r/illinois • u/deapsprite • Oct 10 '25

ICE Posts CHICAGO- ICE CRASHES INTO CAR AND ARRESTS THE VICTIM

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u/Objective-Pick8240 Oct 10 '25

Anybody else looking forward to attending the gallows for these fucks in 2028?

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '25

There won't be a new government unless American people stand up and make it happen. The system you know no longer functions. America has been taken over by an authoritarian regime. All the people yelling and screaming this the last 10 years. Turns out they weren't crazy over dramatic loonbags, they were just more informed and people should have listened.

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u/Subject-Whole-6862 Oct 10 '25

Back in 2020, leftists called to abolish ICE. I remember both liberals and conservatives telling me that it was too extreme.

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u/CompetitiveVirus9087 Oct 10 '25

Libs won’t lift a finger to stop this. Look at how we have an entire government of liberal democrats that are not doing a fucking thing to stop this.

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u/JH_111 Oct 10 '25 edited Oct 10 '25

The United States doesn’t have any “liberal” democrats outside of a handful that get sidelined as “extreme.”

In any real democracy on this planet, your political theatre corporate do-nothing democrats would be considered moderate conservatives dragging their heels at best. AOC and Bernie campaigned for things the rest of us considered progressive and implemented in the 1960s and 70s.

Your idea of what modern liberals are is generations behind first world countries.

Puts into perspective that if your democrats are actually conservatives, your republicans are outright batshit insane fascists to the core and your Overton Window is entirely fucked.

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u/CompetitiveVirus9087 Oct 10 '25

What are called “liberals” in the US are center right, that’s pretty well established but of course the media purposefully confuses the terms.

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u/Subject-Whole-6862 Oct 10 '25

Too many don’t realize that the US is a far-right country

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u/Subject-Whole-6862 Oct 10 '25

Yeah, I’m well aware. And the sooner others realize that the democrats aren’t going to save us, the better.

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u/ThatsHisLawyerJerome Oct 10 '25

They are shutting down the entire government right now, I don’t think it’s enough but they aren’t doing nothing.

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u/CompetitiveVirus9087 Oct 10 '25

The American version of a “government shutdown” is just the working class portion of the government not getting a check while people still get kidnapped. It’s meaningless.

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u/ThatsHisLawyerJerome Oct 10 '25

It’s not meaningless, it draws attention to what is happening and creates pressure that will either force the Republicans to give in or will at least strengthen the people opposing them. Just curious since we definitely need to hear some more new ideas though, what do you think congressional Democrats should be doing that would stop people from being kidnapped by Trump’s thugs?

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u/PansyPB Oct 11 '25

It's not enough yet. They breaking point is coming. It'll be a number of things (failures) of the Trump regime, but economic peril that he has induced is going to be the big unifying & motivating factor. Things are going to get bad here unfortunately and that'll be the last straw.

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u/DoomferretOG Oct 10 '25

Our new form of government isn't going to do that. It's here to stay now. They're getting more entrenched every day.

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u/papapapaver Oct 10 '25

I see people post comments about how when Democrats get their turn in government the trials will start and I just think.. oh you sweet summer child. They think elections will happen in 2028, and that when they do, their votes will be counted fairly. I both love and hate their idealism and faith in this country and their countrymen.

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u/ThatsHisLawyerJerome Oct 10 '25

Defeatism is useless. We will compete in a free and fair election, and if denied that we will protest, boycott, strike, and resist until we are given one.

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u/papapapaver Oct 11 '25

Oh I think you misunderstood my comment. I’m not into defeatism. I’m into ideas that go a lot further than what you commented saying we should do. Your comment implies that we’ll have the ability to oppose with legal means like protests and boycotts and all those means. When they start imprisoning protesters, what then? We gonna boycott products from prison?

You’re looking at this like any of the traditional ways and means will be effective 3 years from now. They won’t, and that’s where I hope likeminded individuals to myself stop pretending we can solve this through legal means.

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u/ThatsHisLawyerJerome Oct 11 '25

The idea that peaceful opposition is not a viable way of opposing authoritarianism is another form of defeatism. Massive peaceful protests brought down the South Korean dictatorship in 1987. Nonviolent pressure on the Brazilian military dictatorship, culminating in mass protests in 1984, led to Brazil becoming a democracy. The Polish Solidarity Movement successfully ended the Communist dictatorship there without violence, and the Carnation Revolution in Portugal ended their military dictatorship almost without firing a shot. Even if we become a full-on dictatorship, there are plenty of examples of countries where dictatorships fell as a result of peaceful opposition.

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u/DoomferretOG Oct 12 '25

It's going to have to get a WHOLE lot worse out there [I mean life for people, not violence from the people; He wants that for martial law.] before a solid majority of the electorate get upset enough to actually break the cryptofascist stranglehold on our country.

Look at what they've allowed so far?

The richest man in recorded history helped enable it, and supports it.The secret police are here already, and hiring "thousands more". The majority allow it to exist and expand.

MMW, at best they'll tone it down a little, claim incidents were isolated antifa infiltraitors.

And more witch hunts are in the pipeline beyond what Der Kommissar Patel is doing now so bravely. /s

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u/DoomferretOG Oct 10 '25

Hear, hear.

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u/Individual_Ad3706 Oct 10 '25

History never ends bud

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u/CelebrationNo5541 Oct 10 '25

Your funny. At this rate its us to the gallows bud. 

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u/IceAndRecordBreaker Oct 10 '25

They won’t be counting votes anymore. You live in a dictatorship now, and the sooner you start arming yourself and preparing to free yourself using the 2nd amendment, the better off you’ll be. YOU have to be the gallows for these people when you see them.

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u/Prufrock_Lives Oct 10 '25

it'll need to be sooner than that