The assassination of Charlie Kirk threatens to embolden the far right and provide Donald Trump with a pretext for crushing dissent. Escalating political violence corrodes democratic norms and poses a unique threat to the Left.
  • [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish
    54·
    4 months ago

    The assassination of Charlie Kirk threatens to embolden the far right and provide Donald Trump with a pretext for crushing dissent.

    Oh no, maybe he will use it as a pretext to declare war on a US city and name it after a WWII battle like Midway!

    Or maybe his administration will claim that filming federal enforcement is violence!

    Or maybe he will have US citizens detained by immigration enforcement based on racist profiling with the blessing of SCOTUS!

    Or maybe they were going to manufacture a crisis and this isn’t actually enabling anything they weren’t already doing.

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
    15·
    4 months ago

    If you take the articles content — rather than it’s title — as a warning for what comes next, it’s accurate and reasonable. What the article fails to consider is that what comes next was always inevitable. Republicans have spent months trying to create violent backlash. They needed an escalation — any escalation — to justify the greater atrocities they have openly planned. Declaring vulnerable minorities as dangerous and mentally ill, declaring political opponents the same, imprisoning American citizens and enacting an ethnic-ideological Final Solution in the US.

    Kirk’s assassination wasn’t the start of this and it’s not the end of it. He was a convenient sacrificial pawn for the Trump administration and the violent, oppressive, bloodthirsty, goose-stepping nazi party behind him. It will get worse. Much worse. And then it will get worse still. As of November 5, 2024, the US was damned to violent, horrific ends.

    If you cannot fight for your very life and your loved ones, find a way out now. Time is not on your side.

  • bruhbeans@lemmy.ml
    9·
    4 months ago

    Someone said Jacobin is the Happy Meal of socialist publication but I think that’s a slight against happy meals.

  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
    7·
    4 months ago

    Remember everyone: in the aftermath of a right wing fuckhead getting what they got coming, EVERYBODY is an establishment Democrat. All the “They go low, we go high” chanting along with “Any form of action is scary because it invites reprisals”.

    Fuckers, “reprisals” have already been happening. Maybe the marketing will change but the actions won’t.