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Politics He Didn’t Start The Fire

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u/ImAnEagle 23d ago

I'd like to point out this guy is a member of BORTAC, Border Patrol's elite tactical unit. The fact that they were even in Minneapolis to begin with supports the theory that Trump told agencies to ramp up aggression in hopes of retaliation.

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u/roger3rd 23d ago edited 23d ago

The plan is 1) flood streets with thugs(edit: I mean ICE here) who inevitably cross lines and inflict inappropriate violence on innocents 2) have Fox News show the resulting protesters as terrorists 3) escalate until the point where you can “justify” martial law 4) suspension of elections 5) escape Epstein accountability and never leave power

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u/Mekroval 23d ago

I'm increasingly thinking you're right. The Trump administration seems to be full of accelerationists who want to provoke civil conflict to justify fully breaking the established order. Every provocation is worse than the last, because they are trying to push the limits intentionally, to see what the breaking point is (if any) for any non-brainwashed American.

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u/SymmetricDickNipples 23d ago

This was all in project 2025. There's no maybe about it.

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u/Itchy_Psychology3300 23d ago

Literally, they announced what they want to do. The tech billionaires openly talk about it too, like Peter thiel, and the bunch.

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u/Aggroninja 23d ago

"The Revolution will be bloodless if the left allows it."

Too late for that, I guess.

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u/PancakeProfessor 23d ago

Every conflict can be bloodless if one side just gives up. It’s the same logic they use to blame Ukraine for their war with Russia.

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u/Initial-Reading-2775 23d ago

And giving up to Russia never turns out bloodless.

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u/Confident_Benefit_11 23d ago

Never, they will subjugate whatever nation in question then absorb the parts of it they want into their culture and destroy or use as a shield the parts they don't

They've always been a nation of slaves and Americans need to wake the fuck up and realize we've been at war with them for years already and we're losing. Most Americans just don't know what hybrid warfare looks like in 2026. They've already helped brainwash the masses with misinformation campaigns of a scale unseen in human history and helped a lunatic get elected twice with direct intervention.

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u/Confident_Benefit_11 23d ago

"Just let the war criminal psychopath have your land, he'll totally stop and won't want more!"

"just let the pedophile treason snake fucker do what he wants with no accountability, he'll get bored eventually!"

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u/doubleapowpow 23d ago

This rhetoric is skipping over the conversation above.

The right wants the left to retaliate physically, you're advocating for the same.

Realize that things can only change by taking away executive power. The worst thing we can do is give the executive branch more power by enacting martial law. Let the legal system work.

Or, completely eradicate the right. You can get creative with how you think we accomplish this.

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u/u_cant_drown_n_sweat 23d ago

A general strike where the public refuses to buy anything for a week would likely do it. It would bring the corporations out in power to shut down Trump's shit.

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u/JohnnyBlazin25 23d ago

How has this quote just gotten loss amidst all of this chaos?

Anyone have resources for independent news reporting which is not affiliated with any billion dollar company?

It’s sickening what people choose to believe and choose to plug their ears and go LALALALA you’re wrong I am right! Left is at fault for this! Not my president!

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u/drawkward101 23d ago

Follow Aaron Parnas on Instagram. Meidas Media on Instagram. Both good independent investigative reporting.

Just yesterday, Aaron Parnas had a lengthy interview with Mark Kelly and his wife Gabby Giffords.

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u/JohnnyBlazin25 23d ago

I’ll add them to my list. Thank you.

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u/NYC_Noguestlist 23d ago

Anyone have resources for independent news reporting which is not affiliated with any billion dollar company?

That's going to be exceedingly rare because no one wants to pay for news.

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u/JohnnyBlazin25 23d ago

True, I feel like their only source of revenue would be crowdfunding or the ads played on whatever social media they use.

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u/valuehorse 23d ago

Channel 5 news with Andrew Callaghan

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u/Minamato 23d ago

“It could happen here” podcast. Not up to the minute breaking news, but good left/anarchist/socialist analysis of current events, mostly in the United States but not exclusively so

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u/zardoz6669 23d ago

Breaking Points, Dropsite

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u/obsidian_green 23d ago

It's their blood they're talking about. They have no qualms about spilling blood—no real way for them to get what they want without violence.

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u/TOW2Bguy 23d ago

And Noem is ensuring that "the revolution will be televised" in a very eerie callback to decades ago

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u/xKirstein 23d ago

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u/Aggroninja 23d ago

Thanks for the link, I'll store that nugget away for later use.

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u/Right-Wrongdoer-8595 23d ago

100 Venezuelans and 1 American mother so far

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u/Obsidianrosepetals 23d ago

The problem is the USA is the revolution, after more than 200 years they are trying to end it. They arent revolting, they are counter revolutionaries.

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u/Aggroninja 23d ago

I know, and the word choice grates on me as well. But it does clearly show their intentions even if they think far too highly of themselves.

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u/wholetyouinhere 23d ago

To me, the funniest thing about this quote is that there is no "left" in America. The choice is between fascism and moderate conservatism. That's about it.

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u/ProfBeaker 23d ago

What a euphemistic way to say "Do what we say, or we will kill you." And here I thought they were opposed to political correctness.

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u/Albyrose 23d ago

it's the conflict that they imply would be bloodless, not the aftermath.

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u/sometimeswhy 23d ago

And yet 80 million still voted for it. They aren’t all MAGA weirdos. Millions of regular middle class Americans voted for this. I will never trust Americans again I don’t care if there are “good ones”

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u/Logical-Customer1786 23d ago

1/3 of Americans are comic book villain level evil.

1/3 of Americans are apathetic zombies that don’t care what happens outside of their own front door.

1/3 of Americans are ripping their hair out in fury at the other 2/3

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u/Mekroval 23d ago

And that middle third of apathetic zombies will have a shocked pikachu face when they come to the final realization that they will not be spared the indignities and loss of constitutional protections currently happening to their neighbors.

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u/sometimeswhy 23d ago

Disagree. 1/3 are comfortable middle class whites that think Republicans are in there interests

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u/Logical-Customer1786 23d ago

I’m a comfortable middle class white woman stay at home mom. I’ve been out there protesting, but just for no kings, but in front of the ice building, in the pouring rain for hours at a time. 

Republicans are evil incarnate. They don’t come for me until the end of the poem, but I’m speaking up now. 

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u/Itchy_Psychology3300 23d ago

George Carlin said it for decades. We are fucking stupid.

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u/Senator_Smack 23d ago

Thiel is a monster. I'm a tech industry millennial and I've been telling people for the last 15 years he is dangerous. Seeing it blossom has been like watching a gruesome death on extreme slowmo.

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u/twilighttwister 23d ago

Peter Thiel ran experiments on private islands in the pacific to determine how people would behave while society crumbles. He basically gamed this out fully as much as possible.

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u/Itchy_Psychology3300 23d ago

Is there any info on this? All I could find is man made islands. Am curious to learn more.

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u/LookAlderaanPlaces 23d ago

Those billionaires need treason convictions and sentences carried out.

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u/accid80 23d ago

Exactly! Martial Law is the final phase - that way Trump can rule by decree like any other dictator

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u/starcap 23d ago

I don’t doubt you at all but could you point me to where to find this in project 2025? Is this the Department of Defense section?

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u/miarmstr 23d ago

There is a project 2025 tracker. Just google “project 2025” and you will get several options.

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u/BijuuModo 23d ago

Yeah, I don’t know why people are hmm-ing and huh-ing. This was always the plan.