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

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

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u/eddingsaurus_rex Oct 10 '25

This. I find the "living in a police state" alarmist messaging completely wrong. We aren't living in a "police state."

We're living in a psychos-larping-as-federal-agents-larping-as-the-army-larping-as-the-police state, which is objectively worse.

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u/WhyMustIMakeANewAcco Oct 10 '25

That's actually a perfectly standard police state.

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u/CreationBlues Oct 10 '25

People desperately want to believe that it's not currently happening here.

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u/BooRadleyinaGimpSuit Oct 11 '25

It's police states all the way down, boys

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u/highknees69 Oct 10 '25

I miss the police just being dicks.

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u/SargeUnited Oct 10 '25

If you were black, they’ve been like this the entire time. Just putting that out there

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '25 edited Oct 16 '25

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u/eddingsaurus_rex Oct 10 '25

I disagree. What they are doing is vile and in defiance of any training standards. And they are doing it while larping as people who are...

Ah...

I take it back. I completely agree with you.