Just days before the United States launched a major military operation in Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen agents and staff members from a counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring threats from Iran, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Hard to get less open than carpet bombing a neighborhood or directly killing the heads of movements like Fred Hampton - I think its more that its happening to the settler class/white people now as well that it seems different.
I think you’re right and I was incorrect to use phrasing that suggested Trump is more brutal. As we often end up back on w/ regards to him, one of the key differences is that he’s mask off in doing the things that others were already doing before him - as in, previous brutality made more of an effort to build up to and massage narratives justifying it. Trump/admin does some of that, but he’s also more prone to saying the quiet part out loud and proud, making a mess of the work of propagandists in the process. But this is also in comparing him to the modern liberal order. If we go back far enough in US history, I’m not sure he is even stand out as being mask off.
I agree, I think its important to keep it in mind there are no ‘golden’ years of America, just different stages of the mask being off for other groups. Now the mask is off for everyone but the upper class and there are no more protected classes of people within America, the apparatus has finally had to turn on everyone in order to sustain itself.
I guess I more meant the openness of it with ICE and all, but you have a point.
Hard to get less open than carpet bombing a neighborhood or directly killing the heads of movements like Fred Hampton - I think its more that its happening to the settler class/white people now as well that it seems different.
I think you’re right and I was incorrect to use phrasing that suggested Trump is more brutal. As we often end up back on w/ regards to him, one of the key differences is that he’s mask off in doing the things that others were already doing before him - as in, previous brutality made more of an effort to build up to and massage narratives justifying it. Trump/admin does some of that, but he’s also more prone to saying the quiet part out loud and proud, making a mess of the work of propagandists in the process. But this is also in comparing him to the modern liberal order. If we go back far enough in US history, I’m not sure he is even stand out as being mask off.
I agree, I think its important to keep it in mind there are no ‘golden’ years of America, just different stages of the mask being off for other groups. Now the mask is off for everyone but the upper class and there are no more protected classes of people within America, the apparatus has finally had to turn on everyone in order to sustain itself.