and so it begins

execute order 66

death metal is the jedi?

Free speech is the jedi

death metal is the lightsaber

so free speech is gunna die for a while get brought back by a weird country kid who will use it for a while then shit talk his nephew and destroy everything good about free speech to begin with... fuck

So if I read this correctly, all the vitriol that has been directed at Patreon, Paypal, and MasterCard may indeed instead belong to the Trump Administration Dept of Justice. I find this rather amusing if correct.

that would be immensely perturbing

Sounds about right. "Government causes all the problems."

or rather

"Government causes problems, puts into the law that the people who are being affected by the law can't actually talk about the law"

But the Patriot Act was pushed through by the Bush Administration and a Republican Congress to make us all feel safe! Don't you feel so much safer now?

No.

No I don't.

and the Patriot Act was..written well before 9-11..

they just used 9-11 as an excuse to shove it through.

I said that at the time but the conservatives were all "But terrorists!"

welcome to a too party system 😛

So were some Dems (I'm looking at you HRC), but the Repubs we're in control

One side fearmongers things through with "But Terrorists"

and the other side says "BUT MINORITIES!"

According to the article Operation Choke Point dates back to 2013 and rogue FDIC bureaucrats have been carrying it past its ending in August 2017.

and then we all get fucked.

Welcome to -every single thing in every government ever- Devpav

The PA state Achohol Tax?

Was supposed to pay to rebuild Johnstown after the flood.

here we are 130 years later

WITH THE TAX STILL IN EFFECT

This is all based on the Patriot Act and the effort to starve terrorists of funds

https://www.forbes.com/sites/norbertmichel/2018/11/05/newly-unsealed-documents-show-top-fdic-officials-running-operation-choke-point/#471d7a061191

But who defines terrorist? Christian Identity scares me more than ISIL, at least while I'm in the US.

LGBT identity scares me more than ISIL.

How many have Christian Identity murdered last year?

They have cut down on the number of planned Parenthood doctors they have murdered in recent years

So, they murder Planned Parenthood doctors?

Not very many.

Christian radicals have, yes.

But not Christian Identity members?

Bombs and gunshots.

How many did they kill last year? Rough estimate, if you don't have hard numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence#Anthrax_threats