One of the men goes for her phone. The other grabs at her hands. Ozturk screams. Shock and fear ripple through her voice. Two masked women join them, tugging at her backpack, peeling the straps from her shoulders. “I’m going somewhere, I need to call someone,” she pleads. “We’re the police. Relax,” one of the men says in response.

They surround her. Then, one by one, they pull their neck gaiters up to cover their faces. “You don’t look like police,” a voice off screen says. “Why are you hiding your faces?” The questions continue, but the figures don’t respond. Instead, they cuff Ozturk, cross the street, and put her in an unmarked SUV. She is gone.

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        Yep. People just disappearing. There are already a lot of reports. Its straight up facism at work. Thats terrifying.

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              So, no?

              If you make a claim, the burden of proof lies on you, not the other person to internet search for a mystery article.

              Are you referring to the BLM protest arrests in 2020 or is there something current happening beyond this one instance?

              I’m not saying this isn’t bad, nor that it won’t get worse, but if it’s already worse, and you’re making the claim that it is, I’d like to see some evidence of that.

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              There are already a lot of reports.

              This post is one report.

              The claim is that there are lots of reports of this happening.

              I know about the 2020 plainclothes, masked, secret police kidnappings, and I know of this one. Are there others, or was the “lots of reports” just made up?

              Edit: grammar. removed a (hopefully) unnecessary comma

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        Beside the fact, that the SA never worn face masks. You still have time to fight against this, the moment these people will not wear any masks anymore, you’ll live in a fully fascist country.

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      hey kind of a random question but there is a tankie on my groupchat that i want to send proof of china disappearing people can you show me something i can send her to shut her up about how good china is?

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        It sounds as if you’re frustrated at her for not recognizing that people disappear in China, sometimes people like critics of the government. Do you think there’s absolutely nothing good that China does?

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          Yeah, what about all the good the US China (of course I meant China!) does, that should make up for their war crimes and crimes against humanity against their own citizens.

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            Sure, recognizing the light when it’s eclipsed by plenty of shadow can seem cartoonish. We can decide to close our eyes and be left in the darkness. We can decide not to pay attention or learn from something we deem unacceptable.

            Is there absolutely nothing that China is doing that the rest of the world could learn from? Do you know how much China is investing in green energy in relation to the west? Do you think I am unable to recognize problems in China while at the same time recognizing that it is the single largest investor in green energy on Earth today? Do you think I’m unable to recognize that the United States has a great elite educational system? Or that I’m unable to recognize that the USA has amazing elite research facilities? Or that during the twentieth century it was a world leader in terms of State investments in strategic technologies?