Two things can be true at the same time. Someone can be a fascist and a pedo.

In fact, other interesting historical parallel, there are strong suspicions that Hitler was a pedo.

How uncanny… It’s like the US was an almost perfect historical reenactment of early 3rd Reich.

First of all, there are better ways to deal with anything than privateering. There’s a reason why all countries in the world have abandoned it.

Secondly, everybody is operating under the assumption that cybercrime is something that happens and there’s no way around it. I contend that if software vendors were penally responsible for vulnerabilities in their software, you’d see a dramatic reduction in hacks very, very quickly.

As in, if a piece of software is exploited, the engineers who worked on it, their managers and the CEO of their company had better come up with extensive documentation proving how they did their best to implement security before releasing the unfortunate piece of code, else one or all of that bunch gets to spend time in the slammer.

If this was implemented into law, I guarantee you software would become very secure across the board in no time flat.

But of course, in the age of tech monopolies and generalized corruption, it will never happen.

You know who else ran unlisted trains of deportees - or listed under some euphemistic name like “special train” or “resettlement to the east”? Can you guess?

Hint: if ICE feels the need to conceal what they’re doing, it’s because they know what they’re doing is not right. Just like the SS.

It’s almost like socialism. In the name of preserving national corporate interests.

A kind of national socialism if you will…

This is where the very word Fascism comes from: fasces in latin means bundle - the bundling of state and private sector together. The government and private companies in cahoots is one of the core features of any fascist regime.

Hmm nationalization… That’s so Republican…

If you ever needed proof that MAGA ≠ GOP, this is it. The Republican party has disappeared off the radar.

You make the mistake of believing that Trump tries to maintain a coherent narrative like the rest of us.

That’s not how Trump works: he says anything at anytime, and doesn’t care about contradicting himself or being fact-checked or anything. What matters to him is the instant soundbite. And the more soundbites, the better - what his fatass friend Steve Bannon calls “Flooding the zone with shit” so that nobody has enough time and energy to follow up on anything Trump says.

Trump has been doing this for decades. This has nothing to do with dementia and everything to do with his particular brand of shameless populism aimed at his simple-minded voter base who only care about the instant soundbites.