Fascists require external enemies to fight to maintain their power.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2025
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Or perceived enemies. The truth barely factors in.
They claim the boats are drug traffickers. Of course they’ve squandered any good will or reputation so no one believes it. Even if they were, you can’t just randomly kill people.
Much more likely it’s to put pressure on Venezuela for I’m not sure. Presumably it’s “the art of the deal” for oil companies that have laundered bribes through trumpcoin.
can’t just randomly kill people.
I think they’re trying to set the precedent that they can just kill people.
Now it’s “drug runners” from Venezuela in international waters. Soon it’ll be “domestic terrorists” in international waters. Eventually it’ll be “domestic terrorists” on US soil if we let them.
I mean it’s true that it’s just more noise in the horror show that remains of American democracy. It’s difficult to focus on yet one more fascist action, far from home
No doubt.
None of us can do everything.
they don't need domestic terrorist excuse. Ice just knocked down all the private resident doors of a large apartment complex because they claimed criminals were somewhere in the building. Took everyone indiscriminately and took property because. why not. whose gonna stop them. Lets be clear. This justification can be. There is a criminal in a neighborhood so break all the private residence doors down and grab everyone and steal their shit. They let you go later but they don't repair your door or return you property.
Last I heard China's setting the precedent for mass murdering anyone they don't like in their or neighbouring countries, America's lagging behind - they're not even at 'arresting political opponents' yet
They're working on that.
Distraction from the Epstein files, Israel and the ongoing war against democratic cities.
Normalization. Everything the Trump admin has been doing is to normalize the concept for the next bigger thing. Boots on the ground in LA normalized it enough for boots on the ground in DC, which normalized the concept for Chicago, Memphis, and ramping up faster.
"They're eating your pets" normalized a stronger fear of immigrants, which allowed Trump to strengthen ICE, which normalized harsher ICE actions, which normalized ICE officer's anonymity using masks, which normalized random arrests, which normalized ICE raiding an entire apartment complex and arresting kids, etc.
"Drug boats" suggests cartels. Trump threatened to invade Mexico to "go after the cartels" and Mexico said fuck off. They pivot to an easier target, and set up Venezuela to be the target to "liberate" from cartels, which will normalize the US military entering and operating in foreign countries. Once normalized the US military will enter another country, etc.
Nothing happening right now would have worked 8 months ago, smaller steps had to become normalized first. 8 months from now, all this will seem tame.
That's the thing about fascism; Every day that goes by was the best day it could have been.
Yup. This is also why they did the whole leftists have secret pizza child rape dungeons to minimize the impact of Esptein and called Bidens Executive Orders overreach so when Trump escalated it complaints dounded like sour grapes and...
Just everything they complained about and then did was to shift that overton window.
Why is ice breaking and entering and stealing stuff from private residents? We are a dangerous country doing dangerous things all around because we are run by a madman and the other branches are not putting a stop to it.
Venezuela has huge oil reserves
Distraction from the Epstein fiasco. PEDOnald is terrified that his MAGAt brigade will turn on him once they have damning proof.
Which is silly because we know they won't but w/e.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
Somebody has to be our Poland
Because our commander in queef is a doddering old fool who acts on impulse and has really outdated and misinformed beliefs.