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All I can tell you is that, in my area and social circles, the resistancelib boomers and the shrieking fascism hysterics people are in the same group of people, shrieking about fascism. And I haven’t seen very many masks at the local protests.
What I’m saying is, everyone near me who is even vaguely liberal is yammering on about the impending authoritarian fascist Nazi state. If I were inclined to be a Trumpstapo agent, I would have no trouble racking up huge numbers of people to be disappeared. Not even from edge cases like “They made a joke that can be vaguely interpreted as unflattering to the Fuhrer.” This would be from straight up “I wish I could shoot him myself,” “How can you not see he’s the same as Hitler,” “We must resist Trump at every turn,” “If Trump invaded Hell, I would put in a good word before Parliament for the Devil,” type commentary.
And yet they still show up to protests unmasked driving their personal vehicles and splatter their presence all over social media.
If you don’t see the same things in your area, I’m sure there are reasons, I’m just describing what I see in my area. But this fundamentally unserious phenomenon is a real thing.
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