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Trump memorandum brands anti-fascism and opposition to capitalism as “domestic terrorism”

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Trump memorandum brands anti-fascism and opposition to capitalism as “domestic terrorism”

www.wsws.org /en/articles/2025/09/27/npou-s27.html

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Trump memorandum brands anti-fascism and opposition to capitalism as “domestic terrorism”

www.wsws.org /en/articles/2025/09/27/npou-s27.html

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Trump memorandum brands anti-fascism and opposition to capitalism as “domestic terrorism”

www.wsws.org /en/articles/2025/09/27/npou-s27.html

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Let us note that Trump and his funders might say they're capitalists, but like all capitalists, actually they aren't. Actually, they hate competition, free markets, or anything that would make them compete without cheating. What they want to be are rentiers, who get money for nothing, no matter what they do.
- You're confusing capitalism with liberalism. They're very much capitalists.
Isn't domestic terrorism sending troops into your own cities when there is no reason (or a made up reason) for it?
Ok, I am definitely not setting foot in the US for a long while. Let's be realistic, probably ever again.
- The company I work on now requires you to sign a waiver if you're ever got sent to US for a project.
  
  Nice! During the duration of the project or ever ever?
Then call me a terrorist.
- Please don't make me do this.
Republican thought experiment: if Trump is the sworn enemy of anti fascists, then what does that make him?
- If they had enough material between their ears they could figure out what the opposite of an anti-fascist is. They're almost there but the neurons can't quite reach.
- Mad toothbrush moustache person?
  
  He just wears the mustache on the inside.
Hasn't it always been treated as such?
The fedboys were moving around Occupy like they were engineering a coup in a poor brown country.
So orange boy made it official?
- It’s McCarthyism 2.0, as American as apple pie
  
  Considering Roy Cohn was Trump's mentor you could consider it a continuation of the original
- Between this and the recent NSPM-7, the difference is the outward rhetorical combined with a directive of “pre-action”: stop these things before they commit crimes.
  This changes the state of things into truly thought policing, not through unspoken, implicit societal norms, but with the authority and blunt force of the regime’s might.
  It feels like we’re being fomented into a civil war while strategically weakening us on the global stage. It’s almost like the duty to the constitution & country has “left the chat.” I say “almost” because I have 3 kids and don’t want to be disappeared.
  
  “pre-action”: stop these things before they commit crimes.
  This changes the state of things into truly thought policing, not through unspoken, implicit societal norms, but with the authority and blunt force of the regime’s might.
  Yes. What was the name of that movie again... Anyhow this sort of shit has been quietly happening in many countries now, all at least partly inspired by the USA's "War on Terrorism".
- The problem is not that he says it, but that he says it out loud.
- So orange boy made it official?
  Yes. Though others before him weren't exactly quiet about it either.
Please do not struggle in the face of your certain demise
Trump really was inspired by Hitler in every way, in a very unironic fashion.
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- ...Yeah.
So...thought police?
Capitalism is a useless word because few people understand it the same. The supremacy of capital owning class is the most common understanding of both pro and anti Capitalists.
But Capitalism is originally defined as free and fair markets, and so against Supremacist corruption of markets where the counterparty negotiation class is necessarily oppressed.
So exterminating all government supremacist supporting politician minions, and nationalizing all of their donors' assets is the real proper interpretation of these domestic terrorists. But a bigger problem than intending the opposite, is that it is subject to absolutist expansion of supremacism. Refusing 16 hour shifts, or corporal punishment authority granted to your managers, or not letting a better richer capitalist destroy the land/property of a lesser poorer owner becomes anti-capitalist when Fox news/CNBC tells you it is.
Welp.
Well my memorandum brands him as a turd.
Projection

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