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Orange_Crush said:
Great posts.

The wife and I went into Nicaragua some time ago. On the plane flying there, we sat next to a Nicaraguanesa who's been in the US for decades and flies back home occasionally. She fervently warned us to be careful what we said while there, and lamented the state of the country since the Ortega regime took over.

Once, it was a happy, outgoing culture like much of Latin America. Now, they are closed off and cautious. People keep to themselves largely, apparently because they know they can be disappeared for saying even the hint of the wrong thing, and they never know which of their neighbors is listening to report them.

People here have no idea just how stupidly ironic it is that they brag about the number of people publicly protesting our current Hitler/Stalin/Ortega. Pure, unadulterated ignorance.
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Ortega was a name I was thinking of, but figured most wouldn't have a clue about him. I know little more than his name and the base outline that he has been putting the screws to things.
 
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Orange_Crush said:
Great posts.

The wife and I went into Nicaragua some time ago. On the plane flying there, we sat next to a Nicaraguanesa who's been in the US for decades and flies back home occasionally. She fervently warned us to be careful what we said while there, and lamented the state of the country since the Ortega regime took over.

Once, it was a happy, outgoing culture like much of Latin America. Now, they are closed off and cautious. People keep to themselves largely, apparently because they know they can be disappeared for saying even the hint of the wrong thing, and they never know which of their neighbors is listening to report them.

People here have no idea just how stupidly ironic it is that they brag about the number of people publicly protesting our current Hitler/Stalin/Ortega. Pure, unadulterated ignorance.
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I'd say the big majority of the protesters are concerned about the recent shifts and attempted shifts toward totalitarianism, want them reversed, and don't want further erosion of civil liberties and our Constitutional framework. I doubt many at all think we're now on par with Nicaragua.
 
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EasternVol said:
I'd say the big majority of the protesters are concerned about the recent shifts and attempted shifts toward totalitarianism, want them reversed, and don't want further erosion of civil liberties and our Constitutional framework. I doubt many at all think we're now on par with Nicaragua.
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Vocabulary matters. You can use it in good faith, or you can abuse it to build a narrative. I suspect most of those using it in this way for this administration are either knowingly abusing it in bad faith, or gullible enough not to realize that they're being manipulated.

It's especially obvious when it's coming from the folks who still defend the last administration that weaponized the gov't/DoJ in a soft coup against their political rivals (and to hide the crimes of their favorite Hillary), hid the mental deficiencies in their guy, bypassed the democratic process for Kamila, etc...
 
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WoodsmanVol said:
The Nazification of Murica continues.
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We must have been, you know, like…””extra Nazi” when Obama deported 2.5 million illegal immigrants during his terms. I don’t like some of the tactics, but some of you act like we should deport no one and our immigration laws should be irrelevant.
 
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