Thread by @SteB777

"Donald Trump blamed “the radical left” for the shooting and promised a crackdown"

The man who tried to shoot Donald Trump, was a registered Republican, and so was his family. This is Nazi style lying and hijacking of a murder for political reasons.

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The biggest instigator of political violence, in America is Donald Trump. He instigated a violent attempted coup on 6 January, in which a police officer died, to overthrow a legitimate election result.
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Currently, Trump is instigating militaristic invasions of states and cities run by political rivals, on entirely false and made up grounds, to intimidate them. He did it in California, then Washington DC, and is now threatening it in Chicago.
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Trump's militaristic invasion of Washington DC was based on the false pretext of his lies that violent crime was out of control. Whereas the objective figures showed it was falling, and had been far higher in the past.
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Trump's latest attempt at violent political intimidation, is to threaten to release "Chipocalypse Now", violent military invasion of Chicago. Where Trump was portraying himself as a violent war freak comic character, from an anti-war film.

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It is objective fact, that the biggest instigator of political violence, in America, objectively, by long way is Donald Trump. Trump is blaming his political rivals, what he calls the "radical left" of being behind the shooting of Charlie Kirk. There's no evidence for this.
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Even if the shooter of Charlie Kirk turns out to identify with what Trump falsely calls the "radical left", it doesn't prove any general threat by the "left". The young man who "shot" Trump, was a registered Republican. Does that make all Republicans responsible for this act?
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Trump's repeated references to the "radical left", is itself an inflammatory lie, as there is no major radical left movement in America. Even @BernieSanders and @AOC are actually moderate social democrats, not radical left.
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"Radical left" means revolutionary communists or Marxists, who generally are open about their radical ideology. The accusations of Trump's political rivals being communist or Marxist, are made up political smears to incite fear and violence.
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The actual radical left, have very little presence in the US, and are tiny. Whereas the extreme and far right, are mainstream supporters of Trump.

Even "antifa" is a made up enemy, as there is no coherent group with that name.
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In other words, there is a disparate number of small anti-fascist groups, not one singular organization, as the far right conspiracy theorists falsely claim.

It is these made up enemies right out of Orwell's 1984, or Animal Farm, that is most telling.
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If Trump were not a would be fascist dictator, then why would he feel the need to keep making up non-existent enemies to justify oppressive, militarized intimidation, of legitimate political opponents, and characterizing them as something they are not?
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Self-evidently Trump has no respect for the truth, for democracy, for free speech, or anything else. He is a deranged man-baby narcissist trying to incite political violence, so he can take over and rule as a dictator.
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But here's the thing, Trump is not even a real fascist or Nazi, he's pretend one. He has none of their coherent ideologies. It's purely about Trump the narcissist egomaniac, and his billionaire oligarch mates, trying to legitimize their oligarchy, with cod ideology.
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There is no coherent ideology or philosophy behind this attempted take over by tech bros, and juvenile minded billionaires. They are like a bunch of egocentric toddlers, "I want, I want, I want low taxes and the ability to do whatever I want".
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Trump is a man-baby, not like the nasty dictators he idolizes, who didn't invite him to their military parade in China, because they do not treat Trump seriously and regard him as just a petulant child.
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Trump is a plastic fascist, like you have plastic gangsters.

I abhor political violence. However, it is very clear that there is one main driver of political violence in the US, and that is Donald Trump. Even though he is not a serious person.

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This is the thing about the attempt at a fascist dictatorship in the US. It is not serious, it will not last, because those trying to create it are juvenile incompetents, who have no idea at all, of what they are doing. They are sowing the seeds of their own downfall.
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Yes, they'll create violence, more people will needlessly die, it will create great injustice and oppression. But it will just fizzle out, eventually, because these people are idiots and incompetent. Trump, the plastic fascist and plastic dictator, is not a serious person.
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