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14. SUPERB response on Twitter:

Reply to bronxiteforever (Original post)

Sat May 26, 2018, 11:15 AM

May 2018

@AKent30
A professor at Berkeley distilled fascism as “the mobilization of viciousness.” Trump encapsulates the power in this: when law, ideally a safeguard against chaos, becomes vicious, then compassion loses its political voice, eventually becoming a weakness to nationalistic greatness

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David Simon creator of The Wire tweets about immigration and ICE [View all] bronxiteforever May 2018 OP

It's a form of terrorism vlyons May 2018 #1

The similarity is unmistakeable. pazzyanne May 2018 #2

Well said and agree 100%. bronxiteforever May 2018 #5

me too vlyons May 2018 #8

Thank you for the encouragement, vlyons. pazzyanne May 2018 #21

Chris Hayes PatSeg May 2018 #3

My wife was so upset she had to stop watching it bronxiteforever May 2018 #7

I had to keep finding ways to distract myself PatSeg May 2018 #11

Hayes was wrong to say this is a first for America, though. They did it to slave tblue37 May 2018 #17

And the horror stories that came out of Australia PatSeg May 2018 #20

The thing is TimeSnowDemos May 2018 #4

Except that worse has happened to them RandomAccess May 2018 #15

Not to mention "losing" some of the children to human traffickers. Dave Starsky May 2018 #6

Pre-WWII, there were a lot of open Hitler & Stalin supporters in US. Pearl Harbor made them hide. TheBlackAdder May 2018 #9

These people will never STFU. Dave Starsky May 2018 #18

I hope we can do this - solidarity like Denmark......... raven mad May 2018 #10

Exactly! "I was just following orders" is not an excuse. Jim__ May 2018 #12

k&r DesertRat May 2018 #13

SUPERB response on Twitter: RandomAccess May 2018 #14

I encourage EVERYBODY to start calling their Representatives non stop. nt Kirk Lover May 2018 #16

K & R Duppers May 2018 #19