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Re:We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that by pavlov on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @08:12AM (#45114795)
The US has developed significant warning signs of all of these:

> families who can not trust one another

MAGA relatives, ICE raids, etc.

> hierarchies of incompetence with bribes upon bribes

Trump's cabinet, his family's crypto ventures, etc.

> no legal recourse to anything

Trust in the justice system has severely degraded.

> a caste system of actual misery

Blacks in America have been treated as a lower caste forever, and significant progress has been undone this year under the flag of "anti-DEI".

> no perspective for that to ever change

Polls report two thirds of Americans are pessimistic about the future.

> the ethnic majority progroms and kicks everyone else out of the country

Trump's deportation program.

Re:We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that by lurk2 on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @08:56AM (#45115160)
> Trust in the justice system has severely degraded.

Among whom? By how much? Since when?

> Trump's deportation program.

The people being deported are not lawful residents. It is not even remotely comparable to the situation the GP is describing.

Re:We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that by pavlov on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @09:02AM (#45115212)
They’re deporting green card holders now.
Re:We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that by lurk2 on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @09:30AM (#45115555)
“Now” implies that this wasn’t being done before. It has always been legal to deport a green card holder over criminal convictions. Are you suggesting that ICE is rounding up these green card holders for the crime of being Mexican and throwing them back over the wall? This seems to be what you want people to believe. I’m aware of at least two cases where naturalized citizens were deported without having their status revoked, but in both cases these deportations were found to be illegal and damages were awarded. This might look like an indication of malice on the part of ICE until you realize that there is something like 40 million immigrants living in America.

If you have any concrete figures demonstrating the systematic abuse of the deportation process, I’ll encourage you to share them.

Re:We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that by sjsdaiuasgdia on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @11:42AM (#45117093)
It's almost like increasing the speed and discarding process safeguards increases the rate of error! Imagine that! Who could have predicted?
Re:We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that by lurk2 on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @03:52PM (#45119777)
This style of commentary is incredibly obnoxious and doesn’t belong here.
Re:We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that by sjsdaiuasgdia on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @08:42PM (#45122091)
Pardon, I'm a little too distracted by the fascism to care much for decorum these days.