Living in a world where access to information is basically universally available at the tip of one's fingers, it is an eerie feeling to watch how the institutions and norms of the (self-proclaimed) "foremost western democracy" are falling apart day by day.
There was a time in history class where I just couldn't grasp how Germany could fall apart and transform for the worse so fast. Even though the population had nowhere near the amount of access to information or even tools to organize as societies do now. Looking around the world and especially the US, I now wonder how it didn't happen more often.
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Are you surprised that the same administration that refer to as "aliens", talk about building "camps" to hold them, and celebrate sending people to torture in El Salvador would deport U.S. Citizens?
Or maybe that the "think of the children" party are sending away children?
If so then you haven't been paying attention.
of course he has. did you really think he wouldn't?
I would ask you to consider, before making public comments such as this: am I helping to normalize this latest atrocity?
I would guess that wasn't your intention. But to say things like, 'of course' this is happening, because Trump is a pos, is to ignore all the other factors enabling this.
To answer your question: Deporting US children with cancer is not actually something I had predicted.
Had someone asked me if Trump were capable of something like that, I would have said, no doubt.. But would I have thought that the entire system is so irredeemable, so rotted through that he would actually succeed - well, I wouldn't have been as sure. Even after the black sites, the torture, the genocide, the bipartisan concentration camps with children drinking out of toilets and sleeping in foil blankets; I still would have though that there was enough bureaucratic resistance within the system to prevent this happening mere months into the admin.
Would you have thought the US capable of deporting US children with cancer in 2014? ... Do you think the Democrats will put up anything more than token resistance to this?
Thank you, we need to be outraged right now. Spot on.
Living in a world where access to information is basically universally available at the tip of one's fingers, it is an eerie feeling to watch how the institutions and norms of the (self-proclaimed) "foremost western democracy" are falling apart day by day.
There was a time in history class where I just couldn't grasp how Germany could fall apart and transform for the worse so fast. Even though the population had nowhere near the amount of access to information or even tools to organize as societies do now. Looking around the world and especially the US, I now wonder how it didn't happen more often.
Are you surprised that the same administration that refer to as "aliens", talk about building "camps" to hold them, and celebrate sending people to torture in El Salvador would deport U.S. Citizens?
Or maybe that the "think of the children" party are sending away children?
If so then you haven't been paying attention.
of course he has. did you really think he wouldn't?
I would ask you to consider, before making public comments such as this: am I helping to normalize this latest atrocity?
I would guess that wasn't your intention. But to say things like, 'of course' this is happening, because Trump is a pos, is to ignore all the other factors enabling this.
To answer your question: Deporting US children with cancer is not actually something I had predicted.
Had someone asked me if Trump were capable of something like that, I would have said, no doubt.. But would I have thought that the entire system is so irredeemable, so rotted through that he would actually succeed - well, I wouldn't have been as sure. Even after the black sites, the torture, the genocide, the bipartisan concentration camps with children drinking out of toilets and sleeping in foil blankets; I still would have though that there was enough bureaucratic resistance within the system to prevent this happening mere months into the admin.
Would you have thought the US capable of deporting US children with cancer in 2014? ... Do you think the Democrats will put up anything more than token resistance to this?
Thank you, we need to be outraged right now. Spot on.