• betanumerus@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    Sounds like they’re just trying to create enemies to unleash against for no good reason.

  • qevlarr@lemmy.world
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    Of course they are. USA is not on the road to fascism, it’s already there

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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      if the road to fascism has roadside attractions, we’re currently taking a leisurely stroll through McCarthyism.

      you can see the warm amber glow of fascism down the road at night and a faint scent of smoke, but nothing too alarming.

      we haven’t even passed the Stalin tollway yet.

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      NGL, it’s been this way since J. Edgar Hoover was running the FBI. Nothing new at all in this.

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        Not so fast. The MAGA Era is distinctly different. J Edgar was one guy on a power trip. But MAGA has every red state government publicly and shamelessly gerrymandering districts and purging voter rolls. Trump has CEOs bending the knee and gifting gold statues.

        The “always has been” meme is funny but it seriously downplays how bad things have gotten in the past 10 years. Do you see how it’s kind of a “both sides” style dismissal?

  • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
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    1st Amendment

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

    A nice mix of things the orange pedo and his lackies have been stripping away.

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      So, where does this all fit: Congress didnt really make a law doing that. Executive branch policy changed ICE’s protocols until that’s what we have.

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        ICE was presumably established by an act of congress. If the law which created it is interpreted to be broad enough to allow the dismantling of free assembly, then the law is definitionally unconstitutional. Good luck getting fuck all done about it, though!

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    I 100% believe it.

    There were lots of creepy videos in Minnesota and elsewhere of ICE thugs creepily taking photos of observers, and several have made mention on camera of ‘a database’ or ‘a system’. They’re probably not supposed to talk about it publicly, but ICE thugs are fucking stupid.

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      They’re probably not supposed to talk about it publicly, but ICE thugs are fucking stupid.

      One more thing iSSe isn’t supposed to do publicly, like show their faces

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      But now you’re on some bullshit double secret probation run by some fascist looking for a reason to round up the next purge victims… Like if we get 2 undesirables check marks next to your name…off to the corporate run labor camp

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          A job at a typical corporation vs a for profit prison:

          There is degrees of shittiness.

          One is like amputating a healthy and able leg. The other is like amputating both legs and an arm to boot.

          Or another comparison.

          One is like eating a bowl of feces every day. The other is like eating radioactive sludge with some heavy metals every day.

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          If by “job” you mean the actual fucking slavery that is the for profit prison system is the US.

          I mean haha, that’s very funny, but we do have actual slavery in the US in 2026.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      thats why they have been aggresively deploying the flock cameras, get everyone camera and fed to the database , before the public finds out.