GeneralStrikeFOV

"If you arrest them first, they can't arrest you, because no backsies."

Worth also pointing out that Niemoeller was initially broadly supportive of the Nazis, so the whole 'first they came for other people and I was OK with it' thing is not merely a rhetorical tool, but a fairly accurate representation of his experience. It's not a neat homily for liberal-minded people to tell each other, but a dire warning to conservatives.

This is so common in America; 'Land of the Free'.

I can totally understand why the community might have something to say if your front yard was strewn with old car parts, but I think it is an intolerable infringement upon people's freedom and autonomy to tell people what they can or cannot plant in their garden (beyond invasive species etc).

Crashing Barings was pretty big, but Gorby went bigger and crashed the Soviet Union...

Either way it would be like the US government carting away Tom Cruise and his gang for their involvement in Scientology.

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Y'know, when you put it like that...