Kilmar Abrego Garcia said he suffered severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation and psychological torture in the notorious El Salvador prison the Trump administration had deported him to in March, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
He said he was kicked and hit so often after arrival that by the following day, he had visible bruises and lumps all over his body. He said he and 20 others were forced to kneel all night long and guards hit anyone who fell.
If you think the Democrats will change without serious challenges to their hegemony, then you really haven’t learned. They’ve taken the wrong lessons from the last election, and doubling down on following fascism rightwards. They kick out people trying to reform the party while dismantling environmental protections at the state level where they still have power. They’re increasingly throwing minorities under the bus and serve capitalism harder than ever because they’ve taken this loss as an excuse to be worse, not a call to improve.
I’ve been a long proponent of damage mitigation, which is why I don’t advocate not voting. Unfortunately, the Democrats’ response to this has actively made the situation worse by making people believe that voting for them can change things. Even with a large majority in both houses, Trump is already equipped to override their will using everything from the yesmen courts to his personal Gestapo.
I’ll repeat the sad truth of our situation till the day I get shipped off to a death camp: Trump’s death is the only thing that will stop him. We’re in the endgame, and there is no snapping the people he’ll kill back to life.
Correct. Not sure what that has to do with voting for 3rd parties with no chance of winning though. That’s not even close to a serious challenge, and all it does is strengthen the hegemony of the actual fascist party.
Trump is a symptom. If he is gone, ghouls like Thiel will gladly place another puppet into the role.
The GOP and its backers, all of them need to hang together. Otherwise, they will take the intermittent loss of their fellows as an opportunity to climb the ladder on the backs of their dead, rather than as a warning.
You misunderstand Trump. He might be a symptom, but he is not a sustainable strategy. He rode the wave and no one else will be able to; that is how strongman dictatorships tend to pan out. Everyone from billionaires to normal people will be sick of fascism after this. The billionaires will want a yes man who doesn’t extort them or make business volatile, while everyday people will want peace and safety.
In that environment, everyone will want the return of liberal democracy, only US institutions will be permanently weakened. We can’t know how the situation will unfold, but oligarchs will seek to solidify their gains while only restoring what benefits them. I personally think a feudal era will occur, with a weak central government that eventually allows for fiefdoms, which could eventually lead to actual civil wars.