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Causing harm to civilians in order to coerce the submission of a government is the very definition of terrorism
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2026
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Technically it's worse:
State terrorism is terrorism conducted by a state against its own citizens or another state's citizens.[1][2][3][4] It contrasts with state-sponsored terrorism, in which a violent non-state actor commits acts of terrorism under the sponsorship of a state.
Governments that are accused of using state terrorism may justify their actions as efforts to combat internal dissent, suppress insurgencies, or maintain national security, often framing their actions within the context of counterterrorism or counterinsurgency.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_terrorism
I know people hate being pedantic, but we can't afford to be lazy. Because that makes it harder to sort thru historical records to see how our ancestors overcame it.
MAGA uses old playbooks so much, we'd be idiots not to treat it like an open book test and see why it failed last time.
If words still had meaning
they do for most, it's just words from fascists that hold no meaning or value.
A couch fucker and some fraudulent shill who was made famous by Oprah. These are the people making this decision which will literally kill people.
I’m sure they think that’s fine. It’s just poor people. They absolutely loathe the poor.
They won't if you make them pick their own cotton.
A couch fucker and some fraudulent shill who was made famous by a lying talk show host.
The circle of fraud
https://lr.ptr.moe/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/xr5q1d/oprah_is_the_perfect_mentor_for_the_former/
They might think this kind of thing makes them look strong. But they are incorrect.
Anyone with more than a couple of braincells in their skull knows this the sign of an administration that got humiliated and is furiously trying to retaliate out of pure spite.
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These people are seriously fucked in the head.
And their feigned concern for "fraud" is so ridiculous. They don't give a shit about what Pedonald did to make 1.4+ billion, they don't give a shit about Noem's bang plane, they do nothing about Patel flying all over the fucking place for his (and his girlfriend's) personal pleasure.
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This little tidbit was buried:
“We’re announcing a six-month national moratorium blocking all new enrollments for durable medical equipment– prosthesis, orthotics– supplies across the board,” he said, later adding that the move was “going to be effective, and it’s not going to touch the people who need these services.”
So good luck if Grandma needs oxygen, tell her to breathe deeper.
Also how do they block these services, and then say "it's not going to touch the people who need these services?" Unless, y'know, they need these services.
Blocking new enrollments.
So if Grandma is already on oxygen, she's fine. But if Grandma's doctor decides she needs to START supplemental O2, well, too bad, your grandma is clearly trying to scam the system and will need to wait 6 months (at least).
Some for prosthesis. Terrible time for people to be losing limbs. Clearly there must be a significant black market for prosthetic legs, funded entirely by our tax dollars. (/s in case not obvious).
Like I said, Grandma can just breathe deeper, and I guess we'll start seeing YouTube videos on "how to carve your very own pirate-style wooden peg leg, using common household items!"
Thereby guaranteeing that no Republican will hold statewide or federal office in Minnesota for the foreseeable future.
They’ll just blame the protesters/liberals. “Look what you made him do!”
I think they’re planning to cheat or ignore the election. It’s the only way that doing all this abhorrent and wildly unpopular shit could make any political sense.
It’ll be a huge relief if it turns out that they really are this stupid, but it’s impossible not to worry that they aren’t.
They will be deploying multiple strategies, including Pre-election voter roll purges, gerrymandering, new Federal ID laws, closing voting places in Democratic districts, etc.
Then they will deploy strategies on Election Day itself, like posting ICE at polling places for security, and then have them do preliminary ID checks of people in the line,.followed by beatings of anyone who talks back, especially first thing in the morning. Widely broadcast video on Election Day morning of active polling places ICE beatings across the country should sufficiently intimidate people from exercising their right to vote for the rest of the day (although there is a good chance that a LOT of people would react just the opposite, and flood the polling places in defiance).
And they even have a POST-Election Day strategy. The biggest thing that has made MAGAs claim election fraud, are the write in ballots that arrive AFTER election day. They don't like a MAGA win on election day, only to have that win evaporate as the write-in ballots arrive and get counted. So they want to stop the count on Election Day.
