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by waffleiron 1463 days ago
> you don't have FBI agents knocking on your door threatening you with prison.

Correct, it's DHS.

https://twitter.com/_secondthought/status/133274617257067725...

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You know people online can just say things, right?
I don’t think it’s that far fetched that DHS shows up to someone who is opposed to the US government and is a self identifying communist.

The same DHS who bans immigrants that are or have been members of a communist party [1].

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-ma...

You can twist it however you like, and select individual sentences and ignore the context and everything else I wrote. At this point (again, may get worse, it does not look good IMO) Russia is at least an order of magnitude worse. You have individual cases - maybe - in the US, but in Russia it's systemic and systematic and goes all the way to murder not just of the person but of the entire family - as we saw in March, when two oligarchs and their entire family were murdered, one in Russia, one in Spain (summary of oligarch deaths: https://www.businessinsider.com/these-are-all-the-russian-ol...). On top of that various murders of "traitors" e.g. in UK and in Germany. Trump got close in rhetoric to what Putin said on Russian TV in March but did not have a chance to implement it, and the US institutions still resist and don't (yet?) follow a dictator blindly, as they do in Russia.