President Donald Trump has labeled the gang an invading force under an 18th century wartime law to deport Venezuelan migrants to a notorious El Salvador prison as part of Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown.
President Donald Trump has labeled the gang an invading force under an 18th century wartime law to deport Venezuelan migrants to a notorious El Salvador prison as part of Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown.
Great, everyone’s a terrorist now, and the thing we said would happen if you carve out exceptions in the law for terrorists is happening. Everyone that voted for the patriot act and equivalents in other countries did this.
Perhaps broadly classifying people as terrorists will embolden them to live up to the label accordingly.
I mean, if they can expect to be treated like a terrorist, they might as well act like it if the repercussions for not acting like it are the same.
How far down the ‘thou art a terrorist’ slippery slope are people who peaceably protest Tesla and Trump, endorse non-conservative candidates, choose not to go to church or go to the ‘wrong’ church, or post counter-conservative content online?
I’ve personally had several of my friends say this same thing about how they’d react if ICE ever tried to nab them off the street. Basically “if I’m going to get abducted by the secret police, I might as well make them kill me in the street instead of doing it in a hidden cell. At least then someone might get some cellphone footage to send to the news.” All of them are packing heat 24/7 now.
Sounds like a ticking time bomb 😬
We’re quickly approaching the soft start of a civil war, if things continue at their current trajectory. And all of the MAGA 2A “fuck yeah let’s do it” people have never had to face the reality of war or the omnipresent threat of guerrilla tactics.
Yes. They want violence so they can declare martial law.
I feel like eclipsing the rule of law by declaring martial law will just beget more violence. But I guess they want that, too, as the apocalypse accelerationists they are. Boy will they be embarrassed when everyone’s either dead, dying, or covered in blood and the rapture still doesn’t happen.
That would require the ability to feel empathy and shame.