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   AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 11:05:22 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

   One thing I'm noticing that people are not understanding, that they really need to understand here:

   Trump is not threatening to jail or deport anyone running these big law firms and prestigious universities. He's threatening them with funding cuts, lack of access to federal contracts, and harassment investigations.

   So when they agree to collaborate with him, they're saying "there is a monetary cost above which we don't believe in anything and will gladly help install fascism to avoid."

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 11:05:21 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     Furthermore, given that all of this has literally no basis in the law, or civil rights, and it's entirely about Trump saying "if you don't help me do fascism, I will slash your profits" there is no mechanism which identifies what degree of collaboration is "enough."

     If tomorrow Trump says "either you help me make the case for murdering brown people and taking away the right for women to vote, or I'll cut your funding and deny you contracts" - they're RIGHT back in the crosshairs.

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     Benjamin S-B :verified: (bensb@genomic.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 10:45:44 JST Benjamin S-B :verified:

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     @AnarchoNinaWrites As a German, I have to unfortunately tell you that after the war, *everyone* said they had just become Nazis to get by. And that was pretty much accepted and unchallenged for decades. Everyone moved one, nobody dared to ask questions. Really only the second generation after the war started to seriously ask questions.

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 10:45:45 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     "What about the *research* funding?"

     I mean what about it? Do you know what we called German doctors and scientists who submitted to and worked with the Nazi regime to do science/medicine? Nazis.

     If the cost of your research is "I have to help fascists do fascism" then maybe you should look for another job because I can assure you, if we survive this, nobody is gonna say "oh we totally understand that you just did Nazism to keep funding your experiments." They're gonna say "you helped Nazis."

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