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

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    Most fucked up part? Chile is the whitest South American country. There was an old statistic from the mid 2000s that put Chile at 95% white European heritage people.

    The only way it would get more fucked is if they deported Spaniards from Spain to El Salvador…

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    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.

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    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.

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    Tourists should avoid the USA (not to blame the tourists in this story, of course)

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      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.

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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        Do we know it was a pure tourist visit and they could choose the location? Many state departments are already flagging the US with a state instability warning if not no-go, so I’d assume she (or the husband) was here on business, or because there were circumstances that pushed them.

        To be fair, NYC is pretty blue, it’s just the NYPD that has been for decades a threat to the people, especially nonwhites, with Bloomberg’s mayorship taking much of the blame.

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          It shouldn’t be, the evidence has been plentiful and easily available. It’s not particularly crazy either, evil for sure but entirely in line with the interests of our ruling class and extremely historically precedented. Some folks just have to learn the hard way I guess.

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              Movie studios are frequently run by morons, anyone who isn’t completely politically & historically illiterate could tell you it’s not far-fetched at all, and this person had the money for an international vacation so they’re definitely not representative of the average anyway

              • I think you’re underestimating the normalcy bias and overestimating how much the average person outside the US understands about what’s going on there.

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    The Trump administration has set strict quotas for arresting anyone even suspected of being in the country illegally, with Stephen Miller ordering that 3,000 people be arrested every single day, or ICE officers will face consequences

    What the fuck

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      So while that could 100% be real, the tweet source is a shady Nazi promoting rag, just to provide some context. It’s full of propaganda and fearbait even with a Hitler worship piece in their recent articles this year.

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      Quotas are supposed to be illegal for law enforcement, not that they care about rule of law, but should be another note for the second Nuremberg Trials.

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      Nazis. That’s what the fuck. It is all so “by the book”. That book was supposed to warm us away from stuff like this. But nazi rhetoric is being wielded so fiercely in 2025 that the rest of us are, justifiably, pretty confused.

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    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.

  • Nothing short of violent revolution will change anything in the states at this point. The courts are powerless, and the entire political system is rotten to the core.

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            Because America’s problems are the world’s fucking problems. Believe me we’d love nothing more than to be able to stop giving a shit.

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            OP is 100% justified in calling for a violent revolution from outside. Let me tell you something most Americans don’t seem to know. Everything and I mean EVERYTHING the US government is doing right now to its own citizens is still not as bad as USA foreign policy. And people outside the US don’t even get a pretend vote.

            Everyone on this planet should be calling for the total upheaval of not just the USA, but every nation state. Their very existence is the stupidest most destructive thing humanity could have ever done, leading into modern day capitalism.

            So yeah, as usual, burgerbrains can’t comprehend anything outside of USA.

          • Never you mind, sunshine.

            And the reason the US public is treated so badly by their government is almost any other country would have strung their politicians up by now.

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        Idk if you’re genuinely stupid or just trying to get people hurt, but fyi speaking openly about violently resisting an oppressive government on unsecure channels is a bad idea for what I would have thought would be obvious reasons. Also seems like you’re sarcastically implying that we’re not at a point where violent resistance is a reasonable response, in case you haven’t bothered watching the news recently a whole lot of people in LA would disagree with that, and there’s a shitload of video

        • @pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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          a whole lot of people in LA would disagree with that, and there’s a shitload of video

          They were mostly peaceful. And when I say most, I mean like 99%. They know how to do it.

          Also, this is what most of you are doing in this thread at me.

          Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream – people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. (This uses the same social media graph built before.) We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people (think nonsense reddit posts about conspiracies that sound like Markov chains of nonsense other people have said), or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).

          The goal is to keep opinions we don’t want fragmented and from coalescing in to a single voice for long enough that the memes we do want can, at which points they’ve gotten a head start on going viral and tend to capture a larger-than-otherwise share of media attention.

          (All of the stuff above is basically the “standard” for online PR (usually farmed out to an LLC with a generic name working for the marketing firm contracted by the big firm; deniability is a word frequently said), once you’re above a certain size.)

          https://archive.is/PoUMo

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        I’m stocking up on guns and ammo at the moment. I’m trying to build an armory and pantry of like 6-12 months of living and Nazi killing.

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      Nope. The rulings coming out of the Federal courts (more often than not from Trump appointed judges) are unambiguous and the executive branch is largely complying with them once a ruling is handed down.

      They are playing a game of legal brinkmanship in order to to try and circumvent the law (the whole dismiss-and-arrest thing happening at immigration courts - which are NOT full courthouses, btw), but don’t think for one second the Judges and attorneys working on these cases aren’t fully aware of what’s going on.

      *edited for less word salad. Yikes

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          Thank you, you’ve articulated my feelings perfectly. The Democrats ratfucked everyone.

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            I honestly don’t understand their intransigence in the face of a looming fascist threat unless they just didn’t care.

            And judging by how Harris’ campaign raised billions and still ended up with $20,000,000 in debt, it’s clear they were spending like drunken sailors and having a wonderful time not running a serious campaign.

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      absolutely wild that Taco Trump sent him into a blind rage like this

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      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.

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    This seems like the kind of thing that’s going to get a kidnapping cop shot, and they’ll deserve that, but what happens after is a real wildcard.

  • @DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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        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.

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          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.