JacksonLamb

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on Perhaps... · c/peoplebluesky · 6 pts · 1y

Personally I think it started before that. It has its roots in the mass overturning of civil rights after 2001, the implementation of secret courts, disappearing people into black sites, extrajudicial killings, and breaking international human rights laws to hold people in indefinite detention without trial.

No subsequent administration has ever walked that back because that kind of power is so convenient to them. But this framework is what has facilitated the slide towards fascism.

on Pettiness level 5 · c/politicalmemes · 1 pts · 1y

This. The sayings we all know can easily be repurposed. I am sorry I don't speak [english]. No I do not understand you. Thank you. Where is the train.

I may have done this to American tourists in Europe.

These are interesting times. Americans by and large have always insisted that they can overthrow a tyrannical government because their troops would "refuse" to uphold tyranny against their own people.

As we get closer to that situation becoming more than a hypothetical, more realistic arguments are beginning to receive prominance.