After ICE raided a downtown Charlottesville courthouse and arrested two men, the federal agency is promising to prosecute the bystanders who challenged their authority.
  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Well if you’re going to be prosecuted for peacefully protesting, you might as well do it non-peacefully.

  • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    History books are going to be wild.

    Early 1900’s… it’s going to be about Nazi’s and the SS.

    Early 2000’s… it’s going to be MAGA and ICE.

    • DicJacobus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      anyone who makes that decision is, consciously in the moment, understanding their life is over.

      ICE while in practice is acting like a secret police for the purposes of deporting undesireables of the regime, is still a federal police force, and a LOT of police are angry, trigger happy or bloodthirsty cokeheads.

      you shoot at them, they’re killing you. end of story.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    “My investigation is balanced and impartial, and I have received input from the federal agencies involved in making the arrests, all the more reason, it seems to me, to conclude that the ICE spokesperson’s attack on my integrity was misguided,” [Hingeley] said. “I leave it to my constituents to decide who was ‘posturing for the media.’”

    Readng this, I want to show it to my family immediately. They said the comparison to 1933 Germany is exaggerated.

    • msprout@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I truly do not understand what it will take for my fellow Americans to become aware.

      I assume that at this point, an unhealthy amount of Americans find politics distasteful and they try their best to avoid it — people who are just as affected by it as I am!

  • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Good luck with that. I say let 'em try. They think this makes them look less like fascist cunts?

  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Ah. See, that’s how you know you did the right thing.

    If their only response is “let us kidnap people or your going to jail!” Then that’s a hell of a lot more than the people deported without due process

  • crumbguzzler5000@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    Its time for community action! Thats the only chance of standing up against these tyrants rolling into these areas and abducting people.

  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    When this happens, be certain to record and remember any identifying characteristics (tattoos, height, weight, hair color, hair length, clothing, etc…) of the kidnappers. Spread the info far and wide. They’re wearing masks and hiding their identities because they KNOW they’re doing something wrong.

    • 800XL@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      And the same facial recognition tech that they use against citizens also works against them. They cover their faces because they don’t want to be doxxed and held responsible for their actions.

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It won’t be long before people and neighborhoods start violently defending against ICE activities like this.

  • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    “It is shameful,” wrote an ICE spokesman who declined to be named.

    Well, that’s everything you needed to know. This is what the 2nd ammendment was for. All enemies foreign and domestic.

  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    “It is shameful” wrote an ICE spokesman who declined to be named in a Saturday morning statement, “that the Commonwealth Attorney, a sworn officer of the court and fellow law enforcement officer, has decided to prioritize politics over public safety"

    Oh that is fucking rich coming from someone working for the Trump administration.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Sounds like someone that didn’t get their job in the current administration. Hence why they’re refusing to be named.

          • Tiger666@lemmy.ca
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            2 days ago

            How do you use projection as a way to manipulate? Sure, you can lie to people, and they won’t know you are projecting, but that is called lying.

            So, how does one use projection as a manipulation tool?

            • Fuhgeddaboutit@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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              1 day ago

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusation_in_a_mirror

              “Accusation in a mirror is a false claim that accuses the target of something that the perpetrator is doing or intends to do.[3][4] The name was used by an anonymous Rwandan propagandist in Note Relative à la Propagande d’Expansion et de Recrutement. Drawing on the ideas of Joseph Goebbels, he instructed colleagues to “impute to enemies exactly what they and their own party are planning to do”.[4][8][9] By invoking collective self-defense, propaganda is used to justify genocide, just as self-defense is a defense for individual homicide.[4] Susan Benesch remarked that while dehumanization “makes genocide seem acceptable”, accusation in a mirror makes it seem necessary.[5]”

            • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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              2 days ago

              • Conservatives are doing [X]

              • They pre-emptively go on TV and loudly blame democrats for [X] before it becomes a major story

              • When it comes to light that [X] is in fact happening the public is already primed to blame their opponents for it

              It’s the sort of thing a 5 year old might do to try and blame the cat for a broken cookie jar, it’s baby’s first con, it’s stupendously obvious what’s going on, but, here we are.