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JD Vance says the US government will investigating opposition organizations. If they start revoking the legal status and seizing bank accounts of opposition non-profits then this represents a fundamental threat to the ongoing operation and viability of an open democratic society.

They're going to crackdown by revoking articles of incorporation, tax exempt non-profit status, and then go after the bank accounts.

Charlie Kirk's assassination was just an excuse they've been waiting for, if it wasn't him they'd have found another excuse. This is what happened in Hungary, Turkey, and Russia. Authoritarian democracies take and hold power by taking the money away from an organized opposition.

https://archive.is/KIGjp

Valentino Giudice 3mo ago

The issue isn't just about money, really.

Some on the US right are rather dangerously threatening free speech, and have been for a while, and the Trump administration has for a while.

Without freedom of speech, it doesn't even make much sense to describe a country as an "authoritarian democracy". Freedom of speech, regardless of anything else, regardless of the economy, is a prerequisite for democracy of any kind. The common mob is the highest authority in a democracy, and ought to be allowed to freely discuss ideas. Without this there is no democracy.

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Logen Kain 3mo ago

On the right? A bit yea, but most of the left is encourging violence against speech, a disturbing amount celebrate silencing speech via murder, and some are even outright calling to kill peoole for their speech (See:Destiny).

I'm all in for free speech, but not consequence free speech. Celebrating and encouraging violence is not to be tolerated. And I hope we can get there not with laws, but culture.

I'm not saying I have the answers, but the violence must not be allowed to continue.

And from what I've been hearing, it looks like there may be bipartiasn work towards that end.

Again, I prefer culture to law, but I'm open to it.

Valentino Giudice 3mo ago

The left isn't in power in the US, so I am more concerned about what the US right does, at least for now.

> I'm not saying I have the answers, but the violence must not be allowed to continue.

Words are not violence. Not even words that celebrate violence are violence.

Logen Kain 3mo ago

Perhaps, but words encourage or discourage violence.

Valentino Giudice 3mo ago

Actual incitement is illegal, I think about everywhere.

What makes violence kinda more likely is subjective and effectively the same as "whatever I disagree with".