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   Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 05:23:24 JST Madeleine Morris

   I’m watching “I’m Still Here”

   A timely reminder about what fascism does to people’s lives.

   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Still_Here_(2024_film)

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     Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 05:23:23 JST Madeleine Morris

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     So this is a magnificent film. And if you can see it, you should. Because one of the interesting things that it shows is how desperate the need to cling on to the fantasy of the rule of law is. They disappeared this woman’s husband, kept her imprisoned without charge herself, and she gets out only to expect the judicial system to still be operating effectively.

     This is a big mistake.

     Because the people they kidnapped and sent to El Salvador… the US government has done the same thing to them.

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     Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 05:27:52 JST Madeleine Morris

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     The failure to publicly punish Trump for the Jan 6th insurrection guaranteed his return and the administration we see today.

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     Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 05:27:53 JST Madeleine Morris

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     This woman only found out they had tortured and killed her husband in an army barracks 30 years later. She never got his body back. In 2014, they charged five army officers with his murder, but they were never apprehended or jailed.

     And two years later, Brazil elected Bolsanaro.

     Impunity ensures the return of fascists.

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     Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 05:27:54 JST Madeleine Morris

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     And just like in Brazil, the press in America is still acting like the judiciary has some power to force the administration to do the right thing. It doesn’t.

     That’s the thing about an authoritarian regime, you can only fight it at the beginning, having understood that its logic is alien to democracy and the rule of law.

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