Re:Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah
by __loam on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @11:43PM
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I condemn political violence, but it's really hard for me to look at not only the rhetoric coming from the right, but also the actions of the current administration and say it's not fascism. They've:
- Bombed multiple foreign countries without a congressional declaration of war
- Levied tariffs on trade without the consent of congress
- Built concentration camps with the express purpose of housing undesirable populations they're hoping to ethnically cleanse
- Arrested immigrants for deportation at the courthouse where those people are going through the legal immigration process
- Arrested immigrants who have legal permanent resident status over legally protected speech, before holding them for months at a time despite Habeus Corpus requests
- Arrested immigrants before illegally deporting them to a torture camp in El Salvador against the express orders of multiple judges, before refusing to return said immigrants to the country for months against judicial orders
- Ordered the National Guard to multiple US cities with no outstanding civil order issues against the wishes of the state Governors
- Illegally ordered the Marine corps into an American city in a law enforcement capacity
Etc, etc, etc, etc, etc
It feels like this administration has multiple scandals a week that would have ended previous administrations. They're taking dangerous, illegal and frequent actions that fit the definition. It's not just hot rhetoric. People like Charlie Kirk have contributed to the media climate and national discourse that have laid the foundation for these actions. I don't think he should have died for that and I don't think random people should get to be the judge jury and executioner for people they don't like, but damn, open your eyes a little and actually look at what this administration has done and is doing. We're genuinely at a scary place in our history and I just hope we can all pull back from the edge here because I don't want to live through the complete disintegration of the rule of law or a violent civil conflict.
- Bombed multiple foreign countries without a congressional declaration of war
- Levied tariffs on trade without the consent of congress
- Built concentration camps with the express purpose of housing undesirable populations they're hoping to ethnically cleanse
- Arrested immigrants for deportation at the courthouse where those people are going through the legal immigration process
- Arrested immigrants who have legal permanent resident status over legally protected speech, before holding them for months at a time despite Habeus Corpus requests
- Arrested immigrants before illegally deporting them to a torture camp in El Salvador against the express orders of multiple judges, before refusing to return said immigrants to the country for months against judicial orders
- Ordered the National Guard to multiple US cities with no outstanding civil order issues against the wishes of the state Governors
- Illegally ordered the Marine corps into an American city in a law enforcement capacity
Etc, etc, etc, etc, etc
It feels like this administration has multiple scandals a week that would have ended previous administrations. They're taking dangerous, illegal and frequent actions that fit the definition. It's not just hot rhetoric. People like Charlie Kirk have contributed to the media climate and national discourse that have laid the foundation for these actions. I don't think he should have died for that and I don't think random people should get to be the judge jury and executioner for people they don't like, but damn, open your eyes a little and actually look at what this administration has done and is doing. We're genuinely at a scary place in our history and I just hope we can all pull back from the edge here because I don't want to live through the complete disintegration of the rule of law or a violent civil conflict.