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Cake day: March 12th, 2025

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  • President Trump’s second administration has inspired a resurgence of interest in the idea of the “dual state,” a framework for authoritarianism created by German Jewish lawyer Ernst Fraenkel to explain how life for many people in Nazi Germany appeared normal even as authoritarianism took hold. Fraenkel theorized that society had been bifurcated into a normative state, in which the rule of law appears intact, and a prerogative state, in which the state ignores the law to take on its enemies or further its aims. In the 1930s, most Germans could go about their lives assuming the general laws would apply, but the targets of the state, such as the Jews, saw their rights stripped away. At bottom, however, the dual state is only a useful mirage. It lulls people into complacency because their lives continue apace, but at any moment, they can be sucked into the prerogative state where they are at the mercy of the state.

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  • Remember that it’s never about immigration enforcement. There is plenty of money and manpower to care for these people properly and to perform lawful and professional immigration control operations in cities where it is a problem. Even now, the Trump administration has only managed to deport about as many immigrants as Biden, and that was without mass unrest.

    Instead, violent and undertrained ICE goon squads are sent wherever the administration thinks it can get away with it, and money is funneled to contractors enabled to spend as little money as possible on incarceration with de facto torture as a feature. The goal here is two-fold:

    • To enact a white nationalist expulsion and extermination of whoever they deem to be sufficiently brown enough for their myopic and hateful ideology, and anyone else that dares to stand against them.

    • To foment unrest in Blue cities for fruitful opportunities to provoke violence and hamper elections. (For instance, at the fucking Super Bowl.)

    Just like the early Nazi concentration camps, these “ICE detention centers” are hastily planned, quickly built, sparsely accommodated, and intended to house enemies of the state in “protective custody”. The only difference is that the “enemies of the state” here are the enemies of American white nationalists, and the “protective custody” is for hold them for deportation. If they die in custody, there is no real accountability because that’s the end goal.

    These are Concentration Camps. If this pattern continues unchecked, there will be an American holocaust.