and the display of "bending the knee" by the assembled tech oligarchs many of us here began warning about how severe things were going to change and how quickly. I can remember being told we were being irresponsible and "just scaring people". Then came the ICE-American Gestapo crackdowns and grabbing people off the streets. Along with all of the other horrors in the last 5+ months.
We encouraged people from vulnerable groups to consider their own safety and that of their loved ones and to have a plan for "getting out" and living outside the US for awhile if they could. Again we were told that the courts would stop any such problems and that we were just needlessly "scaring people" or encouraging them to run rather than fight. We knew the targeting of the people from those groups would come and be extreme.
Many of us tried to get people to look at the lesson of history and how some Europeans waited too long and then couldn't readily leave and move about even if they wanted to. So now comes the "prioritizing" of stripping US citizenship and deporting literally anybody they choose. We kept warning people that their time to prepare and make a move was not growing longer but was in fact rapidly closing.
So now for some time when you leave the country and return your political views of the Administration and the GQP/MAGA scum are screened by US personnel in uniform with guns on their hips and they want to see what you've been saying, reading and things you have approved of.
Wake up anybody who doubts this will get much, much worse. Where do they think they are? This is the United States in name and memory only. The fascists are here and in control. Do people think the judges will save us now? Do people think they won't go after the citizenship of judges they deem to be a "problem"?
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