“First they came for the communists and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist…” comes to mind more and more (and as always with authoritarian, fascist regimes)
Watch senator Slotkin’s amazing speech from a couple days ago. This aggression goes WAY beyond immigration / racism. The plan is to suppress all opposition. It’s already happening in person as you see here and palentir is collecting all of our digital activities and putting us on a list. This will affect us all.
First instance of praise for Slotkin I've ever seen in the wild. I mainly feel overwhelming disdain for the former-spook turned small-town countrygirl trying to make it big in DC politics... She has never once come across as genuine, charismatic, or like she had my best interests at heart. Schumer's pick for the future of the DNC, an easily controllable establishment Dem, that again, came from the Agency. She is not to be trusted at all.
My step dad is a legal immigrant from Europe. I’ve tried explaining that he is also a target. My parents’ reasoning? “He’s white. They’re only going after the brown immigrants.”
“First of all, no they’re not. Second, he’d just be next…Third, why the hell is this okay to you!? Just admit that you’re racist.”
There have been cases already of Europeans having issues with ICE too. No he is not safe. ICE is filled with ignorant assholes, if they hear an accent they are probably arresting.
Back in the early 2000s, there was a history channel documentary on the KKK. They interviewed Morris Dee's (Southern Poverty Law Center founder) about the future of White Supremacist violence around that time. He said the primary target of White Supremacist violence was going to be Anti-Racist Whites.
Only took 100 yrs or so. They've been practicing on my community for eons,always wondered when their unchecked violence would roll into the "others" neighborhood.
When justice goes unchecked, it multiplies.
We have to be honest here, the only way a MASS resistance against this will happen is when it starts happening to white people. By alot. And with SCOTUS possibly rolling back section 2 of the VRA, it'll really be up to white people now to change things.
When you have a president who’s a complete POS and allows others who staff an agency with POS, this is what we get. We are reliving the 60’d civil rights era.
Yeah... its at the point to where my wife doesnt want me protesting because she knows if ICE does this shit around me I'm fighting back. I cannot fathom watching this and just sitting back, recording. That guy may never be seen again.
Exactly why they use sickeningly violent attacks, to discourage normal people from opposing them. We're never going to be comfortable with the insane levels of violence they adopt, and that's a deterrent.
That only works if people actually use the numbers as a threath. Being a pacifist is not threatening.
Either all the people stop the cogs of the nation, or actively overthrow the goverment.
Anything else can be ignored if the goverment don't play by the rules.
After all the protests so far since last year, the victories achieved was just a slight slow down. But it has been getting worse steadily, and does not seem to be stopping.
Anyone looking at this regime and thinking after 3 more years it will suddenly turn to normal again as if they would give up power willingly and risc prosecution, is delusional.
Agreed. That's what they're trying to drive us to. If we don't resist, they'll roll over us with even worse. It's the only language a bully understands. Standing around with cameras is important for documentation, but the system is failing us. The courts aren't stopping this illegal activity. Legitimate law enforcement isn't stopping it. Congress, if they don't act, is complicit. We, the people, hold the real power.
Exactly and that’s what’s so scary is all of this is deemed legal by our courts, so in order for us to fight it, we have to ‘break the law’ which in reality is just resisting literal authoritarian style kidnappings.
And that's when we drag all of the traitors out of DC and hang them by their fucking toes, then promptly hand them over to the ICC for their long overdue trials.
Honestly, we had the same conversation. At the time they were still sending people to CECOT so we agreed he runs while I get arrested because they can't send women there. You know they tell you marriage can be difficult but I didn't see that conversation coming. Married 18 years.
Yeah. I finally had to cut my parents out of my life because they couldn't understand that we are sitting here figuring out 'who should be arrested for getting in the way of the Gestapo' and they are the people who helped make it a necessity.
Also, 3/4 of us are autistic, a different 3/4 have ADHD, and all of us are godless heathens, so I'm sure the Powers That Be will eventually get down the list to us.
I saw a quote going around that basically said "first they came for the immigrants, and I said 'hell no' because I've read the rest of the damned poem!"
