Many times I have heard from one of the MAGAts telling me that I live in a Communist country and the USA is all about freedom. Guess what, you are allowed to say bad things about the government in Canada without being punished. This is fascism.
I was raised in a small town in Tennessee. The county seat of a country that voted 75% for Donald.
Home to visit family for Christmas I overheard a conversation where one person said - He's going to be President so he can do whatever the hell he wants to.
For now only non citizens need to beware of expressing their opinions. The nxt step in police states is monitoring everyone. Who among us hasn't stated their political opinion online? The internet is forever I was reminded yesterday.
I can afford to criticize 🍊💩 because Im a Canadian. Can you?
The problem, as I have experienced, is that one doesn't know where the language barrier is, until WAAM, " we have suspended your account due to . . . . . ". Trying to get in touch with someone, sends you in a spiral of a robot managed goose chase. They never tell WHICH word(s) are the offensive🤔🙄
citizens need also beware because there is no due process anymore. if DHS disappears one of us, at what point do we get to prove we are a citizen & that we have the same rights as non-citizens? we are all subject to this if even one group is. fascism isn't famous for stopping to ask permission.
This is going on and being done deliberately. Check out a recent Pod Save America episode where they interview a Canadian who was detained and denied due process. It is unAmerican and totally fascist.
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this is the greatest bait and switch of all time! they criticized biden for not prioritizing criminals for deportation. he fulminated about murderous gang members here. now he is in charge and he is prioritizing not criminals, but people who speak out about maga! you could not go lower than this pos
Screaming death to America and the Jews was probably not a great move though because that’s what most people remember from the protests. I think these deportations will succeed because of that.
I've attended plenty of protests and have yet to hear that uttered. Claiming protesters are saying it, however, is a good excuse to suppress any critics of Israel's government.
Protesters WERE saying it and that’s where the cameras were and that’s what was highlighted. I’m not saying it represented everyone. It’s the media environment that feeds the monster we live with.
And we all know that members of the current administration would never hire agitators and disrupters to create havoc, and directing media to cover those demonstrations.
It's just as likely they were paid agitators. Reminds me of the demonization of BLM protesters. What some media outlets portrayed and what was actually happening was vastly different, but worked to sour white sympathizers toward the BLM movement.
I’ll never, ever forgive the duplicitous, traitorous, disloyal pieces of shit that gave this administration their power. I’m on the edge of having nothing left to lose because of these shitwits. When they’re dead and gone, I’ll be smoking on them and their dead homies until the end of history.
Well, allow me to be among those who say FUCK this administration. I hate Donald trump, I hate Elon musk and JD Vance- the whole lot of them. Traitorous, treasonous and disgusting.
So my less than flattering comments about the orange turd (😎) on SM could be interpreted as “hostile attitude towards … or US culture (including government…”?
If that’s true then they will be seeking out US citizens!
We’re fooling ourselves if we think they will stop at non-citizens. They are just starting with citizens to see if they can get away with it, and it seems that they can.
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Know what they R doing. Trumpers use PROPAGANDA. RESIST w facts. Focus on their incompetence. Lazy. Greedy. Hate. Example- y did trump REPEAL $35 insulin. Now it is $750 again! Y trump allow no standards for NATL SECURITY?
And yet they allow neo nazis and kkk to march down our streets with fully loaded high powered weapons in display? Anyone else think world war 3 will be us and the rest of the world vs the lizard people?
When you no longer have allies or influence or programs to offer life saving help, there is nothing much for the State Department to do besides creep and threaten.
sycophant with them while they examine (y)our crotches! or kidnapping then disappearing by 1st & 4th Amendments & due process traitors undercover 🧊goons.
Resistance or disapproval - anything short of abject submission - will be considered heresy, and offenders will be punished by death or slavery (depending on exploitability).
Y'all voted for the Tyrant. Y'all have to be the ones to take him out. He sure as hell ain't leaving.
There is so much individuals are doing on a daily basis to try to fight this, but our mainstream media is suppressing that. It’s discouraging to read comments like this when we are already struggling with our mental health from the terror and energy it takes to fight.
You know, I get that we have this guy as the lotus right now, but a lot of us did not vote for him. Canadians were not far behind following a similar path until the saw it happening here. Fighting this system is exhausting, and I’m a little tired of the high volume posts like this from Canadians.
I’m not trying to pick fights. But my mental health is already not great from the terror and energy it takes to fight, and reading this sort of discouraging kind of gloating comments from people on the outside is very discouraging. Mainstream media is suppressing a lot of what we are doing.
Then I'm one under their crap definition but I'm a citizen and I criticize this regime for free, all day, every day. How easily they forget that criticism of unfair government policies is the foundation of this country. But then, they're traitors to this nation's ideals.
