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John's avatar

That deportation flight video was astonishingly grotesque. Actual, unvarnished fascism. And the most telling was Elon's response to it: tweeting with a "wow, epic troll" response.

Sooner or later, this administration is going to confront a major crisis (Israel striking Iran nuclear sites? Bird flu? Crisis with China?) and when they do, they're going to find that the "epic troll" mentality does not comport well with the incredible responsibility of running the United States of America, as they sail the ship into an iceberg.

Eventually, the bill will come due, and it will redound to the eternal shame of everyone who cheered for this.

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John P's avatar

The thing about populist authoritarians (and fascists especially) is they refuse to accept reality. They’ll expend considerable energy lying, obfuscating, dividing, blaming. They will anchor harder and refuse to acknowledge what’s happening, it’s just a game to them - even if their own house is burning.

Fascism is a death cult. Death cults aren’t into logic. “Don’t look up!”

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Ryan Lentz's avatar

They have no shame.

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Sarah's avatar

A huge concern, though, is when a major crisis occurs (I mean outside of the major ones we’re watching every day) will we have any journalists/reporters of integrity left to inform us?

I’m already extremely worried that right as he took office, Trump received solid info that we are already in early exponential spreading of (most likely) bird-flu. I figured he’d yank us out of WHO; I did not see the shuttering of CDC communications coming at all; and he shut that down fast. Like “in a panic” fast.

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Jenn Z's avatar

Thanks for the further explanation. I have never heard of this type of video, and I couldn't watch it.

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