So they'll take a couple of days for the initial count to settle, and if they spot potential trouble from write-ins, they'll raid the states election HQ, and confiscate all the ballots, machines, data, etc. then declare the winner themselves.
They have Pre-, During, And Post- Election Day strategies, and probably a lot more than I outlined. You have to watch these scumbag MAGAs, they've cheated at everything in their entire lives, that's where most of their expertise lies.
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Idk man I honestly doubt that's true.
These people that support trump and friends are fucking feeble minded idiots.
You will show them graphs and even replay this exact speech straight from Jizz Dicks mouth and they will hear something on Fox news about how a school is letting a furry kid use a litter box for the bathroom and they're coming for your children next!!
And then they will straight up, 100% vote for this shit again. Seriously. It would be a fascinating case study if I didn't have to be directly affected by the absurd stupidity of it all day to day.
My apathy and cynicism grows exponentially every single day.
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Fucking MAGA losers are going to murder more Americans. Minnesota is a contributor state and should withhold payment to the federal government. In fact, all the Blue States should do the same.
It's a great idea, but the problem is people file their federal taxes as individuals and pay the IRS directly, so how are the blue states supposed to withhold the money?
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Face it, this is a fascist nation. They're going to starve us into obedience.
Jesus, it's murder. They're murdering them.
Something non-Minnesotans might have missed: Prosecutors from the Minnesota US attorney's office have been quitting en masse, thanks to political pressure from Pam Bondi and others
This has certainly hampered fraud investigations, in addition to harming other prosecutorial efforts
In short, the federal government is hampering fraud prosecutions while punishing Minnesotans for the fraud
Kind of a shit article. Just parrots the Trump administration's claims, with no fact-checking or comments from anyone with actual knowledge of the Medicaid system.
The truth is, the courts will obviously reverse this punitive action. The fact they are doing it anyway shows they care more about hurting Americans who resist Trump than focusing on the economy, world relations, housing prices, etc...
May all these monsters in this administration hang from their necks soon.
That's going way too easy on them, they don't deserve such a quick painless death.
Very true, it needs to be painful, it’s needs to be embarrassing for them, and it needs to be public.
Give em the old William Wallace
Wallace was taken from the hall to the Tower of London, then stripped naked and dragged through the city at the heels of a horse to the Elms at Smithfield. He was hanged, drawn and quartered—strangled by hanging, but released while he was still alive, emasculated, eviscerated (with his bowels burned before him), beheaded, then cut into four parts. Wallace's head was dipped in tar and placed on a spike atop London Bridge
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Why would the VP be telling us that?
Well Minnesota is a donor state in taxes, sounds like Minnesota could you know…not pay federal taxes this year
They are sanctioning the state of Minnesota like it’s a foreign narco or terrorist state
We need to get them out of office and into prison as fast as possible. A government bound by no laws will start murdering thousands of us just to make a point. ICE has already murdered almost a dozen americans, and ZERO of them have even been investigated.
Oh this is just murder, isnt it
With extra steps
Not in the US. How are people from Minnesota fighting back against this??
There's been massive protests. ICE responded by murdering peaceful protestors
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So, I guess we're now doing embargos inside the country as well. Fascism really is just colonialism turned inward.
This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.
The number of people who leap up to blame anyone except the people that voted for Trump is fascinating to me. Objectively the people that voted him in, and somehow entirely blameless.
Nobody says Trump voters are blameless. That’s a straw man.
But Trump voters lack some of the moral culpability of those who knew better and still didn’t vote, or threw their vote away on Jill Stein or whatever.
There is no point in trying to shame MAGA voters for bringing about what is happening now, because they like it. What can you say to that?
On the other hand, leftists who didn’t vote against him feel that shame deeply, as evidenced by the fact that they cry like little bitches whenever you remind them.
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Most of them are a lost cause. I don't think anyone is saying they are blameless.
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My baby is losing healthcare because of this. Edit: This was a bit reactionary. Based on what I’ve learned, this will not directly affect us. Still, it affects millions others for political motives
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Evil
They lost the PR battle on ICE in Minnesota, so this is retaliation
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