[nobodyandproud]

Likewise, I find active complacency to be fascinating in a democratic institution.

To paraphrase Ben Franklin: We have a republic, if we can keep it.

Being vigilant and on guard is a feature of the US and demanded of its citizens.

Of course, my family escaped a dictatorship and made our home in the US. So we have a better sense of these things.

The methods like ignoring the rule of law to grab people off the streets is a huge red flag.

[marcinzm]

I find it fascinating that saying "we're not yet an actual dictatorship" is seen as complacency.

> Of course, my family escaped a dictatorship and made our home in the US. So we have a better sense of these things.

Fascinating what people assume about others and then use that to discount the views of others if those views disagree with them.

Clearly you've got a lot of trauma but panic and excess anxiety are not healthy responses to that as they make your decisions irrationally biased. That's how you get lots of immigrants who escaped communist dictatorships voting for a right wing dictatorships in the US. Their trauma biases their world view so much that they panic and then cause an equally bad outcome.

[nobodyandproud]

You’re shifting goalposts and constantly inserting “outs” in your wording, which are all indications of bad faith.

Also, strawman. We’re pretty much done here.

[marcinzm]

> bad faith > So we have a better sense of these things.

Classic "bad faith, I'm done" when pressed into a corner after your No True Scotsman didn't land.

> constantly inserting “outs” in your wording,

So only your extrapolation of what I meant is correct irrespective of both the wording and what I meant?

This is like talking to someone with a red hat. So surreal how both sides are just as bad.