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Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, letting MAGA stay in power is going to be great for the trans community. 🙄

Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 18h

Agreed. Time to switch products. Instead of sparkling authoritarianism, let’s call it I Can’t Believe It’s Not Fascism!

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Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 22h

Dems need to get the message out to vote as early as possible.

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Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 23h

First I have to comment on the article before reading it, then use the fact that this one is gifted to rant about how all articles should always be free, then rant about how fascism started in the US when Reagan murdered the Fairness Doctrine. After that I'll be too tired to read it.

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Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 1d

I feel the same way. Serious reforms are needed to repair our political and economic systems and I don’t think Dems are up for it.

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Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 2d

And when they are given an order that violates their oath to the Constitution?

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Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 2d

Just following orders? Not very reassuring.

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Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 2d

Does Illinois have grounds to make the same argument Oregon did?

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Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not a gotcha. If people are going to use what ICE is doing to prove that the country is now entirely a fascist state, then it’s worth pointing out that we’ve seen much of what is happening before. The whole conversation i about whether or not the US is currently a fascist country/

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Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 2d

It’s almost as if these people WANT to live in a fascist country. Instead of being relieved that we are not and we have time and the tools to stop the current track we’re on they’d rather insist it’s too late to do anything.

Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 3d

Are we allowed to make jokes about fascism while living under a fascist state?

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Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 3d

We were living under a fascist dictatorship in the 1940’s? That’s people’s position now?

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Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 3d

The problem is bigger than the Republican Party. The country re-elected him. Ironically the Republican Party likely would have stopped him in 2016 if we didn’t insist in having a democratic process to choose nominees. A smoke-filled back room would have squashed this.

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Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 3d

Not as bad as the people who are replying to me saying that yes the US was also fascist dictatorship in the 1940’s or the ones who are fine with rounding up citizens in violation of their rights as long as a Democrat does it.

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Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 3d

Abuse of executive power is abuse of executive power. My point is US history has many examples of authoritarian behavior from the government but we avoided becoming a full authoritarian country. We can still avoid it now.

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Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 3d

So I guess the US was also a fascist country when FDR was putting Japanese Americans in internment camps, right?

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Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 3d

“We had a little argument so I had to block him.”

“You blocked my brother on bluesky?”

“He was calling Trump every kind of dictator, two at a time!”

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Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 3d

I thought there were only two kinds of government. American and the one all the bad guys have.

Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 4d

You’re just going to argue no matter what. Great way to fight back, spend your day attacking people in your side because you don’t think people should be paid for their work.

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Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 4d

I assume you have quit your job and devote all of your time to pushing back against the Trump administration since you think people being able to financially support themselves isn’t important and even selfish in these dangerous times.

Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 5d

This isn’t simply a Republican Party problem. Both parties pushed to expand federal power, executive power, stretched the Constitution as much as possible. Republicans accelerated their pace and got to wannabe authoritarians first.

Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 7d

Interesting. The leader of the fascist movement is long time NY Democrat Donald Trump.

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Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 7d

Didn’t Trump just today have to withdraw a cabinet pick because of social media posts or something? Real dictators wouldn’t cave like that.

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Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 7d

When will elected Republicans start to move away from him? Are they really all-in on this or are they just cowards?

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Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 9d

It has and I hope he knows that, but you need to win Republicans in Congress over enough to stand with Dems as things get more extreme and that’s not going to happen if Dems don’t keep the door open to working with the GOP (and yes, I realize they probably still won’t stand up to trump anyway.

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