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hadEnuf

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33. This has nothing to do with mind reading or "beliefs". It's refers exactly to what Trump and his cohorts
Fri Nov 29, 2024, 08:07 PM
Nov 2024

have been publicly saying for some time now. If a person wants to believe what's being said is not true and ignores it, then good luck.That is their business and I hope they are ultimately right. A lot of us are quite tired of trying to save people from themselves. But military-style raids and deportation camps are not just a matter of opinion or beliefs.

As for the Holocaust, you should well know that what I'm talking about is how the Nazis started chipping away at the "others" in living in Germany; their nationality and origins, ridding the country of their pestilence, scapegoating all of societies ills on them, etc, etc, etc. Camps and ovens didn't just appear overnight. I was the slow boiling of the frog that ultimately led to them.

Will that happen in this situation in the United States? My immediate thoughts are no way, that cannot happen here.

But the extremist right-wing's playbook seems to be filled with some pretty unmistakable parallels to the past and none of them are good.

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We live amongst scum. [View all] Duncanpup Nov 2024 OP
'Good Germans' then, sop Nov 2024 #1
Yah ThePartyThatListens Nov 2024 #2
Nat-C Or Nazi No Matter The Name The Fascist Depravity's Always The Same: MayReasonRule Nov 2024 #3
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I Empathize. I, My Honey And Our Daughter Are The Only Members Of Our Families That Are Not Nat-Cs... MayReasonRule Nov 2024 #11
I do t think Qanon still exists SCantiGOP Nov 2024 #12
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We Really Count Ourselves Fortunate... We've Known Each Other Since I Was Seven And She Was Six... MayReasonRule Nov 2024 #21
I can only tell you what I hear. Littlered Nov 2024 #4
In the name of "fairness" LatteLady Nov 2024 #6
It's hard to say. Littlered Nov 2024 #14
So in other words your coworker has the "if it isn't happening to me, hadEnuf Nov 2024 #15
I've noticed a couple things. Littlered Nov 2024 #22
This has nothing to do with mind reading or "beliefs". It's refers exactly to what Trump and his cohorts hadEnuf Nov 2024 #33
If the last 8 years have taught people anything, anything at all...it should be that yes, it can happen here. Karasu Nov 2024 #41
But why would she publicly out them, Demobrat Nov 2024 #34
Another good question. Littlered Nov 2024 #38
The Jewish people who "followed the rules" in Hitler's Germany were killed. hunter Nov 2024 #16
Do you mean Nasruddin Nov 2024 #20
Good question. Littlered Nov 2024 #23
The only solution is something all dread. The Grand Illuminist Nov 2024 #7
A goodly-sized chunk of them are the children of America's greatest generation. Probatim Nov 2024 #8
Begat Mr.Bee Nov 2024 #9
Just wait until..... Red Mountain Nov 2024 #10
My sentiments as well . . . I keep wondering what the greatest generation would think about what these scumbags Liberal In Red State Nov 2024 #13
Judging by how much Trump's followers hate immigrants... ShazzieB Nov 2024 #17
That's been happening for years now... slightlv Nov 2024 #39
My pastor son in law, and my daughter his wife. onecaliberal Nov 2024 #18
An unfortunate turn of phrase. summer_in_TX Nov 2024 #29
The same "Christians" who would turn in a woman who got an abortion. Grins Nov 2024 #24
'God's' Love In Action Don't Ya Know... MayReasonRule Nov 2024 #45
Yep indeed. Evolve Dammit Nov 2024 #25
Folks assume it will be the immigrants Farmer-Rick Nov 2024 #26
Some of them. It's important to remember (until we get better data) spooky3 Nov 2024 #27
That's good to know Farmer-Rick Nov 2024 #35
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yeah OK Skittles Nov 2024 #32
I find it offensive too Farmer-Rick Nov 2024 #36
Trump loves him some dictactors Skittles Nov 2024 #37
Exactly Farmer-Rick Nov 2024 #43
my English mum lived in America for decades Skittles Nov 2024 #44
They're not just scum, they're straight up evil. Initech Nov 2024 #31
Trump has limited intelligence. Aussie105 Nov 2024 #40
That is ForgedCrank Nov 2024 #42
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