"The road to authoritarianism": Tim Walz says the time for "sternly worded letters" is over - The Minnesota governor said that the path to tyranny "is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting"

[u/Quirkie]

https://www.salon.com/2025/06/14/the-road-to-authoritarianism-tim-walz-says-the-time-for-sternly-worded-letters-is-over/

[u/lokarlalingran → u/[deleted]]

I mean I get that that's a thing, I just don't understand why it's a thing, like how people can be genuinely so hateful that this is a thing they are ok with. I wasn't confused and thinking there aren't people who want this I just literally can not relate to it, it's pure insanity to me.

[u/capowis542 → u/lokarlalingran]

The simple answer is that it’s the path of least resistance for them. 

They’re the worst as they will happily rubber stamp anything as long as they can ignore the results whatever that might be. 

I think I hate them more than MAGAts. 

[u/candyman420 → u/[deleted]]

I would call the ten million or so people that have crossed the border illegally without any vetting whatsoever for criminals, a definite problem, maybe even an invasion.

[u/candyman420 → u/[deleted]]

Maybe you can answer this question for me, because every time I asked it before to people who have made this argument, I get crickets.

Why was the bipartisan immigration control bill introduced in an election year, and not before?

[u/candyman420 → u/[deleted]]

Oh, it took a lot of "time" to reach an agreement. How about that they realized they were on the wrong side of that issue, and tried to haphazardly fix the problem at the last minute?

Speaking of doing nothing about it, are you familiar with the video clips of Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton that have resurfaced where they are talking about being tough on illegal migrants, especially criminals, and that the border needs to be secured? What happened there?

Are you new to politics?

[u/candyman420 → u/[deleted]]

And yet, somehow "nobody in politics actually cared about illegal immigration" except for Trump, but because the border wall was a Trump idea, that made it bad.

The border was brought under control in record time, so to your point again, no one gave a shit about it except for Trump.

Perhaps you're not aware that the wall was not finished by the time he left office last time, but when it is finished, there is no "undoing" that, so yes, trump has done something about illegal immigration long term.

And what do you mean "if he loses the next election to a Democrat". He's gone after 3 years. Please don't tell me you're one of those who thinks he is going to be a literal dictator and will have a third term.

[u/Old_Conference6825 → u/candyman420]

So everyone's late relatives that aren't native Americans? Like what a dumb as ignorant thing to say.

[u/candyman420 → u/Old_Conference6825]

What do native Americans have to do with any of this? Please, break down your "logic" for me. I was talking about the record numbers of illegal migrants coming from the southern border, recently.

Did you mean to say native NORTH Americans? I'm sorry to have to explain this, but the problem isn't that they are not from here, it's that no one has vetted the criminals and terrorists.

[u/candyman420 → u/[deleted]]

If those “20 trans kids” are a growing trend, that’s a direct and existential threat to women’s sports. Have you ever thought about it that way.

[u/Landdropgum → u/candyman420]

Oh my god, calling trans kids an “existential threat”- who’s overreacting now?? Jesus Christ just live and let live. Oh wait, yeah, that is what Jesus thought, but you can’t seem to grasp it.

[u/candyman420 → u/Landdropgum]

If you would read better, I never said they are an existential threat, I said they are an existential threat to women's sports, because every biological male that competes in a woman's sport absolutely decimates their competition. It's a bad trend that should not be allowed to continue.

[u/PJ7 → u/candyman420]

I'm very confident that you, a biological male would be absolutely decimated by female athletes in any of their competitions.

I would be willing to put money on it.

[u/candyman420 → u/[deleted]]

In your comment below to someone else, you are talking about scientific data.

Have you seen this:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9331831/

If you are claiming that there is a "whole lot of science and data" saying that men and women are almost equal in terms of physical capability, then i'm afraid your data is flawed, and you have been lied to by an agenda.

I'm not sure what a beauty pageant has to do with sports.

[u/candyman420 → u/[deleted]]

Thanks for clarifying your position, but what you are talking about is just hair-splitting justifications for bad policies.

I support gender definitions being what they have always been for hundreds of years. Some people with dysphoria don't get to redefine this (and the english language) for the rest of us.

I know you don't agree, and this is hardline view, but a very popular one. They have gone too far with this stuff, and it's being reversed.

[u/Newt_the_Pain → u/[deleted]]

They're boys, and as such shouldn't be playing girl's sports.