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Bluetus

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6. Just understand these things are done one step at a time.

Reply to RoeVWade (Original post)

Wed Feb 19, 2025, 10:10 PM

Feb 2025

It is not like we will wake up next Monday and everybody will be under arrest.

They will pick off groups one at a time. It is the fascist playbook. It always goes this same way.

If some reporters are locked up for a few days to make examples of them, most Americans will not care.

If some college protesters are shot, well, they probably shouldn't have been protesting.

If some doctors are imprisoned, some poets, some ministers, well, these things just happen. Good people have nothing to worry about.

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