I think it can but I think there's a complacency and laziness issue where people may not like what they're seeing but they're not willing to do anything about it or maybe they don't know how to do things about it. I wish the Democrats could get organized
Term limits would fix this because then they would stop fighting for special interests and to keep their jobs. It is very strange that they don't know when or how to hang it up
Most of them are power loving (megalomania), and that is an addiction and a mental health issue. The Supreme Court has to reverse their ruling during the Obama era and stop foreign money from coming into influence elections and stop lobbyists all together.
Term limits would hand congress directly to the monied interests. Get the money out of politics (e.g. Citizens United) and most of the problems with incumbency would disappear.
King Drumpf is looking for an excuse to declare martial law. 😡⚖️
Meanwhile... EMOLUMENTS are still forbidden by the Constitution, and he violates it on a daily basis.
#EmolumentsShouldHaveBeenEnough to prevent all of this, in 2017. But nobody defended the Constitution when it would have mattered.
These nazis are redefining everything to destroy the lives of all groups they want to be removed or subservient to them. So if you are poor you get to stay here and serve. If you are brown or lgbtq you have to leave
I think it is funny they think people came here JUST to criticize the gov and to be deported. No.. they came here for a better life, the US is disappointing them, they are exercising their 1A rights, and being punished for it
This is not unprecedented. Happened before, just not in the USA. My grandmother told me, that ordinary people would attend the Sunday mass and if the priest would say something against the "Third Reich", he would be deported.
Informing on people is different than monitoring social media. This is surveillance. That’s denouncing those who disagree, often one’s neighbors or as you pointed out in some cases, their congregation.
The road out of fascism is lined with people telling others how to resist it. Fascism ends at the barrel of a gun or the end of a rope. There is no other way.
But we are close to a totalitarian regime, having the ability to spy on us if they wish. The State Department can revoke our passports under 22 USC 2714, Sub-Section e, paragraph 2a and Sub-section f, paragraph 2a and 2b..
1000%! I used to work in higher ed and it’s astonishing how much these students pay to attend US schools. He’s trying to break education in every direction!
The definition of terrorism orgs keeps changing. So that means if a visa or green card holder criticizes Tesla …. Or expresses support boycotting Tesla …. My god
They couldn't fight a global war on terror abroad so they are bringing it home. Disgusting and it started in earnest herewith the Patriot Act. Society manipulated to worry more about the second amendment than the Fourth. Surveillance capitalism is in full swing. #ChristoFascist white supremacists.
People on the right who do not care about targeting immigrants usually do say they care about wasting taxpayer money.
That is just another way right leaning people and bigots might recognize this is a terrible thing.
They don't care about people but they do care about their own money.
And what is the definition of supporting a terrorist going to look like? If we rail against the human rights atrocities taking place? If we are outraged about important historical context being destroyed? What if we disagree with our government?
Are those things going to be considered terrorism?
Right, that's why fascist govts use ambiguity as a tool and go after the most vulnerable 1st, so when they come for you or me, they think they have some plausible deniability. There's, of course, not any w/ her, but that didn't stop them. Fascists invent ways to silence those who disagree w/ them.
I believe what we're experiencing now is the normalization phase and immigrants are an ideal target. Many Americans already believe they're superior to them, so that's ½ the battle to acceptance of an oppressive regime won.
Free speech, anyone? This makes JD Vances stern talk to Europe on the state of it's free speech extra hilarious and hypocritical. Free speech for me, not for thee... #fascistthinking
The problem is that these clowns are incapable of understanding nuance. You can support the Palestinian people while simultaneously and vehemently condemning Hamas.
In their pea-sized brains, Muslim = terrorist, and there is NO room for any other interpretation. (Unless you're $audi'$ MB$.)
When criticism of Trump's fascist govt is labeled as terrorism, any protest, any post on bluesky, any call for judicial interference will be grounds for arrest, incarceration, confiscation of property, etc.
Citizenship is only immunity for deportation & then only until they strip it from you
Kind of like when social media, and posts by US citizens were being monitored (and censored) if they didn’t agree with (or questioned the safety of) the Covid Vaccine. Or questioned if it was biological warfare not just some random accidental situation, or if they opposed the Covid lockdowns?
Kind of except for the part where vaccine skeptics got government jobs instead of being disappeared off the streets and shipped to a prison in el salvador
So you're telling me that you think the government requesting the removal of misinformation on social media but not arresting people as terrorists for it is kinda like *setting a policy* of monitoring people's opinions on social media and then arresting them as terrorists for disagreeing with you?
“Requesting the removal of misinformation” is a pretty soft description of what actually happened… but in alignment with, as you say setting a policy for monitoring of private citizens opinions & data. Both were in the name of national security, no? The difference is that one instance actually is!
