Oh, goody!
Also, ICE has a bigger budget now than most of the world's militaries[1]. But let's not talk about that.
[1]: https://www.newsweek.com/immigration-ice-bill-trump-2093456
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Also, ICE has a bigger budget now than most of the world's militaries[1]. But let's not talk about that.
[1]: https://www.newsweek.com/immigration-ice-bill-trump-2093456
I know what I'm seeing.
Don't believe me? What about subject matter experts that decided to flee the country? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/opinion/yale-canada-fasci...
Or how about an excerpt from a book written based on post-WW2 interviews of Germans? Does any of that sound familiar at all? https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.htm
> They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things’ or ‘You’re an alarmist.’
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> "But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
Ah, well in that case, it's clear to me Austria is actually the one on the brink of fascism. It's clear to me, having extensively eaten a lot of strudel (makes me an expert in Austria), that it's now a fascist country.
And if you say: ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things’ or ‘You’re an alarmist.’ then clearly you're just in denial.
But also, yes, Austria was on the brink of fascism not too long ago. Our far-right party almost got to form a government and their plans were quite sinister.
Thankfully, disaster was averted due to egos and greed - the far-right and center-right couldn't agree on who gets to pilfer to country more, so they didn't end up forming a coalition.
> They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things’ or ‘You’re an alarmist.’
It provides no way to distinguish between when the thing is happening and when it isn't. If people say you're an alarmist, by what mechanism do you evaluate whether they're correct?
People like the guy accusing me of being "hyper-propagandized" knowingly weaponize this uncertainty to become willing enablers.
It's like making the argument that denying an accusation is evidence that it's true. It's rubbish because people would also deny it if it was false.
I've seen it with my own eyes, no fucking thanks.
He never does. If you go through his comment history all he does is shill for Germany and EU how they're the best, and shit on Trump and the US how they're "fascist", that's it. Best treat him as a troll.