For The Love Of Stuff...

What has to happen with a society for it to value property more than human lives? That's not just a hypothetical question but one that needs to be answered right now if you're living in America.

Domestic terrorists like Kyle Rittenhouse, the Blue Lives Matter Trump supporter who gunned down three protesters, killing two of them, receive praise from prominent right wing pundits and politicians, Trump refuses to condemn his vigilante crimes, while the black man who was shot in the back seven times, yet another case of extreme police brutality that was the cause of the protests, is portrayed as someone who might have deserved this fate because he had a knife in his car. The 17 year old white boy who killed two protesters is actually described as a hero by some right wing Trump supporters; Ann Coulter, a prominent right wing pundit with millions of followers tweeted that she wants him as her president, and a Christian fundraising site has raised $250,000 for the Kenosha shooter... And he clearly deserves all this praise because he crossed state borders with his rifle to protect private property. In the words of Tucker Carlson; we shouldn't be surprised when 17 year old armed vigilantes go out to restore law and order when no one else will.

This is disgusting, and all sensible Americans should deeply fear these recent developments; fascism is at your doorstep and you've got a president who welcomes it with open arms. If you weren't awake when he said that there were "fine people on both sides" when neo-Nazis and Antifa protesters faced each other in Charlottesville, surely you're awake now; Trump will always take the side of the fascist terrorists. And by now you should also be awake to the fact that fascism always comes from the right wing, because it always is the extreme right wing reaction to perceived far left movements. With Hitler it was the Jewish Marxist conspiracy, with Trump it's the BLM-Antifa pillagers and looters. What has to happen with a society for it to value property more than human lives? If you still can't figure that out, let me tell you: late stage capitalism. Just like Marxism was a reaction to, a critique of capitalism, so are the current protests by those who are most severely disadvantaged by their capitalist rulers; black people and other marginalized groups. And just like Hitler's followers believed him when he said that the Jews were the cause of everything wrong with German society, Trump followers believe him when he says that BLM and Antifa are the real criminals who are responsible for the violence and the looting.

Just like it's said in the below linked video, and like I've said on several occasions in my posts, right wingers are moving closer and closer towards fascist violence. They condemn violence when it's committed against private property, but celebrate the violence against humans to the point that they're even willing to justify murder. And what other cause could there be for this extremely skewed valuation of human lives against private property than the ideology of accumulating private property? Fascism historically has always been in service of the capitalists, which is why it's ludicrous to paint Hitler or Nazi Germany as socialist; it's the exact opposite. And it's also the reason why it's ludicrous to paint Trump as a man of the people; he's the exact opposite and couldn't give a damn about the American people, not even his most hardcore neo-fascist supporters who he'll defend at any cost. You may not be aware of this, but since Trump winning the 2016 elections, America's number one source of terrorism is domestic terrorism by extreme right wingers. Fascists in other words:

The United States faces a growing terrorism problem that will likely worsen over the next year. Based on a CSIS data set of terrorist incidents, the most significant threat likely comes from white supremacists, though anarchists and religious extremists inspired by the Islamic State and al-Qaeda could present a potential threat as well. Over the rest of 2020, the terrorist threat in the United States will likely rise based on several factors, including the November 2020 presidential election.

On June 3, 2020, federal authorities arrested three individuals allegedly associated with the “boogaloo” movement, a loosely-organized group of extremists preparing for a civil war, for conspiring to cause violence in Las Vegas and possessing an improvised incendiary device. Less than a week later, law enforcement officials near Richmond, VA, arrested Harry H. Rogers, a member of the Ku Klux Klan, for driving a vehicle into peaceful protesters. Around the same time, members of a Brooklyn anarchist group urged its supporters to conduct “rebellion” against the government. Extremists from all sides flooded social media with disinformation, conspiracy theories, and incitements to violence in response to the protests following the death of George Floyd, swamping Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and other platforms.

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Between 1994 and 2020, there were 893 terrorist attacks and plots in the United States. Overall, right-wing terrorists perpetrated the majority—57 percent—of all attacks and plots during this period, compared to 25 percent committed by left-wing terrorists, 15 percent by religious terrorists, 3 percent by ethnonationalists, and 0.7 percent by terrorists with other motives.
_{source: Center for Strategic and International Studies - June 17, 2020}

Read that article, scroll down to the chart that shows the "Percentage of Terrorist Attacks and Plots by Perpetrator Orientation, 1994-2020", and note that in 2020 more than 90% of all acts of terrorism were right wing, and the rest were based on religion; it's evident that Trump's presidency has emboldened the far right lurkers by his actions and his words... Fine people on both sides my ass... If you still support this poor excuse for a human being, and if you still can't see why he has to be stopped, I don't know what to say to you. In the upcoming elections a vote for Trump is a vote for fascism, it's as simple as that. And if you do vote for him and he wins, you deserve every bit of mayhem he'll dump on you and your loved ones.

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