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thrance 14 hours ago

Got sources for any of that?

Amezarak 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Constitutional amendments by fiat: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/17/biden-dec...

Assassinated Americans with drone strikes: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-were-the-4-us-citizens-kill...

Lied to the courts to imprison Twitter users: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca2.967...

Used intelligence agencies to spy on Congress: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/a-brief...

Expanded mass surveillance: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/obama-on-mass-gov...

EO declaring that some laws would not be enforced on favored demographics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DACA

Ordered social media companies to censor and ban users: https://twitterfiles.substack.com/p/1-thread-the-twitter-fil... https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/mark-zuckerbe...

Locked people down unless they were protesting for approved causes: referring to the BLM protests

> engaged in politically motivated prosecutions of their enemies. Another reference to the Mackey case and the novel legal theories required prosecute Trump in NY, and the now known to be false constructiion of the Russia narrative.

Look, many or all of these things may have been for a good cause, a good end. But the problem we're talking about is the means. Now people are using the same means for different ends. Everyone has to agree authoritarianism is bad even when it’s for really good ends or this will continue to escalate.