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this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2024
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White Nationalists will tell you that all this is to protect you from the evil foreigners, and it will magically go away as soon as we've "won".
They'll also tell you the Deep State has been overrun by (((communists))) and you can't trust the government to do anything right. That's why they need supreme executive power to clean the swamp.
Whichever way you turn, the answer to the current moment is always "more bigger deadlier cops".
The Red-Baiting is a big part of what makes our national security state such a cancerous mass. We have to become China to beat China. And we need to believe China is the worst thing we can possibly think of (Nazis), when our modern police/military state has already surpassed 1930s Germany by leaps and bounds.
So long as Americans are convinced that every other foreign country is either a crime ridden hell-hole or an open-air prison (or, paradoxically, both at once), we'll continue to tolerate further erosion of civil liberties in hopes of relieving anxiety that the police state exists to impose on us.
Rethinking the war on drugs would be a serious step to change a lot of this.
They'll let us all die before they ever consider that though.
Nixon's War on Drugs was always intended as a tool to crush PoC and "hippie" counterculture revolutionaries.
Now it's an excuse to harass and cage migrants, too.
This thread man... I don't think you guys have much of an idea how bad Nazi Germany was. If you said stuff like this on the street over here in 1934 you'd end up in a concentration camp. Hans and Sophie Scholl were guillotined for distributing leaflets for fucks sake.