The FBI’s domestic terrorism watchlist is set to double in the coming months, according to journalist Ken Klippenstein, who has been reporting on President Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum titled “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence,” also known as NSPM-7. The memo identifies potential domestic terrorists as someone expressing “anti-Christian,” “anti-capitalism” or “anti-American” views. Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna responded on X, writing, “Trump’s NSPM-7 represses freedom of speech & association, investigating any organization with ‘anti-capitalism’ or ‘anti-American’ views. I ran a primary in 2003 against the Patriot Act and war in Iraq. NSPM-7 is a greater infringement on freedoms than the Patriot Act.”

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    Whelp, guess I’m now waiting for a call from my dad where he calls me a terrorist.

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    Atheists are now terrorists

    Man, every day I commit another crime I didn’t know I was committing

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      They use to use “Godless” as a slur. I guess they can’t anymore because they also want to punish people who don’t believe in a god the same way they do.

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          No, my point is that they can’t dismiss the “Godless” as the enemy, because that technically includes the other religions. They now need to say “Anti-Christian” to mean the same thing

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      Atheists are now terrorists

      So are Native Americans I assume. Not a helluva lot patriotism in the reservations, at least the folks I’ve known. Great folks. Honest opinions on America.

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    The fact that NSPM-7 wasn’t THE headline since it was signed on September 25th is an utterly damning indictment of our media and what they focus on. There have been a multitude of things since then that are also utterly damning indictments of our media, but NSPM-7 was like, the whole fucking game. It’s saying “I’m gonna paint with a broad brush and tell the FBI and other DHS orgs and internal security bullshit to surveil and persecute people I don’t like, and whose ideas I don’t like”.

    So much for keeping the republic.

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    This is from the dictators handbook. Make everyone guilty so you can pick up anyone you like, whenever you like.

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    On what fucking grounds? I love how in america today nothing has to make sense and no one even feels the need to argue in favor of nonsensical views. They just state them as fact and get emotional about them if challenged.

    It’s “terrorism” to wish for a better society if that view of society conflicts with the current economic system. What a fucked up joke of a world. I guess this is an accidental admission that we’re an oligarchy, since you’re seen as an existential threat if your views would make the 1% less rich.

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    The memo identifies potential domestic terrorists as someone expressing “anti-Christian,” “anti-capitalism” or “anti-American” views.

    Fuck Jesus. Fuck working 60 hours a week for minimum wage. The USA can eat my asshole.

    Come get me, bitch.

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    Come and get me Big Brother lmao

    Fuck capitalism, fuck the government, and fuck Donald Trump.

    I’ll scream for guillotines and billionaire cuisine through my dying breath.

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      Don’t give Peter Thiel ideas. Whenever someone suggests finding ways to read people’s thoughts his third set of nictitating eyelids flicker in excitement as he secretes another layer of mucus from his flesh-layer. (He’s the guy who plans on running the country if Trump turns out to not live forever.)

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    Capitalism is evil and this government should be disbanded and everyone running it should be in prison at minimum.

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    Well, antifascist, anticapitalist, anti-colonialist, atheist, pro-trans, I guess I would be arrested right at the border at the land of the free. Good luck with the pedo-dictatorship USA.

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      Here’s a horrible fact, almost every dictatorship in history has been a pedo dictatorship.

      Authoritarianism and pedophillia seem to go hand in hand, but because the pedo dictator almost always focuses on teenagers, this aspect of authoritarianism tends to go under reported.

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    He will use this to arrest Mamdani, mark my words. AOC and Sanders too. And any other democratic socialist, basically.

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      Mamdani fortunately has turned a bit of a corner, more and more establishment Dems are being forced to recognize his existence, if not outright bending the knee.

      He has too big of a popular lead at this point, the administration lost their chance to deport him or hold him without trial. They know that New York, despite whatever divisions they’ve tried to sow, will unify and come together if they do ratshit gangster shit to one of their own, especially someone so popular.

      I almost welcome them to try. I fear more for his life honestly, but not his capture or arrest. The administration is barely smart enough to not shoot themselves in the face, but I don’t know their feelings about other targets.

      This proposition will certainly be struck down by judges across the country, but like with everything, they are trying to cross bridges by introducing these ideas now so they can revisit it again later when people are less likely to be shocked. As they’ve been doing over and over.