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Cato Institute - The US Government unconstitutionally labels Immigration and Customs Enforcement observers as domestic terrorists
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In the voice of Ted Danson: "The Cato Institute figured it out? The Cato Institute?!"
I'm being facetious, but also... DUH. Yes. Precisely. The whole "antifa" being the number one domestic terrorist "organization* is absolutely ridiculous. I watched a shorter version of this clip where Mississippi Representative Bennie Thompson deflates the whole argument. There's no HQ, no membership, etc. and the literal operations director of the FBI's National Security Branch looks like a fool.
"Sir you wouldn't come to this committee and say something you couldn't prove..."
It still astonishes me that it hasn’t backfired on them spectacularly. “Antifa” is literally an abbreviation of “anti-fascist.” It’s right there in the name. Antifa opposes fascism. If you are anti-antifa you are pro-fascism. And sooooo many people are okay with that. You can’t make this shit up.
The conservative claim is really pretty simple. The left is lying.
The left claims that the org isn't real despite countless violent incidents. The group "pitches itself" as antifacist.
Most of them would still be anti-fascism in the sense of being anti-Third Reich. But if they don't consider their team to be fascist and antifa is
protestingattacking "them" then clearly antifa is not antifacist.An example
Trump designates Antifa terrorists as critics dispute if group exists | Fox News
Truly, they have a dizzying intellect.
Wait 'til They get going!!!
What has emerged to me most in the last 10 years is that the average person spends very little time or energy on critical thinking. It's far easier to just consume headlines to know what to think or how to feel, and as long as you don't press too hard on any subject, then you won't realize the web of contradictions and outright falsehoods that lay underneath.
This is what Trump and everyone who uses Trump's abject lack of conscience discovered. They can say literally whatever the fuck they want and face very little consequences. Doesn't matter if it's true or even sounds true. Just send it out into the universe and go on doing your thing. I mean for Christ's sake, this man went on national television and said immigrant communities were eating people's pets and he got elected AGAIN.
Reality doesn't matter. If you have no morals, you can do anything you want.
For those not familiar with US stuff, why is Cato the Jason Florida Man of think tanks? Brief Wikipedia look says they're Koch funded libertarian, is it the Koch part that's surprising ?
If I bring the joke to reality, it's less that they're Jason Mendoza in terms of intellect. It's that the conservative* think tank is actually saying the thing and not toeing the line on the right. They are libertarian so no it's not that surprising. It's just not coming from the ACLU.
Broken clocks are right twice a day and all.
But mostly it was a joke not a deep analogy.
*They don't like the label, I think it's accurate even if they're on the libertarian side of the right. My own bias is that libertarians assume they'll be the winners in the unregulated future they seek and wouldn't die of cholera and I prefer disabled people not dying from their advocated policies.
Stopped clocks. A fast or slow clock could be right more or fewer than 2 times. 🤓
To me those clocks are fast or slow, the timing is off but they're not "broken" but I played with a lot of broken clocks as a kid. (◠‿◕)
I take your meaning though