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Ed The Fascism Checklist, Trump 2025

thaiboxerken said:
I've been thinking that the USA will become a dictatorship. The Trump Regime could be the first, but even if it isn't, then the next Republican POTUS will be. Democrats may win the presidency, if there is a fair-free election, and they would reduce the powers of the executive (maybe). However, the next time a Republican wins the oval office, they will centralize all powers to the executive. I speculate this due to historical data that shows Republicans are always moving the USA towards authoritarianism.
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Pretty obvious that I agree. There is a sliver of a chance that all is not lost, but what we yet perceive as political freedom in the USA might turn out to be the powerless merely going through the motions.

The problem is not solely an American one. The internet and technology have created a situation in which it is almost as if there is only one water hole, and only few have access, accumulating vast wealth as the rest pay a high toll. When we see the chummy relations between oligarchs of all callings, from those born of tech to those who pump oil to dictators and wannabes, it is hard not to "call it a plan". Virtually all great wealth and all political power are now in few hands.

The remaining "hope" is war among them, and that they mutually self-destruct. Otherwise, everything needed to survive climate change will be under lock and key, guarded by goons, as many more die than would be the case if distribution were more equitable. This is the game of the 21st century.
 
They've started building the concentration camps.

Florida to detain migrants in new Everglades facility dubbed ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Florida this week started construction on a migrant detention facility the state is billing as “efficient” and “low-cost” – because Mother Nature will provide much of the security.

“Alligator Alcatraz,” as Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier calls it, is being erected on a little-used airstrip in the Everglades, the vast expanse of marshes and swamps that covers much of southern Florida and hosts a dizzying array of wildlife, from hundreds of bird species to bobcats, panthers, crocodiles and alligators.

“You don’t need to invest that much in the perimeter. If people get out, there’s not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons,” Uthmeier said in an announcement video that casts the facility as “the one-stop shop to carry out President Trump’s mass deportation agenda” and features slow-motion footage of snapping alligators.
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Pixel42 said:
You guys have your weight on your driving licence? What on earth for?
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Probably for the same reason my license proclaims my sex, height, and eye color.

And I would guess that reason is to have a physical description on file to assist with the manhunt that will commence when they discover the weight shown on my driver's license is not my current weight, but my weight circa 2014.

But officer, the Department of Motor Vehicles didn't even ask about my weight. Not so's I recall. They must have copied that weight from my previous license at every renewal and whenever I moved to a new state.​
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Tell it to the judge.​
The forum software thinks I misspelled "color", and (in a different post) misspelled "center", though it didn't complain about my spelling of "license". Do I need to worry about the fascists who will arrest me for not using British spellings?
 
W.D.Clinger said:
Probably for the same reason my license proclaims my sex, height, and eye color.

And I would guess that reason is to have a physical description on file to assist with the manhunt that will commence when they discover the weight shown on my driver's license is not my current weight, but my weight circa 2014.

But officer, the Department of Motor Vehicles didn't even ask about my weight. Not so's I recall. They must have copied that weight from my previous license at every renewal and whenever I moved to a new state.​
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Tell it to the judge.​
The forum software thinks I misspelled "color", and (in a different post) misspelled "center", though it didn't complain about my spelling of "license". Do I need to worry about the fascists who will arrest me for not using British spellings?
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Fun DMV facts (yes, that's a contradiction in terms but ignore that):

-When you renew your license (every four years around here), you have to certify the information is still correct, or change it. Not indicating a weight change can be interpreted as deliberately falsifying your official ID.

-When I got my first DL as a teen, I wasn't sure what color to put for my eyes. They are kind of a pale slate color, so is that blue, green or gray on the DMV color wheel? The worker there, who was apparently more oblivious to color names than me, said the color was called hazel. For like 30 years, my license said I had hazel eyes, till I changed it to blue. Interestingly, they had no issue with how I managed to change my eye color, which I changed online
 
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P.J. Denyer said:
Soon they'll have a 'wrong sort' of White too.
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Don't forget all those LGBTQ+ people. Plenty potential for cruelty there, too. How long until we see Poland-style 'LGBTQ-free cities'?

Edit: Gotta go after the disabled, too, they're already laying the groundwork by cutting MediCare and other critical benefits and saying their recipients should go work in the fields.
 
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