This Is The Dark Place. Why Aren't We Acting Like It?
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 147 minutes
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I had a lot I needed to say about the ICE murders of Rene Good and Alex Pretti. And about the fascists who lie to our faces and know we can't do anything about it. And the concentration camps we already have. I did video because there was so much visual element to this, so watching would be best.
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| 0:00.0 | I have been trying to record for three days now, ever since the killing of Alex Pruddy. |
| 0:09.9 | And I just don't know what to say because I just feel insane. |
| 0:20.9 | I've decided to try to record some video because I want to go over some of the video |
| 0:24.8 | and some other visual things, but also I just want, I just want to, I guess, communicate |
| 0:32.7 | on a more, like, intimate human level. |
| 0:35.6 | I know it's an overused comparison, but it's the only thing that even |
| 0:40.0 | comes close or makes sense and resonates. Like, we are in the Nazi times right now. I know, |
| 0:45.7 | I know there's been a lot of talk about that ever since Trump won, you know, and I'm, I'm happy |
| 0:50.2 | to label a lot of these people's Nazis, and they are Nazis, and there have been plenty of |
| 0:55.6 | Nazis around. But this fascist takeover and this invasion into a U.S. city by a federal force that |
| 1:08.2 | is accountable to no one, except I guess the president, if that's, I don't, |
| 1:12.8 | I don't see that as meaningful because they're one in the same. So it's like accountable to itself, |
| 1:16.7 | I guess. This is a new level. It's not that everything that's happening is exactly stuff that's |
| 1:26.1 | never happened before in the country. |
| 1:33.5 | There are examples of all kinds of injustices throughout our history that you can look at that bear a lot of resemblance, mostly around the black community, mostly the awful |
| 1:37.8 | things perpetrated on the black community and other minority communities in our country. |
| 1:42.6 | But this all together and the addition of ICE, which is only |
| 1:48.8 | 22 years old or so, so that's all the history we have there of that. This is new. I'm having |
| 1:54.8 | such a hard time because I'm looking around and I just don't think people are reacting how they should be reacting to this. |
| 2:04.9 | I mean, even in Trump one, again, horrible things happen. |
| 2:07.4 | There are Nazis, absolutely. |
| 2:09.3 | There are fascists, but this is the full thing. |
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