Pictured: a young, wrathful Frederick Douglass.

Comparing America’s racist immigration control and enforcement measures to 1930s Germany is… inaccurate. 2026 America is now emulating what it was before 1860. The

When:

  • Indigenous, black, tan, brown, Asian, and people are arrested because the look like ‘the other,’

  • lies are written off as memes,

  • the Monroe Doctrine is foreign policy,

  • cities are terrorized by secret police,

  • non-conformists are shot in the streets,

  • political opposition is met with federal investigation

all of America’s episodes of villainy are back in play.

Genocide, colonialism, plunder, militarism, more plunder, expansionism, Manifest Destiny, white supremacy, even more plunder, hypocrisy, calamity profiteering, segregation, McCarthyism, monopolies, interventionism, propagandizement, dumbing-down, and a lot more plunder — this is the “great” some in America seek.

  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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    It’s centered on the US because the US is enacting it again. If it was South Africa, we’d be talking about the apartheid. But it’s not.

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      Its centered on the US because they’re harming themselves and everyone else all at once. “Flooding the zone” as it were. What’s there to be done but stand on principle and dominate the narrative.

      Inception, followed by a kick.