• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    Remember! They wouldn’t do this if they didn’t think they had to - this government action comes from a place of weakness, not strength.

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      8 days ago

      No it comes from long experience of knowing they will get away with it.

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          8 days ago

          Because they’ve been slowly sounding out how much they could get away with for a long time: pushing the envelope a little bit further, seeing what the response is, and then pushing it some more then they see they can get away with it.

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      This is likely a part of the Authoritarian plan, as opposed to a response to loss of control.

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        It’s not about a loss of control, it’s about maintaining control to prevent a loss of control. They don’t want another BLM summer.

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          I still think that they have been looking for an excuse, in order to change the paradigm in a fundamental way.