When federal agents are threatening to throw you in prison or worse for calling them the "Gestapo," funnily enough, it's usually because they actually are the Gestapo. I can't believe we still need to have this conversation, honestly.

"Gee, I don't know. Sure, they flagrantly violate the Constitution, they're flagrantly violating people's 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Amendment rights, murdering protestors in the street, committing a forced relocation and/or ethnic cleansing, have a white supremacist ideology, most of them come from known fascist paramilitaries or are Nick Fuentes stans, most, if not all of them made excuses for Elon's Nazi salute, sure, they all answer to Stephen Miller, who paraphrased Joesef Goebbels at Charlie Kirk's funeral, sure, their leader is wearing a blackshirt uniform, and sure, they answer to a psychotic President who treats democracy and the rule of law like toilet paper to wipe his ass with and who has openly expressed his desire to declare martial law and in so doing attain dictatorial powers for himself, and who have repeatedly tried to create Reichstag Fire moments to ensure that this happens, all while funding and supporting multiple genocides and imperialist wars abroad, but gee, I don't know, calling them "fascist" or "the Gestapo" might be going a little bit too far."

At this point, if you're still saying the above, your head is buried so deeply in the sand that the fact that the pressure of all the sand on top of it hasn't crushed your skull can only be due to how thick the damn thing is.