Top Trump official Stephen Miller’s recent declaration that anyone who “preaches hate for America” will face deportation has ignited alarm online, with critics warning the statement disregards First Amendment protections.
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Social media users and legal analysts raised immediate concerns, pointing out that expressing dissent or criticism of the government is protected under the First Amendment. Some worried the administration was veering into authoritarian territory.
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The backlash has reignited broader debates over the limits of free speech, especially as civil liberties fall under scrutiny. While immigration enforcement remains a core theme of President Donald Trump’s platform, critics are increasingly questioning whether rhetoric like Miller’s is a precursor to more aggressive suppression of dissent.
That’s the beauty of a port, the port people can get everything from China or the rest of the world. Of course, likewise, the midle america people can build railroads.
That’s a very interesting game, but I doubt that the billionaires want to play it.
Stop pretending that people who hoard more money & power than entire countries and have to abuse countless workers to get there have the same level of rational thought as you and me.
It’s like the idea of being a king. When you can, at will, throw folks in jail… it messes you up. It changes how you view the world and your role in it.
Then remember that it’s not like these guys all just went “I’m a billionaire. That’s it. I won. I’m done”
They kept chasing money and kept growing. They kept chasing power. You realize that some of them are thinking about more than just being an influential billionaire, right?
Once again — some of them want their own cities. Look up “freedom cities.” Trump has stated, in a 2-3 minute camera clip, that he would like to auction off federal land to billionaires for them to run their own cities. It is unsaid but implied that they would get to make the laws there.
It’s literally what Peter Thiel has been trying to accomplish for the rich & wealthy for decades.
“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” -Peter Thiel
The only thing these right wingers mean when they say freedom is the freedom for rich people to screw the rest of us even more.
Power. And. Money. Corrupt. You know the saying. It’s not a meme, buddy. We have thousands of years of history to show us how often rich & powerful go looney
Hint: it’s most of the time
“Trump has stated, in a 2-3 minute camera clip, that he would like to auction off federal land to billionaires for them to run their own cities. It is unsaid but implied that they would get to make the laws there.”
I saw a story like this. Can’t remember the name, but each district of those bourgeois cities had different castes of society walled off in separate sections to avoid rebellions or revolts against the bourgeois. The sections went from a dystopian hell to paradise like conditions, some sections even resembling society as we know it. I wish I could remember what it was, but you bringing this up reminded me of it. To think a dystopian fiction could possibly become reality is unsettling.
Tech Bros like Musk & Thiel spent too much time on 4chan & doing drugs, and with some help with certain other entities, have been spinning 4chan into reality.
I don’t have the story you’re referencing. But Curtis Yarvin has a quote about that basically his vision for overthrowing democracy was splintering off everybody by spinning fictional realities… INTO reality.
Partially by splitting everybody into, say different cities (or different social media) where it’s easier to control what people are seeing
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As someone who could have been an incel, it’s been horrifying to see 4chan become normalized, become elected and is becoming reality.