Trump seeks to extradite Palestine solidarity funder James “Fergie” Chambers from Spain on “material support for terrorism” charges. Lawmakers and rights groups call it political persecution amid a broader crackdown on the U.S. left.
we are not usually the ones to denounce leftwards movement and organizing as “too tankie”. you will have to learn that lesson before you can complain about us not buying into cia talking points.
but i digress, my country doesn’t do that counterproductive stuff (yet, i guess)
my point is that they are manipulating the overton window to make even slightly left from fascism look like their evil communist caricature. plus normalize all of these crackdowns on anyone they dislike under the guise of protecting everyone from those vaguely defined “leftists”.
Ah ok, thank you for explaining. I think we are in agreement that the people that are being targeted by Trump’s regime are not actual leftists. My point was that even if they aren’t leftists by definition, we should still be defending them from the regime because if we don’t, we allow anti-leftist oppression to be normalized.
i don’t disagree with you on that, whoever they are targeting is always our first line of defense. but it’s also important to focus up their intentional blurring of lines, as it helps everyone notice we’re on the same team. then we shouldn’t fall for traps.
we are not usually the ones to denounce leftwards movement and organizing as “too tankie”. you will have to learn that lesson before you can complain about us not buying into cia talking points.
but i digress, my country doesn’t do that counterproductive stuff (yet, i guess)
I’m confused about your point here.
my point is that they are manipulating the overton window to make even slightly left from fascism look like their evil communist caricature. plus normalize all of these crackdowns on anyone they dislike under the guise of protecting everyone from those vaguely defined “leftists”.
Ah ok, thank you for explaining. I think we are in agreement that the people that are being targeted by Trump’s regime are not actual leftists. My point was that even if they aren’t leftists by definition, we should still be defending them from the regime because if we don’t, we allow anti-leftist oppression to be normalized.
i don’t disagree with you on that, whoever they are targeting is always our first line of defense. but it’s also important to focus up their intentional blurring of lines, as it helps everyone notice we’re on the same team. then we shouldn’t fall for traps.
Agreed. Nice to see we’re on the same page.