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Weird is not the term for it. I'd say suspension of due process is terrifying.


It's happened before, both recently (since 2001), but Executive Order 9066 happened over 80 years ago, in the 19th century the US literally passed a Habeas Corpus Suspension Act.

America puts too much faith in its courts and constitution.


I have been saying for decades that the most active terrorist organization in the United States is… the US government.


One of those cases where it's very, very important the "the government" isn't a unified block, but a collection of a very large number of staff spread across a very large number of organizations. Only some of which have gone rogue.


Great, you're part of the problem.


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The people who are out here saying "totalitarianism was the inevitable consequence of federal standards for feces in bologna" are exactly the problem in America today.


That's just dumb.

Authoritarian governments and terrorist organizations are not the same thing.


Sometimes they are. E.g. Hamas is both the authoritarian government of Gaza and the terrorist organization.




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