• masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    15·
    1 month ago

    A lot of people are pretending that this is a nothingburger, but I’m afraid it’s probably not - they are manufacturing consent for a crackdown.

    • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      I mean I’m not pretending it’s a nothingburger, but IMO this is nowhere near the first piece of “manufacturing consent” in recent memory for repressing antifascists. Like IMO it’s like there’s an indicator is going off…but like 69 other indicators are going off that indicate the same condition. You feel me?

      • masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        30 days ago

        You feel me?

        Sure thing… but two things.

        First, thanks to ICE, the Trump regime now knows how to disappear people without getting stuck on any legal or institutional obstacles. Two, thanks to ICE (again), they now know exactly what reaction (or, rather, lack of it) to expect from the wider US public and/or media when they do.

        It’s one thing to get hold of the hammer, it’s another to figure out how to turn every problem into a nail - and I’d say they have now managed both.

        That might be why this feels… different.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    8·
    1 month ago

    Were they not repressing antifascists before, but just in “”“norm-preserving”“” ways that didn’t upset pearl-clutching liberals? Like what does this change other than making it even easier to argue that America is a fascist country?