So people who invade the seat of power are good people worthy of pardons, and people peacefully protesting are terrorists? I thought that "fascist" may have been slightly misused prior to this, but investigating peaceful protest crosses a very serious line.
You might want to check what happens woth the law company that sued Trump. Trump is now using his executive power to destroy them - and punish any company that hires them.
It’s even worse than that. The law firm capitulated and will now do pro bono work for the administration. So the administration rescinded their EO barring it from government work.
this here ^ is a common propaganda trick: we group all the people who do peacefully picket and exercise their freedom of speech (as well as free-market choices) with a small number of extremists who resort to violence, and so discredit the entire movement.
I've noticed when the Reds are targets of this, they fight back with paranoia and call the violent ones "plants", "paid instigators", or "false flag operation".
I'd like to believe people can still be reasonable and say "nah, I agree with the sentiment but I don't condone those methods. Nice try though."
No, this is a hold yourself to a higher standard "trick". Selling of stock, walking a picket line, setting fire to property. One of these things is not like the other. Being unwilling to admit that it is happening is not good either.
For all of the millions that support MAGA but did not invade the capital, it rightly brought criticism of the movement that those that did support. The same is true when people perform violent acts of protest for any group. The violent acts will always garner the most attention while diminishing the effectiveness of the non-violent acts. Doesn't matter red/blue/purple.
I just seem to be different because I'm willing to acknowledge the fact rather than trying to write some diatribe to sweep it under the rug
Doesn't matter that they are not. It is happening, and it is always going to be grouped together because the end goal is the same. Like it or not, that's what happens in the real world.
> France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.
> “I learned with concern that a French researcher” on assignment for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) “who was traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled”, Philippe Baptiste, France’s minister of higher education and research, said in a statement on Monday to Agence France-Presse published by Le Monde. “This measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher’s phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy,” the minister added.
> US agents found messages about the treatment of scientists under the new US administration that "showed hatred towards Trump and could be qualified as terrorism", the same source said.
