from the so-it-was-said dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is frankcox with a comment about the horrifying abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk:
Masked abductors?
The people doing this are obviously ashamed of themselves because they are wearing masks to prevent anyone from identifying them.
That adds another level of terror to this sort of thing.
“Secret Police” is indeed an appropriate description of these folks and there are a lot of historical reasons for why this should be extremely concerning to anyone living in the USA, whether you support the current “throw out the brown people” movement or not.
In second place, it’s Mamba with a reply to an accusation of terrorism:
You know what makes us not terrorists? Not doing things terrorists do. Like killing civilians.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we’ve got two more comments about secret police disappearing students. First, it’s Citizen on the irrelevance of “legality” to what we’re seeing:
Lex Iniusta Non Est Lex
I’ve seen apologists for this kind of tyranny claim it’s perfectly legal. I’m not qualified to confirm or debunk such assertions, but it doesn’t matter. The problem is not that this is illegal, which it may well be, but that it is unjust and tyrannical. In less enlightened times, it was legal for me to rape my wife (not that I have one), but that does not mean it would have been right or morally permissible for me to do that. Those who attempt to defend this blatant effort to silence dissent by claiming the law is on their side are lying, be it to themselves or, the people they address, or both; they support it not because it’s legal, but because they want people like Ozturk silenced, regardless of what the law says. If courts rule in Ozturk’s favor, those backing the effort to silence her will inevitably just call the judges–up to and including those on the Supreme Court–activists or something similar.
Next, it’s Cat_Daddy on where things go from here:
People think we’ve hit rock bottom. The thing about fascism is that it’s an infinite black abyss with no rock bottom. And if there is… it’s best that we don’t know.
It’s hard to laugh after that, but over on the funny side, our first place winner is an anonymous comment about the astonishing Signal chat debacle:
New phone, Houthis?
In second place, it’s Heart of Dawn with another reaction to the news:
What shall we do with the drunken SecDef?
What shall we do with the drunken SecDef?
What shall we do with the drunken SecDef?
Early in the morning?
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we’ll keep going with a couple more jokes on the subject. First, it’s Pixelation with some speculative deduction:
It looks like they put DOGE in charge of OPSEC.
Next, it’s n00bdragon with a characterization of the failure:
A “100% OPSEC” failure, would you say?
That’s all for this week, folks!
