They tend to spread it onto other platforms though
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A lot of local reporters think their job depends on staying on the good side of local police in order to retain access
They've got support from Musk and Zuckerberg so that means banning their platforms
Yes, but cause a lot of suffering in the meantime
A ton of us voted against this
Yeah, I expect it of the New York Times, which is afraid of losing access. Local outlets have nothing to lose by speaking truth to power
There is a range of ways to run an economy and a society which can all work reasonably well. Conservative doesn’t have to be fascist. Its more that Republicans purged the non-fascist conservatives from any position of power
The author of the piece is a former Republican. They actually flipped sides on the hate thing a few decades ago, but it took a while to get to the point where open Nazism instead of dog whistling was ok
For the author, pretty much. He's been spending his time on BlueSky arguing that what we are seeing isn't really fascism.
During the KKK era, the Democrats were the ones in favor of hate, while the Republicans were not. The parties radically flipped after the passage of the Civil Rights act as a direct result of Nixon making a decision to support the hate to win elections, though the full flip took decades to play out. We're hitting the end of that now.
Republicans were not always Nazis. The article tries to look at how the change happened


Headline isn't great, but they've started impersonating local police, which is something ICE has not done before. Locally, a big part of what rapid responders do is to verify that a local police action is not ICE or Border Patrol. If ICE is running around with fake local police badges, this becomes a lot harder.