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/dantekant22 22h ago

What he’s really saying is that opposition is being criminalized.

Listen carefully to this dickhead. And vote accordingly.

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u/spawn989 22h ago

next up, all democratic victories are invalid cause they are terrorists

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u/RoughPalpitation7381 18h ago

You joke, but this is literally what the dixiecrats did during reconstruction. Republican victories were invalidated and Black politicians were murdered. The parties have flipped in that regard, but the reactionary nature of this dynamic is the same.

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u/spawn989 17h ago

I wasent joking, I whole heartedly believe this is the next step possibly starting tonight

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u/RoughPalpitation7381 17h ago

Ok that's a huge exaggeration.

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u/BigBoyWeaver 17h ago

It really is not.

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u/RoughPalpitation7381 17h ago

It really is, we are miles away from that. There hasn't even been the groundwork laid out for that. You realize Trump has lost pretty much every court case where he tries to prosecute his political opponents, right?

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u/SwvmpThing 15h ago

There wasn’t groundwork for a lot of what Trump has done. He just did it anyway. Our descent into authoritarianism has happened much more rapidly than it did for Putin’s Russia.

And if you read the executive order being referred to here, it is very clearly characterizing opposition discourse as part of a criminal conspiracy

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u/RoughPalpitation7381 19m ago

Every. Single. Case. Against Trump's political opponents has failed. You're already wrong, it didn't start last night.

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u/120z8t 15h ago

LOL. Trump and co did not have the groundwork laid out for increasing ICE detainments. They just did it and worried about facilities to house and personnel later.

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u/RoughPalpitation7381 18m ago

The guy is already wrong - didn't happen last night.

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u/Fewluvatuk 14h ago

A protestor has been sentenced to 30 years for carrying magazines (the paper kind).

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u/RoughPalpitation7381 16m ago

That's being appealed - also, there's been misscarage of justice of this kind under every president.

Things are bad, but to say last night they were gonna start rounding people up - the guy is already wrong, it didn't happen. It's hysterical.

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u/MezzanineKing 12h ago

Did you see hegseth’s tweet and the fly overs in Pensacola earlier?

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u/RoughPalpitation7381 14m ago

What does that have to do with anything. Did Trump start the mass round ups last night? No, guy is already wrong about this.

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u/MezzanineKing 1m ago

The issue with many in this society is that they react to devastation, rather than prevent it. You have to see people being lined up and shackled to take action when all the signs we are heading in that direction are right in front of you. There is a collaborative effort between the gov’t and the technocrats to build a Ai surveillance panopticon around you and your community via flock cameras, but let’s just wait and see how this pans out. It’s absolutely counter intuitive.

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u/doberdevil 11h ago

Are you blind? You can SEE this happening, you don't even need to believe in conspiracy theories.

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u/RoughPalpitation7381 14m ago

Did the mass round ups start last night?

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u/Wulfyre 10h ago

Somewhere in Poland was a little girl hiding in an attic hiding from the concentration genocide camps writing about the nazis.

Somewhere in the US, there is a little girl hiding in an attic hiding from the concentration genocide camps writing about the republicans.

everything's an exaggeration when you havent looked at the past decade

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u/RoughPalpitation7381 13m ago

Did the mass round ups start last night?

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u/StandupJetskier 10h ago

upvote for knowing the real Confederate history.

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u/pavyf 16h ago

This is literally how Russia does elections now btw

You can vote, freely, but everyone worth voting for is labeled extremist, terrorist, and a foreign agent, so can't run as a candidate

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u/theangryprof 16h ago

I am betting this is what happens tonight in Trump's live address...

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u/HogmanDaIntrudr 14h ago

That’s literally what Trump’s speech is about tonight.

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u/Affectionate_Fail472 12h ago

I live in Hong Kong. I have to be careful what I type, but let's just say that I was confident that voting would solve our issues because there was a clear mandate by the people. Then, voting rules changed. That is all I can say.

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u/Umutuku 16h ago

No respiration without representation.

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u/aj1805 21h ago

An opposition to their ‘form of republican government’ aka fascism

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u/buttsbuttsbuttsmutts 14h ago edited 14h ago

I mean, note that he capitalized "Republican." That's not an accident, that's literally how you distinguish between republican as an adjective describing a republic, and the proper noun the Republican Party.

Edit: I see that was OP's choice, and that this is for once not a repost from X- and that I had that as my default assumption about these White House execrations these days gives her another troubled pause.

