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Dan Gillmor
@dangillmor@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

When someone says of Trump's fascist moves, "It is a shocking situation to be in that I don’t think anybody anticipated a year ago,” I want to scream in frustration.

THIS WAS PREDICTABLE IN EVERY WAY. HE BRAGGED ABOUT WHAT HE WOULD DO.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable

ProPublica

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.
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Cheshire Lunar Kitten
@Chesi@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@dangillmor exactly, its hard to go "wir haben es nicht gewust" when he openly stated he would do this, and they applauded it.

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Peter_Panther
@Peter_Panther@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor
Here, #Germany we speculate if #midtermelections erm wiill happen. There is little dispute about the next presidential elections not happeming.

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Jürgen De Blonde
@Ednolbed@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor it is shocking how blind and wilfully ignorant some people can be.

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David Dunphy
@startrek2025@mastodon.stickbear.me replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor Not to mention we've had him as a president already, people knew what they were voting for second time

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Ham on Wry
@HamonWry@mastodon.world replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor

This was expected during Trumps first term. The writing has been on the wall for ten years.

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Obscure_Rebel
@Obscure_Rebel@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor

Yes! Amazing isn’t it! Project 2025 was published well in advance for all to read & to understand for themselves (or read expert analyses of) that Trump is a fascist project!

I imagine that, in 1930s Germany, when Hitler came to power & his brown-shirt thugs were rampaging the country looking for Jews, communists, socialists & other “antifa”, there were also people saying to one another: “Gee, I didn’t see this coming! Did you?”

Read “Mein Kampf” stupid!

Alt text: A group of ICE thugs, the US equivalent of Hitler’s SS, parading through a street somewhere in Amerika while looking for someone to beat up!
Alt text: A group of ICE thugs, the US equivalent of Hitler’s SS, parading through a street somewhere in Amerika while looking for someone to beat up!
Alt text: A group of ICE thugs, the US equivalent of Hitler’s SS, parading through a street somewhere in Amerika while looking for someone to beat up!
Alt text: German SS troopers and dogs racing through a street in the 1940s
Alt text: German SS troopers and dogs racing through a street in the 1940s
Alt text: German SS troopers and dogs racing through a street in the 1940s
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xs4me2
@xs4me2@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor

Indeed, he illustrated it in a lot of detail before he came to power, so stating one didn’t know or could not have known, simply is a lie or an utter stupidity…

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James Wells
@nikatjef@mastodon.acm.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor
He even demonstrated some of them during his first term... Only real difference is that the first term he listened to the judicial orders and had people who openly disagreed with his actions willing to stand up and defy him openly

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Stoneface Vimes
@capnthommo@c.im replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor he did. He said so. Like the rules say, when a fascist tells you what he's going to do, believe him.

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Darwin Woodka
@darwinwoodka@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor Yup. Anyone who was paying attention knew what was coming.

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