Toward fascism...
Sep. 16th, 2025 12:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
milktreeHere's the worst thing about all this Charlie Kirk idolatry – the threats of firing and deportation and confiscation of passport and all the other shit the red-caps are doing – it's not because the people pulling the strings actually care about Kirk. Trump didn't even bother to go to the "vigil" at the Kennedy Center, he played golf instead. (perhaps because Kirk was in favor of releasing the Epstein files?)
It's a test-run. If they can get away with getting people fired or deported or jailed for "saying things that make them sad about some guy who incited hatred and violence", then they can do it for nearly anything. Criticize the cops? Jail. Organize a protest against ICE? Jail. Write a post critical of Stephen Miller? Jail. Be a member of a militia that's not right wing? (e.g.: Pink Pistols) Jail.
And make no mistake: When Trump finally has a stroke or heart attack or whatever and the republican party collapses with no cult figurehead to maintain a semblance of cohesion and the democrats are back in power, they're going to do exactly the same thing, but with friendlier words.
It's a test-run. If they can get away with getting people fired or deported or jailed for "saying things that make them sad about some guy who incited hatred and violence", then they can do it for nearly anything. Criticize the cops? Jail. Organize a protest against ICE? Jail. Write a post critical of Stephen Miller? Jail. Be a member of a militia that's not right wing? (e.g.: Pink Pistols) Jail.
And make no mistake: When Trump finally has a stroke or heart attack or whatever and the republican party collapses with no cult figurehead to maintain a semblance of cohesion and the democrats are back in power, they're going to do exactly the same thing, but with friendlier words.
