99 points

Bruh you’ve gotta use vague signals and let the think tanks work with journalists to manufacture consent first.

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25 points

Yeah, DeSantis should be good at this, sadly…

I’m way more worried about this Facist than trump.

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25 points

Trump talks bigly but is not very effective.

DeSantis is not charismatic at all but I think he would be effective at what he attempted to do.

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I used to be very certain about the “Desantis is the effective fascist we warned you about” thing but more and more his buffoonery comes out, and I don’t think he’ll be president. That said, he’s being pretty effective in Florida despite his buffoonery.

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6 points

Desantis is lagging Trump by 40 points. That could obviously change between now and '24, but he doesn’t seem to have the juice for this.

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17 points

😤

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94 points

The US has been waging unprovoked war on Latin America since before WW1.

The only thing new about this is that this irredeemable piece of garbage is stating the quiet part out loud.

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88 points

This is literal insanity.

Are they going to put Mexican Americans in internment camps next?

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Sorry but they’re called ‘Migration Storage Facilities’ not Concentration camps by the trustworthy newspaper The New York Times. This obviously means they’re not concentration camps.

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Probably not this time, a big part of why Japanese-Americans were put into interment camps was because Californians wanted their farms.

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I’d never considered this, but of course it came down to economics- weird how often massive crimes against humanity come down to some bourgeois thief wanting to take more for themselves and willing to do anything to do it.

Just did a little reading on it, they stole 400 million (1942) dollars worth of farmland from Japanese-Americans, which is like 7 billion adjusted for inflation, and basically just gave them to agribusiness corporations.

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Yeah they don’t tell you in school that white Californians lobbied hard for Japanese Americans to be robbed of all their land and property, and it’s a big part of why their lands weren’t restored to them after the war. Like western expansion never really stopped.

I think they’d be somewhat more likely to use various schemes to enslave Hispanic migrants and citizens, given how vital Hispanic migrants are to American ag.

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31 points

No, but the risk of deportation is probably going to increase, including for citizens

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dude I get the jist thats been the plan the whole time

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11 points

They’ve already got concentration camps full of south and central Americans all over the country.

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Certain groups in the US have been building up to this for a while. They genuinely do want a war with Mexico. They’ve been trying to use drugs as an excuse to do it.

Here is an excellent video going into this when it all started to get quite serious and AMLO (mexican president) started to aggressively fight back against it: https://youtu.be/3dw1pcDoewY

He’s also called the american media sphere trying to build up to this fascistic “hitlerismo”, comparing american media to goebbels.

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75 points

This removed talks about Iraq like he did something there. He was a fucking lawyer 😂.

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85 points

Posing as a human rights lawyer and illegally aiding in the torture of POWs at Guantanamo is the best way of forming a valid opinion on Iraq!

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9 points

Wasn’t he the lawyer in charge of coming up with legalese to justify torturing people?

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Well, he did use his position to gain the trust of gunatanamo prisoners and when they told him what was particularly stressful to them, he passed that info on to make conditions worse for them. Like, a prisoner would tell him “we usually pick the vegetarian option because we think the meat here isn’t halal” and a week later, no more vegetarian food option. Things like that. There’s also a pretty harrowing account of how he oversaw hunger-striking prisoners being force-fed. People screaming and throwing up and shitting themselves in agony and he stood next to that and laughed. I honestly believe that if he didn’t join the navy to live out his murderous sadism, he’d be a serial killer with a collection of human body parts in his basement. Guy’s a complete fucking monster.

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