There should be a name for such a thing

The faster they move the more they can get done before their opponents can mobilise resistance.

I would say that so far, there appears to be much less public resistance to Republican policies than in previous years. The Democrats appear to be at sea. The left's working class base is split. Public institutions are too busy protecting their turf, making gestures at cooperating with the new world order rather than trying to resist.

It feels like last time there was an assumption that ~~Trump and MAGA politics~~ a criminal dictator and fascist politics were a blip or aberration from the norm, now there's an acceptance that they're institutionalised.

Rather unfortunately, the mass deportations was one of the most popular parts of Trump’s platform. Everybody knows mass deportation comes with concentration camps. It’s not that his voters are unaware of it, they actively love it!

Some are even US citizens.

Some are indigenous.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/27/us/navajo-detained-ice-indigenous-immigration-trump/index.html

That’s only an issue if you assume they’ll be treated with any humanity

Don't worry, they'll find a way to pack people in. Maybe some kind of high energy weight loss system like their role models used in the 1940s?

This is bad juju. The detention camps from the first cycle with this fascists was nothing on what we're seeing ramping up here.

At it's peak it held about 800 prisoners, kinda impossibly small for the numbers discussed here.

Edit-- Well, trump did say "Most people don’t even know that we have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo", I guess file me with most people. Must be incredible how they scaled up while simultaneously closing camps and losing facilities to disrepair, apparently.

~~Homosexuality~~ Queerdom is a ~~Jewish~~ immigrant plot against ~~Germany~~ the US.

It's practically fascist mad libs.

The path to that easier than you might think. Just get the propaganda mill talking about Thai ladyboys and black-market hormones a bit. They love little talking points that are are rooted in preconceptions and tiny slivers of half-truths that they can contort to fit their agenda...to expand on and then justify their actions.

They are fun to pick out. The other day Trump claimed that the ominous "they" were sending water directly to the ocean to save an endangered fish instead of to LA to fight fires.

That endangered fish is called a Delta Smelt. "Delta", as in a river delta, as found at the end of a river....you know, that thing that carries said water to the ocean.

It's coming and Americans are refusing to see the oncoming headlights.

But it’s OK because it’s Trump doing it not Biden.

All the big, strong, don't-tread-on-me styled people just rolling on their backs and showing their bellies to fascism. What a time to be alive, at least Germans of the 1920s-30s didn't have a direct case study to refer to.

Newsflash about the current inmates of Guantanamo

What will it take, Americans? What will it take? What will it take.

Obama did not put anyone in gitmo

Because weak people need to tell everyone how strong they are

Our people are horrible, vindictive morons.

And I don't mean that from a place of emotional response to bad things, I am saying all of this dispassionately and analytically. The country has a large population of people who are objectively horrible, and vindication has become our primary focus for political action, and this is all because they're generally morons.

I can't even really exaggerate or overplay this. The average American's intelligence is worse than abysmal. I used to lead a team of data-workers at a large company, we had nice, casual morning meetings and talked about the latest events for about a half hour before work. I ended up in the position of people bringing me news stories and headlines to "translate" for them. I had to explain what planets are, I had to explain how gravity works, I had to explain how democracy works, I had to explain history and math and facts and ratios and words like "industrious" or "ambivalent" every day, over and over. AND I'M NOT A SMART PERSON. I have always prided myself on being informed, but at some point I became the one-eyed king in the land of the blind and I hate it.

Everything here is going to get so, so much worse because I know how far down the barrel goes, and we haven't even touched the bottom yet.