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u/obeecanobee 13h ago

You can’t call them terrorists. But you can call them rioters that got way out of hand.

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u/LEDKleenex 21h ago

It's gonna take a lot more than voting to combat this. I know nobody wants to inconvenience themselves, but if you sit around and wait for votes you're going to be in for a rude awakening.

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u/Blacksad9999 16h ago

They're overreaching because they're afraid.

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u/JarOfNightmares 9h ago

I don't get why they're so scared. Losing the house does not mean members of the GOP are gonna be swinging from the gallows.

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u/Blacksad9999 8h ago

Because then Democrats have the ability to investigate crimes and corruption, and win votes on it.

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u/Expensive-Sundae-831 18h ago

I know. But because the opposition party is in the bag too, it feels hopeless.

The tracks have been laid. The steps lead nowhere good.

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u/dantekant22 21h ago

And what, exactly, would you propose?

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u/SinisterPuddles 20h ago

Its pretty obvious.

If they make being a democrat a terrorist charge. What choice will we have?

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u/filthyhabits 20h ago

Say you're a righty and sabotage from within.

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u/LaLa1234imunoriginal 18h ago edited 18h ago

You talking about yourself? They just said it's terrorism to be a liberal, and you think there is going to be a peaceful transfer of power if you even manage to vote them out? Assuming you're not a bad faith actor on the right then you should really work within your community to prepare for the future because even the best case scenario isn't gonna be pretty.

Edit: To be very clear GO VOTE. I am not saying voting is pointless or bad, it is very important. But you can not rely on ONLY voting.

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u/SinisterPuddles 20h ago

Yes this is a tactic resistances almost always employ.

Do you think they voted from within to change things?

https://www.history.com/articles/dutch-resistance-teenager-killed-nazis-freddie-oversteegen

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u/obeecanobee 13h ago

Sell better ideas?

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u/Shark7996 18h ago edited 17h ago

Get involved in your local politics and elect people that will pressure your county, to then pressure the state, to then pressure the federal government.

More boring than the other guy's answer but at least it's realistic.

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u/SinisterPuddles 16h ago

If they make being a member of the opposing political party a terrorist act. How and who do you expect you will be voting for?

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u/5_kingdoms 8h ago

And yet if you don’t bother to vote you will hurt us all - so it’s more like a “yes and”

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u/Own_Candidate9553 57m ago

Be specific about what you mean we should do. Start shooting people? Die or go to prison, and maybe not accomplish anything? Leave my family without a husband and father?

As long as there's a chance that voting will at least improve things a little, of course people are going to wait and see. Elections are only months away at this point.

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u/Turnip_Fight 21h ago

Time for voting is over, soyboy. It’s time for the next step up.

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u/Lifes-a-lil-foggy 21h ago edited 18h ago

They won’t stop raiding election offices in my state. They’ve persecuted people who tried to uncover his election corruption too. Now they’re talking about our senators being “invalid”. Idk why I still see so many “just vote blue no matter who” comments in the year 2026. Read the fucking room.

I see a lot of it under data center posts and it’s like I know of at least three local counties who organized, voted, and banned data centers and they just went ten miles down the highway or just built it anyways.

(Editing to add: I’ve voted every time there’s been an election since I was old enough to do so)

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u/Phrickshun 21h ago

No, the time for voting isn't over yet and I am tired of seeing people saying this on reddit every damn day.

People like Viktor Orban ruled Hungary for 16 years, ruined their country and rigged things in his favor and still lost.

The doomerism is only helping these people seem like the have infinite power and it's hopeless. That's just free propaganda for them. They're attempting to rig shit cause they know they're fucked if people actually vote.

Everyone should be encouraging all Americans to vote to make it too big to rig. Yes I am aware that's a big ask, nothing is easy in life.

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u/SinisterPuddles 20h ago

Hungary does not have an iota of the economic or military or technological prowess of the US.

A dictatorship here will be brutal and long standing. Once established it will be near impossible to remove.

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u/Phrickshun 19h ago

Which is why, at the bare minimum I ask to care about voting in your local elections (Even worth noting Dems have been overperforming in local elections lately, a thing the current administration haven't "interfered" with) and the midterms because contrary to popular belief around here, our government is still functioning. I ain't saying it's GREAT but it isn't completely 100% gone... if it were why would they be putting in all this effort to sabotage elections? We aren't at the fourth box of liberty yet.