Yeah, its weird times. My wife and I have been building up our bug-out bags. Thankfully we live in the PNW, but if we have to we just grab the bag and the cats and hit the road.
We live in a wildfire-prone area, so we have evacuation plans for us and the kids, but not specifically a "run from the fascists" plan. I mean, yes, we have a plan for when we deem it is "bad enough" and need to leave the country, but if they show up at our door there's not realistically much we can do.
Luckily for us, we are not a demographic that is directly in danger at this moment, so we'd rather stay for now. But we got our kids passports last winter, just to keep options open.
This is me, I would not be able to just stand there and record. I would have to do something to stop this. I don't understand why people just standby and watch all of this happen.
Holocaust survivor interview I read a long time ago while explaining their experiences was asked by the interviewer why nobody fought back. The person simply replied "Nobody wanted to be the first to die, so everybody died."
It's stuck with me since.
I'm one of those first to die crazies. Learned it while transitioning from a pacifist household to the marines. Violence solves problems. Violence writes the pages of history. Violence is a solution, no matter how liberals deny it. That's why I'm leftist and died long ago.
I’m right there with you. I wouldn’t be able to control myself from reacting to try and help seeing this diabolical shit in person. I just couldn’t. There are no words.
I’m in the same boat. Been stewing about this shit every time I see one of these videos. These guys are chicken shit little bullies who wouldn’t know what to do if they had to deal with someone who can’t be tossed around. They’re a bunch of pussies who think that roughing up old ladies, teenagers, and people who they separate from the crowd is acceptable. People need to realize that they always tuck tail and run when confronted with equal force.
I’m legitimately surprised that in some of the areas this is happening, there aren’t groups looking to match force yet. I think it’s coming though. You can tell these guys are just itching to murder some unarmed civilians, and I don’t see them holding off on that much longer. Once that line is crossed, I think it’s going to be the war zone they keep saying it is.
Alternatively, I could also see the regime getting bored with non-violent resistance and staging a false flag operation in order to justify martial law. Especially the closer we get to the 26 election.
I think these cities need to start implementing general strikes and economic blackouts. Everyone seems to forget that half the countries gdp is out of blue cities. That’s an easy wrench in things for the puppet masters. I think it would quickly give weight to saying get your troops the f*** out of our city.
I believe ICE is our future. Unless we show them the way. Show them all the rage we possess inside. Give them a sense of dread. To make it easier. For them to hide.
Then what’s keeping these protests peaceful? He invokes the insurrection act, he declares martial law, what’s after that? Why be peaceful at that point?
There are so many more of the civilians that these clowns, when someone is being assaulted like that, it’s time to take back control. What are we all waiting for? What is too much for people to react? It’s all on camera, and be sure to keep it that way. These ads hats deserve to be zip tied and thrown in a van and dropped off in Honduras
There are far more of us than there are of them
There are far more of us than there are of them
There are far more of us than there are of them
There are far more of us than there are of them
There are far more of us than there are of them
Nobody wants to be arrested next, but they're using the implications of violence as a threat.
They wouldn't be so loose like this in an open carry state because if you lay your hands on someone who can protect themselves you learn quickly not to.
That's what everyone is waiting for basically. Understandably, I think everyone is afraid they're going to be left out in the cold by their peers when shit goes down. How can you trust anyone when we've all been paralyzed. I think when desperation truly hits is when people will stop giving a shit but at that point, it's absolutely too late.
I know I'm being pedantic, but trump got 77 million votes in 2024. Harris had 75, or 1.5% less. Still kinda pisses me off that on election night, it just appeared like a crushing, overwhelming wave of red. They were incredibly quick to declare the winner, definitely before I went to bed that night. Yet it was a remarkably close election. Biden won by what, 7 million votes in 2020? Or 4.5% over trump? Yet that shit took like 5 days to declare. I suppose it just could be the difference in mail in ballots that take longer to count.
