• SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml
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    Federal law gives the Treasury Department broad discretion to apply the terror label to foreign groups.

    Maybe a little too broad. Trump has a unique way of interpreting words.

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      Maybe a little too broad. Trump has a unique way of interpreting words.

      Yeah, that’s definitely the most charitable way of phrasing it. I’d say he doesn’t understand any of them to begin with, and doesn’t have to, because the people who should be correcting him, aren’t. Words mean whatever Trump decides they mean now. Which is terrifying, because redefining words is fascism 101. There was just more internal resistance during his first term.

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        Well, he’s gotten rid of ALL that resistance now.

        He learned his lesson, we didn’t.

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      Everything that has happened since 9/11 has been more thana bit too broad. Using the term “terrorist” needed no basis in reality and overrode all rights protecting the target.