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Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump (gizmodo.com)

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[–] bazus1@lemmy.world 54 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

[security contractors joined by officers hailing from across the federal government] converged for a mission dubbed “Operation Diligent Valor,” authorized under Executive Order 13933, purportedly to apprehend “anarchists and left-wing extremists” who’d been driven by Floyd’s murder to target U.S. monuments commemorating slave owners and Confederate traitors — dangerous individuals, Trump said, advancing a “fringe ideology” painting the U.S. government as “fundamentally unjust.”

Irony is dead.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My p-doc is from Vietnam and went on an unsolicited rant on how you should never trust the government. Trump is literally the inverse of sanity.

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

And yet he takes many many people with him. Trump, not your doc.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

At this point, the people who like him aren’t looking for sanity. They’re looking for their daily Two Minutes Hate.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

...that actually makes a disturbing amount of sense. a very disturbing amount of sense.

I'm gonna go smoke a joint

[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

That's just double speak at this point. We've always been at war with easteasia.