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Annnnd this is my last day on twitter, the toxicity in this site is unbearable. The good news is I realized it, so zero social networks from now on (except for YT which is more manageable). Bye all....!

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@ludwigABAP I'd say it will be the exact opposite.

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@cityaestheticss I cannot believe this is real. I get that someone may not like the previous house... but the second one? Is an eyesore, to say the least.

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@aaron_leib @MiamiHerald @WLRN This talks bad about Florida, not about Brightline. 180 dead? Because of a train? That is a third world problem.

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@big_pedestrian Happened to me last year when I went to see Madam Butterfly at the Colon in Buenos Aires, after the opera many people hurried to catch the subway (it was late at night, close to 10:30 pm). It remains astonishing to me to this day.

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

Ever notice where they put the guardrail on busy roads?

🤔

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@EastEndJoe Fallout ghoul

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@stanfordNYC You are right, perhaps instead we should use the term Slavers. They weren't traitors per se, they just seceded because they would not agree in that having slaves was a terrible thing. So let's call them what they were.

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

Mad TV 30 years ago.

[Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett]

I’m sorry for the long post but a lot of you have followed me for a long time, since 2016 when I was one of the first to repeatedly call out Trump for being a Russian asset.

I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states. I’ve been attacked on Fox News, berated by the VP and others and like many of you, I’ve gotten death threats.

So please believe me when I say this. Things have changed.

ICE is going to be the vehicle for fascism in this country. The extra-judicial practices (no warrants, no ID), the masks (anonymity leads to horrors again and again throughout history), the dehumanization of immigrants and Democrats (dehumanization precedes arrests, torture, murder, again and again).

No we are not going to be Nazi Germany because nothing in history matches Nazi Germany.

But fascism has arrived in America. Here is how it is going to happen:

ICE will be the vehicle, the gestapo empowered by the President, to enforce his will, first among vulnerable undocumented people, then among legal immigrants, then among political rivals, then among citizens who speak out against the Trump grift.

This is not a hypothetical. It’s happening.

That Big Dumb Racist bill gives $170 billion dollars for an organization which has no respect for the constitution, no oversight, nothing but marching orders from a couple racist, power-hungry madmen.

$170 billion to build hidden prisons with no oversight. To put this in perspective, this is 62% larger than the entire federal prison system.

$170 billion to drag people out of their places of work, parks, homes. $170 billion to hire racist little man babies who hide their faces as they assault children, old people, pregnant women.

How do you think this goes? How has this ever gone in history? We are entering a dark period.

Our only hope is to draw the line now. To stick up for our friends and neighbors, our co-workers and loved ones, who are undocumented and being hunted.

If morality or empathy for them is not enough to motivate you, fine. Then let this be your motivation: if you don’t draw this line, you are next.

Do you think Trump will grow a conscience? Do you think Stephen Miller will have any trouble going from, “these people are criminals” (them) to “these people are helping criminals?” (You, by being against Trump). To “we must arrest the traitors opposing our efforts to arrest criminals?” (You or anyone you care about who publicly opposes Trump.)

Do you think republican congressman are going to care? To lift onefinger to protect you? To do anything which gets in the way of Trump’s agenda?

A person who has no problem letting children with cancer die in order to put a few dollars in the pockets of rich men will have no problem with letting Democrats and activists rot in jail for trying to stop it.

This has happened again and again throughout the world. And now it’s happening here.

I wish I had concrete plans. I don’t. Not now. All I know is the first step for change is identifying the gravity of the truth.

And the truth is fascism has arrived in America.

And we must stop it in its tracks or it will swallow all of us.

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@TerribleMaps It's funny because in Spanish Argentina's flag doesn't have blue. Light blue has a name of its own: celeste

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@VolodyaTretyak Chinese???

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If I'm alive 40 years from now I will tell my grandkids that I remember the days when the US started to turn into a dictatorship and that the citizenship saw it coming and allowed it to happen. And that they were sad times.

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@DrNeilStone I'm real! :) And I agree with you!

[Nick Pettigrew @Nick_Pettigrew]

Polio was eradicated because Jonas Salk chose not to patent the vaccine, if you want a perfect example of a socialist act.

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@TerribleMaps mm there is something about Mexico....

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@the_transit_guy what city is that?

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@david_perell I'd follow the bills... why did they decide to change it? who benefited from the construction of the new railings? what happened with the old chain? I bet it was all about some people making money...

[H̀͠T̶TP ́̕L̨͡o̡͠v̕ec̢̀͜ra̛͞f̕ť @HTTP_Lovecraft]

The singular truth is verifiable, but conspiracies take on a thousand different forms.

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I did not foresee that the US could very well turn into a dictatorship in my own lifetime.