• Avicenna@lemmy.world
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    “put their hands on federal agents and Worcester officers.”

    They put their disgusting little hands on the officers, they deserve to be shot!

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      Are you kidding me? Think of every maga you’ve seen with aggressive, hateful, pro-Trump anti-biden anti-immigration signs and such in their yards and on the back of their cars.

      Every one of them with any kind of prior training and probably thousands upon thousands more without would punch their mother in the face for the chance to be given a badge and paycheck to get rid of brown people.

      They are probably turning down 10x more people than they could even consider hiring.

      The US is full of bigots and white supremacists, and it’s more visible now than at any time in my nearly six decades of life.

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        I don’t engage with them being outside the US but we do have a ‘Maple MAGA’ here which is similar.

        Terrifying to hear that there are many in the US that are eager to do this type of work.

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          Yeah I’ve been a little surprised to hear that there are similar types up there, I don’t know why - I suppose it’s human nature.

          What I’ve seen in recent years here has shaken and changed me.

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            Unfortunately, many Western countries are inching towards fascism due to failed neoloberal policies and rising antiimmigrant sentiment.

            Canada and Australia were able to at least delay it in their most recent elections.

            • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              As an Australian, did you want to maybe speak for yourself there mate? We haven’t experienced any major regressions of progressive policies or rights, and just saw our right wing of government shrink to a record low when they tried to import Trump’s culture war schtick. Historically our right wing has actually been fairly moderate. It was a right-wing government that instituted aggressive gun control laws in the 1990s, and a right-wing government that (for better or worse) was in power when same-sex marriage was legalised in the 2010s.

              If anything, Australia is literally the poster child for “How Not to Inch Towards Fascism” that other countries should aspire too.

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                Exclusionary and traditionalist politics are gaining steam in Australia as they are in the rest of the Western world. This election was no doubt a good outcome but, just like in Canada and the US, support for conservatism and far right politics is growing among young Australian men. This will become problematic in the next 10 to 15 years as historically this demographic inherits control of the institutions.

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      They are too stupid and horrible to hold a real job so as long as they get paid they dont care…

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      I’ve known plenty of them. They sign up specifically because they want to do this job. Rember the dumb bullies from school? Imagine what happens when they grow up.

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    without showing a warrant

    I’m so tired of the legalist caveat, implying a Trump judge rubber stamping warrants for these gestapo shits would have made kidnapping and torturing a woman and her infant child acceptable.

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      The war for ethics has been lost decades ago. Legality is fickle and often unjust but it’s all that people have at this point.

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        It isn’t. The modern law is a fig leaf over naked plutocracy and apartheid.

        It’s what we have in the same way a knife in your back is something you have

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          And yet people would rather hold on to a terrible status quo than risk it. Especially in times of desperation, and as long as they’re aware things could be worse (for them personally).

          It’s the big catch-22 of modern civics and political engagement. Terrible conditions make many people look towards the systems and rulers that bring about those terrible conditions.

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      But it does highlight that any random brute could put on a mask and do this with no authorization whatsoever. It’s a fundamental human-rights and rule-of-law breakdown to fail to present a warrant. I agree that a warrent doesn’t ethically make the requests anything short of monstrous, though. That kind of legalist can suck eggs.

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        But it does highlight that any random brute could put on a mask and do this with no authorization whatsoever

        I believe this a part of the plan.

  • thedruid@lemmy.world
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    If you are ICE, fuck you. You should be ashamed. Your parents should be ashamed

    If you are someone who stands by while these cosplayers are kidnapping and torturing people, then you deserve your place in hell

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      And to the police that showed up to arrest their neighbors and enable ICE I hope hell is real because you deserve worse

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    There’s close up footage you should watch because it’s madness. They throw the teen girl on the ground and assault a bunch of people.

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    The woman’s teen daughter was left holding the woman’s baby and stood in front of the car in an apparent attempt to stop it. After handing the child to another person, she allegedly kicked the car—and was also reportedly arrested on four charges, including child endangerment. Police have not disclosed what happened to the baby afterward.

    fuck you

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      Yeah, police have a ton of latitude when they decide who to press which charges on and who they just let go with warnings or whatever, choosing to throw child endangerment at this girl is just straight up trolling

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      It’s a classic cop routine:

      • Step 1: do some violence
      • Step 2: realize it looks kinda bad, look around and arrest somebody else for what they just did
      • Step 3: profit (time and a half for their trouble)
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        1: always be on lookout for slightest challenge to authority

        2: arrest whoever possible

        Obviously we’ve seen videos where the opposite is true too, not an absolutist, but ya def the MO for many

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      And the mayor had the audacity to say they don’t agree with what ICE did.

      That’s great, but maybe get your police force to stop enabling their actions.

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        Even better, have your police force enforce the damn law. Arrest these men when they try to kidnap people without a warrant.

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    Can’t wait till people start shooting ICE and the police on sight because they were pushed too far.

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      I’m genuinely surprised it hasn’t happened yet. They’re probably staying out of the most sketchy neighborhoods.

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        This is exactly it. They’re specifically targeting people they know can’t or won’t fight back. Like literal kids with cancer.

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          It’s almost like the “left” in the US shouldn’t have leaned on anti-2nd amendment rhetoric for 30 years.

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            2nd amendment doesn’t mean everyone should be allowed to own an automatic rifle. There is nuance here, please think.

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            I know you said rhetoric, not actual 2A, but I will continue to say this every time I see it, this is not what 2A is for. It’s clearly for militias defending the state against an enemy army. It’s been mutilated into self defence stuff, but there’s nothing even approaching that there.

            However, 9A does protect this right, since it has long been held by the people. Regardless, the reasoning doesn’t matter. People should be armed and train in operation and safe handling/storage/maintenance of their weapon, just in case it’s needed.

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              I can’t possibly express how little I care about anything you wrote.

              Get guns, kill Nazis. It’s not complex.

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                Wow, I didn’t even write much and you lost the thread that quickly. I was agreeing with the premise.

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        The best way is if everyone arms themselves. Then if the incident happens, several people shoot and immediately run. Plan your escape before shooting.

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      Can’t wait till martial law? Fascist in Chief salivates like he did over Ivanka in that TV interview

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      I mean, they are supporting nazis, so they are nazis themselves. And the only good nazi is a dead nazi so…

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    And is the mayor’s office and the district attorney’s office inundated with calls from their constituents demanding accountability for the behaviour of the local police here? Are there locally elected officials being shouted at by their constituents into taking action to thwart, delay, frustrate ICE operations?

    “A republic IF YOU CAN KEEP IT”