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I saw some recent article saying that they were asking for donations because they wanted to move everything to Canada, as they were "afraid of Trump." Yet it's currently Obama's administration still, and that's what's actually causing problems.

Odd.

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Odd? You ain't seen nothin' yet.

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Obama showed far less of an authoritarian streak than either Trump or Clinton (or Bush 43), but he ended up embracing drone strikes and NSLs once he saw their convenience. I feared how Clinton might use this power, and I can't even imagine what Trump will do.

Is it? I suspect the thinking is along these lines: "this shit is already really bad! And that's with a kinda - or at least, publicly - sympathetic government..... and the new guy has openly said he'd like to massively expand this program! welp"

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