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        they’ve already taken over. this is retaliatory, and therefore not analogous.

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          Hitler was chancellor already when the reichstag fire started. What it did was allow him to seize absolute control. We’re not there yet. Courts are still ruling against trump. Elections haven’t been cancelled yet. It’s a mistake to assume things are already as extreme as they’re going to get.

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            they’re currently disappearing people for looking funny and sending them to blacksites to be abused and tortured just for the sake of it, and they’re not obeying court orders. they also have already had the Supreme Court give them a get out of jail free card for literally anything the president may do. they’re decimating the institutions on the demands of an unelected, unofficially acting billionaire. they’re literally erasing women and black people as well as other minorities from history.

            I think it’s a bigger mistake to pretend they still have ways to go. this is through and through fascism. at this point, if they fire up the ovens, it will only be the continuation of their current actions, barely an escalation.

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              I think it’s an even bigger mistake to think that starting a fire in a single state’s party HQ is going to move the needle at all. It’s not going to hurt them. It is going to give them ammo. Go big or go home.

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            Oh brother… here we go… I remember hearing all this Hitler bullshit during Trump’s first term…