Hello US, your fascism is showing. You know when Canadian academics are warned against travel to your country…that the world is watching you with a side-eye.
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It really activates my almonds is when media goes along with the Newspeak that the Trump *regime* uses; for example they're not "deportations" if there's no due process, and people are black-bagged by masked thugs to be shipped to what are essentially concentration camps outside the US
Except usually that implies they're getting permanently disposed, as murdered, but I'm not willing to say that that isn't what's eventually gonna happen to people getting shipped out. Because it very well might.
Scary times. It escalated quickly. Likely to get much worse on the 20th.
If the remaining bits of democracy in our government do not take the radically necessary action to prevent this catastrophe, then all hope for their victory is lost.
This month, we will know, for sure, the power of the court.
I am so sorry. I don’t have much hope. Your president has shown his true self, and it’s not pretty. It’s straight up “Big Bad Villian” from every single TV drama. It’s giving Kevin Spacey/Francis Underwood from House of Cards.
What is happening in America, how long it lasts, and how many people get hurt before it is over 100% comes down to if people like me will sacrifice our comfort to stop what is happening.
Have Canadian academics been getting detained too?
A huge chunk of the EU now has travel advisories for all citizens, saying that you may be arbitrarily detained for unknown lengths of time, and that you're basically shit out of luck if that happens.
Wish I could say the US slide to outright fascism has come as a surprise, but the writing's been on the wall ever since 9/11 (well, longer tbf, but that's when things really started going pear-shaped)
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They're in the middle of a hostile government takeover.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforced_disappearance
Except usually that implies they're getting permanently disposed, as murdered, but I'm not willing to say that that isn't what's eventually gonna happen to people getting shipped out. Because it very well might.
Hell, I'll be _slightly_ surprised if they don't start murdering "undesirables" (immigrants, trans people, intellectuals, whatever) on a mass scale
If this government wants me dead, I will not march off to die in a camp, I will die in the streets of America.
If the remaining bits of democracy in our government do not take the radically necessary action to prevent this catastrophe, then all hope for their victory is lost.
This month, we will know, for sure, the power of the court.
I have hope, just not in Trump becoming human.
I have hope humanity overcomes.
What is happening in America, how long it lasts, and how many people get hurt before it is over 100% comes down to if people like me will sacrifice our comfort to stop what is happening.
I have to.
A huge chunk of the EU now has travel advisories for all citizens, saying that you may be arbitrarily detained for unknown lengths of time, and that you're basically shit out of luck if that happens.
But two Chinese ones (from China) according to Ezra Klein’s podcast.