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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They refuse to bring Garcia back because hes dead. CECOT is an extermination camp. Complete with giant pool of blood. It's a prison that never fills up.

We are no longer in some hypothetical what if state in regards to fascism. The President is sending people to death camps and as conservative as this SCOTUS is it ruled 9 to 0 ordering Trump to return Garcia. They refused to do so.

Buy a gun.

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 month ago (5 children)

My Great Grandmother shot and killed an officer that was taking her family away to a concentration camp. Is that where we're heading?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Heading? The early stages of the Holocaust we’re precisely that.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a pretty good likelihood that stuff like that is in our future.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's where you are I think.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 month ago (12 children)

They won't stop unless someone makes them stop. That's how movements like this work, every single time. They never wind down on their own. They have to constantly keep increasing the cruelty and extremism, or else their base will see weakness and abandon them. However bad you think it is now, it's only going to get worse, unless someone puts an end to it. Historically, there are only a few ways a fascist movement has ever been stopped, and none of them are pretty.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Generally, things chug along getting worse and worse, until suddenly we reach a tipping point. Then something happens, often small and innocuous, and it tips. Then there's no stopping it.

The Berlin Wall came down when a single guard decided on his own that he wasn't going to stop the growing crowd that appeared after an East German government official accidentally declared at a press conference that they would finally allow emigration, following increasingly large protests. When the world woke up that morning, NOBODY knew this would happen that day. Not a single intelligence agency anywhere on the planet predicted it. It totally surprised the entire world.

Its likely that protests and outrage in America will grow, even among disgruntled MAGAs, and one day, its just going explode, probably over something fairly small. The fuse has already been lit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

This is the outcome I hope for. The other possibilities are a lot more messy.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Yea, I have always thought about the future scenario. When they get tired of picking on the immigrant, they'll turn to citizens. Really crazy and scary thought to even have to consider.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (6 children)

This makes Bukele complicit in the crimes of the Trump administration, right? Isn't he worried about the repercussions when the rule of law is restored in the US?

He is illegally kidnapping and restraining US citizens.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Bukele doesn’t give a shit.

Cut from the same cloth as Trump, Bolsanaro, Berlusconi, Orbán, Lukashenko…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

He's perfectly safe. All he did was take a deal for money from the official US government. Another administration can cancel the deal, but no one will seek retribution from him.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No, he's not worried. And he has good reason not to be. He knows history. Obama didn't hold the Bush administration officials responsible for their crimes. In fact, he happily kept using many of those illegal powers himself. And Biden didn't hold the first Trump administration accountable for their crimes.

Liberal Democrats have a core character flaw. They don't like confrontation. It's the same impulse that causes them to reflexively seek out compromise with Republicans at every turn. They have this narcissistic trait that makes them think they can achieve their place in history by being a grand peacemaker. They always seek reconciliation without accountability.

I guarantee you, if another centrist Dem manages to win in 2028, their very first official act will be to come before the nation, try to be the grand peacemaker, and announce, "it is time for the nation to move on, all is forgiven!"

They can't help themselves. They're cowards to their core.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

When? You mean after the UN liberation forces finally secure Pennsylvania Ave?

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[–] [email protected] 140 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Feel like I’ve been saying this a lot recently, but it’s pertinent:

Camp Auschwitz was in Poland, not Germany.

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