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Everything? Really? That’s bold. I’ve been around for a while, and I personally can’t remember a time when 3000 armed, masked, untrained and unaccountable thugs were let loose by the federal government on individual cities to openly terrorize, incite, and murder the general population.
It can't be more clear that he's trying to normalize this. His message is that we shouldn't do anything and just let happen because we didn't do anything before this.
But really he's just desperate that we don't fight back. He wants Russia and China to win through Trump decimating the US.
You're not fighting back, this will blow over in a few weeks and it will go back to business as usual, brown people getting targeted and harassed, white people not so much. Liberals protest individual cogs in the machine, as if replacing e a cog changes the function of the machine. Right now they are protesting Trump's ICE when they should be protesting ICE. They are protesting Trump when they should be protesting the entire oligarchy. Liberals don't mind fascism as long as they don't have to see it.
Whether you realize it or not, you are argu8ng for inaction. Stop that.
You can give up if you want, but don't try to drag others down with you
I think it’s more likely that they are trying to break through the walls of capitalist propaganda and make people realize that the USA has always been fascist-oriented and that getting rid of this latest symptom (Trump) will not fix that. After all, fascism is imperialism turned inward. We desperately need a wholesale movement away from capitalism and towards socialism to actually ensure that fascism cannot rise again.
Kent State
1968 in general
So a thing from almost 60 years ago? That was a tragedy and eventually led to a course correction on Vietnam. Hardly an example of "business as usual"
Millions killed since Kent State by the state. Kent State is remembered because, again, it was a bunch of white people
In a single mass casualty event? Ohh nevermind you're one of those ml accounts.
How about the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war, Syria, Yemen, Palestine, Sudan, Myanmar, or any of the other countless places where US capitalism has incited genocide, murder, rape, and torture. Or is it only fascism when it happens inside our borders to white people?
Sort of feels like you're just baiting here. We're talking about domestic issues in this thread.
It sounded like you wanted a concrete example within living memory
Well I can't assume what the op meant. But I think the spirit is how what's going on isn't normal. And I think using an example like that is in itself unique and this is also not normal. Both of those things are rare and if anything prove the point that we shouldn't be here and we should be alarmed with what is happening.
I'm well over 60.
I would think someone alive during Jim Crow would remember Kent State
Pretty standard .ml take.
Can't help it if .world doesn't know fascism when they see it
You're the one that doesn't see it. You're out here telling people this is normal and not do anything
Yes, yes, America bad. We get it.
Hey, just out of curiosity, did anything noteworthy happen on June 4, 1989?
Previously, ICE was only set loose to terrorize, incite, and murder the brown population. So yeah, this is pretty much business as usual.
ICE wasn't previously "let loose," the deportation process existed (and happened way too often), but people received due process.
Due process by who, Obama denied due process to 75% of the millions he deported