What scares me the most is how many Americans just cannot imagine their #democracy can collapse.
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Madeleine Morrisreplied to Mastodon Migration VOTED last edited by
@mastodonmigration A failure of imagination is a perfect way to put it.
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Human after allreplied to Madeleine Morris last edited by
@Remittancegirl @mastodonmigration I have lived under the Chinese, the Russians and now fucking Orban. I cannot stress enough how little Americans are prepared for the shittiness of these regimes
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@pineywoozle (s) for HARRISreplied to Human after all last edited by
@humanhorseshoes I just visiyed Spain when Franco was in power and even that was horrific. @Remittancegirl @mastodonmigration
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Madeleine Morrisreplied to Human after all last edited by
@humanhorseshoes @mastodonmigration I grew up in Spain under Franco, and then lived for 20 years in Vietnam.
I know what it is like to have friends disappear in the middle of the night. To pay a bribe for a common childhood vaccine. To have drunk police show up at 2 am, make themselves comfortable in your living room and demand to see non-existent paperwork for a laugh.
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Madeleine Morrisreplied to @pineywoozle (s) for HARRIS last edited by
Part of me is still stuck in Madrid at the age of seven, watching a woman bleed out from a backstreet abortion while successive parsimonious doctors refused to touch her because she was just a "slut" who'd broken the law and was getting what she deserved. It scarred me for life.
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@pineywoozle (s) for HARRISreplied to Madeleine Morris last edited by
@Remittancegirl People just have no idea. Even with all the extra deaths (mother and child) in Texas since the ban. @humanhorseshoes @mastodonmigration
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Madeleine Morrisreplied to Madeleine Morris last edited by
However, it was a Black American doctor from the US airbase who my mother finally persuaded to come to our apartment who saved that woman's life.
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Human after allreplied to Madeleine Morris last edited by
@Remittancegirl @Pineywoozle @mastodonmigration I am from Ireland and we had this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Lovett#:~:text=Ann%20Rose%20Lovett%20(6%20April,grotto%20on%2031%20January%201984 and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Savita_Halappanavar and this https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20108061.html
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@Remittancegirl @Npars01 As of late I find myself continually haunted by that Leonard Cohen quote, “You’re not going to like what comes after America.”
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Human after allreplied to Human after all last edited by
@Remittancegirl @Pineywoozle @mastodonmigration We also had the nuns incinerate girls to prevent them being seen in their night clothes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavan_Orphanage_fire
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Mastodon Migration VOTEDreplied to Madeleine Morris last edited by
@Remittancegirl @Pineywoozle @humanhorseshoes
Think a lot of these MAGA bro types envision some kind of pick-up truck vigilantism where they are unleashed to go around enforcing arbitrary purity anti-wokeness, which will really just be whatever they want to do to whomever they want target. The reality will be hate and civil unrest at a scale we have never seen.
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Madeleine Morrisreplied to Human after all last edited by
@humanhorseshoes @Pineywoozle @mastodonmigration
Yes, I remember this. Actually, very similar stuff happened in Spain. For decades, unwed mothers would give birth and be told their baby had died, only to find out years later that it had been stolen and given to some politically connected family.
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Madeleine Morrisreplied to Human after all last edited by
@humanhorseshoes @Pineywoozle @mastodonmigration
So dark. Please, let us not willingly go back there!
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LuigisApartmentreplied to Madeleine Morris last edited by
@Remittancegirl You're so close to understanding. The democracy is already collapsed. Kamala or whoever the democrats put forth are never going to serve your interests. In laymen's terms its joever
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Mastodon Migration VOTEDreplied to Madeleine Morris last edited by [email protected]
@Remittancegirl @humanhorseshoes @Pineywoozle
Saw a post the other day by a woman who had lived through fascism in Argentina and had had some of her family 'disappeared.' We are heading into very dangerous territory.
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Madeleine Morrisreplied to Mastodon Migration VOTED last edited by
@mastodonmigration @Pineywoozle @humanhorseshoes
There are people like that in every country and every society. Autocracy gives them license and legitimacy to enjoy the practice of cruelty.
What is fundamentally different now, in the US, are the number of guns.
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Mastodon Migration VOTEDreplied to Madeleine Morris last edited by
@Remittancegirl @Pineywoozle @humanhorseshoes
Great point.
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Madeleine Morrisreplied to Mastodon Migration VOTED last edited by
@mastodonmigration I know a number of Chilean families who lost members and, to this day, have no idea what happened to them. @humanhorseshoes @Pineywoozle
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Mastodon Migration VOTEDreplied to LuigisApartment last edited by [email protected]
@LuigisApartment @Remittancegirl
This is what is meant by 'failure of imagination'. It can always get worse. You think because things are bad that's it, game over. But it can get so much worse. When they are hunting you and your friends through the woods with their AR-15s, perhaps you will remember this reply.
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Madeleine Morrisreplied to Mastodon Migration VOTED last edited by
@mastodonmigration I think @rgarner and @Eetschrijver are right. It's a troll.
