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White House posts "enemies list" of Democrats critical of ICE

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Re: White House posts "enemies list" of Democrats critical of ICE

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Post by awnird »

legitster wrote: post #9

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 ty…

Feels crazier that there is literally zero resistance to it.

Really drives home that the median American is a bloodthirsty nazi freak.

Re: White House posts "enemies list" of Democrats critical of ICE

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Post by awnird »

drcongo wrote: post #10

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.

A civil war would require a second side. There's nothing here but enthusiastic support from bloodthirsty nazi freaks.

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Post by burnt-resistor »

user____name wrote: post #17

What I don't get is why the US media seems to keep talking about these things in terms of "left" and "right". Trump uses terms like "far left extremists" to designate large swaths of people who are clearly right of center, they're just not on the MAGA side. The average conservative or liberal pro-business party in Europe would be designated as "Marxist" or whatever by the GOP these days. But the media seems to go alo…

"Far left extremists" is a dogwhistle used by non-POTUS/non-VEEP parts of the regime to avoid running afoul of the Hatch Act. 47 sometimes adds "Democrats" but that's not illegal per the law. The whole point is to demonize the other party priming the population and apparatus for the purges or "final solution" they intend to wield against non-MAGA politicians.

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Post by burnt-resistor »

jacquesm wrote: post #20
user____name wrote: post #17

What I don't get is why the US media seems to keep talking about these things in terms of "left" and "right". Trump uses terms like "far left extremists" to designate large swaths of people who are clearly right of center, they're just not on the MAGA side. The average conservative or liberal pro-business party in Europe would be designated as "Marxist" or whatever by the GOP these days. But the media seems to go alo…

That's the whole trick. If you redefine everything that isn't MAGA as 'left' you just whitewashed your own reputation to 'right' instead of 'fascist'/'right wing extremist'.

Yes. Well, and now everyone who isn't MAGA or disagrees is a "terrorist" subject to deportation and/or stripping of citizenship.

I hope that room full of generals and master chiefs in Quantico agreed to secretly back-channel with each other such that they have a "break glass" plan of mass refusal to execute illegal orders per UCMJ.

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Post by jaybrendansmith »

I'm really glad to see this post is not flagged. Have things finally gotten to the point where Hacker News realizes we're not in Kansas anymore? This is literally a political enemies list, and these so-called enemies are completely normal politicians, most fairly centrist, who believe in the rule of law and our Constitution. This is insane. What are we going to do about this, folks?

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Post by recursivecaveat »

hypeatei wrote: post #4

“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 thos…

It's a proscription list, ie a "we'll look the other way if anything happens to these people" list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proscription
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