@georgetakei That's quite a sentence to write.

@georgetakei George, you had better survive this inversion to tell the story of this one too and compare it from the position of hindsight. Live long and prosper.

@georgetakei God, George, that guts me. I am deeply grateful for your existence and your presence on social media. It’s an honor to fight the good fight with you.

@georgetakei For those who are saying American has always been bad, read what George has to say here, he's experienced one of the worst abuses in American history and yet he says this.

@georgetakei wow.

That's... wow.

@georgetakei - George - that comment hits hard.
As it should.

What is the title of the book that I read about the internment camps when I was in middle school in California in the mid-eighties - just like "1984" and "Farenheit 451" - I think it's time to read it again.

Amy - the word weird is somehow lacking the threatening quality of what's happening.

@georgetakei thank you for your presence on social media, we're indeed greatful

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When she said weird , she means fucking racist .

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/16/defense-department-black-medal-of-honor-veteran

@georgetakei What a powerful sentence George - so much history packed into it. Thank you.

@georgetakei ❤️🖖🏽

@georgetakei dear America. You've always looked weird from the outside. I do hope you're gonna stop soon.

@georgetakei "weird'??!? How about treacherous, horrifying, apocalyptic, treasonous, disastrous.....

@georgetakei That the offices of for profit prison companies haven't been firebombed is a little surprising.

@georgetakei #Truth 👍👍

@georgetakei thank you for this reminder George. On this day in 1922, a prominent white supremacist, anti-“asiactic” politician from my hometown got up in Canada’s parliament for the first time and declared that he wanted Mackenzie King’s government to get moving on making a “white British Columbia”.

He was also, predictably, a huge proponent for Internment, and subsequent deportation even of prisoners born in Canada to Japanese parents. He was also an “Indian Agent”, an agent of the Canadian Government overseeing Residential schools.

I mark this day every year because we still “honour” this person with a street name. One day, hopefully we won’t… perhaps it will be the same day we stop repeating these mistakes.

My post and video about today is here: https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/114173165697918235

Take care, from Canada 🇨🇦

@georgetakei America is like that friend that always had a sort of odd sense of humor that was a bit inappropriate and a bunch of really odd fetishes they kept mostly under wraps until they started developing dementia as they aged and all that stuff just boiled to the surface and took over and now holy shit what a train wreck lacking any sense of decorum, humanity, or reason.

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Sorry, George. I can't imagine the emotions this hard right turn to Fascism brings up.

@georgetakei there’s a strong John Gill and Melakon vibe

@georgetakei America has always been weird, we have just been blind to how fanatical and strange American capitalism is.

@georgetakei I am so deeply sorry and I hope for you and the entire world that this nightmare will end before everything blows up.

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To Mr Takei and Amy Nixon,

Trust me, we KNOW it's weird. Even those of us outside the USA know it's weird

#USAFascistShitShow #UnitedStatesOfBATSHIT

@georgetakei YIKES!

@georgetakei The same feeling is happening in the UK, with the new government's plans coming into place.

@georgetakei Had you been a Vietnamese kid in Vietnam in the 1970's, or an Iraqi kid in Iraq in the 1990's, or a Yemeni kid in the Obama administration, America might have looked "weird" longer. Also applies to a immigrant child since the Obama administration onward.

@georgetakei It's not just the US that's gotten weird, but it's definitely going off the deep end at record speed.

There were concentration camps in Canada during the war, but they were taught to us as being a stain on our history. The thought of that happening again on this continent, and for more of a bullshit reason this time is chilling

@georgetakei I dunno. I've been expecting this for a long time. I've watched the hints and signs coming for many many years now. Having a near perfect memory kinda notices these things. It started slow but increased on an exponential curve.

@georgetakei If Canada grants citizenship to all Mexicans, will Trump still want to annex them?

@georgetakei true ☝️

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As a kid, one of my favorite (syndicated) TV shows was _Hogan's Heroes_. These days, broadcast TV outlets would probably have their licenses threatened for airing such anti-Nazi content.

@georgetakei When I was a teenager, we had a plan for when the Soviets launched the inevitable nuclear attack. We lived across the bay from an ANG base, so the plan was to throw some beers in a cooler, take the boat out into the bay, and watch the fireworks. That was all we could do.

It was a dark thing to grow up under the constant threat of nuclear war, but that was the reality. Now? Our President is literally siding with the Kremlin.

@georgetakei that's so messed up, but it's also insane.

@georgetakei you are always my example for people that think we are above it. a living example of what was done here.
and also an amazing person in spite of it all (but that part is just for you)

@georgetakei This nation has been upside-down for my people ever since the USA invaded Mexico, stole half it's land mass, massacred and deported us, and now call us "immigrants."

@georgetakei Yeah, 'weird' isn't the word she's looking for.

@georgetakei Thursday, March 30th, 7:00 - 8:30pm eastern time 🖖 https://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/rebuilding-american-dream-path-forward

@georgetakei It may well get worse yet. The political situation is so dysfunctional that there are no longer any effective checks - it's become a near-dictatorship, as the president just decrees everything by executive order. The courts are ignored, and Congress is powerless. And the president loves a bit of demonstrative cruelty. He always ran on a platform of "I hate the same people you do, and will make sure they suffer."

@georgetakei I haven't lived there for 16 years now and it's been beyond strange for a while for me.