Post AvTrHzMMwJ8DdVkEvQ by MEActNOW@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AvTrHzMMwJ8DdVkEvQ by MEActNOW@mastodon.social
       2025-06-24T15:53:47Z
       
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       Barring a tourist over a meme mocking the VP? This is what authoritarianism looks like...Also, that's what I see when I see JD Vance
       
 (DIR) Post #AvTruGo4WMHokbxN3o by apropos
       2025-06-25T06:43:12.530756Z
       
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       @MEActNOW this is very clownish and dumb, but if it's what authoritarianism looks like, then authoritarianism isn't that big of a deal. If that's not the conclusion you want people to draw, you can leave these thoughts unconnected. You can argue against creeping authoritarianism without offering this as an example of it.By the way, when we get a big drone attack from within the country, like was just demonstrated earlier just this month in two much more locked-down countries, there's going to be an enormous push for much stricter border controls than random screening for JD Vance memes on phones. It's going to be bad, and an attack like that is absolutely inevitable at this point, so you might want to anticipate that - and again, not tie "authoritarianism" to it, because nobody's going to care about how scary "authoritarianism" is when it's demonstrated just how scary drones can be.