During the agents’ violent attack on a delivery worker Saturday morning in DC, bystanders repeatedly demanded the agents share their badge numbers. One of them—his face fully obscured by a black balaklava—eventually shot back, “Do I have to answer to you?”
“You guys are ruining this country. You know that, right?” one bystander said to the agents at one point during the incident. An agent, ironically clad in a rainbow face mask, replied “Liberals already ruined it.”
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Last week on stage at the Netroots conference in New Orleans, I spoke with Congresswoman Delia Ramirez (D-IL) about ICE: specifically that she believes it should be abolished. It’s a stance that’s considered far left, but after witnessing ICE and other federal agents in DC this week, abolishing ICE should be the baseline Democratic position.
“ICE is a terrorist organization,” Ramirez told me. “It needs to be defunded and needs to be abolished.”
ICE is becoming a paramilitary organization, Trump’s personal army. It isn’t really fulfilling its supposed role for which it was created in the first place.
Right!? It was supposed to be a paramilitary organization that harassed, assaulted, disappeared, and murdered people crossing the border. SMH truly lost their way…
Liberals surprised Pikachu face when the agency created during the bush administration is fascist.
At least he was funny.
and then they made it such that “the border” was any place within 100 miles of any airport. So the entire United state pretty much. They dont guard a border.
Just as the founding father’s intended.
Critics have been saying that about the ICE for over 2 decades. It’s a force that doesn’t adhere to congress but instead only the president, it operates without oversight or courts issuing their warrants. It’s literally the modern Gestapo.
It absolutely is fulfilling the role it was created for. It’s just not fulfilling the role that it was stated to be created for.
The republican traitor filth must be brought low.
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Don’t even need to do that, their websites with recruitment information has such poor security that leaks happen all the time. Perhaps unsurprisingly, 2/3 of the Oath Keepers are former military and/or law enforcement officers. The leak obtained by DDOSecrets included membership ID, membership type, name, physical and email address, and join date.
Inside The Pro-Trump Militant Group The Oath Keepers - The Atlantic - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/right-wing-militias-civil-war/616473/
The database leak included such granular detail that economists have been able to study their firm-like behaviours, including running discount codes for memberships and promises of pre-order welcome packages that are never fulfilled.
Selling Violent Extremism - https://www.ucigcc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2024_wp10_klinenberg_v2-FINAL.pdf
And then you Thoughts and Prayers their asses.
It’s time to flood the internet with trash, not the current set, but millions of fake people across the social sphere, with low hanging information, a giant honey pot.
Meal Team Six is pretty badass with their masks.
I really don’t understand how cons think liberals “ruined” anything. This country could be very great if the cons would stop trying to make everyone’s lives miserable by constantly poking their nose where it doesn’t belong.
“Things would be better if it weren’t for [group], they’re the problem, not the rich.” It’s a lie as old as civilization and conservatives always fall for it.
The problem always has been and always will be the lazy rich that don’t want to work.
They are called the “idle rich” and the parasitic class for a reason.
Increasingly, both here on Lemmy as well as elsewhere, I seem to be seeing an awful lot of what I’d label as inter-generational bullshit that seems designed to distract from the very same thing (the centimillionaire/billionaire class).
For the most part, Gen X is ignored in a lot of this, but I see a lot of people acting as if their generation (Gen Y/Z for the most part) has a special class of problems no one else had, and the boomers are the worst generation in history or something. With almost zero context or sense of history and a whole lot of erasure of people’s experiences, LOL. It’s actually kind of embarrassing to see it when I see there are liberals/leftists doing this, too. Talking about a “gerontocracy” in the political class. Falling for the “term limits” bullshit, even.
Those of us that have been around a bit and are trying to pay attention remember seeing boomers saying the same thing when they were younger, as well as Gen Xers, and it’s even with all the 'net at our fingertips now, I see both my generation and younger generations saying the same dumb shit.
Juvenile. Pissed off that someone might hold them accountable. Not much these people hate more than oversight and someone getting in the way of their violence.
ICE is a terrorist organization, but if they aren’t going to abolish it then we need to abolish ICE members. One by one by one.
ICE is something far worse than that. They’re the fucking Gestapo.
“ICE is a terrorist organization,” Ramirez told me. “It needs to be defunded and needs to be abolished.”
It’s agents also need to be arrested, and put on a trial.
These guys are total pussies. Either shoot them or unmask them. They are already on camera so swarm them and pull down a few masks. Once you ID a few of them publicly, the rest will drop like flies.
No one wants to shoot anyone. We’re not murderers. So here we are, needing to think of some other way, and no one has ideas.
Healthy people don’t WANT to murder people. But we are being backed into a corner. Are you willing to die for decorum or fight?
He must have left his fedora at home.
What’s the symbolism of a fedora?
Incel culture. Typically goes with the scruff from attempted beard growth on double chin.
Wow that sounds familiar, where have I heard language like that before?
Every republican since Bush 2?
And Tankies
Hi finitebanjo, I see you dodged your last ban by choosing the same name on a new instance and rejoining. Bold of you to pick the same handle.
4 entire pages of modlog actions on you, wow. https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=9867145
Well welcome back. On to page 5 of the modlog I guess.
Don’t think I’ve ever been permabanned, I actually left .today because it wasn’t defederated from Hexbear, but feel free to eat my ass, Tankie scum
theres the finitebanjo we all know.
This makes my blood boil. While I appreciate the resistance the filmers showed, their response could have been better.
First and foremost, they should have dialed 9-1-1. “There is a group of masked and armed men assaulting and kindnapping a man off the street! They are trying to pull him into a black sedan with tinted windows! Send police now!”
After that, let them know in no uncertain terms that fascist pieces of shit are not welcome here. Call them out on their un-American actions
Bunch of fat ass pussies.
Bigotry and lack of decency ruined the country but it was already ruined it was built on blood repe and kidnapping and forced labor
Dude is right but for the wrong reasons. LIberalism serves and reinforces hegemony. Liberalism pushes the overton window so far to the right that fascism seems moderate.
Liberalism <—> Fascism.
I get that liberals had their part to play, but can we stop putting the onus of fascism on liberals and blame the fucking fascists for fascism for a change?
But muh division
I always thought it was fight the right, but it turns out we’re more interested in dog piling the ineffectual centrists and splitting hairs amongst one another. No wonder we never make any headway.
What? BS! Is that why the Nazis arrested the German liberals and sent them to the concentration camps?
Even if your definition was taken that’s not what he meant
Liberalism <—> Fascism.
It wasnt always this way. Liberalism is way off the rails and the DNC has zero interest in fixing it. And the republicans are just openly violent fascists. The Dems will do the barest possible minimum of serving their voters to keep some small chance of winning an election, and no more. They dont work for us, but they do want our votes. They work for AIPAC and industry.
Well that’s one thing we agree on
