It already has.

They’ve drunk their own coolaid. They actually believe their own bullshit. They’ve offloaded what little thinking they used to do onto LLMs. They have them manage their schedules, summarise their emails, write their emails and speeches, and make every single decision for them.

They’re brain-dead computer operated zombies.

The problem is that they keep getting paid absurd amounts of money for being completely useless (and that they’ve always been so useless that no one can tell the difference).

I can’t help but picture the business card scene from American Psycho, but they’re comparing the “AI” assistants they use instead of their cards.

It’s not even selection, though.

We grafted those citruses into existence.

They’re delicious Frankenstein style abominations unto nature.

In the coconut.

Going is easy. It’s getting to come back that’s the problem.

Which would have been several orders of magnitude less harmful than everything Trump has done (which includes sending the nation into chaos anyway).

🤦‍♂️

It would.

It would also be several orders of magnitude less harmful than everything Trump’s done.

something trump has not done yet

Have you been living under a fucking rock‽

not allowing him to take office when elected would be disastrous

It would have been many orders of magnitude less disastrous than the alternative.

Sure, cutting off your cancerous hand would’ve been traumatic. But survivable.

Now, however, said hand is so far up your arse that it’s ripped apart your colon in several places and you’re bleeding to death while experiencing horrible agony, and spraying all your neighbours with blood and feces.

You could have recovered from getting rid of Trump, but there’s no coming back from what you’ve allowed him to do to your country, and the world.

You can die due to having too low morale, too.

Or killing yourself as an intimidation tactic during an interrogation, regardless of your stats.

Practically all versions of the detective are susceptible to self-inflicted demise in one shape or another.

Nah, Measurehead is adorable. A native Revacholian playing ur-racist out of what he’s learnt on the radio while dating a “Kojka” he can’t have sex with because his own racism prevents him from getting an erection in her presence.

Evrart (and Edgar, though we never meet him) Claire are downright terrifying.

Extremely intelligent, constantly ten steps ahead and in control (except for the tribunal, the entroponetic phenomena underlying the events of the game, the deserter, and, possibly, the Detective) even over the Wild Pines woman, extremely charismatic despite their appearance, and yet absolutely malicious and self centered.

They’re like sharks, perfect, cold, inhumane, apex predators evolved to completely dominate their territory.

Measurehead can never really hurt you. Evrart Claire can kill you by making you sit on a chair, and he’s fully aware of it.

An elected official who repeatedly stated and demonstrated his intention of preventing any future elections and destroying democracy.

An elected official, therefore, who should never have been allowed to run for office in the first place (this isn’t the only reason he shouldn’t have been allowed, of course, in a sane country he’d also been unelectable due to his criminal record, lack of any semblance of mental health, and intellectual insufficiency, but it’s the most important).

They aren’t continents; calling them continents implies a planet, but the planet is long gone, broken apart into isolas (containing both land, including full continents, and sea) floating in the Pale, which is very much not fog.

The Pale isn’t… anything, really. A literal lack of being. Not matter, or energy, but space-time broken down into pure entropy where direction and time lose all meaning.

This, but unironically.

Congratulations, you just discovered the paradox of tolerance.

And, yeah, essentially, in order to survive, a democratic society cannot allow those who seek to destroy it to participate in the democratic process.

Looking up “displeased white cat wearing cowboy hat” on duckduckgo (and, by extension, I assume also bing) produces pages and pages of slop and no useable results, but google images still produced some real pictures.

It seems that the concept is somewhat common amongst stock image shops (though specifically white cats are rarer); for instance:

Shutterstock

Vecteezy

I’ve also found several sites (which might be scams) supposedly selling cat hats using these images, despite the cat clearly not looking very pleased with the product in question:

Well, it’s supposed to transmogrify into (human) flesh and blood once it gets in your mouth.

Alcohol might be a no-no, but cannibalism is apparently a-ok. 🤷‍♂️

Short people will not go to heaven.

Well, obviously. They can’t reach.

Turns out the smallest kitty is the least scaredy-cat of them all, while the biggest (Samson) is by far the most scared one.

Obviously, the smaller the cat, the harder to hit, and easier to hide.

how is it also not a problem for people to violate immigration law

Because they don’t give a flying fuck about whether the people they’re disappearing have violated any laws or not.

They’ve disappeared citizens, they’ve disappeared people following the legal process to immigrate, without letting them finish, they’ve disappeared tourists who didn’t even have any intention to immigrate.

They’re fascists. They don’t care about the law. It’s just an excuse to do what they want. Marketing to attract gullible racist idiots to their cause.

But, even if that wasn’t enough, even if you don’t care about their real motives, even if you don’t care whether the law is good or not or how it’s applied, as I said in my previous answer they’re designing their new laws in such a way that it’s impossible for anyone not to violate them.

Even if you were to always carry your parents’ and grandparents’ birth certificates on you, what about your great grandparents?

Everyone in the USA is an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants! (Sure, some got there long enough ago that they were probably the first to arrive and can therefore be called natives, but they’re the wrong colour, so they don’t matter and will be disappeared anyway.)

Ironically, the only people who’ll be able to prove they’re in the country legally (not that it matters, since, as I said, the fascists don’t care) will be those with a green card, properly stamped foreign passport, or similar documents.

Making laws impossible to follow and then applying them arbitrarily to achieve their own goals and not the laws’ has been standard fascist fare since fascism was invented (and, before that, standard autocratic authoritarian fare).

Watching fascists do their thing and pointing at the law and saying that their victims deserved it or should have known better is disingenuous at best, almost certainly malicious, and definitely monstrous.

And I’ll finish with this:

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.
From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips.
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Now, I’m not an American, I don’t care about American nationalism or pride, but this is what America, the USA, was supposed to be, what it was supposed to mean. A nation of immigrants, welcoming liberty seeking refugees to her shores. A beacon of freedom and democracy to which everyone could aspire.

Of course, it never really was that. But it was a nice thought.

Something is clear, though; anyone justifying the current government’s actions in the name of defending America, or American ideals or culture is either extremely ignorant or an hypocrite. And they’re most definitely un-American.

And I’ll finish with this

Ah, no, wait, sorry, there’s also this:

This is the problem I have that leaves me stuck in the middle.

There’s no middle ground with fascists.

You’re either actively against them, or you’re part of the problem.

Maybe you’re one of them, or just a useful hateful racist idiot aiding and abetting them while you wait for your turn to be disappeared for not being fascist enough, but if you’re not fighting against them you’re contributing to their crimes against humanity.

And if you’re just a useful idiot, bear this in mind:

You won’t appease them. They won’t stop. They won’t thank you. They won’t hesitate to treat you like any other undesirable (including many who believed themselves to be part of their group). You’ll end up like any other “illegal immigrant” when your turn comes.

And if they’re not stopped, rest assured, it will come.