This is the moment that Donald Trump threatens an ABC reporter after they asked about free speech. Speaking with ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl on Tuesday (16 September), the president appeared to become annoyed after the reporter asked him about Pam Bondi’s crackdown on “hate speech”. “A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech,” Mr Karl said, to which Mr Trump responded: “She’d probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. It’s hate. You have a lot of hate in your heart.” After slamming ABC, the president claimed that he “wants everything to be fair” and placed blame with the “radical left who have done tremendous damage to the country”.
    • Taldan@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Because there would be pushback if he did it now. He has to slowly ramp it up. Each step towards fascism has to be small enough that it doesn’t trigger mass resistance

      Nazi Germany didn’t start gassing Jews overnight. They started with deportations. Then they built detention facilities to hold them while waiting for deportation. Then they turned into labor camps. At every step along the way there were courts fighting against it, protests against the camps, opposition media derided it, but at no point was there a big enough change all at once to trigger mass protests, or to trigger the courts to feel a sense of urgency to stop it

      By the time they moved to mass murder, the courts had been gutted. The protesters had been arrested. There wasn’t enough opposition left to stop it

      For an example of the other hand, look at Nepal. Police opened fire on protesters, wounding and killing more than a dozen. Very graphic images of the killings were shared everywhere. It caused the people to rise up all at once. The government lasted less than a week after that

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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        24 hours ago

        The Republican Party is over. It’s the MAGA Party now. Always call them that, and insist the Republican Party is dead. They’ll really hate that. They LIKE being Republicans, so let’s take it away from them.

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          16 hours ago

          “maga” == just what the Republicans have been for decade upon decade. It’s just that they are being more public about it now.

  • RedEye FlightControl@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    From “Innocent until proven guilty” to “Maybe we should go after you”

    I hate our shithole country and I hate our shithole leadership. We can’t be rid of this pedo rapist and his nazi goon squad fast enough.