The "free speech absolutists" really gave that phrase a bad name by being so hypocritical. Republican national and state leadership has revealed itself as liars, hypocrites, and even un-american.
Just seems like elementary school excuses. If I even assume that's just true "we're despots too, just like them!!!" is that supposed to be a selling point to me or something?
If it's wrong, it's wrong, that's it, that's how values work.
Completely unhinged and delusional take. No one at the top even faced consequences for what happened on January 6th and you're pretending that Biden's DOJ was somehow on a revenge tour?
> If the left had respected the boundary, the line would not have been crossed
What boundary was this and what politicians on the left were advocating for political violence?
It's still kind of crazy that we have masked federal agents abducting people off of the streets en masse and hauling them away to foreign concentration camps without due process.
Even at America's lowest points (Fugitive slave act, Bleeding Kansas, Japanese internment) this is not something Americans would have tolerated of their federal government.
I feel the need to remind people that Americans labelled Hitler a tyrant and were willing to march to the death to Berlin before they even knew about the concentration camps.
“I’ll tell you something that’s going to get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less,” the president responded. “The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don’t want to see crime. They don’t want to see crime.”
“They’re saying, ‘We don’t want these people coming here. And we don’t want you burning our shopping centers. We don’t want you shooting our people in the middle of the street,’”
Given those recent comments, can this be anything other than a list of people for right-wing radicals to target?
I get up each day, the news gets more insane, I go to work, nobody mentions it. I keep wondering how insane things need to get before Midwest politeness decides to even acknowledge it.
It happened during the rise of Nazism, in "They Thought They Were Free" you can read quite candid interviews with everyday Germans from a small town on how they perceived it.
It becomes normalised, the window shifts, and it has already shifted a lot.
Things that were unthinkable to be done or said by politicians 15 years ago now happen almost daily. Speeches that would be scandals are just another drop in the bucket, rhetoric that would've crashed careers, and get people in absolute shock now became celebrated.
You just have to remember you aren't going crazy, this is not normal and shouldn't be normal, the window just shifted so much that a lot of people learnt to agree with it, for their own reasons, by manipulative tactics.
From the outside, it looks an awful lot like the US is marching straight toward a reincarnation of Hitler's Germany, and nobody is doing anything at all about it.
It's their way or no way with the GOP in America, no dissent, or even questions are allowed.
The "free speech absolutists" really gave that phrase a bad name by being so hypocritical. Republican national and state leadership has revealed itself as liars, hypocrites, and even un-american.
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"someone else started it"
Just seems like elementary school excuses. If I even assume that's just true "we're despots too, just like them!!!" is that supposed to be a selling point to me or something?
If it's wrong, it's wrong, that's it, that's how values work.
Completely unhinged and delusional take. No one at the top even faced consequences for what happened on January 6th and you're pretending that Biden's DOJ was somehow on a revenge tour?
> If the left had respected the boundary, the line would not have been crossed
What boundary was this and what politicians on the left were advocating for political violence?
große Lüge
It's still kind of crazy that we have masked federal agents abducting people off of the streets en masse and hauling them away to foreign concentration camps without due process.
Even at America's lowest points (Fugitive slave act, Bleeding Kansas, Japanese internment) this is not something Americans would have tolerated of their federal government.
I feel the need to remind people that Americans labelled Hitler a tyrant and were willing to march to the death to Berlin before they even knew about the concentration camps.
Just wait a bit more and it's a list for (masked) government officials to target.
How many steps away from troikas is this? Because however big the gap was, it sure is shrinking.
From the outside, it looks an awful lot like the US is sleepwalking into a civil war and the genral populace isn't paying attention.
I get up each day, the news gets more insane, I go to work, nobody mentions it. I keep wondering how insane things need to get before Midwest politeness decides to even acknowledge it.
It happened during the rise of Nazism, in "They Thought They Were Free" you can read quite candid interviews with everyday Germans from a small town on how they perceived it.
It becomes normalised, the window shifts, and it has already shifted a lot.
Things that were unthinkable to be done or said by politicians 15 years ago now happen almost daily. Speeches that would be scandals are just another drop in the bucket, rhetoric that would've crashed careers, and get people in absolute shock now became celebrated.
You just have to remember you aren't going crazy, this is not normal and shouldn't be normal, the window just shifted so much that a lot of people learnt to agree with it, for their own reasons, by manipulative tactics.
From the outside, it looks an awful lot like the US is marching straight toward a reincarnation of Hitler's Germany, and nobody is doing anything at all about it.