Sounds like they’re just trying to create enemies to unleash against for no good reason.
Of course they are. USA is not on the road to fascism, it’s already there
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.
NGL, it’s been this way since J. Edgar Hoover was running the FBI. Nothing new at all in this.
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?
It’s not a “both sides” though. Do you really think state governments in the past weren’t just as right wing as the government? Hell, it took the Voting Rights Act to get minorities and the poor the unfettered ability to vote, and still it didn’t come easy. In the past, state governors routinely called out the National Guard. Americans got killed and arrested. Blue-collar “Hard Hats” would sail into crowds of protestors beating the shit out of “hippies” and “radicals.” Actual brownshirt uniform wearing NAZIS would march openly showing their faces… In 1984 I got pulled over in Darien Connecticut by a cop wearing a White Aryan Resistance pin on the collar of his shirt.
What’s different now is most of the people that fought fascism directly in the Second World War are now dead, and generational amnesia has taken over and so many people have embraced militant reactionary views because of it. My generation, raised on TV, lost the plot when cable TV became the unregulated norm and the right wing fearmongering of the Murdochs and others presented itself as legitimate “news” and snowed almost everyone over 60 into supporting things that they were taught as children to avoid.
Against the historical drift and where we’ve come from 50 years ago, AND the forward march through the 90’s that was breathtaking in many ways, (leading to Barack Obama being elected) yeah, things are backsliding, but that’s just the reactionary stupid part of the society. The rest of it is progressing.
I’m at an interesting point watching my Alex Jones listening co-worker come to grips with the fact that his grandson isn’t troubled at all by his friends who are the gay and LGBTQ theater kids (the ONLY group in the school to NOT tease him because of his disability) and they’ve accepted him and he’s happy. Watching someone that was spewing racist, sexist bile a few years ago have an epiphany that FEW would have had decades ago says a lot more about what the public really is thinking. Tells me that much of it isn’t real, just performative. I friends in high school that got thrown out of their homes and disowned by their parents because they hung out with others whom the folks didn’t approve of. That seems to occur a LOT less today. Which is amazing.
The best thing to happen for the progressive movement is these regressive policies and actions that come just as AI torpedoes 100’s of thousands of jobs and the climate and energy prices spike along with health and housing (nevermind education) and there is a sitting buffoon in the White House making it all worse.
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.
that’s where the second amendment comes in.
it’s going to be a red Christmas folks.
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.
It’s called a Constitutional crisis.
ICE was established by an act of congress (Homeland Security Act of 2002). 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!
Everyone is probably already in the palantir database…
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
“Corprate run labor camp”
Isn’t that just like
A job?
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.
How horrifying is our dystopia when we grade our lives on how shitty they are.
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.
Shhhh we solved slavery and racism and everyone here is happy and healthy.
thats why they have been aggresively deploying the flock cameras, get everyone camera and fed to the database , before the public finds out.
They probably already have datamined info from all Internet services that will sell them.
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.
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
They were filmed saying exactly this back in January/February.
It’s the new IBM.
News from prior to the Rene Goode shooting, but OK.
If you’re American and you’re not in the database then you are the fucking problem
