• Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
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    Here was the response to Roan’s comments:

    The next day, in a statement to TMZ, DHS’s assistant secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin said, “Pink Pony Club is good. Pedophiles are bad. That’s who we’re getting off of our streets. Get a grip.”

    In a separate event…

    In September, Hacks actor Hannah Einbinder closed her Emmys speech by saying, “Go Birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine!” In a response given to TMZ, DHS’s McLaughlin issued a statement saying rhetoric like Einbinder’s is “inspiring violence against our ICE law enforcement,” which she claimed was “facing a 1,000% increase in assaults against them.” No data backs up McLaughlin’s claim about a dramatic increase in anti-ICE violence, per Oregon Public Broadcasting.

    “As this woman fans the flames of hatred, our brave law enforcement will continue enforcing the rule of law and protecting Americans,” McLaughlin continued.

    Yes, people saying “Fuck ICE” are fanning the flames. It sure isn’t all the borderline legal and straight up illegal things being done by the regime. Couldn’t be.

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      1000% increase. Theres a reason they dont mention the actual figures is because its <100 cases and also their classification of ‘assault’ is sometimes people yelling or gesturing angrily and startling them.

      Do you also consider that this is an absolutely tiny increase given how agressive and rapidly scaled the ICE threat is to american citizens?
      Im suprised it isnt thousands of number of assaults given how immoral and legally questionable their actions are.

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      I agree pedophiles are bad, so does the DHS now support the release of the Epstein files?

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        Pedophiles have become a damn smokescreen in your country and the worst part is that it works. I have in my life time not read about slany efforts to combat child abuse in america on a federal level but id love to hear that i am wrong.

        Mclaughlin is a joke and ICE doesn’t face even close to the violence they deserve and not even a fraction of what they deal on a widespread daily basis, illegaly on top.

        Fuck ICE and complacency. Praise to people standing up against them.

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          Children have always been used as tools. It’s either we have to stop pedophiles or we have to “think of the children.” Both excuses get used by both parties to strip rights away from us.

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            JFC the problems with everything continue with every administration. That’s the point.

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          Yeah for all the demands to hurt pedophiles all I see is them being weaponized as the beachhead of “well some people don’t deserve the rights of the accused/convicted” and as mudslinging.

          When the right wing says they’re going after pedophiles I just assume that means they’re using extreme violence against whoever they want because they’ve long ago stopped actually caring if someone is a pedo before accusing them of it. Which is very bad for children who are victims of child sex abuse. When pedophile is a generic insult as it’s becoming this either continues devolving into mass violence or people stop taking thst word seriously

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      Wait, so illegal immigrants are now pedophiles? That’s the Department of Witch Hunt Conspiracies. Of course, the illegal immigrants weren’t ever illegal, just calling this out because everyone with a fart’s worth of a brain cell knows they’re just trying to Nazi like a third grader would.

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      The rule of law is so important that it doesn’t apply to the highest position of power in this country.

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      Are they trying to portray every single person abducted by ICE as a pedophile? Because only many tens of millions of utter morons would buy that.