• @DeadWorldWalking
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    01 day ago

    So who was the single person who all authority figures bent the knee to before Trump?

    • @[email protected]
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      31 day ago

      You’re describing a dictatorship. That’s not what police state means. They often go together but each can exist without the other. A multiparty representative government is perfectly capable of running a police state, and the US has been doing so since 2002.

      After 9/11 the federal government, through the Patriot act and others like it, gave themselves the power to spy on everything a citizen does, detain them indefinitely, torture them, seize their assets, or declare them an enemy combatant and target them with a drone.

      The US was a police state long before Trump came along. He’s a symptom. Maybe even an inevitability.