Disappearances to contactless hellholes is how dictatorships work

Disappearances to contactless hellholes is how dictatorships work

Innocent people are being sent to an El Salvador jail – and this is just the beginning. Anyone could be tapped on the shoulder and their rights will vanish.

What's Your Criteria To Say, "OK, It's Enough Of A Dictatorship For Me To Move Somewhere Else?

Is there a line between “not a dictatorship” & “dictatorship”? Technically, yes. But it’s not usually recognized at the moment it’s crossed— only in retrospect. As with 1933 Germany, Hungary under Orbán, Turkey under Erdoğan… things felt “salvageable” right up until they weren’t. You go to sleep thinking the institutions are holding & you wake up to realize they were hollowed out long ago. When will the Supreme Court be more like Alito and Thoma…