Summary
Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers are pushing to classify vandalism against Tesla as domestic terrorism.
Trump declared that those damaging Tesla dealerships would face terrorism charges, calling the company “a great American company.”
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and others urged the FBI and Attorney General to investigate alleged Democrat-linked NGOs behind Tesla attacks, though no evidence was provided.
Greene may have violated House ethics rules by advocating for Tesla while owning its stock.
“terrorist” has been so overused it no longer means much of anything. Like so many other words.
never did. it was always a word to justify state violence.
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I say we declare the GOP a terrorist group.
They did declare themselves that at one of the CPACs, so only seems fair to make it official.
J6
Good to know that all that “George Soros interfering with muh freedums” was bullshit projection.
Who could have known? These goddamn tankies, telling us not to immediately blame the Jews?!
“We Are All Domestic Terrorists.”
Is it still terrorism if you destroy a Tesla on January 6th at the U.S. Capitol?
Quick history moment:
The US government has always treated politically motivated vandalism as domestic terrorism.
The FBI defined Earth First!, Earth Liberation Front, and similar radical environmental groups as terrorist organizations decades ago, because they spiked trees and burnt subdivisions and SUV dealerships.
The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act makes it an act of terrorism to vandalize a factory farm or animal research lab - even nonviolent protest that “intimidates” employees is illegal.
Some of y’all are acting like burning car dealerships was protected speech before Trump. Come on.
It’s not that. The law will be written vaguely enough to apply to people keying cars or slapping a sticker on them. You should probably start paying more attention. Fascism loves to creep like this.
This coupled with the Laken Reilly act will be used to disappear people. They’ll continue writing even more vague laws to classify people as terrorists. And the whole time half this country will just nod their heads and say “yea, makes sense to me. Those guys are bad guys”. At least until they come for them or someone they know personally.
If they revoke your greencard then they’ll use the same logic to revoke citizenship for immigrants. Then they’ll start revoking citizenship for children of immigrants born here. Then anyone that is a “terrorist threat”.
Your history is correct. But this is not the same. Don’t fall for the reasoning given by fascist for why they want to implement new laws. Ask yourself: if the laws are already on the books to allow these acts of violence to be classified as domestic terrorism then why do they need a new law?
It’s because that new law is gonna give them much more power while needing far less (or no) evidence.
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This goes a bit further than that. They are trying to make spray-painting “ASSHOLE” on a Tesla an act of terrorism akin to burning down a Tesla factory. The two are not the same. This kind of law would make every graffiti artist a terrorist. That’s not what anti-terrorism laws should be used for.
Bruh…
I emigrated from a country that makes it illegal to criticize leaders
only to end up in a country that is also about to make criticizing leaders illegal.
Just… wow
(from PRC to USA)
Torching and destroying cars and dealerships isnt the same as some critical speech… The title is just a complete clickbait fabrication…
If someone can’t say that Israel is wiping innocent lives off their homeland in a fashion that can only be described as a genocide without it being deemed illegal and grounds for a criminal offense and/or other punishments, freedom of speech does not exist. It is in no way anti semitism. Israel is a state, not a religion. Long before Israel was paying politicians in the U.S. for their states best interests whether for the good of humanity or not, Jewish people existed, and long after the U.S. and Israel are gone, Judiasm will likely be here. Judiasm isn’t asking them to murder children, politicians are ordering it.
Torching and destroying cars is already illegal. No reason to designate it as domestic terrorism.
If they are considered terrorists, it is easier for MAGA to justify sending them to the concentration camps in Guantanamo or El Salvador.
Is that the second one, with the 3rd trying to be in Costa Rica? I knew they were moving people to a more wooded area but I didn’t know where in central/south America it was.
Oh they’re including the people holding signs.
Come to UK / Europe. We’ve got universal healthcare and more robust democracy and many centurys long tradition of criticising and mocking our leaders.
you… want Americans to come there?
Y’all need to invite Canada as a special member
“Who is behind it? Who is funding it? Is there a link with Democrat-leaning NGOs [non-governmental organizations]?” Greene wrote Wednesday on X, hinting at some kind of nefarious conspiracy.
Have you considering the 2 million or so federal workers who were fired thanks to DOGE with Musks face plastered all over it? Pretty big axe to grind there.
Fucking jackasses.
OK, I’m going to commit international terrorism: fuck muskrat! muskdie!
Well then I guess I’ll see y’all at gitmo.
I think those Teslas spontaneously incinerated themselves out of embarassment.
Trying to pin it on Democrats who supposedly funded it is pretty far out. Come on. How much funding does someone really need to make a fire?
Dude I want to live in this world where the Democratic party is so far left that they’re burning Teslas and talking about seizing the means of production from Elons factories. I really wish the Democrats were HALF as radical as these idiots on the right pretend they are.
Republicans are something society needs to leave behind in full. They literally don’t stand for anything and are net negative for society.
The destruction of the mainstream conservative media by companies like NewsCorp have yielded great results for right wing authoritarians.
At this point, they clearly aren’t even for corporations or shareholders, given the most recent cascade of economic catastrophes.
This is the only hope for America not to fall, if Trump and Musk also screw the elites too much there will be much more likely a revolution.
That makes me an international terrorist, i guess 😂
Me too, you wanna hijack a plane? /s
We are all domestic terrorists
