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The Minnesota governor said that the path to tyranny "is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting"

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was testifying before Congress about his state's handling of immigration when he learned Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security news conference Thursday.

The irony, he told the attendees of the Center for American Progress’ “Listening to Lead” event Friday, was in lawmakers grilling him and his colleagues, Govs. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y. and JB Pritzker, D-Ill., over the “incredible crime of treating people like human beings” as FBI agents tackled a sitting senator to the ground and handcuffed him in Los Angeles.

“I am not prone to hyperbole. I am prone to, like, popping off a little bit. I know that,” Walz said, prefacing his argument that Americans are living in a “dangerous” time. “I believed all along we were marching towards authoritarianism, and people were telling me in December, ‘You know, you're overreacting.’ And I said, “The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you're overreacting.”

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If they don't care about brown people in the Middle East, they don't care about you. Y'all's inability to understand this got you Trump, so don't repeat that mistake. Fascism abroad tends to be the preamble to fascism at home.

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We got trump because people like I ke you stayed home.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I struggle to see how proto-fascism now devolving into better-prepared fascism four years later would've been better than fascism now. And don't give me the "it gives us time to resist" spiel because we both know that's not how that ever worked; time to prepare only benefits the far right.

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So what's your solution? Just keep fucking losing?

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, stop following the neoliberals while they snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. I still remember the "progressive" reaction to Uncommitted and to calls for Biden to step down. If you're not willing to coerce the DNC neoliberals into doing what you want, you'll always be stuck doing what they want. And do you know what they want? Proto-fascism with rainbows and glitter.

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Coerce them. Sure. But almost any but the most backward dem would be better then Trump. You are just being asked to fill out a circle people have died to achieve less.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

Coerce them.

Great, now what kind of coercion do you support if you won't even threaten to withhold your vote?

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We got Trump because people like you thought supporting genocide was more important than winning the election

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I am sure the people being sent to death camps are very grateful.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago

No point in arguing, the box is empty.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You lot considered continuing to operate the world's largest death camp to be more important than stopping Trump.

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And now we got new ones. Thanks buddy

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Guess you shouldn't have prioritised committing genocide

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh. I am talking to a republican. Okay good bye now.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You are not. Though even if you were, that would be a lazy adhominem

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you are the one accusing me of supporting genocide. While helping cause several others.