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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net

He literally laid the groundwork for everything that is happening in the US right now what are you talking about? He created ICE, he established the PATRIOT Act, this is all the long hangover of the War on Terror.

aug 25, 2025, 1:52 pm • 15 0

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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social

Extraordinary rendition, 'free speech zones', suppression of protest, the long-planned ideological programme: the list is endless. The open extremism was deeply shocking and had clear implications for the future of USA's foreign and domestic politics at the time.

aug 25, 2025, 1:54 pm • 8 0 • view
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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social

Not to mention Florida 2000, literally a subversion of democracy.

aug 25, 2025, 1:55 pm • 8 0 • view
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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net

If there’s one thing being a liberal requires it’s having absolutely no political object permanence.

aug 25, 2025, 2:34 pm • 4 0 • view
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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social

If they weren't around for 2000 fine, but it's not like records don't exist en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Un...

aug 25, 2025, 10:22 pm • 0 0 • view