Countries need to ban Vance as he goes around, disrespecting Democracies. Has anyone heard from the 'Muslims for Trump' lot 🤔 This should be right up their street to get out and protest.
Clearly lifted from the legal code of the Peoples Republic of China...Vague language that can be interpreted however the Chinese Communist Party desires, now coming to a MAGA country near you.
Did I say that? Did the post reference Molotov cocktails? No. It referenced monitoring internet posts the government doesn't like. Say shit Trump claims is terroristy, get your visa revoked and sent to El Salvador.
Criticizing the current US regime? If the White House social media account is threatening to kill people at large, I think the situation kind of demands it
So students with a visa don’t have a first amendment right in the U.S.? Take note Greenland/Denmark next time VP Vance comes to your country on a visa and threatens your sovereignty, he can also get deported to a prison in some foreign nation where daily torture of inmates is allowed.
Just to be clear on one detail that I see creeping into the already creepy crap these creeps are doing:
It is NOT govt's job to manage, direct, control or enforce "culture", or to prevent cultural change.
It is govt's job to enable to culture to grow naturally, because that's what culture does.
They can designate groups as terrorists and then prosecute people for supporting them retroactively (before they were designated).
We went through this in the Bush years and the environmental movement.
@thetnholler.bsky.social @grzewap it's terrifying, but also fascinating. The many problems linked to moderating social media at scale are now trickling down unsolved to real life.
The current administration fits their own definition of advocating terrorist activity. Their conduct definitely bears a hostile attitude toward US citizens and US culture. Maybe they should self-deport
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Home to visit family for Christmas I overheard a conversation where one person said - He's going to be President so he can do whatever the hell he wants to.
He wasn't being critical.
Because I’m sick of this 💩
I can afford to criticize 🍊💩 because Im a Canadian. Can you?
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If that’s true then they will be seeking out US citizens!
They’re monitoring social media.
Don’t think it’s just foreign students with valid visas.
Trumps iron curtain sado maso tours offer
the new low cost jail holidays from america
only for real masochists.
you love it to get humilated and insulted.
get handcuffed and imprisoned .
an unique experience from uniformed dominas
torture garanted.
You don’t get to judge for yourself; Daddy does it for you. They act as if Americans are too fragile to hear foreign opinions. That’s not free speech.
sycophant with them while they examine (y)our crotches! or kidnapping then disappearing by 1st & 4th Amendments & due process traitors undercover 🧊goons.
they need to be deporting themselves. 🥶
Y'all voted for the Tyrant. Y'all have to be the ones to take him out. He sure as hell ain't leaving.
#USPol #GeneralStrike
We believe you will make it through the fire.
You must.
These are very dark and very DANGEROUS TIMES.
Meanwhile... EMOLUMENTS are still forbidden by the Constitution, and he violates it on a daily basis.
#EmolumentsShouldHaveBeenEnough to prevent all of this, in 2017. But nobody defended the Constitution when it would have mattered.
Sound familiar?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
#Resist
#Disrupt
#Protest
Idk, how about you do what I’ve done and read up on fascist movements and resistance to them.
They’ll show you various ways to get there.
These funds also pay scholarships for American born students.
Trump is destroying jobs:on all fronts. Any questions why he had the worst jobs record in modern history?
https://theworld.org/stories/2024/03/28/high-fees-paid-international-students-help-us-universities-balance-their-books
These people could be protecting the country but are searching for people to abuse.
That is just another way right leaning people and bigots might recognize this is a terrible thing.
They don't care about people but they do care about their own money.
Are those things going to be considered terrorism?
In their pea-sized brains, Muslim = terrorist, and there is NO room for any other interpretation. (Unless you're $audi'$ MB$.)
Citizenship is only immunity for deportation & then only until they strip it from you
The experts on fascism are fleeing, just like those who saw Hitler’s rise in Germany.
Wonder what Vanderbilt + the UT system might have to say about it... 🤔
The American republic was founded on a set of belief
1) All people are created equal, whether European, Native American, African American,
2) These people have fundamental rights, such as liberty, free speech, freedom of religion, due process of law, and freedom of assembly.
By the time sufficient Americans realise this, it will be too late.
Musk AI to be exact.
Grok gonna kill gpeople
I mean again..... don't think USA citizens will be immune from this.
Deeply scary shit.
This presidency is founded on terrorism, and ruling by fear.
It is NOT govt's job to manage, direct, control or enforce "culture", or to prevent cultural change.
It is govt's job to enable to culture to grow naturally, because that's what culture does.
We went through this in the Bush years and the environmental movement.
That's what they consider critical of government.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/558623-wray-suggests-fbi-limits-on-social-media-monitoring-a-lesson-learned/
#Disrupt
#Fight
ACLU?
FAC?
https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/