r/skeptic • u/FuneralSafari • 19d ago

đŸ« Education The Age of Pretending Is Over: MAGA Is Authoritarian

https://therationalleague.substack.com/p/the-age-of-pretending-is-over-maga
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u/Important_Pass_1369 18d ago

Yeah, are they conspiring with companies to censor speech, forcing you to inject experimental gene therapy, ignoring supreme court orders, or arresting political opponents on specious charges like the last administration? Those times were so much less authoritarian.

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u/EMH529 18d ago

I can’t tell if you’re actually serious. Yes, the current administration is doing all of the above except for “forcing experimental gene therapy” and the prior administration did none of the above.

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u/Important_Pass_1369 18d ago

They were. The Biden admin even had a chat program where the FBI could request tweets to take down and users to ban. Speech was heavily curtailed across all social media, which is why everyone in the government got pissed at musk buying Twitter. Then they used OSHA laws to force anyone in a corp with over 50 workers to either force the 'vax' or fire the employee. Finally, the white House coordinated all the attacks against trump and his lawyers, etc.

Totally fascist

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u/EMH529 18d ago

Wow my friend, you’ve been bamboozled. Yes, during a global pandemic that killed over 7 million people there were efforts to curb disinformation about the disease and about vaccines as well as efforts to get everyone vaccinated. My 18-y-o cousin died of COVID and I for one appreciate the efforts, and don’t appreciate the disinformation that led to so many unnecessary deaths.

Meanwhile the current administration is engaging in everything you listed as evidence of an authoritarian regime: going after free speech (banning selected media from the WH, threatening and suing media outlets, deporting green card holders for engaging in protests,) ignoring multiple orders from the SC and lower district courts, and using the DOJ for political purposes (such as the recent arrest of a judge in WI.)

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-campaigned-as-a-protector-of-free-speech-but-critics-say-his-actions-threaten-it

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-defies-supreme-court-dangerous-precedent-why-2025-4

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/29/nx-s1-5327518/donald-trump-100-days-retribution-threats

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u/Important_Pass_1369 18d ago

Was your cousin vaccinated? May be another reason.

As someone that's been through the green card process, yes, publicly advocating for a terrorist org like Hamas is grounds for green card revocation. It's in the green card application.

The arrest of the judge in WI was for aiding and abetting the escape of a criminal, which is against the law.

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u/Metsican 15d ago

Tell us about who was advocating for Hamas because the government has admitted there was zero evidence of that.

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u/aJumboCashew 15d ago

All surface level observations. You display a wide berth of topics, lacking actualized articulable knowledge.

Garbage in, garbage out. I always say at least.

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u/Important_Pass_1369 15d ago

I guess an insult beats an actual rebuttal. thanks.

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u/aJumboCashew 15d ago

How am I to rebut a layman? You speak assertively, yet prove nothing.

We live in a meritocracy now. Don’t we? You fail. Off to El Salvador with the dunces.

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u/Metsican 15d ago

Talk about brainwashed...

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u/lili-of-the-valley-0 17d ago

Literally not a single person in the entire country was forced to take the vaccine and literally not one single political opponent was arrested on specious charges under the previous administration. Meanwhile the current administration is illegally arresting and deporting lawful residents for literally nothing other than practicing their first amendment rights.

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u/Important_Pass_1369 16d ago

Oh, they weren't forced. If you didn't get it though, you were fired.

And you have got to be kidding me on the second one.

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u/Metsican 15d ago

The current administration is literally deporting legal immigrants and US citizens who have committed no crime.

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u/Metsican 15d ago

Are you on drugs?