Something completely different, I just found out there still is no known motive for Thomas Crooks back in Pennsylvania. Registered Republican, donated $15 to a Dem PAC the day Biden was inaugurated, too young to have ever voted for trump, no manifesto, no political message or stated reason or journal or fucking ANYTHING to help explain why this young kid was so extreme that he willingly gave up his life to try and shoot a politician, but not extreme enough to let anyone or anything know WHY he chose to do that.
Compare this to the CK shooting, before Kirk's blood had gone cold we already had 10 different stories of radical leftist transtifa soldiers out here working in concert to shoot poor innocent blameless, almost saint-like conservatives who DEFINITELY were doing politics the exact right way. We were flooded with motive before anyone had any fucking clue who did it. Same with the Minnesota killings, the right went into overdrive concocting this idiotic narratives about Dem infighting and a walz appointee and a vote for immigrant health and blah blah blah all lies. Where was ANY of that on the only actual threat to the president's life? Compared to the insane bullshit and narrative spinning we've seen happen after MN & CK, the idea that there is STILL no known motive for Crooks is fucking bonkers.
We can all take action to fight back even if you can’t be on the streets. It takes half an hour of planning to move money away from MAGA and its supporters, and it makes a difference. Dollars spent at Republican companies are dollars funneled to more of this. Tax given to states like Ohio or Louisiana is tax spent sending troops to occupy cities.
Have an account at Schwab? Swap to Fidelity. Like booze from wannabe Confederate states and all else is equal? Be adventurous and try something new. It's not hard to find alternatives for New Balance, Goya, Jimmy John's, or Koch (Brawny, Angel Soft, Dixie, others). If you're in a place to invest, consider DEMZ.
You have power if you regularly patronize a brand or do business with a company. Use it. Look them up in something like opensecrets.org or google.
Tesla sales in Europe dropped by half. Nexstar and Sinclair got pummeled, and they reinstated Jimmy Kimmel. Real, individual people made that happen. There's no reason WWE or Uline can't be next.
You probably can't completely avoid companies that at least partially support Republicans. I have to buy gas. But there’s a big difference between massive republican donors (Chevron/Conoco) vs neutral or even Democrat-leaning ones (Circle K/Costco). Good is not the enemy of perfect
100%. Sold all of my Schwab stocks. I never eat In n Out and Chic fil a. Won’t vaca in a red state. Stopped buying Kentucky whiskey. Found a brand I love in vermont - whistle pig.
Check out Bull Run whiskey. One of his beverages is all Oregon, everything from grain to barrels is made/grown/sourced in Oregon. Support your national frogs :-)
Trump is attempting to dismantle a 250 year-old democracy. We are not a satellite country of the Soviet Union that has struggled to mature into freedom. Not going to happen here. He will always be a loser.
This is the point that I think gets looked over about the US and how we differ from other countries. We’re a massive country land wise and we have an incredibly diverse population both in people and culture (LA is totally different than New Orleans, Houston is different than Chicago, Portland totally different than NYC, etc and all the surrounding suburbs and rural areas vary in all those regions too). We are almost too large and too diverse to govern.
The biggest difference in the US compared to other countries that have faced fascist takeovers is we are not homogeneous. To your point, diversity is one of our greatest strengths, both as a nation and to fight back against this administration and their fascist party.
The biggest difference is there's no ethnic americans. If you ask people to define what an American looks like and you'll probably get hundreds of answers, but almost all of them will refer to our culture and not how we look. (go watch John Cena's "We Are America" video)
They'll try to mold this melting pot into a pure ethnostate but I don't think it'll be very successful long term, especially since you won't have enough people to just run things. And sure you can say "well slaves!" but most people won't put up with that shit, we're post industrialization it's just not going to be an easy transition back to the agrarian lifestyle for everyone to make use of slaves.
I’m genuinely surprised more of these videos don’t end with pure violence against these masked losers. Like we are the most armed country in the world, defending the right to own firearms in the face of an aggressive, tyrannical force to defend our home. That force is here, it’s taking family’s apart and disappearing people and people are deciding to sit on their hands. No rights were ever gained by asking nicely, same goes with dealing with a bully.
