They grabbed a tourist off the street and detained her for eight hours while her daughter was left to fend for herself on the streets. NYC y’all better be starting some shit
I STILL see reactionaries tout this ICE fiasco as some type of moral victory over “evil cartel criminals” i.e. single mothers, and working men.
You mean racist morons?
Hey is it ok for me to say we should run over ICE with our cars yet?
Maybe stop banning people for that in the middle of a civil war
You got banned from here for that?
I literally left Reddit after they temporarily banned my account for writing that Trump’s trial will be televised just like Saddam’s.
Why do we only control the speech of leftists?
Because other than obvious hate-speech, leftists are the ones who actually practice freedom of speech while the right screams and yells and bans books.
DARVO
You can get banned here for similar reasons as you’d get banned from things on Reddit. In theory the federated setup helps to mitigate it somewhat, in that if you get banned from your primary instance you can hop over to one that’s a bit more agreeable to your perspective and continue on.
For example, I was recently banned from LGBTQ+ on, I think the world server, cause I posted a fairly benign straight opinion to a post that had an image basically asking for cis commentary. It had like 5-7 upvotes, about 13-15 down votes at the time the mods kicked me out – so even amongst the community it was a bit wishy washy, but the mods still opted to take action. On Reddit, that might’ve gotten me flagged / banned site-wide, depending on which White House narrative the company is marching to on that day. Here I just lose access to the LGBTQ+ community, shrug at them echo chambering up, and continue about my day.
In terms of “Why do we only control the speech of leftists”, I imagine it’s because the threads you continue to access are left leaning – meaning those left in your bubbles, are the left-leaning sorts saying they’d been banned. Right leaning comments, and even (in my view) some centrist / neutral comments, still get people banned. These days we all basically have to assume that there are companies / algorithms creating bubbles in online spaces; you need to temper it with a good bit of secondary sources outside of ‘social media’ to get a more accurate picture of people’s mindsets/trends. Eg. Social Media + direct views of national/local news paper sites + in person discussion with various sorts.
When driving over ice, don’t hit the brakes. You might lose traction. Just hold the steering wheel steady, and keep moving.
It’s a lot easier to get away with killing people if you use a car. They might even blame the victim (or recently, their parents).
Bastards burn it all down guillotines the fucking lot
3000 abductions a day is the ICE quota. They just want warm (non-white) bodies.
Why wasn’t this dude arrested for his efforts during Jan 6th?
Fascism in America. Brought to you by conservatives.
Start arming yourselves. If you have friends and family that aren’t armed, help them get armed.
Don’t be fooled. The Dems used the same tools to their advantage before Trump. Its just not as blatantly illegal as it is now. They allowed these arms of the federal government to grow.
Listen, I hate liberals as much as the next leftist, but you’re a fucking idiot if you think they were snatching people off the street for being brown.
That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying they allowed these TOOLS to exist. They didn’t dismantle it when they had a chance. I worked in CBP in the past. They let this cancer grow.
Ah yes, the Dems, widely known for snatching people off the streets on the fucking daily.
The key difference that your awful take misses is the difference between the center-right and conservatives. The center-right will support business and capital far more than it should and will drag its heels on things like worker’s rights but progress can be made. Conservatives, on the other hand, are angry, fear-driven morons who cause real, direct physical harm to people for he crime of being not who their deranged leaders prefer.
Centrists are worthless and their inaction leads to real consequences but it is the Conservatives’ action that makes them so especially violent and dangerous and as much as the centre-right does nothing they, ultimately, are not the ones causing the right to commit these atrocities. In other words, shut the fuck up, you aren’t helping.
Anyone who still doesn’t see how similiar this is to 1930s Germany, is lying, a child or ignorant to the point where they their opinion should be ignored.
United Shitholes of America
America is fundamentally broken.
From the start
It’s time to dissolve the union.
Until the last three days, I’ve actually been fairly optimistic.
While slow, the courts had acted to curb Donald’s worst abuses. The tariffs wreaked havoc, but we saw when the bond markets reacted that someone in his administration was able to make him see reason. (My own retirement has recovered its losses from February.) Elon Musk was finally being thrown out of the administration.
But here we are now, and this is genuinely scary stuff for absolutely everyone that isn’t independently wealthy. The reaction of California and the courts will dictate how things proceed. This isn’t the well-organized, institutionalized abuses of immigrants of Dubya, Obama and Biden. It’s the heavy-handed, sloppy, careless and unmitigated cruelty of the Gestapo.
