Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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I’m sure having to post a lot of links to this one:

hachyderm.io/@inthehands/11586

People are getting really confused about this. When I say “pretext,” I don’t mean for individual ICE officers. I mean that the Trump regime still (!!) does not have enough popular support and political cover to cross certain lines. They’re finding themselves genuinely stymied by federal courts and state govs, Congress is getting less (not more!) quiescent, they’re finding themselves unable to control the press, and popular support is collapsing.

Saying “the situation is already extremely dire” is true and important. Saying “they’ve already achieved total authoritarian control” is wrong, dangerous, and an invitation to give up when we most need people active.

Paul Cantrell (@inthehands@hachyderm.io)

@bweller@mstdn.social @mwyman@mastodon.social I live in Minneapolis, and no, it is not already here. This is a dangerous misstatement. Right now, we have a bunch of meatheads who are basically Biff’s sidekicks from Back to the Future running around with tear gas and handguns and a sense of impunity — which is of course •extremely• dangerous. But we do not have tanks in the streets pointing their turrets at protestors. We do not have marines conducting abductions, or fighter jets bombing civilians. •That• is what the Trump admin wants. They’re trying (and so far failing) to create a context where that can actually happen. As bad as this is, it can get so so so much worse.

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Jess👾 @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
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@inthehandsPaul Cantrell It also doesn't help that they've already kidnapped many of "the worst" criminal immigrants, and more and more they're kidnapping perfectly normal people - oftentimes who are completely legally here, working jobs, paying taxes, whatever. It's becoming harder to paint everyone as some dangerous gang member when they're like ... A person who cleans houses and missed a paperwork filing deadline one time 10 years ago.

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