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PAY ATTENTION TO WHATEVER HAPPENS NEXT!!

“This is the United States of America. And I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind a presidential seal. In this country, we hate Nazis,” she said. “Kind of like a foundational, defining thing.”

“Two of probably the most foundational, defining things about American history is that we beat the Confederates and we beat the Nazis,” Ocasio-Cortez went on. “And I don’t know what side people may be on today, but I still am not rocking with anyone sympathetic to Nazis. And I will do that until I am six feet in the ground.”

Ocasio-Cortez also took aim Monday at the Anti-Defamation League, which tried to defend Musk as making an “awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm.” The group, focused on combating antisemitism, said the gesture wasn’t a “Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge.”

“Just to be clear, you are defending a Heil Hitler salute that was performed and repeated for emphasis and clarity,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote Monday on X. “People can officially stop listening to you as any sort of reputable source of information now. You work for them. Thank you for making that crystal clear to all.”

The problem is that even a perfectly legitimate study collects data that someone else might access. It's not enough to ask yourself, "Is this a real study, and is it being carried out for well-intentioned purposes?" You have to also ask yourself, "Do I think this organization is equipped to safeguard any info from the study for as long as Trump and his buddies are in positions to demand that info, knowing that he intends to lie, change the rules, ignore the rules, and appoint people who will help him do all of the above?"

Part of how authoritarianism works is telling you that you can't stop it. And you can't stop it by yourself. But it wants to stop the train of thought there and let you fall into despair.

You need to remember the next part: you don't have to stop it by yourself.