i dont think you can use this as an argument when the current republican president with full-throated support from the gop behind him is deploying troops to us soil and disappearing us citizens and racial minorities to concentration camps
i dont think you can use this as an argument when the current republican president with full-throated support from the gop behind him is deploying troops to us soil and disappearing us citizens and racial minorities to concentration camps
disappearing us citizens and racial minorities to concentration camps = temporarily housing illegal aliens in detention centers. I think we'll agree to disagree on this one. Peace to you.
oh so you think what they're doing is good. got it
No, but I have a problem with your verbiage. Would you say that every president who deployed US troops on US soil is a Nazi?
i'd say that ronald reagan wanted aids to kill all the gays and that george w bush used the 9/11 attacks to install a surveillance state. the end goal of the people driving the gop (heritage foundation) was always to seize power, transfer wealth to the rich, and oppress minorities and dissenters
I get where you're coming from. But I also think a lot of your conclusions are extreme. Did Reagan "want aids to kill all the gays", or did his admin just not handle it properly. Did W really "hate Iraqis"? Trump "hates" Muslims/South Americans? I see no evidence of that.
As far as "kidnapping brown ppl" (deporting illegal immigrants) this administration is hitting rookie numbers compared to Biden and Obama administrations. I don't think banning males from female sports has anything to do with fascism. Come on.
if it was wrong when obama and biden were doing it, why is it ok now?
Well I'm not speaking to the ethics of it. I know that there is not a country on the planet that does not enforce its borders or arrest/deport those who entered illegally. I'm just saying it is not fascism, no matter who does it.
it is fascism when it is done in the name of racial purity. gop politicians like mtg and mike lee believe in the "great replacement," that "democrat costal elites" (read: jews) are replacing the white homeland with dangerous foreign invaders to influence elections and steal jobs from the white man
i also don't understand how you can say the deportations were worse before when trump just made ICE the most well-funded "law enforcement" agency in our country, possibly the world, and stephen miller is pushing quotas of thousands per day, having ice bust people at their places of work
Under Obama and Biden terms (12 years) there were about 10 million deportations. Under Trumps 1st term, 3.3M. I don't know what the current count is. I doubt it's going to hit Obama (Deporter In Chief, remember?).
And I know it's a lot more sensationalized now. And the agents are wearing masks. But when the Dems were doing EXACTLY the same methods, they didn't have an international spotlight and magnifying glass on every single raid. So I believe this is all about politics.
yeah, you don't think do you
you have 2 options. either they say and do the things they do because they're stupid, or they're malicious. ultimately, reagan fucked the econ curve of the us, bush spied on everyone and got us into a pointless war, and donald trump is rounding up immigrants. the effects are just as bad either way
Don't take this the wrong way, but why do you say "rounding up immigrants" rather than "rounding up illegal immigrants" or undocumented or unauthorized. Surely you are not saying that EVERY immigrant in the country is at risk of being deported.
they say they want to denaturalize immigrants. they are arresting immigrants in their asylum hearings. they are revoking visas and greencards. the gop says they want "legal immigration" yet they punish people for pursuing legal methods, all of which are intentionally underfunded and overloaded
You're referring to ending birthright citizenship? I believe that's just a silly bone he's throwing to the extreme right. No way it's possible. Arresting them at asylum hearing is seems cruel. But is it everyone, or just specific ones (criminal records)?
no, not ending birthright citizenship, he wants to strip immigrant citizens of their citizenship. he threatened zohran mamdani with it. ending birthright citizenship is also bad. why believe that his goals are impossible when he is backed by the corrupt supreme court who will sign off on whatever?
fascism is about establishing/maintaining racial heirarchy. ronald reagan hated "welfare queens," george w. hated iraquis, donald trump campaigned on hating muslims and south americans. and even now that secret police are roaming the streets and kidnapping brown ppl you refuse to admit it
even the democratic party has fascist tendencies, but not quite as many. newsom and butigieg capitulating to charlie kirk and steve bannon that having trans ppl in sports is 'inherently unfair,' thinking that throwing us under the bus for moderate votes is ok, absolutely disgusting
the gop is worse on all fronts, obviously. this country needs a real workers party willing to make working peoples' lives better and crush the gop like the cockroach it is rather than pretending they have "respectability" like joe biden
looks like hitler, talks like hitler, walks like hitler, but definitely no way no how is hitler