cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28249577
Top Trump official Stephen Miller’s recent declaration that anyone who “preaches hate for America” will face deportation has ignited alarm online, with critics warning the statement disregards First Amendment protections.
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Social media users and legal analysts raised immediate concerns, pointing out that expressing dissent or criticism of the government is protected under the First Amendment. Some worried the administration was veering into authoritarian territory.
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The backlash has reignited broader debates over the limits of free speech, especially as civil liberties fall under scrutiny. While immigration enforcement remains a core theme of President Donald Trump’s platform, critics are increasingly questioning whether rhetoric like Miller’s is a precursor to more aggressive suppression of dissent.
Trump once said that this guy, Kapo Stephen “PeeWee Himmler” Miller, told him that he’d like to see America’s population reduced from the current 335 million down to 100 million.
We don’t hate America. We hate you.
“Worries users” - is the USA an operating system now?
Is AI writing these posts? The statement makes sense in context in the full post, but the headline absolutely does not - leads me to believe yes, AI slop.
The Talibangelical issues a Fatwah.
Whats that joke Reagan cracked back in the 80s about Russian Soviets not allowed to criticise their government?
Yea, huh. Wonder what happened to that.
I don’t hate America. America is a continent. It would be really silly to hate an entire continent.
Was not expecting the purposefully obtuse European response in this thread.
Really hate the milktoast way these articles are written. “critics warning” “ignited alarm online” “backlash has ignited debate” ffs just say the Trump admin announced the end of free speech. That is literally what happened.
Some worried the administration was veering into authoritarian territory.
FFS WE’VE BEEN THERE THIS ISN’T VEERING THIS IS FOLLOWING A STRAIGHT LINE ALONG THE PATH WE’VE ALREADY BEEN ON FUCK
milktoast is a pretty milquetoast breakfast, though i will admit it actually pairs well with a milk steak boiled hard
What are the “users” in this context?
i love the USA and everything the constitution stands for. i don’t agree with how this administration is running the government in some respects.
Straight to El Salvador jail
“Some”. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
They are going to milk the extrajudicial rendition until there is an actual outbreak of violence to try and stop it.
Then Trump will send those people involved into a gulag, too.
Agreed the purpose is to cause people to act and then move in to crush them. All the while playing the victim. Of course that play doesn’t always work.
I wish I could say I’m surprised.
Trump isn’t America, the government isn’t America, fuck them. The people are America.
Unless the people do something about, Trump and the government are exactly America. If no one stops it and just complies, then it is endorsement by default.
Yeah, fuck them too then. I’m not standing for this shit.
Sadly the people with the big guns and the people in control of the internet and power grid and infrastructure and money and banks and social media listen to that guy. What you gonna do about it?
nice try, fbi
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That goes against the first amendment, which I think makes it anti-american. Can Stephen Miller start by deporting himself?
they’re no longer following the Constitution, in case anyone has noticed …
They never were. Unless they added things that helped them or a cohort at a given time. cf: prohibition, its repeal, etc.
Which makes them anti-American.
I don’t think they care about their hypocrisy, tbh - I think they view themselves as more American while dismantling America. This is just how reactionary coups work, they appeal to nationalism, but insist on reverting to an older status quo as a more authentic version of that nationalism. (It’s a re-invisioning of America in a sense.)
They always hated what the Constitution actually has in it, like no endorsement of their god, for instance.
It is never not projection.
He will be jailed with the rest when the time comes
I love America. I swore to defend it against all enemies. I do not love what it is doing or who the government defines as enemies.
When will you recognize that the government is behaving as if citizens are the enemy and itself is actually doing the same things enemies do…
That’s pretty much what they said.
I love who the government defines as enemies. I don’t love that the government defines them as enemies.