And, for me, I just can’t get around the fact that this is probably happening because a meme hurt Donald’s ego.
absolutely wild that Taco Trump sent him into a blind rage like this
I wouldn’t be surprised if a meme causes Trump to send troops somewhere, only for it to turn out to be a trap.
Trump and Steven Miller escalated the situation because they needed to feel good about themselves after Elon fucked them both over. This is probably what they planned for the elections in 2026/28.
I’m not going to blame the voters for the Democrats’ decision to throw the election, personally. They knew Harris was unpopular with groups they needed to win swing states. They knew Biden was unpopular too. It was their decision to crown two weak candidates without a primary and state publicly and unequivocally that they wouldn’t change anything.
You can’t look at your own record as president, knowing full well your actions and willful inaction have made people significantly poorer, and reasonably conclude that the status quo is an acceptable campaign strategy.
Do not visit the USA. Just don’t. Spend your money elsewhere for your sake and for our sake. It’s no good to anybody for you to spend it here right now.
Go visit Canada. Nice people, beautiful country this time of year. And they won’t disappear you. I know because the Canadians have always been our good friends. It’s very sad how they’ve been treated.
There is a reason a lot of countries have travel warnings against the US
Tourists should avoid the USA (not to blame the tourists in this story, of course)
I blame the parent. Nobody with the resources necessary for an international vacation has any excuse for being ignorant of the current political state of the US, our government is actively targeting visibly hispanic people regardless of legality and has not been quiet about it. Even if their trip had gone smoothly every dollar they spent here would be indirectly supporting the shit our government is doing. The child had no choice in the matter, the parent was a fucking moron who volunteered their child for a completely avoidable traumatic experience and helped fund Trump’s crimes in the deal.
It’s hard for people to believe this kind of crazy though.
American citizens should be avoiding the USA at this point as well. No-one is safe.
We can take a few american refugees, but we should limit it to the same measly numbers that the US has been accepting. That would be 50 000 per year.
Over a few millenia we could probably provide refuge for the vulnerable populations in the USA.
Americans hardly qualify as “refugees”, please don’t insult those who are.
Not yet. Not most of them.
No-one is safe.
Not until we make the police and ICE agents feel unsafe.
No, we don’t want American citizens anywhere else in the world, leave them in their containment nation.
They chose, overwhelmingly, the circumstances that they’re in.
I guess us LGBTQ and black/brown Americans should just put a bullet in our heads right now, then.
It’s true but they hate you for it. The US is lost for the next few decades.
Many of us are looking on in horror of what is happening. There is nothing we can do, lest we too be jailed, or worse, killed by the gestapo. Just waiting for them to come for me next. I really need to get a passport.
Just giving a bit of perspective. Fuck the United States.
They did not choose overwhelmingly. ~30% chose. And even then, trump did not win the majority of the vote.
a third of the country voted for this, another third decided not to vote and thus allowed this.
That is true.
I’d say 30% are all for what’s happening and 10% are convinced the dems will put babies into to blenders and will always vote red. The remaining 10% switch their vote back and forth depending on how they feel about the economy. If they think it’s good the will vote for the incumbent, if they think it’s bad they vote for the other canidate. Then there are 2-3% of people that pick a random issue as their focus every year
Upvoted bc “containment nation” made me lol. I get the downvotes though, liberalism has been eroding our rights and our will to rebel for a couple of generations now.
Dude, fuck you. I didn’t choose this shit anymore than you did.
I’m an American citizen and I got out. Absolutely zero regrets. Apparently it’s rapidly becoming increasingly common
Send help back
I am using my position to help my local community back home :)
Where did you go, if you don’t mind sharing? What was the process like?
Please return.
Or at the very least, stop being American.
These Nazis will not stop.
This gritty new Home Alone: Lost In New York reboot, starring Donald Trump, is just a bit on the nose
This would be a movie that I want to watch, then turn off the second the kid is alone on the streets. Horror movies getting too realistic.
Note the reference to Kristi Noem - South Dakota’s former governor, who decided to handle COVID with “freedom and personal responsibility,” spending $5 million of her state’s federal COVID money on a tourism campaign. Like the line from Steve Martin’s King Tut song, “He gave his life for tourism” - thanks to her, some South Dakotans probably did.
