from the new-breed-of-surveillance-statists dept
The operative theory appears to be that immigrants here illegally aren’t protected by the US Constitution. But that’s simply not true. Rights are extended to people living in our borders, whether or not they’re US citizens.
This is true but I really hate people who judge these things based on the law and not based on basic empathy
Empathy doesn’t exist in either political party.
Because there’s no money or power to be made through empathy.
They’re both right-wing parties. Their aim is to make the rich class richer.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the 20th Century by Prof. Snyder is a book that everyone should read these days.
Of his own personal experiences Ionesco wrote:
University professors, students, intellectuals were turning Nazi, becoming Iron Guards, one after the other. At the beginning, certainly they were not Nazis. About fifteen of us would get together to talk and to try to find arguments opposing theirs. It was not easy…. From time to time, one of our friends said: “I don’t agree with them, to be sure, but on certain points, nevertheless, I must admit, for example, the Jews …,” etc. And this was a symptom. Three weeks later, this person would become a Nazi. He was caught in the mechanism, he accepted everything, he became a rhinoceros. Towards the end, only three or four of us were still resisting.
Replace Jews with trans and you have a discussion we only have too often with fellow “leftists”.
