• Obinice@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    To answer your question:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9qwez9zz7jo

    The Insurrection Act of 1807 allows the president to use active-duty military personnel to perform law-enforcement duties inside the US.

    Once invoked, troops could be tasked with a range of duties, from quelling civil unrest and enforcing court orders to arresting and detaining migrants.

    Because the Insurrection Act was written in broad terms, with little specific guidance on how and when the powers can be used, it gives presidents wide latitude in deciding when to mobilise military personnel for domestic operations.

    Time to bring in the army to oppress the citizenry. Hoo rah!

  • Apepollo11@lemmy.world
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    A return of the concept of “unamerican” art and activities, to support the destruction and suppression of said things.

    I’d normally say book burnings first, but those have been an on-off thing in some parts of the states since the 50s.

    So I’ll go with “officially endorsed” book burnings. Not officially organised, mind, but an actual expression of support shown.

    • Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Burning still has too much of a negative connotation.

      They’ll pressure to expand more on banning books in schools, public libraries, pull public funding and restrict government aid payouts for universities unless they follow suit. They’ll let states decide that they can ban books for sale online unless the site forces an age check. They’ll give responsibility for the age check system to a corporation that is expected to do a lackluster job and wash their hands of it when there are complaints. Maybe some day they’ll step in to ‘fix’ it resulting in taking it down for maintenance and restructuring and then they just… never bring it back up. They’ll have a system for brick & mortar stores too, but it will be so excessive that few will bother.

  • Making HRT straight up illegal

    Sending dissidents, queer people, immigrants, and political rivals on a one way trip to El Salvador

    Lining up military forces along the Canadian and Mexican borders, then a moment of dementia when Trump says he’ll do the same to Greenland

    AI meets eugenics meets racism

    • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOP
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      I’m going to start considering Hilary the canary in the coal mine. As long as she is in the country, free, and breathing this authoritarian regime hasn’t taken complete control yet.

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    3 months ago

    Revolution or capitulation. With the US lately it’ll probably be capitulation.