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   Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 06:04:56 JST Glyph

   Going to take a break for a few hours from talking about #SuperSwingDistricts but I did want to talk just a *little* bit about the stakes.

   In 2016… almost 8 years ago… I wrote this: https://blog.glyph.im/2016/11/what-are-we-afraid-of.html

   If you're convinced, this is not an article for you to read, but it is an article for you to share, if you know someone who is not convinced that this is *serious*.

   I was early, but I wasn't wrong.

   In 2016, nobody had "mass deportations now" signs. In 2016, there were guard rails.

   #USPol

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 06:04:55 JST Glyph

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     And that's the word she would use, in French. "Déportations". As in "mémorial des déportations", which is what a lot of holocaust museums are called in France.

     For me, the phrase "mass deportation" has a visceral resonance more like "fucking kill your whole family" than "fiscal policy".

     Which makes me feel absolutely insane when horse-race pundits say it. "Will fucking killing your whole family reduce housing prices? Fucking killing your whole family is very popular among men 18-34."

     #USPol

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 06:04:56 JST Glyph

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     2020 was our Beer Hall Putsch. It failed. Remember when Hitler failed seize power? Conservative elites allowed his rehabilitation, his poisoning of their institutions. It was years until he could do "deportations". And—I cannot stress this enough—*that is what they called it*. "Deportations".

     This is what a record of "mass deportations" looks like. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_deportations_of_French_Jews_to_death_camps

     We are past "it could happen here". It *IS* happening here. It just hasn't all happened *yet*.

     #USPol

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 06:04:56 JST Glyph

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     Godwin's law looms over all discourse so I try not to bring this up constantly but *I* am constantly thinking about it when looking at the news.

     My great grandparents' names are on that list I just linked. And when we were learning about what the other kids in school would call "the holocaust", my grandmother would often speak about her experience using french words and phrases, because, you know. It happened to her, and when it happened to her it happened in french.

     #USPol

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