r/politics • u/thenationmagazine The Nation Magazine • 25d ago

Soft Paywall Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Activist to Be Disappeared by Trump

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/trump-arrest-detention-mahmoud-khalil/?nc=1
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u/mattjb 25d ago

Let's not let 70 million+ Americans off the hook. Neither Trump nor the GQP would be able to do everything they're doing without significant support from so many voters that are fine with the chaos and downfall of democracy.

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u/TruthSearcher1970 25d ago edited 25d ago

Not to mention the hundred million people who didn’t vote at all. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Although with all the hate and anger these days I can kind of see why some people want to avoid it all completely. 🫤

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u/mattjb 25d ago

Good point, though it's even worse than that. 88 million people of voting age didn't vote. It's maddening.

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u/TruthSearcher1970 25d ago

Sorry hundred million. 😅🤦‍♂️

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u/feedmygoodside 25d ago

Exactly! But I prefer to think of them as stupid. It hurts less.

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u/Comfortable_Prize750 25d ago

It's important to realize how we got here. This is 100% Silicon Valley's doing. They're up front about it too. Vance is besties with them and is just WAITING for his moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no

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u/[deleted] 25d ago

You got there thanks to Bush jr and all the crap he authorised like the "patriot act" and let's not forget that Obama didn't got rid of anything of that.

Remember also that anyone considered a terrorist is fais game to be imprisoned indefinitely without a trial.

Oh and torture.... I mean "enhanced interrogation" is also legal to those

And that you also got the "free speech zones"

This was a team effort since 2002

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u/blazesquall 25d ago

Thank you!

Congress continually expanding executive authority shouldn't come as a shock when it's utilized. Crafting laws that expect rational actors and continued dice rolls in your favor is a shit approach... especially after they gave us a failed approach with the first Trump term, took the time to regroup, telegraphed how they'd use that power, and have no response.

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u/cool-moon-blue 25d ago

Yes - let’s keep focusing on only one factor and ignoring the fact that the Silicon Valley billionaires have spent time and money to gain power, and are still actively working on it

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u/[deleted] 25d ago

The only factor that for 2 decades civil rights have been ravaged?

It's literally the:

"First they came for"

Yeah pay no attention to that.

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u/alppu 25d ago

symptom of what the republican party has been pushing for over the past few decades

Someone should really target their propaganda networks and apply the same level of pressure that this activist is feeling to their key workers. If you undermine them, the rest will collapse... and if you don't, they will rebound from any setbacks way too soon.