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Miles Archer

(21,747 posts)
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 04:39 AM Jun 2025

"... there is no creating a police state just for other people..."

Mark Russell
‪@manruss.bsky.social‬
The lesson people infuriatingly never seem to master is that there is no creating a police state just for other people. If you create a police state with no due process for immigrants or accused criminals, then that's the system you've created for yourself.

The lesson people infuriatingly never seem to master is that there is no creating a police state just for other people. If you create a police state with no due process for immigrants or accused criminals, then that's the system you've created for yourself.

Mark Russell (@manruss.bsky.social) 2025-05-31T19:53:57.256Z
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Irish_Dem

(79,752 posts)
7. Yes, along with women and LGBT.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 06:53 AM
Jun 2025

The MAGAs must create groups of people they hate.
To keep the war they wage going.

erronis

(22,650 posts)
10. Don't forget about us elderly and in bad health.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 07:28 AM
Jun 2025

Guess that'll leave young white males to duke it out as in Lord Of The Flies.

Irish_Dem

(79,752 posts)
14. Yes they see old people are useless eaters who are stealing money belong to the billionaires.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 08:38 AM
Jun 2025

Even though we put money into SS and Medicare our entire working lives.

The billionaires believe all the money in the world belongs to them.

sop

(17,406 posts)
4. Mission Creep always occurs.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 06:22 AM
Jun 2025

A police state always ends up policing its own, transitioning from a focus on external threats (immigration crime) to controlling the speech, thought, and behavior of its own citizens. In the end police states cannot tolerate an armed populace, at some point they'll start taking away people's guns.

johnnyplankton

(602 posts)
9. I wonder how long it will be before TV's high profile dissenters (Kimmel, Colbert, Meyers) get shut down.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 07:02 AM
Jun 2025

Unless they do Maddow and Lawrence first...

Miles Archer

(21,747 posts)
12. I think it will be prioritized by who offended Little Lord Pissypants the most
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 08:34 AM
Jun 2025

AS WE KNOW, if someone hurts his precious feelings, they go on the list and become "the failing (fill in name)," "no-talent (fill in name)," "not very bright (fill in name)"...

...and, the primary sin someone like Rachel has committed it so LAUGH AT HIS MAJESTY. O'Donnell does it too, but he's much more subtle. He gets a certain smile on his face and lowers the volume of his voice and it is the equivalent of laughing at Trump, so people like that would either go down FIRST, or go down LAST.

CONTEXT: My boss at a major Silicon Valley company was a prince among men. He reported to the director. The guy hated my boss' guts. The company laid off 8500 people. This director did ALL OF THE LAYOFFS in our department and SAVED MY BOSS FOR LAST because he wanted him to have a FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY and believe he "escaped the noose." My boss was also recovering from back surgery at the time so his worry / paranoia / etc as escalated. The director KNEW this, SAVORED THIS, and enjoyed every minute of his little game. This could be described as "Trumpian" behavior, I'd say. The cruelty and the glee that comes from BEING cruel.

snot

(11,494 posts)
16. So true! No habeas corpus just for us;
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 11:00 AM
Jun 2025

no privacy just for us; no free speech just for certain political ideas.

Do we really understand this?

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