• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    Over turning Bush II’s policies were the primary reason I voted for Obama. Since then, I’ve only depressingly voted for democrats on the basis that they would at least slow the rise of fascism.

    This isn’t “both sides”, but if we couldn’t get gitmo closed with democrats, how could we do it with bold faced fascists?

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      25 days ago

      Oh, so the expectation was always that a authoritarian was going to seize control of the federal government and open a concentration camp there? Funny, cause I never heard that argument but, yeah, sure, completely salient now.

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        25 days ago

        You’re talking like it hasn’t always been a concentration camp. If liberals bothered to hold their own people accountable and have an actual red line that couldn’t be crossed, someone like Trump could have never made it into office.

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          24 days ago

          The most gitmo ever held was maybe 700-800 people. Trumps talking 30000. Just because it’s a building and war crimes are done there doesn’t mean it’s a concentration camp.

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            24 days ago

            People are still being held there, with no due process for over 20 years.

            1 person being held with no due process is as bad as 30000.

            Liberals and their fucking trump derangement syndrome keep fighting the wrong things.

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        24 days ago

        Bush II was already fascist and used gitmo for exactly that. It’s specifically outside the US border so they can make an argument that American civil rights laws don’t apply there. At the very least, press and public can’t reach it.

        People were screaming from the top of their lungs about this exact scenario. Yes, this was expected and we cared too much about the economy to care.