Read on Twitter
Day by day the United States is getting closer and closer to becoming and explicitly fascist state, a thread.
In Alabama, their response to the COVID-19 outbreak while keeping in mind the shortage of ventilators, can possibly involve denying patients with mental disabilities from life saving treatment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/people-with-intellectual-disabilities-may-be-denied-lifesaving-care-under-these-plans-as-coronavirus-spreads?utm_content=buffer6db18&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=ProPublica+Main+
https://www.propublica.org/article/people-with-intellectual-disabilities-may-be-denied-lifesaving-care-under-these-plans-as-coronavirus-spreads?utm_content=buffer6db18&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=ProPublica+Main+
The US Military + National Guard has been training and organizing on preventing future cases of civil unrest, similar to Ferguson, in response to the growing panic across the US. At least 22 states have already called in the national guard. https://www.newsweek.com/inside-us-militarys-plans-stop-civil-disturbances-amid-coronavirus-pandemic-something-they-1493485
Trump's Admin indefinitely suspended EPA laws, allowing for big polluter companies to operate without limits so they won't feel the brunt of the economic crisis. This suspension also lifts laws surrounding human experimentation. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-trump-administration-epa-suspends-environmental-protection-laws/
Rhode Island will allow the National Guard to literally go door to door to find new yorkers who have taken refuge in the state. https://time.com/5812069/rhode-island-new-york-coronavirus/
Trump is hunting for the rights to a COVID-19 vaccine that will be used primarily to serve the US first, and to sell the vaccine for profit. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-administration-tried-to-pay-germans-scientists-for-coronavirus-cure-2020-3
Even during a pandemic, ICE is still operating, with N95 masks and all, to hunt down , imprison, and deport migrants in the US. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-17/for-ice-agents-its-business-as-unusual-day-after-sweeping-coronavirus-order
NY Prison slavery is being used to produce hundreds of thousands of gallons of hand sanitizer. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/prison-inmates-ny-produce-100k-gallons-hand-sanitizer/story?id=69501815
Philly PD are allowed to indefinitely detain alleged criminals, and if they see someone committing a nonviolent crime, such as looting, they will record that person's information and will arrest them at a later date. https://www.fox29.com/news/philadelphia-police-to-delay-arrests-for-certain-non-violent-crimes
Federal Reserve is printing out trillions of dollars to save the bankers and big business while healthcare remains private, and hospitals remain underfunded and ill-equipped, and the people are without proper safety nets to adapt to losing employment. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/federal-reserve-to-lend-additional-1-trillion-a-day-to-large-banks
We already have concentration camps for migrants. Here's an article about how those in detention are at high risk for catching COVID-19 in already poorly kept, cramped, and unhygienic prison cells. https://fortune.com/2020/03/27/coronavirus-ice-detention-immigration-migrants-refugees-covid-19/
US authorities such as Trump are using sinophobic rhetoric like "China Virus" as a scapegoat to focus all blame on China to distract from the US's constant failures in meeting basic protocols to prevent the virus's spread. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/politics/trump-china-coronavirus/index.html
DOJ wants to suspend constitutional rights, such as habeas corpus, during the COVID-19 outbreak, allowing for indefinite detention. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/doj-suspend-constitutional-rights-coronavirus-970935/
The structure of the $2trln stimulus bill is built to cater to businesses of all sizes, the banks, the landlords, and to governments. The working and unemployed get the scraps of the bill, with only 11% of the total bill is dedicated to them. https://twitter.com/puerto_rojo/status/1243293045338013696?s=20
You are ineligible for aid if you're a migrant, don't have a SS card, are a college student, are a dependent, didn't file 2018-2019 taxes, have an off the books or nontaxable job, or miss childcare payments. https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-stimulus-package-questions-answers.html
Time for some antecedents. Eco-fascism and eugenics have been making their rounds in the news, especially recently. Here's a damning article that promotes population reduction to fight climate change. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-05/scientists-call-for-population-control-in-mass-climate-alarm
We now have a Denaturalization Department directed towards migrants. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/us/politics/denaturalization-immigrants-justice-department.html
We have private companies that are breaking down any semblance of the word privacy, selling high-tier surveillance technologies to states for a profit. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
CIA, FBI, and ex-military agents are your regular news analysts. https://twitter.com/raniakhalek/status/1210603033341636609
US military no longer has restrictions from allowing explicit or known white nationalists from joining. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-removes-white-nationalists-from-military-bill-aimed-at-screening-for-extremists_n_5dfab39be4b0eb2264d3a18d
Don't even get me started on voter suppression laws and tactics that this country is fond of using every cycle, whether it be limiting time frames to vote, far-off voting offices, malfunctioning voting machines, etc
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/02/17-million-americans-purged-voter-rolls-between-2016-and-2018-analysis-finds
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/02/17-million-americans-purged-voter-rolls-between-2016-and-2018-analysis-finds
Remember the whole Iowa Caucus debacle where Pete Buttigieg paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a company that provides a voting app literally called Shadow which led to suspected vote manipulation? https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/5/21123009/acronym-tara-mcgowan-shadow-app-iowa-caucus-results
The US is ramping up sanctions against Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba to intensify the growing COVID-19 pandemic in those countries. In Iran, thousands of people are dying from COVID-19 because they have limited access to medicine or equipment. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran-usa/us-to-iran-coronavirus-wont-save-you-from-sanctions-idUSKBN21712L
If the US maintains its course of xenophobia, protectionism, and privatization, if the US is unable to solve both the public health and economic crisis, then we are one very bad day away from a desperate capitalism in the imperial core to become an explicitly fascist country.
