Hello. I live in St. Paul, Minnesota. In January of this year my city was under hostile armed occupation. I volunteered for weeks packing boxes of food for people who were afraid to leave their houses because the masked secret police were ripping people off the streets with little regard for legality. Two of my neighbors were murdered by the secret police; a hundred of us sang hymns outside the local elementary school in 20 below weather. One of those murdered was my friend's coworker. The secret police agency has so far successfully opposed any attempt to bring the murderers to justice, and indeed was trying to bring legal charges against the families of the murder victims.
replyWhich 'F' word do you think is appropriate to describe all this? Or has meaning already been lost?
Thank you for your service.
replyFear. Fear can make people act irrationally and cloud one's understanding of the lawful actions taking place around them.
replyI guess anything is ok… as long as it’s ‘lawful’. No government would ever make an unjust law.
replyLawful doesn’t mean right. Slavery was lawful.
replyLaws are not immutable. Slavery is an example of something that was lawful and then society added rules against it.
replyIn US, the society didn't just "add rules against it". If you recall, the slavers first had to be beaten with a very big stick.
replysociety literally had to break down for years in order for us to add rules against it
replyand your point is?
replyThat we operate as a society within the confines of the law. And the confines we exist in can be changed if the majority don't agree that something isn't right.
replyActually there are specific confines that cannot be changed by majority. Might I refer you to the US Constitution, which itself constrains which laws are flexible and which are not, and which this administration has run afoul of now on hundreds of occasions?
replyYou realize that creating fear in the public, especially your political opposition (i.e. blue cities), using lawful or arguably-lawful means is absolutely a hallmark of fascism, correct?
replyYou may want to review the 14 points of fascism.
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replyImagine thinking a person's political philosophy could be determined or disproven by a singular datapoint lmao
replyEveryone who has touched currency is a capitalist, everyone who has paid taxes is a commie, everyone who has regulated a technology is a fascist
Or perhaps... one must look at the full fact pattern of a person's behavior to approximate (and always imperfectly!) their political philosophy.
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