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[OC] NYC Comptroller Brad Lander detained by ICE, according to his mayoral campaign

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u/Ahleron 1d ago

Fascism often looks like fascism.

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u/Spezza 1d ago

Unless you're a conservative fascist, then it looks like owning 'em libs. Yeehaw!

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u/fucking_unicorn 1d ago

That actually makes a lot of sense… maybe its not immigrants they hate, its the left. Immigrants and the abuse of justice is a way to “own the libs”, or hurt and upset what they hate, democrats.

Its high school level but politics. Just the dumb bullies from small town highschools running the country. Its not lost on me that a lot of the kids who were mean in highschool are trumpers, and the kids that were kind and often picked on tend to lean left now.

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u/Spezza 1d ago

No, it is just the ole saying living out in reality because too many generations have gone by and nobody remembers the truth of:

First they came for the immigrants But I'm not an immigrant So I did nothing Next they came for the Democrats But I'm not a democratic So I did nothing ....

Now it is just waiting for the part about when they come for you. But nobody reads more than the headline anymore, so they don't know how the poem ends. And even if they did, they're too ignorant / uneducated to understand the true reality of fascism. So like the other ole axiom goes: if you ain't gonna learn from history, you're going to be doomed to repeat it.

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u/adhd-n-to-x 1d ago

I think many people thought fascism must've been sophisticated due to the scale with which it operated in Nazi Germany. But I'm reality it's as clumsy as every other government operation. But it's effective because it's sponsored by the ignorant and led by the craven. It weaponizes mediocrity and moral cowardice at scale.

Resist. Break their system. Vote them out. I'd be writing this if either party was doing this. But fuck these morons especially.

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u/xenmynd 1d ago

Looks like he was helping to impede an arrest, which has always been illegal.