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When All Protest Is Terrorism | The groundwork for Trump’s free speech crackdown was laid by the War on Terror.

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When all protest is terrorism

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The heritage foundation wrote the fucking patriot act
- I remember Joe Biden claiming he wrote it. (C-SPAN video)
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_Counterterrorism_Act_of_1995
  Much of its rejected proposals were ultimately recycled as the USAPATRIOT Act of 2001 with Joe Biden's vocal endorsement.
Meanwhile, the right wing was never really "cancelled", ever, despite all their bitching about it, and all conservative activism and free speech will be juuuuust fine under any crackdown.
- But some of them got stern talkings-to for making racist, homophobic, and/or misogynistic remarks. That's basically being cancelled.
  Just ask Dave Chappelle. In his next multimillion dollar Netflix special.
  
  Watching Dave Chappelle start siding with social conservatives was so wild to me. Money fucking ruins people.
- Charlie Kirk luckily got permanently cancelled. Hopefully it’s a sign of things to come.
  
  it's sad seeing the Facebook comments about the paradox of intolerance, as though it's time for the right to become intolerant...
  yeahhhh they were so tolerant before
- Well, they were cancelled in the sense that it wasn't socially acceptable to be blatantly racist and there were often consequences if you were. Several right wing celebrities were "cancelled" for racist things in their past. Like the butter woman from the cooking shows.
What happens if trump has all Democrats declared a terrorist organization? He's got the courts and justice department....
- Civil war happens.
  
  Only if the Dems fight back. So far, they probably going to be all "he'll learn his lesson" about it.
- Look up what happened to the KPD and SPD in Germany after the Reichstag Fire.
  That happens.
When peaceful protest is made impossible, then violent resistance becomes inevitable. The very laws extending the classification of what constitutes a terrorist organization or terroristic acts is exactly why I support violent action against oppressive regimes.
Killing your masters has never and will never be legal, but it’s very easy to morally justify.

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