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[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Open ze door, zis is de gestapo!

As an American this makes me weep. We saw this coming from miles away yet here we are.

Those who study world history know damn well that history repeats itself and this "timeline" is a well worn one. We already know where this goes.

I don't know what to think about those who voted for this consciously and even worse those in power who continue to enable this. I hope these people get the outcome they deserve.

For those who voted for this without understanding, let's hope the next government can find a way to better educate you, as this one has let you down.

We'll only get the democracy that we can manage to keep.

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today -1 points 1 hour ago

I don't know what to think about those who voted for this

Compassion. They voted for this out of despair

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's very strange timing to do this at a huge scale as the US economy is teetering and the dollar is spiraling. Bread and circuses is the playbook for a reason, their tax bill is going to hit like a brick wall for a lot of Americans. And instead of your pop-pop getting his Medicare check you're now seeing that spent on concentration camps in your back yard.

There's a limit to fear mongering and strong arming when it pushes against economic reality. No amount of crackdowns will help when bread costs $20/loaf, international money stops coming in, and the job market crashes all in less than a few years. It's one thing to manufacture a crisis but they might be burning the Reichstag a little too hot.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 59 minutes ago)

The cuts don't come through until after the '26 elections. Fucking Republican cunts will point their short little pudgy fingers at Dems and say,"What did you do?" and idiot fucking voters (or even more idiot single issue non-voters) will grab it like a trout going after a fly.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 6 points 3 hours ago

Yeah we live in the Fascist States of America. They're just fully mask-off racist now.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 points 3 hours ago

It's the same as resisting early nazi germany, except now there are cameras and AI's preventing subtle sabotage. And if you tell anyone about it, the whole militarized apparatus crashes down on you.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 2 hours ago

How can we not have a recall option? I don't understand how we got this far without one.

[–] Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The only response to ice is targeted, coordinated civil (?) resistance. Wherever they show up, show up with more people and guns than ice has

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I dont think that's viable really.

They're going to have lots of hardware.

[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The US failed to succeed against ~100,000 Taliban in a country they could bomb and burn freely.

It cost the US 2 Trillion dollars for the war including expenses for hardware such as the 362,484 bombs they dropped.

The population of the US is ~347 Million.

If even 0.1% of the population actually decided to do something and made a coordinated effort, the US would be up against three times as many people and wouldn't be able to bomb them nearly as easily.

The US also really, really does not want anything like this happening in their borders, because it would interfere majorly with cash flow from it's citizens to itself as well as it's businesses it's in bed with. It also can't kill a lot of it's own people, because again, the money would go away. This means the more people that would oppose them, the less they could kill or capture without destroying themselves.

For this reason I think it's probably more viable than most people suspect.

The only real problem is that it's only flesh and blood that affirm freedoms gain, and people generally either feel well off enough that they don't want to do anything, or are simply too afraid to do anything.

In any event, no one ever wants to be the first one to act. They usually wait on someone else to first.

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

We were told this was going to happen by those that are making it happen. And still 91 million people chose not to vote. Of those 91 million people- was enough make the difference between keeping out democracy, and….

This.

I hope the smug arrogance of your little protest of the trade-agreement support of weapons to a country committing genocide is going to be enough to keep you properly blinded to the suffering of so many others as a result of your stubborn refusal to see the bigger picture-

This is your fucking fault.

[–] Mamdani_Da_Savior@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I have my game plan ready for ICE, I'm willing to gamble on jury nullification.

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Do you think you'll make it to the stage where you have a jury?

[–] Mamdani_Da_Savior@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago
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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 23 points 6 hours ago

ICE is being set up to lead the theft of the midterms. I don't mean by just trying to prevent non-white people from voting either, but as the extrajudicial gestapo it is. Americans won't have to be non-white to worry about having their citizenship suspended soon enough.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago

Just put everyone in a labor camp and make North Korea look like a joke I guess.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 21 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Stalin funded his NKVD and Hitler had his RSHA (Gestapo). AOC is correct, Putin's Sock Puppet is using ICE like his secret police force.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 40 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

Operation Reduce Non-White Vote underway. They clearly rigged the Presidential election results. The results were statistically normal everywhere except in the 7 swing states, where Trump won even though Democrats won the rest of the way down the ballot, and he won by margins that were just shy of what would trigger automatic audits. These anomalies were in the swing states only.

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[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 59 points 12 hours ago (7 children)

Death Camps.

We are so far along the nazi playbook we just need to invade Poland I guess.

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