• j_elgato@leminal.space
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    22 hours ago

    I always held that the creation of the entire DHS was a slight overreaction to like 20 guys armed with box cutters…

    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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      16 hours ago

      It really was muddled through while Iraq was being drummed up, too. I remember working a protest in 2003 and there being this talk about DHS implementing fascism. At the time I felt the impending war was more important topic, not quite realizing how interconnected it all was.

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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        10 hours ago

        It’s good that you recognize how interconnected everything is. That’s an important piece of the puzzle. These days it’s that all the oligarchs are pedophiles, engaged in kidnapping immigrant children, and creating crises to justify those kidnappings. Everything is at the same time a distraction from everything else intended to keep you from uniting on what specifically should be protested, and also a genuine component of the overall mechanism by which we’re all tortured