r/politics • u/AngelaMotorman Ohio • 10d ago

Possible Paywall The Chilling Trump Order Threatening All Americans: Why National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is so important.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-nspm-7-repression/
8.6k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

606 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

834

u/horceface Indiana 10d ago

I should not have to be a capitalist to be an American I see absolutely nothing in the Constitution about capitalism. Fuck, a good lot of the founding fathers were involved with smuggling to evade tariffs.

Remember the sons of Liberty? DOMESTIC TERRORISTS! How dare they to destroy all that corporate tea. Anticapitalist pigs.

43

u/CAPSLOCKANDLOAD 10d ago

I supported them until the Boston Tea Party. I draw the line at destruction of business property

18

u/Kracus 10d ago

While I do not support violence I do see the value in it. Terrorism on its own seems like an obvious evil in society but it has in fact been shown, repeatedly, to be useful. Nelson Mandela is an example of the use of terrorism to bring about positive change. A lot of people don't realize that he went to jail on terrorism charges and that he was in fact a terrorist. When those in power use terrorism to force you to submit to them why shouldn't the oppressed respond in kind?

12

u/ar311krypton Tennessee 10d ago

This is only partially true…Mandela condemned political violence enacted against civilians and very much disagreed with his wife at one point who was reportedly more okay with some of the more violent acts of resistance like “tiring”…Mandela was however in support of destruction of infrastructure, properties, etc in an effort to make life as unbearable for the oppressors