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When I hear people say this administration is motivated by racism, I’m like “I wish!” I wish it’s just racism. Racism is simple. People know how to deal with it. This shit is not.
This guy from Norway, a normal White man, nothing remarkable, and he was detained and deported from the US because he had this meme in his phone.
I have to say those officers have really good eyes. For some reason, they recognized that this picture was JD Vance. That’s impressive. I wouldn’t be able to tell. Vance is not the only ugly motherfucker out there.
And they locked up that White dude for this meme.
So this is not just normal racism. Minorities in America know how to survive normal racism. But this is more. This level of snowflake meltdown is actually something new. Never happened in American politics.
I used to talk shit about China a lot because back in China, I always felt like being watched. It felt terrible. Sometimes I said something privately, and my friends were like “hey…” You know, when I posted something, I lost my account, or sometimes the chatroom was banned, or even a whole website I liked got banned… It did not feel good. I had to give up writing in my native language to not feel that way.
But you know what? Even China doesn’t make tourists unlock their phones and look for fucking memes in their folders. That’s just next-level pettiness.
Memes are for fun. The entire existence of memes is for people to have fun. There is no policy logic behind deporting someone for memes.
They’re practicing something way more radical than racism.
If you’re White, and you think you’re gonna have a blast under Trump because you have the right skin, you will be in for a big surprise.
The end game of this administration is not just racism, or just authoritarianism, or just oligarchy, no, those are too lame for this administration.
At the end of the day, it’s a cult. And cult leaders do not tolerate mocking. Trump said specifically he wanted people to treat him like North Koreans treat Kim Jong Un. The end game of this administration is extreme hierarchy, in which your well-being is solely based on your proximity to that one person. Race is one factor, but not the only factor. White people are slightly higher on the ladder, but unless you subscribe to the cult whole-heartedly, you will be tossed away just like that Norwegian guy, except you don’t have Norway or the EU to protect you, and you’ll just end up in El Salvador, for life.
See these 80-year-olds who move around on wheelchairs? They were handcuffed for protesting the cutting of Medicaid. See those zipties on their wrists.
I read international news, but I’ve never seen an image like this from any other country.
This is going way too fast. I don’t think any American is truly prepared for what’s coming. Historically, a democratic system is considered “safe” after 20 or 30 years. Normally they have very low risk of coups because everything is already on track.
But this time a country that has been having competitive elections for 200 years, and just turned into this: You can be detained without a warrant by a masked dude in combat gear for no reason at all.
This guy was born to an American citizen in a German military base. And he got deported to Jamaica. This guy has a Purple Heart in the US military and got deported to South Korea, which he left at the age of 7. And this is a Canadian citizen, a White guy, who died in a Florida detention center. God knows what happened to him.
People like to use terms they’re familiar with to describe the situation. Racism, dictatorship, oligarchy. But using those terms is actually a coping mechanism. You want it to be something you’re familiar with, so you feel less scared. But this thing is not any of those. They’re building a system centered on the myth about this one person, the myth that this person has unmatched intelligence and stamina that no other human ever has. The only modern equivalent I can think of is North Korea. Even China passed that stage when Mao died 50 years ago. These days, the CCP is sort of trying to rebuild some kind of idolization, but it won’t go very far. I just don’t think most Chinese residents will ever buy the idea that the president is a super human that knows everything. That myth is no longer marketable because it’s the 21st fucking Century.
However, for some reason, it’s still marketable in America, the country that invented the idea of not having a king. What the heck?
Currently the United States is probably the only country, besides North Korea, where the president is branded as a mythical super creature. When you see those Republican Congressmen and White House officials describe him, they’re seriously pounding the idea that Trump is so smart that he can’t be wrong whatsoever.
There are a lot of dictatorships, but I don’t see other countries worshiping their political leader that way. This is something rare. I don’t even have a name. If you have a name for this kind of government, please tell me. Almost every single historical parallel I can think of was like a horror movie.
Give me one example where the cult of personality creates a good government. It never happened.
I don’t even have any strategies to deal with it.
It’s a vicious circle. The more fear they create, the less likely people will speak out. In fact, I’m thinking about what may happen to me when recording this video. So, I don’t know how long I can do this.
So guys, please join the conversation and offer some ideas about how to survive this.
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