r/UnderReportedNews • u/ExactlySorta • 23h ago

Video Stephen Miller announces the US has taken the action of formally recognizing left wing violence as a form of political terrorism, claiming liberalism "is a direct threat to our national security and the survival of our Republican form of government"

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u/IMOvicki 22h ago

This feels like when you watch a movie and are like what could literally never happen in real life……. But like it’s actually happening in real life.

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u/HLOFRND 22h ago

The movie Nuremberg (good flick, check it out if you haven’t) leaned pretty heavily into the idea that nothing really separated the Nazis from other people. It happened in Germany bc Germany allowed it.

It can- and will- happen here. It is happening here.

We need to wake the fuck up and get in the streets day after day.

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u/AwambawaAwambawa 22h ago

And pull them into streets too. Mano emano

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u/Gallastic 21h ago

Mano a mano*

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u/Queen_Christine_19 20h ago

¡si! Lmao sorry had to...

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u/AwambawaAwambawa 19h ago

Mono memano!

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u/Trucidar 16h ago

Problem is much like the Nazi's there's a good chance they can outfight their opposition. The extreme right is more armed, more hateful, less ethical and has the protection of the state.

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u/AwambawaAwambawa 15h ago

More armed is a myth. All other items ring true.

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u/Trucidar 15h ago

Not that there's a lot of research but I think Pew institute and John Hopkins have research supporting it. I think you'd be accurate to say people underestimate Democratic gun ownership. And that neither a majority of Democrats or Republicans have a gun-toting majority. But there is like a 2-1 ratio.

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u/PoliticsIsDepressing 22h ago

I hate when people treat the Nazis like an exception. No, they were like any other fascist government and can rise again anywhere in the world.

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u/Grouchy_Discussion42 19h ago

I'd recommend watching The Man in the High Castle - a sci-fi "what if" WW2 ended with people like Miller in charge.

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u/Asluckwouldnthaveit 21h ago

They leaned heavily on that because that's what happened. That's what always happens in these situations.

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 20h ago

They're using the same language and following the same playbook.

These are the EXACT same people.

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u/RozaJetis 19h ago

If you want to see the dark and absurd side of the normalcy of Nazism, watch The Zone of Interest.

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u/HLOFRND 19h ago

Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll check it out.

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u/IrritableGourmet 19h ago

There were a lot of psychological/sociological studies done after WWII to try to figure out how people could become so divided and complacent about murdering millions. Turns out, it's really, really simple. In the Robber's Cave experiment, they didn't even have to start the actual experiment before the two groups were calling for each other's blood. The Milgram experiments showed that you just need to wear a labcoat and ask nicely to get people to torture someone to death.

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u/HLOFRND 19h ago

I don’t remember which one it was, but during COVID I made my way through a ton of documentary type series about Hitler and the Nazis.

One of them had clips talking to Germans who lived through it talking about what they think and what they thought back then.

It was really alarming how many of them sounded like MAGA about it, even after living through it and the aftermath.

Lots of talk about dirty blood ruining Germany, borders, shit like that.

It was horrifying. I don’t remember exactly when the interviews had been done, but it was late enough- like the 1980s at least- that we shouldn’t have been hearing it at all.

And there was a lot of “I didn’t do it, I was just living my life, I didn’t even know” thrown in there, too.

Horrifying shit.

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u/arjungmenon 8h ago

If you can figure out what it’s called, that would be wonderful. I’d like to watch it too.

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u/arjungmenon 8h ago

FWIW, both those experiments were later accused to being flawed in ways. But your overall point still stands…

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u/That_Guy_Red 19h ago

First movie in a long time that made me cry so hard I shook. My great uncle died in France, WWII. I, myself, am getting out of the military after 13+ years. It's all too much.

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u/jjwhitaker 17h ago

ICE has killed 20+ people this year, as far as we know. Thousands are detained in black boxes across the country. The GOP are fascists.

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u/mamawoman 6h ago

General strike will do way more than protesting.

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u/Geichalt 21h ago

Americans straight up voted for this shit.

The election may have been stolen, but I haven't seen anything since the election to suggest Americans strongly disagree with the outcome.

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u/HLOFRND 21h ago edited 21h ago

Not all of us- and that fucking matters.

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u/Swarna_Keanu 21h ago

Enough of you - and that matters (and Germany, where I am, is on the way to go that way, again, too).

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u/bernbabybern13 20h ago

What would that do? Genuinely asking. Protests won’t do anything. Unless they’re targeted at any official that isn’t supporting impeachment and removal. I think the only way protesting will do anything is if Republican members of congress are more scared of us than they are of the Trump administration.

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u/HLOFRND 19h ago

Coast to coast, night after night, people in the streets would matter.

I’m not talking about 3 hours on a Saturday morning.

I’m talking every single day, millions of people, shutting shit down. We see other countries doing it, but America just refuses to do it.

I think 3.5% is probably a little smaller than what we need, but protest CAN make a difference. People just can’t be bothered.

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u/agent_mick 19h ago

And they won't be bothered. Until they're bothered enough.

As long as life can just go on, it will

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u/bernbabybern13 18h ago

Is it that people can’t be bothered? Or is it that people are worried about losing their jobs? Like I’d be down to do it after work and the weekends. And there are people that don’t work typical 9-5s that can maybe be there during the day. But people have to take care of their families.

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u/HLOFRND 18h ago

I understand that. I sure do.

But if we don’t, it’s not jobs we have to worry about. None of that matters in the America they are very actively building.

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u/Antique-Big3928 21h ago

Exactly

This 100% sounds like the kind of over-the-top fictional plot line that requires you suspend disbelief, but makes the story juicy.

And somehow it’s actually happening.

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u/VegasGamer75 20h ago

All those years watching zombie movies, nuclear holocaust movies, pandemic movies, etc. and thinking "Man, no one could really be that stupid"... only to be proven very, very wrong, huh?

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u/Wild-Video-5317 21h ago

All those movies about future fictional authoritarian governments are mostly allegories for historical authoritarian governments. 

The message has always been: if it happened in germany/Italy less than a century ago, it can happen anywhere.

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u/DanielBG 20h ago

And Miller is cast perfectly as the over-the-top ghoulish villain.

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u/Queen_Christine_19 20h ago

Ugh he's soooooo fucking creepy...

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u/Purplebuzz 19h ago

Like when everyone tells you for decades it coming and they get yelled at no you.

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u/SituationThink3487 18h ago

And you think "if they tried that in real life, there would be riots" and then people just barely even pay attention.

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u/IlIlllIIIIlIllllllll 19h ago

Which is why it happened

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u/gargravarr2112 19h ago

"Reality is stranger than fiction because fiction is obliged to make sense."

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u/beardingmesoftly 19h ago

It already has happened, multiple times throughout history. We already all know the warning signs and yet ignored them anyway. History doesn't always repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

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u/m0n3ym4n 13h ago

This is more serious that people realize. By adding “left wing terrorism” to NPSM 7, the NSA and FBI will get to sidestep many legal protections for US citizens. They can say “it’s a matter of national security” and bypass many laws. It’s something Edward Snowden specially warned against.