Frannie, herself.: The floodgates are open to expand this secret police state. This is exactly how the Russian satellite GDR (East Germany) kept their boot on the necks of citizens. Have them spy on each other. Punish people who failed to spy. No one is safe. They even had grade schoolers betraying their parents.

bluesky is largely convincing itself that as soon as he is elected, trump will start drone striking people who say mean things about him online, which i think is great because maybe canalizing into this belief will get the doomerist panic mongers on bsky to stop doomspiraling themselves for a bit

that is definitely not what I’m saying on the record lol

Two Satans Theory in action: 1) Making credible threats online during an (ascendent or actual) authoritarian regime is a bad idea and a legitimate concern, and 2) there is simultaneously a moral panic that everyone is going to get drone striked and blackbagged for every comment they ever made online

Pretty much. What it mostly boils down to is that most Americans really don’t have the faintest idea what living under modern authoritarian regimes actually looks like, and how it’s often at the same time way more boring and way more scary than they’d imagined.

We already have that here in Texas. AG Ken Paxton, Guv Abbott, Lt. Guv Dan Patrick (born Dannie S. Goeb) & our trumplican state sens & reps have created the Texas Stasi. Neighbors, et al, can spy on neighbors for the state & get paid to do so. From 7/14/21: www.bmj.com/content/374/...

Texas promises $10 000 for people who enforce the state’s new limit on abortionswww.bmj.com Abortion and civil rights campaigners in the US are challenging a law set to take effect in Texas on 1 September that bans abortions after six weeks and rewards anyone who helps to prosecute sucessful...

The floodgates are open to expand this secret police state. This is exactly how the Russian satellite GDR (East Germany) kept their boot on the necks of citizens. Have them spy on each other. Punish people who failed to spy. No one is safe. They even had grade schoolers betraying their parents.

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