Look at all that free speech the USA has, where people are being disappeared to an overseas concentration camp for saying genocide is wrong, or having the FBI investigate them for speaking critically about Trump, or imprisoned at the border for criticizing him online. Whereas in the UK, these days you get arrested and thrown in jail if you say you’re English, don’t you?
Does anyone trust the UK government not to do this?
Seems to me you’re trying to use some evolutionary, survival-of-the-fittest just-so story to argue that society shouldn’t take care of the less fortunate people, including those who vote for Trump because they’re not so smart. It’s a very fascist sounding position. In fact, most attempts to draw lessons for modern society from more or less cooked up evolutionary history are just right-wing propaganda dressed in a sciencey frock.
If you have time to watch a long but entertaining video about this subject, I recommend this one:
The fucking balls of Donald Trump calling NPR and PBS grifters… and you just know he’s reveling in people’s anger about this.
It’s what Pinochet did, and he was very much admired by Reagan and Thatcher. I certainly wouldn’t put it past Trump’s people to start doing this.
There are also those 34 felony convictions. And the civil court finding that he raped a woman.
We need more people prepared to not be careful. Being careful means acquiescing to oppression in silence. Real resistance means taking risks.
Don’t cave, Harvard.
Ah, but Democrats will fight back by (1) pointing out that it’s against the rules, (2) waiting for him to acknowledge his error and apologize, and (3) voting for their own imprisonment.
For all their professed know-how with money, conservatives have never understood the idea of investing in society for a long-term return. They’re always very short-sighted.
I fear the plan is darker than that. They will keep sending people in, and El Salvador promises that no one will ever come out (even if they’re innocent). If you keep piling people in and never let anyone out, you run out of space unless you find some other way to dispose of people.
Canada, please no Poilievre.
That tends to be the case in many countries because the left are under so much scrutiny they have to be very careful with budgets. The right, on the other hand, are given a pass to do all kinds of irresponsible things because they are assumed to be “fiscally responsible” and their supporters only want to hear them say “tax cut” a few times and they’re satisfied.
It can also mean disapproval of genocide, or having the wrong skin color, or speaking Spanish, or being gay or trans, or saying it’s OK to be gay or trans. Basically it means doing anything Nazis don’t like.
It is an encouraging start and I don’t mean to diminish the value of it. I hope you get through this time safely and without things getting too unpleasant for you.
Well now the President and his government are openly saying that they will kidnap anyone they don’t like off the street, or out of their homes or schools, and disappear them to a foreign prison where they may be tortured, enslaved, and/or killed, without any justification, evidence, accusation or due process. Any American, or anyone else in the USA, can be going about their daily business and the cops can kidnap you and traffick you that same day into a lifetime of torture in a foreign dictatorship famous for human rights abuses, and no one in the world can help you.
All these years we’ve had to put up with Americans going on about needing guns to protect themselves from tyranny and the importance of free speech, and when an actual tyrannical dictator starts disappearing people for their political views, their race or (it’s coming) their gender identity or sexual orientation, Americans do nothing to stop it. In fact, many of the “guns and free speech” crowd just love it. Until the police come for them.
Realistically, we don’t know, because the point is for them to disappear. Historically this has tended to mean people get killed.
Errors and deliberate abuse.
He urged FCC Chair Brendan Carr, who was named to the position by Trump, to deliver “substantial” penalties to the network for what he called “unlawful and illegal behavior.”
“CBS is out of control, at levels never seen before, and they should pay a big price for this,” he wrote.
In Trump’s mind, saying something he doesn’t want you to say is “unlawful and illegal”. And since both Congress and the Supreme Court have decided that he is never wrong, and law enforcement now operates by kidnapping people and trafficking them into life imprisonment and slavery without trial, that is the de facto reality.
Project 2025 does seem to be the exact program they are following for most things. One of the next steps is to deploy the military for law enforcement inside the USA. This may happen in a few days’ time if the rumours of Trump planning to declare martial law on April 20th are true.