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   George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 (georgetakei@universeodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 03:00:50 JST George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

   This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”

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     punIssuer (punissuer@universeodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 05:10:02 JST punIssuer

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     @georgetakei #altText4you Instagram post by jenniferkristineschick of a cartoon by J. Duquette:
     Armed guards in black clothes and red cap lead three groups of prisoners into three separate entrances labeled 'Looked hispanic', '"60 Minutes" Staff', and 'Criticized Trump on social media', of a concentration camp, complete with wrought-iron banner that reads "ARBEIT MAGA FREI", in the style of the infamous "ARBEIT MACHT FREI" ("work liberates") that the German ones had

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     Seppo Helava (helava@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 15:26:32 JST Seppo Helava

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     @georgetakei were not headed there. We are there. The numbers may be smaller, but the mechanics and intent and execution are identical, and *currently happening*.

     Framing this as where we “are headed” is frog boiling framing. We’re in the pot. We’re being boiled.