Posted on 05/26/2023 12:57:44 PM PDT by Red Badger
Disinformation and counter-extremism programs have become little more than tools for suppressing the political opposition. With DHS handing out grants to study extremism, the Media Research Center has information on what may be the single most explicit attempt at using counter-extremism funding to go after the opposition.
Under the Trump administration, the “Targeted Violence & Terrorism Prevention Grant Program” (TVTP) was used to prevent terrorism, but it was revamped under the Biden administration and renamed to provide funding for localities to combat “all forms of terrorism and targeted violence.” Instead of focusing on preventing actual violence and terrorism, the program is now being used to target the entire spectrum of the political right and Christians through “media literacy and online critical thinking initiatives” and other so-called training seminars as part of a coordinated effort to make America into a one-party system.
The University of Dayton, one of several grantees, targeted groups including The Heritage Foundation, Fox News, Christian Broadcasting Network, Turning Point USA, PragerU, the National Rifle Association (NRA), Breitbart News, the American Conservative Union Foundation and the RepublicanNational Committee.
The pyramid of extremism speaks for itself. First you watch FOX News, then some PragerU videos and then you become a Nazi.
Also, “The seminar also compared former President Donald Trump to Pol Pot and suggested Florida Governor Ron DeSantis might wish to start a second Holocaust.”
Sure.
Among the organizations and movements displayed on the pyramid were the Republican Party, the Heritage Foundation, the American Conservative Union, Fox News, Breitbart News, the National Rifle Association, PragerUniversity, Tea Party Patriots, the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, the pro-police Blue Lives Matter movement, and the Christian Broadcasting Network.
The pyramid also included hate groups like The Base, a neo-Nazi paramilitary group, and the Daily Stormer, a pro-Nazi publication, seemingly comparing them to mainstream organizations such as the GOP.
This is about criminalizing political dissent. Plain and simple.
Can do the same to the crazy left. Alphabet networks, BLM, Antifa, propaganda “newspapers, etc. Turns them into building burners and murderers.
where is the LEFTIST pyramid?
It’s better to be a dissident in the eyes of the Brandon regime than a commie!
And no one in Congress can find any more cuts in government spending.
this will be used as an excuse for censorship
right out of the fascist playbook
Doesn’t exist.
No such animal.
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Bttt.
5.56mm
I am getting the idea that our government - the one that wrote the German “Grundgesetz” - intended the same suppression of dissent and annihilation of right wing politics to be in force in the US as well.
“Our democracy”, in their view, cannot be changed by politics.
So be it.
It's the top two tiers of the one above.
They forgot the Federalist Society. I love the Federalist Society youtube channel.
I got news for them. I haven’t watched Fox News since 2008, and I’ve never been associated with PragerU in any shape or form. Can I still be a Nazi? Please!!!
There are only two levels in the leftist extremist pyramid. Level 1: ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo, NPR, ADL, SPLC
Level 2: BLM, Antifa, CPUSA, New Black Panthers, Unabomber, Al Qaeda, ISIS
...then you get the women.
Steps three and four are totally in the mind of the democrat party, the DNCmedia and the Left.
Totally made-up BS used to justify any law-breaking and supression of rights against us they’re ready to condone, abet and sanction.
Not one of the sources on level 1 and 2 lead to anything above them.
I’ve changed my tagline!
Clearly, I need to step up my game.
So belief in the Judeo-Christian values of living your neighbor and G-d, free market capitalism, and limited government somehow morphs you into someone who worships the state, hates your neighbor, and overarching totalitarian governmental control of the economy.
I’m thinking there is a flaw in this program, but I can’t quite figure it out.
President Donald Trump . . . might wish to start a second Holocaust.”
Well every good grandfather wants to slaughter 3/4 of his grandchildren.
<>this will be used as an excuse for censorship<>
After the authoritarians steal 2024, it will be used as an excuse for imprisonment.
The J6 gulag is a warmup.
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