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You guys haven't really had rights for a while, by the sounds of it.
Here is the thing, we did but rights can go away just that fast. The people in charge of this mess have been making the exact argument that you have. That it's been a slippery slope.
The speed and force that our rights have been eliminated has been quick. There have been huge structural problems. But there were MANY properly functioning public servants that protected citizens rights as their job.
It's been fast. There were the mass firings as part of Doge, the firing of career servants at the FBI and department of justice . That is all it took for the the expansion of ICE.
Its the mass of rank and file civil servants that preserve the functioning of democracy. This has been subverted so quickly most people don't understand what has already happened.
Black people been saying. everyone else just refuses to listen
(except for native americans, they been saying it the longest, they just don't have the presence of messaging because they've been pushed so far into the margins)
Naw but we got Mountain Dew buckets, cheeseburgers, and AR-15s in high school! Wooohooo!!! Thank Jesus I'm not a pinko Commie!!!