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"Join ICE today" ad at university (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/justpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 129 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Defend the homeland? That's some Nazi shit.

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  • [–] 69 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I called this shit after 9/11 but everyone said I was being paranoid.

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  • [–] 63 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Same. The Patriot Act was a huge step in this direction.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I was a rightwing edge lord kid at the time, the names for things under GWB (specifically The Patriot Act and Homeland Security) made me pause for the first time. It was a real "are we the baddies?" moment for me as I drew all the lines to dictatorships in history

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago*

    Obama had opportunities to push things in the right direction but instead enabled (by not abolishing or by actively renewing legislation) a lot of what we’re seeing.

    This is fine, the government wouldn’t ever use this in a bad way

    What if the government is no longer benevolent? What if a cabal of activists takes over the executive branch?

    That’ll never happen

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    You weren't wrong. You just were early.

    IMO, people are a lot stupider and act with a lot less knowledge of the obvious outcomes of their actions than we give them credit for, and the possibility of non-obvious outcomes is often completely missing from their worldview.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    There are legitimate uses of the words used in the sentence, but when used in this exact format it's indeed very clearly intentionally evocative of ww2 era propaganda.

    Honestly, it's pretty sad how creatively bankrupt they are that they're reusing these slogans and imagery.

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