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[–] AutoVomBizMarkee@hexbear.net 41 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It’s a very slightly different list then the one she remembers from her years at the CIA

[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago

If she's mad about this it's just because she's not going to get credit for all her work on the original list

[–] adultswim_antifa@hexbear.net 41 points 6 days ago

yeonmi-park The government has a secret list of citizens which the leader thinks the military should kill.

[–] abc@hexbear.net 36 points 6 days ago (5 children)

i hope everyone here knows we're probably on said list sinwar-victory

[–] dead@hexbear.net 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

If we're serious, I think the list is likely composed of left wing organizers, anti-ICE protesters, anti-Israel activists, etc. Republican Senators have said they are targetting organizations like PSL and Code Pink. Even DSA was named during the anti-antifa press conference that Trump held a few days ago.

What is the purpose of a terrorism watchlist? It is permission for the state to kill people on the list. What does the US do to 'terrorists'? The US indefinitely detains 'terrorists' without trial. The US tortures 'terrorists' without trial. The US kills 'terrorists' without trial. Trump's admin is creating a permission structure for the state to kill left wing activists.

Republicans are always doing projection. Accuse the enemy of the thing you are doing. Today for example, Trump accused China of sending letters to countries to limit trade, something that he bragged about doing.

After Charlie Kirk's death, all of the Republican establishment pushed a single line of reasoning, "Leftists do violence and rightists do speech, therefore we have to suppress leftist speech with rightist state violence." ex "The state has to be used to stop people from criticizing ICE deportations". The accusation that leftists are violent gives permission to the rightists to be violent against leftist speech.

At the same time, right wing politicians and pundits have said that the label "fascism" is permission structure to kill. They claimed that calling someone a fascist puts that person in danger, because it permits violence against that person, dehumanizes. This is why Republicans claim that "antifa" is a terrorist organization. When we apply the logic that Republicans use projection to give themselves permission, it is clear that they want to use the terrorism label as a permission structure to kill people.

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago

What is the purpose of a terrorism watchlist? It is permission for the state to kill people on the list.

It also allows the state to surveil people indefinitely without charging them with any actual crime. I presume it also makes warrants or whatever easier to get or circumvents that process somehow, although I don’t know that for sure.

[–] hexthismess@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Everyone not on the list is a LIB

[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago

If history is anything to go by, plenty of libs are on the list too.

Red baiting a very effective form of discipline.

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 days ago

Both Aunt Tifa and Unc Tifa are on the list

[–] ComRed2@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago

If you're not, you're doing something wrong.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 33 points 6 days ago

The zionist running dog has come to warn us about misuse of the "terrorist" label

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 28 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Bit idea - start making up fake orgs on social media and poison pill their A.I. flagging system.

Meeting will take place in extremely mundane hole in the wall addresses like that pizza parlor downtown next to the CVS. Or the local bowling alley or skate rink. Traffic will be there so they will stake the location out and then....nothing. lots of nothing. Like ever. Lots of manhours and tax dollars wasted on chasing ghosts specter

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 24 points 6 days ago

basements of venues that don't have basements are a great meeting location

[–] dead@hexbear.net 22 points 6 days ago

This would be an example of "offensive counterintelligence".

[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago

They'll just pick up whatever racialized, poor, queer or otherwise marginalized people they find.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Slotkin coming out against NSPM-7 is a change in her policy, or maybe she finally read the executive order.

Over a week ago, Elissa Slotkin was asked by press about NSPM-7. She said that she hadn't read it yet, but that she blames "both sides" for political violence.

Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin told Courthouse News that she had not yet read the White House directive but said that she was concerned about anyone looking to blame political violence on one side.

“I think a lot of what came out after the assassination of Charlie Kirk is that some people in leadership believe that freedom of speech is only for some people, and freedom of expression is only good and safe and democratic if it’s someone who shares their views,” Slotkin said.

The Michigan Democrat pointed out that her state had just experienced a mass shooting at a Mormon church, citing reports that the shooter had come from a “very conservative, certainly Trump-voting family.”

“I think political violence is a scourge on both sides,” she said.

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[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Dem 2028 platform will include additional review of the domestic kill list and congressional oversight of all executive deathsquads

[–] DogThatWentGorp@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Far too ambitious. A senate committee to discuss the budget of the death squads and writing a strong letter tho? Bipartisan gold. President stuff.

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago

Well, it's just the platform, not like they would actually do any of it.

[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 20 points 6 days ago

Not one to be muscled out of your job are you?

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

As a result of the directive, the FBI’s domestic terrorism watchlist is expected to double in the coming months, sources told me.

The same watchlist that's sitting at over 2 million names? Yeah ok.

Either they're handing us easy security through obscurity, or they're preparing to do an Indonesia redux.

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago

I hate mark pocan so much, but even a broken clock gets stuff right sometimes.

[–] coolusername@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 days ago

Palantir is going to be in charge of air traffic control so it'll be extra easy to take people out and do false flags