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    I guess a few agents get to slack off for a while rather than actually work. I know if I were in their position, I’d just be “following up on possible leads” for a while.

    Honestly, for an FBI agent, it’s insulting to be asked to do special monitoring for an unelected official’s private business. They have more important things to do.

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      And hasn’t fElon already gone back to “save” the company, so he’s not even at DOGE anymore?

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    Fascism is just ultra capitalism in a trenchcoat wielding a flamethrower!

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    That seems like a huge inefficiency, DOGE should eliminate it.

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    The police are there to protect the business interests of the richest man in the world.

    They call regular people “terrorists” for daring to stand up to fascism in any small way.

    They start a manhunt for the murder of the CEO of a health insurance company while ignoring the murders of countless regular people every day.

    Private property is protected, while it’s been made illegal to be homeless.

    What a sick and decrepit society.

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      Police aren’t here for for the common citizen, they’re for sale to the highest bidder like everything else in this shit hole of United States of Capitalism. Fuck the police. ACAB.

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    If terrorism now means burning cars, what’s the word for killing people to terrorize?

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    This really does illustrate the idea that police aren’t there to “serve and protect.” They are there to keep the common people in line so that the rich can stay safe.

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      Mask off moment. Their purpose is to protect capital. The only crimes that cops prevent are through deterrence because they are crime punishers, not crime preventers.

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        they are crime punishers, not crime preventers.

        This isn’t unique to the US. It is called law enforcement so even if it wasn’t a completely broken and horseshit system crime prevention would not be part of their purview.

        You prevent/reduce crime by addressing the underlying societal issues that are contributing to it.

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    Good! We’re FINALLY Solving REAL PROBLEMS!

    -This is LITERALLY What Conservatives think while CHILDREN ARE GUNNED DOWN IN SCHOOL, SHELVES ARE EMPTY OF GOODS, 401KS TANK AND ICE IS ALLOWED TO ENTER HOMES AND DEPORT PEOPLE WITHOUT WARRANTS OR CAUSE!

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    Is it illegal to Nelson laugh while pointing at swasticar enjoyers and calling them dorks?

    No? Then this is all a waste of time. I shall continue doing so unabated.

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      These days you don’t need to be committing a crime to get arrested. You just need to be annoying the wrong people.

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          OH NOOO AFTER M&MS CARS ARE NOW INFECTED BY THE WOKE VIRUS (soon on Fox News I’m sure 😂 )

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        You remember the video where someone filmed the rainbows a sprinkler made in the sun, and claimed it was proof that “they” are poisoning our water?

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      How thin does that metal paneling have to be to wilt due to brief exposure to fire?

      The Cybertruck makes vinyl home siding look more durable.

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    Terrorism is scaring/harming people to manipulate government.

    Tesla is neither government nor their property damage is scaring people.

    More trumped-up charges.

    (It is hilariously fitting Trump the man and Trump the word fit so gand-in-hand)

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      this is meant to be read without the emotional loading to the words that we’ve been conditioned with: ie X is implicitly bad… these are just words, whose meaning has more depth than what they actually define

      terrorism is

      the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims

      violence is

      an act of physical force that causes or is intended to cause harm

      arson is violence

      and this particular act of violence is intended to achieve political or ideological aims (musk is a political figure albeit not an official government employee, and this is in response to his public political acts)

      now, i’d argue it’s not “against non-combatants”, but perhaps it is? is destruction of a persons property constitute violence against them? it’s at least psychological - trying to scare/influence for sure

      let’s not kid ourselves though: it is what it is… it’s just ridiculous that this is what they pursue while pardoning jan 6 offenders… the issue isn’t that they’re labelling this domestic terrorism. the issue is that it’s singled out because fElon asked daddy dictator

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      So are we suddenly pretending Musk isn’t a de facto government leader who might be manipulated by this? (Terrible wording, but y’all get my gist. I’m going hiking now.)

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      If you want to abstract it enough, hurting Tesla hurts musk, who unfortunately is the government.

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    I thought Elon was behind this since Tesla’s aren’t selling well. They should start from there.