Thread by @doitinprivate

Many people say it's ridiculous to compare our current troubles with the Nazis and the Final Solution.

Imagine.

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Imagine someone saying the torture of little girls and boys is necessary to nat'l security.

And people being, for the most part, okay with that.

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"If parents didn't want their kids locked up without food, water, soap, or bathroom breaks, they shouldn't have brought them here."

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"We take kids away from parents arrested for DUI."

(Seeking asylum is not illegal.)

(Unauthorized border crossing is a misdemeanor.)

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Then --

we hear about executions.

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Media frame it as just another gov't policy, like Meals on Wheels or the estate tax.

"Democrats and Republicans differ on… "

"Critics of Trump's policy say… "

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Morning shows invite White House officials, pressed and polished on a Sunday, to offer the Administration's side of the story.

All of them with hours of video of telling lies so big, they're not even lies. They're hallucinations.

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The debate is polite, because it is only debate.

Dismissive, tut-tut chuckles when the interviewer asks any question more pointed than "what's your sign?"

"The fake news media is distorting the truth to fool the American people."

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"So many illegals are coming, we don't have room.

"We don't have the money for food.

"We're overworking our guards taking care of them."

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"We're saving millions with executions in our border facilities."

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"ICE wastes taxpayers' time and money capturing these people, processing them, transporting them.

"Shooting them in the head and leaving them by the side of the road is a fantastic cost saver."

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"They have no legal rights.

"If they don't like being executed, they shouldn't have come here."

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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)

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