Zuzak

I always try to remind myself that all the suffering he's caused me and my family, the worst trauma we've experienced, is a fraction of the harm he inflicted on families overseas.

I have a brother who watches shit like OAN. I once overheard him telling my parents about that synagogue tunnel story. One time, my family was discussing the French Revolution and he kept arguing that the "lawyers and bankers" tricked the "inner city poors" into rising up against the "good Christian leaders." Even my center-right history buff brother pushed back and later agreed about the fash vibes.

There's so many red flags that he's deep into fash shit but he still acts normal and friendly to me (I'm closeted towards him and my parents). Most of my family can see it but my parents both don't know the signs and don't want to see it, so it's a very uncomfortable dynamic, and I feel like he knows how to take fascist rhetoric and rebrand it to be amenable to my parents. It's like a PVP disabled zone.

He's a veteran who came back and started doing meth to cope, and recently either started doing it again or just went off his meds because he went from standard levels of paranoid schizophrenia that all fascists have to the level of paranoid schizophrenia where you start making actionable threats in a group chat while on parole so for now he's in a jail cell. So that's cool, the world is safer with him there.

They won't be standing with America, but I'm not sure they'll be standing alone either

Of course! If we really want to take down the Empire, we can't criticize stormtroopers because that might make them feel bad and alienate them. We have to debate the stormtroopers in the Marketplace of Ideas.

For some people, becoming an ISB agent is the only way to get healthcare and escape poverty.

Someone edit it to make the towers into couch cushions

Also, the magic words are important because once you answer you can be forced to answer follow up questions to clarify any answer you provide, and what counts as a follow up question is subject to interpretation.

"How did you receive the manifesto?"

"I don't recall."

"When you say you don't recall, does that mean it's possible you received it via email?"

"I don't recall."

"So you're saying that to the best of your knowledge, it's possible that there's a record in your inbox. Judge, can you make him turn over his email account?"

Bit of a stretch and IANAL but there's a reason when you see someone stonewalling they'll say the same line even to simple questions like, "What's your name?"

I guess all of that is moot if they ship him off to El Salvador or award him with the CIA Award for Excellence in Journalism, but those are the rules they're supposed to play by.

1. "On the advice of counsel, I invoke my Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination and respectfully decline to answer your question"

2. "On the advice of counsel, I invoke my Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination and respectfully decline to answer your question"

3...

We can't reform the system or we might end up with death panels.