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u/SoylentGrunt 21h ago

How do you get people to risk their lives when they couldn't even be bothered to vote?

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u/becauseiloveyou 20h ago

Seriously. And most of the people who bother to show up only do so in November once every leap year to elect two officials who barely have a say in their day-to-day lives...

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u/SoylentGrunt 20h ago

We've been capitulating for 50 years. TBH I don't see that changing any time soon. They watch us closely. They know just how high to crank the heat up. It's not hard to do when we tell them our every thought on line.

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u/Bionic_Bromando 19h ago

So they'll capitulate, they can't live without falling asleep to The Office on streaming platforms so they'll just deal with the inconvenience of fascism

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u/SinisterPuddles 19h ago

Yep.

Until the capitulation directly hurts them, most people won't react.

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u/arthurrimjaub 14h ago

First off, lol. Second, i gotta say that even though i broadly share the sentiment, this round feels pretty different. The 2024 presidential election nonvoters seem to have made it clear that lukewarm establishment nonsense wasn’t gonna fly anymore, and now we’ve got further-left candidates all over the place making a pretty solid show of it. Idk man the way i see it is either the second half of this presidency is a literal bloodbath, OR, maybe, if we manage to vote enough decent people in, we spend two years harassing our reps to put these assholes against a wall, so that we don’t have to get killed doing it ourselves. And, as a bonus, if anything pops off at the polls, isn’t that exactly where you’d wanna be?

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u/AmericusBarbaricuss 14h ago

Hungarian voters have entered the chat (in droves, which is key).

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u/Pernicious_Possum 21h ago

Watch out everyone. We got a badass over here. Lead the charge Rambo, we’ll all be right behind you

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u/Odd-Direction6339 15h ago

Guy who’s afraid to order delivery over the phone:

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u/MyBrainReallyHurts 15h ago

You're assuming there will be a fair election in November.

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u/dantekant22 15h ago

I support the rule of law. The suffragette and civil rights movements showed us the way.

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u/thorubos 18h ago

Unfortunately, a nation cannot "vote" itself out of fascism. We are coming to very dark times.

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u/space_manatee 16h ago

If theyre criminalizing the opposition, do you think theyll really hold free and fair elections?

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u/Jman1a 16h ago

Ahh the western way. Wait till the next election to get back at them. By then they have put everything in law that is much harder to get rid of. IF, IF the other party wins enough seats to even do anything about it. Waiting till the next election is what they are hoping for.

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u/Rattiepalooza 15h ago

Voting will not matter. It's all in Project 2025. They've already stacked the counties by gerrymandering, they are already talking about "voting fraud", and they're now going to put the opposition in jail.

It's already too late. Voting is not going to do anyone any good whatsoever. Action is what is needed at this point. We're all just people at the end of the day, no matter what our status. No one is above another; especially this lot of fuck faces.

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u/UFOsAreAGIs 20h ago

Vote?

It's going to take a lot more than voting for them to let go of power.

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u/DirectIntention2200 19h ago

They’re still in denial, and it’s too late

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u/Fresh_Boysenberry576 18h ago

They are gonna use shit like this to lock up a lot of democratic voters. Absolutely go out and vote, but don't expect it to be a fair fight.

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u/Ryrynz 16h ago

This is in relation to violence though?

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u/PeanutButterToast4me 14h ago

He rehearsed this very carefully too. The operative words are all carefully chosen. He is not naturally this calm, but he rehearsed being calm too. Homan's and Miller's statements today were purposely released in tandem so they can work in tandem. Get ready fam, they are coming for any and everyone who doesn't all in line.

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u/anarchyisutopia 13h ago

If we're actually given the chance to vote again, for who? The feckless corpocrats who laid down for us at every juncture to get here?

Unfortunately, the system that brought us here will not be the thing that brings us out.

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u/AggravatingCamp9315 12h ago

My fear is that it already doesn't matter how we vote.... I mean I'm absolutely going to vote but you see what I'm saying..

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u/Leather-Stop6005 12h ago

That's exactly what he's saying. Trump has said a variation of that too.

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u/Zode1218 10h ago

Yeah man idk if you can vote your way out of it

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u/Resident_Artist_6486 9h ago

We are beyond voting 

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u/577564842 7h ago

But don't cry when they'll come after you for supporting terrorism.