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The goalposts keep getting moved. They’re going to find a million dead bodies under the AT&T convention center and the libs will be like ‘you do this ONE more time and we’ll be on our way to fascism’.
In all seriousness, I’ve had legitimate conversations with family members about fleeing the country. It’s absolutely mind bending that I’m discussing this seriously.
Americans have a very specific idea of what fascism and nazism are and partially define themselves in the national myth by their (fabricated) historic opposition nazism.
So long as they are american they can't be nazis, by definition. If an american calls another american a fascist or a nazi its taken to be a meaningless insult.
I suspect this only ends when they manage to reinvent the whole fucking thing from the start and play it out to the bitter end.
Everyone else needs to claw public education back from austerity vultures in their own countries or prepare for a similar slide into ignorant helplessness.
There is solid evidence that hundreds of detainees are being held in the basement of my local courthouse. The detainees in there don't show up on the ICE websites. Unfortunately it gets barely any traction and no local politicians are doing shit about it...even though many would have the legal right to tour the basement and observe the condition of the detainees. Of course, some local politicians were already barred from touring an official "on the books" ice detention facility so I guess they will just get away with hiding all this bullshit