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    It literally worked for 99.999% of Nazis. We only hung some of the top brass. And then we took the smartest ones and gave them great lives at NASA.

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    I’m sorry. does anyone really believe that?

    “in the interest of not causing division we will offer an amnesty to all personnel who assumed orders they got were lawful”

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      It’s going to have to be different this time. We let them slide after the Revolution, the Civil War, and WWII, and it has led directly to the mess we are in now.

      If we survive this, it will be imperative that there are harsh punishments for ALL leaders, and all middle management. Street level traitors may not end up in prison, but they should be forced to go to political remediation classes, where they will be properly taught about the Constitution, American History, and Critical Thinking Skills. Recalcitrant “students” can have their sentences commuted to long prison sentences if they’d prefer.

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      To be honest if Kamela Harris won, I could have seen her or Biden “Pardoning Trump to let the nation heal”

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    I’m guessing whoever made this doesn’t know much about Operation Paperclip.

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      Pretty sure the fascists in ICE aren’t the intellectual types who have anything to offer for scientific programs.

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          “Intellectual” is a bit of a stretch, because sure many had degrees, but a lot of the “science” they did was just literal torture with ko scientific method or even recorded results. I have trouble calling that actual science.

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            Von Braun was part of operation paperclip, and we definitely got an actual scientific benefit from bringing him to the US.

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    The agents that abused their authority need to be punished, but I would be more interested in punishing the people in power that enabled this mess or ignored what was going on.

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    Please promise to yourself right now that we will not let them be forgiven. We will not let whatever centrist Democrats convince us to “move forward” and “let us heal”. These officers need to be given Nuremberg Trials. If we get control of this government, EVERY one of these ICE agents who raided or abducted even one person, get sent to prison. I hope for life.

    I don’t care if they have kids, lovers, parents, friends, grandkids. After these years there will be people dead, permanently traumatized, and permanently disabled.

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      Yep, the lesser Bush and Trump I shows that Democrats are not interested in punishing crimes committed by Republicans.

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        That’s because US politics is so unhealthy that political persecution is only a step away. They rather let one “no longer relevant asshole” go than risk pocking that hornets nest.

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      I mean the voters are the accountability. Seems like the right show up with weapons and plan A, B, and C that they have organised for the past year.

      The left show up with knowledge of how to get arrested. And it’s getting frustrating to watch. We need to start asking ourselves why they do things at can’t muster half the strength for

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        Are you talking about libs? They’re right-wing.

        There is almost zero leftism in the core of empire. It’s literally the goal of hegemonic narrative (schools, media, politicians, etc) to obscure and misrepresent leftism.

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    This is one of those things that can never be forgiven. There were so many instances of abuse of power.

    Too many to not notice