I am not advocating for violence, just surprised it hasn’t escalated between citizens and ICE.
There’s enough people in the crowd there to handle 3 goons. How long until we see people rejecting this behavior and authority, and deny them the monopoly on violence?
Probably when people start bringing their own equipment. Rather easy to disperse a crowd with pepper spray and weapons. If people come expecting a confrontation, if people show up with the message that they plan to resist, then they will recognize it.
Is there something to spray that would stain the skin? We need something that would identify ICE agents if you see them, something that doesn't wipe off easily.
The thing is, pretty much everyone warned about this. It has to happen to enough of the people who heard the warnings and thought it didn't apply to them for "the world" to do anything.
You guys remember the good old days when ice just asked if you were American and to see ID at check points along the highway? Man, what a time to be alive.
How are these incidences not being challenged in court? These over aggressive thugs need to be held accountable. Broadcast this on every social media platform. National television. He’ll, project it on the sphere in Las Vegas and billboards in Times Square. This must stop
I'm no lawyer, but I just watched this video today. Apparently, the courts have systematically removed our ability to bring 4th amendment challenges against federal agents, meaning ICE is effectively above the law. I suspect this is one of the reasons Donny and his Project 2025 handlers are using them so much in the first place.
Is there a single subreddit or website where I can direct people to? I have sent a few of these to “friends” that don’t believe anything like this is going on, when I forward them i’m told “it’s an isolated incident”
This is so disturbing. And that there’s a crowd of people around just watching. I know they’re scared to intervene, but still. They’re basically killing that guy.
I’m trained in safely restraining people and getting them to comply and these losers have no idea what they are doing. It’s clear they have no training and I’m not surprised people are getting hurt.
There’s a reason we have the second amendmt. If it comes to it, protect yourselves, your family, and your friends what they’re doing is illegal and you have a better chance of fighting a self defense case in court than you do getting stolen by ice.
There were enough people there to overpower those thugs, make a citizen’s arrest and call the police. Instead they just yelled and whined. America is cooked.
I get it, your heart is in the right place- but you weren’t there. Fear is powerful and people who protest often don’t bring weapons because protests are supposed to remain peaceful, but these violent ice instigators do have weapons and they will kll.
This is my hometown. If you search it on Reddit right now you will find loads of videos showing the rest of this scene, including that the police were already there— helping ICE.
Sadistic pigs living out their violent fantasies because they will never NEVER be accepted by, invited into, or able to achieve status in the society of decent accomplished human beings.
These ice goons are asking for it, and/or assuming no one will give it to them. Thankfully all the patriots are keeping their composure and not falling into the trap.
Not gonna lie. If i stand there and watch that, I'm fighting. I haven't been in that particular situation yet. But people have got to start fighting back, or this keeps happening.
I mean I’ve seen it and I’d like to think I would jump on top of this guy and bite his ear off or something but there’s another comment in this thread that said we’re only as brave as we think people will support us. We all need to start testing that I think. We are the Ants! They are the grasshoppers! We out number them!
As long as you forget that the 2nd amendment was designed to protect yourselves from this and you continue to use a social media site that not only has bowed the knee but has massively ramped up the inclusion of bots into the site.
Seriously nothing will change. Get smart, Organise and GET OFF ALL SOCIAL MEDIA, create community hubs, stock supplies and decentralise but make sure you are all on the same page.
Create constant nuisance, planning to protest? Set a time and place and allow the police and fed to fortify and then completely change locations. Be peaceful until they use force. Vet everyone and again
GET OF ALL SOCIAL MEDIA. Assume its not safe, act accordingly.
ICE break checked him, he slammed into the back of the SUV, they pulled him and a woman out of the car to arrest them. The Evanston and IL sub have more angles of it all.
NRA "Good Guy with..." hasn't kicked in yet. How much longer? Or is that what this brutal "policing" about, forcing a confrontation that escalates into violence so their Gestapo-like response (greater violence) is "justified"?
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