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"A majority of justices signaled that they no longer trust the administration to comply with the law"
"...the government’s unlawful efforts..."
"...the government lied to a federal judge..."
"...this president will gleefully defy judicial orders..."
It's all topsy-turvy. A.K.A. "coup". And not just any coup, a fascist coup. Who still thinks the comparison to Germany in 1933 is exaggerated? It isn't. But maybe we can still influence where it goes from there.
Also, fuck Alito and Thomas with a rusty pipe.
Years ago, I was calling out the Bush administration for following the Nazi playbook, and was constantly berated and insulted, and slapped with "Godwin's Law," which has been sufficiently proven to be Nazi counter-propaganda designed to silence critics, while the inexorable crawl to Nazism continued.
Hell, even Godwin came out and said "Oh yeah, these guys are totally acting like Nazis. Go ahead and compare them."
Everyboy immediately thinks of the Holocaust, that's why. The US isn't quite there - yet. All the more reason to point out the similarities to the beginnings.
I think Godwin's law was meant for like arguing about tabs vs spaces, or other low stakes things.
But as discussed elsewhere, conservatives have abysmal literacy and analytical skills, so it's not surprising they wouldn't understand when a comparison is merited.
The true meaning of it got perverted into meaning that whenever a poster used a Nazi reference to describe the behavior of politicians, it violated Godwin's Law. I was constantly accused of it whenever I mentioned that the Bush administration was obviously following the Nazi Playbook.