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Diemert was right!

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When you have Hegseth on one side extolling the 'lethality' of the military, and Trump looking to deploy troops domestically...

*ding ding ding*

"Correctly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Good questions!

What's different this time around, more than just 'bad shit happening' is the cult of personality, MAGAzation of the Republican party, and willingness to use state violence to achieve political objectives among others

But does it tell you more about the people taking a swing, out @radiofreetom.bsky.social lobbing one over the plate?

I'm looking forward to Jeff Foxworhy's comeback tour

The continuous point is that it's fascism whether those 'fascistic behaviors' target you or some unfavored subgroup.

Point to me on Niemoller's poem where the fascistic became fascism

This is not the case if you're a person of color living in DC or Chicago and are planning your daily activities around traffic checkpoints, for example.

It may or may not cross a magic fascist threshold.

But it's not ridiculous

More practically, and to Dan's point of Totalitarian being a separate taxonomy then fascist, if you're a white American citizen living in rural PA, cries of 'fascism' seem ridiculous.

The specific claim was that if it were REALLY fascist folks would be hiding, not posting.

Sure, call it necessary but not sufficient.

But I think there's plenty of evidence of fascistic behavior wherever you come down on the somewhat academic point of 'does this count as fascism'

Is it not fascist because your group hasn't YET borne the full weight of state violence?

Tom says the moniker is being used as an excuse for inaction when it's demonstrably being used as a call TO action.

It's a stupid Internet argument about a serious topic.

To the point- if you're in a targeted community you may already be dropping off the radar. I know folks who don't want to call the town govt for things like potholes because they with ANY contact carries unacceptable risk for them. 1/2

Oh I see. Only True Scotsmen can properly identify fascists

I thankfully have zero context, but they did march through Belgium.

Just saying

I just saw the AP release on the 'offer' to the migrant kids.

There's not really a lower bound on my expectations any more. Just a long, fucking depressing tail.

I need a drink

I'm sure he meant 'grapes'. He's a foodie after all.

The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens.

Few understand this.

Breaking down apartment doors in the dead of night.

Pulling kids out of their beds and away from their mothers to force them into zip ties.

Rounding up U.S. citizens and hauling them off into detainment.

How the hell does weaponizing ICE against American families make them safer?

My concern is that everyone who stays in the next months/years has made their accommodation.

My hope is that it's b precious few and the turmoil keeps anything from being done.

On the flip, anyone who isn't looking for an exit into industry or other private sector over the next couple of years knows something about who their colleagues will be.

But I think you're right, institutions move slowly.

Yes. This exercise is coup-proofing the military.

Every psychologist working for the VA just felt a disturbance in the force

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I mean if he REQUIRES beards, he'd be on a faster path to at least Duke of his policy goals

.. after leaving your command and travelling half way around the world.

The saving grace is that he may have guaranteed malicious compliance from the armed forces

Huh! I didn't know that about Limbaugh.

It's less ideological imperialism, I think and more seeing the world like a Risk board. I'll admit she overlap between the two, but it's this mashup of isolationism and 'America, Fuck Yeah!'

It's like the Mike Judge wrote a TED talk for the DoD