face plastered all over it? Pretty big axe to grind there.

Fucking jackasses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Great. Now I wake up a domestic terrorist and I didn't even do anything...

[–] [email protected] 162 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Republicans do not support the first amendment."

[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They also don’t support the USA.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're traitors, and you know what they say:

He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.

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[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Republicans are something society needs to leave behind in full. They literally don't stand for anything and are net negative for society.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago

The destruction of the mainstream conservative media by companies like NewsCorp have yielded great results for right wing authoritarians.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At this point, they clearly aren't even for corporations or shareholders, given the most recent cascade of economic catastrophes.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Such big man babies, they are going to make it illegal to not like them??? There is not a word in the English language that describes how baby, child like and immature this behavior is. I think we shall call it being musk. They are being extremely musky about this.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I like it. Musky: a state of being petty or childish.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Serious question: Historically, has a fascist movement ever been put down without the use of violence?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

It always ends in violence. The kind of person that creates these racist movements simply does not operate with a human mentality. They wake up in the morning and their first conscious thought is to benefit themselves, the second one is hurting others to benefit themselves. They are pure evil.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So, the land of freedom is now trying to tell people what emotions they can feel? Against the guy who's supposed to be a free speech absolutist?

"You can say whatever you want, as long as it doesn't upset me."

The hypocrisy is unbelievable. You'd think they'd at least avoid making themselves look like complete fools, try to hide it a little?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

And decided by the guy who started the birther conspiracy, feeds the pedo conspiracy (while openly being one), and told the world that his Presidential rival "turned black".

Fuck Trump and Musk, they both seem to be real musky about being called out for being awful humans. Trump should probably be more concerned with what JD is doing to the White House furniture, going to have to get plastic sheets to cover them all.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not being republican is now illegal. Cool cool cool.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Bruh...

I emigrated from a country that makes it illegal to criticize leaders

only to end up in a country that is also about to make criticizing leaders illegal.

Just... wow

(from PRC to USA)

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I say we declare the GOP a terrorist group.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Next thing you know they’ll be calling democrats an insurgency.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

They've been waging war on words for years now. Keep using them improperly until they don't have any meaning left. So... totally on brand

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What a bunch of snowflakes. What's wrong? Are we hurting his feelings? The richest douchebag, who doesn't know what he's doing, with his head is so far up his own ass I'm sure he can taste it, doesn't like being called what he is? 🎻

Fuck him. I have no pity for fascists. 🖕🏾

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

from TFA:

go for the tires. easily accessible. high energy density.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Just avoid setting the whole thing on fire. Lithium battery smoke is extremely toxic.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Quick history moment:

The US government has always treated politically motivated vandalism as domestic terrorism.

The FBI defined Earth First!, Earth Liberation Front, and similar radical environmental groups as terrorist organizations decades ago, because they spiked trees and burnt subdivisions and SUV dealerships.

The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act makes it an act of terrorism to vandalize a factory farm or animal research lab - even nonviolent protest that "intimidates" employees is illegal.

Some of y'all are acting like burning car dealerships was protected speech before Trump. Come on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's not that. The law will be written vaguely enough to apply to people keying cars or slapping a sticker on them. You should probably start paying more attention. Fascism loves to creep like this.

This coupled with the Laken Reilly act will be used to disappear people. They'll continue writing even more vague laws to classify people as terrorists. And the whole time half this country will just nod their heads and say "yea, makes sense to me. Those guys are bad guys". At least until they come for them or someone they know personally.

If they revoke your greencard then they'll use the same logic to revoke citizenship for immigrants. Then they'll start revoking citizenship for children of immigrants born here. Then anyone that is a "terrorist threat".

Your history is correct. But this is not the same. Don't fall for the reasoning given by fascist for why they want to implement new laws. Ask yourself: if the laws are already on the books to allow these acts of violence to be classified as domestic terrorism then why do they need a new law?

It's because that new law is gonna give them much more power while needing far less (or no) evidence.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

"We Are All Domestic Terrorists."

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

My dogs face when I'm holding bacon is how I imagine Republicans look when they see a boot.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (7 children)

What about Vandalism against other car dealers. That's also domestic terrorism, right?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

There is a lot of shit people aren't doing because they don't want to cross the line and become domestic terrorists. You do NOT want to move that line over them.

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