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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Steve Bannon: "The public schools and private schools ought to be designated as terrorist organizations too"

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Steve Bannon: "The public schools and private schools ought to be designated as terrorist organizations too"

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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/53727545

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  • Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    Reminder that Bannon plead guilty for fraud because he created a fake “build the wall group” that asked for donations to build a racist wall. Bannon instead pocketed the money using it to live in lavish luxury.

    Dude is opposed to schools because he needs more people to fleece.

    If you want him to succumb to alcoholism faster send him whiskey. Preferably made in mexico to keep his blood pressure up.

    • QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works
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      Okay that’s kind of hilarious. Absolutely vile, evil guy but I’m not going to hold that one against him. Just wish I’d thought of it first

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    What a great talking point from Mr. “Flood the Zone”. Let’s all focus on that instead of the Epstein files!

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    Yeah that’s right and so should libraries and fire stations and grocery stores just to be on the safe side!!!

    S/

  • SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    I wouldn’t be surprised if fiction becomes reality…

  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    Didn’t some asshole try this in Cambodia

    • Hobo@lemmy.world
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      I like the idea of referring to Pol Pot as “some asshole.”

  • philosloppy@lemmy.world
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    I agree; if nobody could read, none of us would have to read the stupid shit this moron says and we would all be better for it

  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Was wondering when they were going to start closing down universities for being “communist”. Looks like we’re heading to that stage now.

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    A distraction so people don’t fight back against billionaires?

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      Given that their distractions have increasingly become as destructive if not even moreso than the thing they’re distracting from, it’s possible.

      More likely that’s it’s just culture war bombast designed to reinforce the whole “everyone except us are evil and dangerous” groupthink that they’re using for cohesion, though, IMO.

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        I consider that culture war bombast to also be distraction so people don’t fight back against them billionaires.

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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          Well yeah. That’s what I mean by ensuring cohesion: make them think that every vulnerable and persecuted population group is destroying their lives so that they don’t notice that the least vulnerable and most privileged of all people are the ones ACTUALLY doing so.

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    What the fuck does that even mean?

    God these fucking weird freaks are the fucking worst.

    • Noite_Etion@lemmy.world
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      Education is a threat to fascism. They want dumb people who will buy what they are selling.

  • 𝔄 𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔭𝔦𝔢𝔠𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔢𝔰𝔢@lemmy.world
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    These globalists and these Marxists that have been in business with these global Marxists for decades and decades and decades […]

    Such eloquence.

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      His blood alcohol level is dropping below 1%, somebody get this man some malt liquor

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    Is “terrorist” their new code word for “I don’t like this”

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      When I was young, an age ago, the word terrorist had a specific meaning, which was someone committing shocking acts to strike fear and hysteria into the general public and thereby influence society and policy.

      Then 9/11 happened and although the 19 attackers were most definitely terrorists by the old definition, somehow the definition drifted until it meant “inhuman opponent against whom we are justified to suspend the rules and respond in any way we want to.”

      Ironically, this usage itself is designed to inspire fear and keep people from looking too closely at what’s happening. “Oh no! Terrorists! Fine! Just kill them! Keep us safe!” Using people’s fear to justify whatever our military and government want to do comes ominously close to the old definition of terrorism.

    • 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it
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      It goes like this

    • bassomitron@lemmy.world
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      That’s the way it’s been used in the US since 9/11/2001. Not sure about other places.

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        It’s amazing how much damage Bin Laden did to America by killing what traffic does in a few weeks (or toddlers with guns in a decade). Trillions in debt, scared shitless and divided like never before.

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          • Tja@programming.dev
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            chef’s kiss

        • bassomitron@lemmy.world
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          That was his entire goal. He was very smart and knew those attacks would trigger the mania it spawned, pushing American culture down the path it ultimately took.

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        Brits have been using it that way for centuries. Go dig through papers from the 1800s, you’ll find them describing anyone resisting their colonialism as “terrorists”. Legally, the US is working from the exact same definition that British common law uses.

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          That makes sense, since, as far as i can tell, the U.S. seems to be a modern hybrid of the British empire which spawned it and the German war machine it assimilated into itself about 80 years ago.

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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      New?

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    Steve Bannon’s face should be designated a terrorist organization.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      Or a Superfund site. Maybe a tactical ethanol reserve.

      • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works
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        Why not all three?

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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          Deal.

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      Or public urinal. I’d be good with either.

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      It’s not organized enough.

      • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works
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        Is this where I mention antifa and trans people?

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      His liver might not survive.

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        It’s pickled to perfection already.

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    Private and public? So just schools in general? Or is home schooling ok? Oh, but I’m sure you want some books burned first.

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      Mandatory classes through grok and strictly no other resources.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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        PRAGER U, they started showing up in schools in some red states.

      • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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        Grok is woke these days. Mandatory offline bible study with only pre-approved interpretations

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          KJV-only. Not that woke NRSV that uses “humankind” instead of “mankind”

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            KJV is the original text that Jesus wrote, none of that blasphemous “translation”

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      He wants to finish making Idiocracy a documentary.

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      Groups of fish: probably terrorism

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        Parliament of owls? Definitely terrorism, no trial, straight to the dungeon.

        • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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          parliment of DALEKS.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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        they are okay with murder of crows, or unkindness of ravens.

    • compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Homeschooling, church, and PragerU is all you need! /s

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        and fox, and only copaganda shows, military propaganda, and all have to be “right wing based”

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    Sure. Let’s also designate grocery stores as terrorist organizations. Gyms. Maker spaces. Libraries. Gas stations. ‘Terrorist organization’ is a useless term now.

    And remember:

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      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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        mechahitler, and NAZI barbie(LAURA ingraham)

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    it’ll be a good day when this guy passes… what a piece of shit

    he will say anything to make people mad.

    he is one of the few people I truly believe just wants to watch the world burn.

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      he is one of the few people I truly believe just wants to watch the world burn

      Yes, literally. He is a part of the Christian sect called Dominionists that are actively trying to bring about the rapture.

      https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dominionists-gain-control-of-trump-campaign_b_57c817d0e4b06c750dd8d25a

      https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/31/14439908/steve-bannon-worldview-visa-ban

      https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lesterfeder/this-is-how-steve-bannon-sees-the-entire-world#.ylO3kAedo

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        evangelicals are so obsessed with rapture, when they havnt englithtened thier selves/society where they solved all thier societal problems. it has been part of plot in many shows and movies before.

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      What has caused the misconception that there are only a few of them? That’s a dangerous and incorrect assumption.

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        10% want the world to burn. 10% don’t want it to burn. The others don’t have strong feelings and can be convinced either way.

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      Sir Osis of Liver is off to slay this dragon

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