• moonshadow@slrpnk.net
    3·
    10 hours ago

    Short watchlists, exclusive clubs, what’s the difference? You get onto either one by being cool 😎

  • NJSpradlin@lemmy.world
    18·
    19 hours ago

    (US) What do you think the DHS ICE raids are practice for? 5,000 arrests a day, without due process to ensure that you’re picking up the ‘right people’, bonuses per head? This will turn into the Secret Police and pivot to arresting everyone who has ever had ‘wrong think’, voted or donated blue, or isn’t loyal enough.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      25·
      17 hours ago

      On the other hand, Hungary banned Pride, installed face recognition cameras, threatened everyone with fines and the organisers with prison.

      It became the biggest mass event ever. Literally there has never been any civil event that was bigger than that. 5% of the population was there, in one place, in the capital.

      The police tried at one point to prevent passge or control the crowd, but they were so overwhelmed that they just got ignored. So were the right wing counterprotests.

      Then the government started to try and fine at least the organisers, but people went up and started reporting themselves en masse, saying they were organisers since they asked friends to come.

      Nobody got punished, those in power were humiliated, people realised they have power.

      If the home of democratic backslide and illiberal “democracy” can do it, so can you.

      • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
        6·
        11 hours ago

        Ya fuckin love to see it

        I could never imagine any of my fellow countrymen here in the US putting themselves on the line like that and risking jail to protect others.

        You even vaguely imply that it is something people should be doing and you get reamed for it.

      • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
        7·
        13 hours ago

        I didn’t realize it was 5% of their population. God I love that for them. We need to be showing that stuff here. Show the people what happens when there are enough of us.

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      101·
      16 hours ago

      There is no regime in history where anything like that works. The Nazis couldn’t arrest all the KPD/SPD voters, for example. Once you start talking about a significant percentage of the entire population, it’s simply not feasible.

      That’s why the fascist playbook is to cleave off sections of the population and tell you to hate them. It wouldn’t work any other way.

      • NJSpradlin@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 hours ago

        They’re actively portraying ‘wrong thinkers’ as enemies of the state, already, and stating that they should be hanged for insurrectionous and treasonous behavior. It’s happening/beginning right now.