How can anyone support such petty, hateful, people? I just don’t get it.

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      Woah woah woah, at one point you did have Nazi parades in the USA. Never went away it’s like an ac generator it comes in waves.

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    Just a single sliver of indirectly-related memory-paraphrased context which may hopefully be helpful:

    I worked for the U.S. government from 2010-2018. In my new-hire handbook, government employees and contractors were directed to not portray a political alignment while working in an official capacity (say, while wearing a uniform or other identifying clothing, while using a government vehicle, etc) regardless of political party. We were allowed normal civilian rights if presenting as a civilian. Some form of administrative action was mentioned if this rule was broken, presumably up to and including termination of employment.

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      Ministry of Magic was always totalitarian. They police all magic: even though it’s an innate inborn skill they control your right to use it. They monitor everything and give no privacy: any use of magic is instantly known. Azkaban, their only prison, is heinously criminal: indefinite solitary confinement, no visitors, cruel and unusual punishment, common knowledge it “regularly drives prisoners insane”. And of course they also monitor house elf magic (like when Dobby performs a levitation spell at Harry’s aunt & uncles house - instant owl letter), and assist gladly with the subjugation and slavery of that race for benefit of the ruling class. Operate in secrecy from the majority of society too, and wipe all knowledge from muggles of their existence and powers, and punish any magic-born that attempt to share knowledge or even perform magic in their presence accidentally.

      Prior to (and coexisting with) the Ministry is the Wizengamot Council, whom were both the parliament and high court and also housed at the Ministry of Magic on the second floor. So no separation of power between legislation, the courts, and the police system. Simply plebs, and the elite; whom were both the judge, jury, and worked in the same building with the executioner.

      That all went fine while ‘benevolent’ wizards and witches were at the helm. But the Deatheater takeover was inevitable due to the incredibly centralized power, lack of citizens rights and freedoms, and secrecy / broad lack of public accountability.

      Where the hell am I going with this? Oh, right: fuck all of Harry Potter’s governing system, and shout loud anytime your rights are taken away or power consolidated, because totalitarianism attracts power-hungry monsters.

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    You think they should be trying to reduce the amount of hate, but their goal is to increase the amount of hate. I agree with you. Reducing the amount of hate is key to a stable society.

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    Cannot tolerate empathy in the upcoming purges. Hopefully their training will be useful in other ways.

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    Are these two events even related? The kneeling happened 5 years ago and the article says it was around 20 agents let go. Says they were also reassigned last spring, which was under Biden.

    Why were they all let go?

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    Pulling the, “Colin Kaepernick” play huh?

    Embarrassing! Freedom of speech but only for, “THEE not ME” strategy… lovely!

    America is crumbling, we can’t even make it past 250 years, savages are ruling the country!

    Time to “throw our tea” in the ocean and protest!

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      This is so beyond flakes. This is the fascist purge of the “disloyal” before a full on dictatorship…

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    How?

    1. acknowledge the genocide would have continued under either party, regardless. Don’t educate yourself that no country holds sway over another - it’s working so well with Russia, NK, Iran, Cuba, etc. and that no one person flips a country’s policies on a dime.

    2. latch on to one statement that one candidate said in a political setting that triggers an issue you think you can signal, so you can turf over your own personal biases about that candidate

    3. ignore the proven track record of revenge, pettiness, narcissism of the other candidate. I’m gonna leave out any attempts at insurrection, association with pedophiles, corscion, intimidation and gross negligence in his business and personal interests

    4. either sit it out your vote, or vote in protest because you didn’t prefer either candidate and the parties owe it to you, to present you with blatantly palatable choices, never mind that one is obviously going to destroy the country

    5. act surprised that a candidate you didn’t want rises to the highest office in the land, then proceed to double down on the above when everything cones crashing doen around you.

    6. Do everything except 1)

    That’s how.