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> call everyone a nazi

The parent poster didn't call you anything, but one does raise eyebrows at people who look at the crazy authoritarian shit that is being done, and say 'this is legal, and good, and desirable and it makes me happy :)'.

They are certainly a prominent and loud and very defensive group of people, they are definitely not 'everyone'.


What's authoritarian about it?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Tus6VzGtuXY

Defending your country is not authoritarian. It's what ALL countries do.


This government went about arresting a man who is legally here and has been convicted of no crimes, throwing him into a tropical prison for an indefinite sentence without a trial, then when a judge orders him released, insisting that it can't do it (meanwhile, it was sending more people to that prison), then, weeks later, when it did release and return him, immediately arrests him again, charged him with a bunch of crimes, had a judge orders him released pending trial, then arrested him again and gave him the option between confessing and being exiled to a country he's never even been to?

If you think this is normal, and legal, and makes you happy and that a 48% mandate lets you and your friends make this utter mockery of the law - you are absolutely an authoritarian. This utterly pisses on every American value, and half the constitution and the rule of law to boot.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego...


I don't think we'd ever interacted, and I can't remember the last time I called anyone a Nazi.

FWIW I'm pretty sure when someone is at the point of saying they "have empathy ... but", it means they do not have empathy. It sounds like something deeply hurt you in the past, and for that you have my sympathies, but lashing out at others is not going to solve that.




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