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Do you think better incentives would have stopped the Holocaust? Like not to go all slippery slope, but that's how ridiculous this sounds. You cannot fight fas
by duped 2y ago
Do you think better incentives would have stopped the Holocaust?
Like not to go all slippery slope, but that's how ridiculous this sounds. You cannot fight fascism with fines and courts.
- mindslight 2y agoI think government accountability, which includes making government agents and agencies beholden to the laws they're purporting to uphold, would have helped prevent many of the frustrations and "both sides" arguments that made otherwise reasonable people shut off their reasoning and buy into the destructionist movement. As for the realities of our current situation, I acknowledged that in my last sentence.
- tim333 2y agoThis isn't the holocaust though and probably not fascism. There's an earlier article about ICE arresting Americans: >The largest number of those arrests occurred in 2012 and 2013 -- at the height of an aggressive push by the Obama administration to deport unauthorized immigrants. https://www.latimes.com/archives/story/2018-04-27/ice-held-an-american-man-in-custody-for-1273-days https://www.latimes.com/archives/story/2018-04-27/ice-held-a...
- mindslight 2y agoDoes the article happen to say how many were denied judicial recourse and summarily shipped to an extrajudicial concentration camp? Just because the authoritarianism problem has been slow burning for a while doesn't mean we're not facing an urgent problem of a new degree with this simple-minded fascist at the helm.