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WhiskeyGrinder

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8. Your adult lifetime includes the government targeting civil rights leaders, cop raids on LGBTQ hangouts,

Reply to Pototan (Reply #7)

Wed May 21, 2025, 08:19 AM

May 21

harassment of Labor leaders, the Patriot Act, the National Security Act leading to the establishment of ICE in 2003, routine low-level cop violence that is always "reformable" and never reformed, etc., etc. When people say "this isn't America," they're wrong.

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You tell me if this sounds like America [View all] Pototan May 21 OP

Terror is the point. Celerity May 21 #1

Schatz is exactly right. It's about fear and the weilding of it as an intimidation tactic. DFW May 21 #2

For years there have been a lot of Filipina nurses in my area of SoCal, filling a shortfall... Hekate May 21 #3

Reminds me how my grandparents were constantly pestered by Stalin's NKVD Tommy Carcetti May 21 #4

As unspeakably vile... GiqueCee May 21 #5

Very much so. America was *built* on this kind of terror. People fleeing slavery, displaced Indigenous people, political WhiskeyGrinder May 21 #6

It's new in my adult lifetime Pototan May 21 #7

Your adult lifetime includes the government targeting civil rights leaders, cop raids on LGBTQ hangouts, WhiskeyGrinder May 21 #8

And the progress of civil rights Pototan May 21 #9

MAGAts are fine with government tyranny, as long as it harms people they hate Martin Eden May 21 #10

America has committed atrocities before. It has violated the rights of people. It has targeted certain groups of people. Solly Mack May 21 #11